Dr. Darius Shahrokh was a retired physician-surgeon. He was a member of Rochester's first Local Spiritual Assembly in April 1960. He recorded deepening talks. He was well known for his five-year project to record

"Johanna Schubarth, by virtue of her sacrificial services to the Faith over such a long period of time, has attained a very high station. She is the mother of the Norwegian Baha’i Community, and

Dr. Chester Ira Thacher was a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. He was a Christian Scientist and around 1897 he became a Bahá’í.

Dagmar first heard of the Bahá’í Faith through her friend Marion Holley Hofman and immediately accepted it. Soon after becoming a declared believer she and her close friend, Virginia Orbison, went to Glendale, California,