The task of the auxiliary Boards was to “increasingly lend (their) assistance (for the) promotion (of the) interests (of the) Ten-Year Crusade.” Their function was to act “as deputies, assistants and advisers of the Hands,” “working in conjunction” with the National Spiritual Assemblies on each continent. Their duties had been defined by the Guardian in his cablegram of October 8, 1952, launching the World Crusade: to “assist, through periodic systematic visits (to) Bahá’í centers (in the) efficient, prompt execution” of the twelve projected National teaching plans.

The five auxiliary Boards appointed by the fifteen Hands of the Cause were announced as follows: African: John Allen; Miss Elsie Austin; ‘Alí Nakhjavání; Jalál Nakhjavání; John Robarts; William Sears; Muḥammad Mustafá Soleiman; Valerie Wilson; Aziz Yazdi

American: Canada: Rowland Estall;

Central America: Esteban Canales

South America: Mrs. Gayle Woolson; Mrs. Margot Worley

United States and inter-America: William de Forge; Mrs. Margery McCormick; Mrs. Katherine McLaughlin; Mrs. Florence Mayberry; Dr. Sarah Pereira

Asiatic: Miss Agnes Alexander; Mrs. Elena Marsella Fernie; Abul Qasim Faizí; Abbas Ali Butt; Carl A. Scherer; Daoud Toeg; Kazem Kazemzadeh

Australian: H. C. Featherstone; Miss Thelma Parks

European: Mrs. Marion Hofman; Mrs. Dorothy Ferraby; Eugen Schmidt; Mrs. Anna Grossmann; Louis Henuzet; Joel Marengella; Miss Elsa Steinmetz; Mrs. Angeline Giachery; Mrs. Tove Deleuran. [BW12p40]