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History of Bahá’í activities

Name: Shahrokh Pezeshk (Shah)

Telephones Mobile: 720 343 6556; E-mail: shah-pezeshk@

1970 – Came to Australia and started studies at Newcastle University – Later on formed University Baha’i Club

1972 – Moved to a home front pioneering post at Spears Point, NSW to form a point. Prior to that was boarding with Mr. Nigel and Ursula Hall at Newcastle – I studied Arts: English literature, Symbolic Logic, philosophy and formed the first Bahá’í Club at the Newcastle University.

1974 – Moved to Rockhampton to study Business, IT and Accounting, conquered another point. Later on Graham and Kaye Waterman, (Kaye Featherstone – Daughter of the Hand of the Cause Collis Featherstone) joined me there at the University by taking few subjects and formed a Bahá’í Club at Central Queensland University.

1975 – We Invited Counsellor Dr. Peter Khan (now member of the universal House of Justice); then a professor at Queensland University, to travel from Brisbane to north Queensland and give a lecture on “Science and Religion” to more than 40 students and lecturers at that Institute. The session was opened by the dean of the Arts and Education Department and it was a great success.

1976 – Formed a point in Gladstone and worked for Alumina, a bauxite refinery company.

1977 – Moved to Melbourne to work as system Analyst. There I was assigned to work as assistant for protection. Also worked on many teaching projects with aborigines which were coordinated by Aux. Board Member, Mrs. Mahvash Master

1978 – Formed the Local Assembly of East Kew, Melbourne, Victoria.

!979 – Mr. Collis Featherstone knowing that I was moving from Australia to Canada to work there and be with my brother Nader, asked me to go to Solomon Island for two months to consolidate the Bahá’ís in Honiara and visit the natives in the surrounding Islands. I visited one of those Islands accompanied by a member of National Assembly who translated the stories about Bahá’u’lláh into Pigeon English, we recorded them and passed the tapes to the national Assembly. Translated obligatory prayer into Pigeon English, stayed and consolidate the local people on that island and finished building a Bahá’í school for children. The chief of the Baha’i tribe dedicated the school to my name.

1979 - I chose a pioneering post at Sept Iles, Quebec, Canada and conquered a point where there were no Bahá’ís. Settlement in French cities is a priority in Canada.

1980 – Left for Brazil and was elected treasurer of the Local Assembly of Goiânia, the Capital of Goiás.

1983 – Became involved in Annual Bahá’í Week programme for seven consecutive years encompassing diverse community and socio-economic projects, bringing Doctors and dentists to helping over 800 needy Brazilian families in one week.

1987 – General Coordination of an important project involving five subprojects:

International Peace Symposium coincident with the occurrence of a local nuclear accident (Césio137) involving 500 Doctors and scientists, representative of the UN and the local state and federal governments, Embassies, business classes, educators amongst others. This was all coordinated by 6 Bahá’ís and was held at a five star Hotel.

National Medical Seminar for peace making presentations on prevention of nuclear disaster. I also coordinated the Construction of a twenty ton peace Monument in the form of an hourglass to receive samples of earth samples from numerous countries and received from five continents of the globe. The Greatest Name in ceramic could be seen by thousands in Rio Airport daily. /

Coordination of a ceremony for the delivery of the awards to 18 Peace Citizens that were chosen by commissions formed of 9 honourable members of 18 communities around Brazil including the first lady and 2 Bahá’ís.

Coordination of a project involving 5000 children of over 50 schools to form a human chain of one mile long in the main streets of the centre of the city, in the form of the newly dedicated monument, an hour glass, in the main streets in the heart of the a capital city (of over a million habitants), stopping the traffic by a planned intervention, inviting the population to stop and meditate as the children sang along words of Bahá’u’lláh on peace. These events were filmed by helicopters and appeared in the National News

1990 – The NSA invited us to consider moving residence to Brasilia. The whole family moved to Brasilia, my wife, a national member, started on projects involving the federal government and the prominent at the external affairs desk. She helped the School of the Nations to launch a project with international repercussions called “Tomorrow Belongs to the Children”.

1992 – Coordinated construction of yet another Monument to be the permanent symbol of Rio92 Summit. This time I had to be there to make sure that the Greatest Name in ceramics of 2 by 2 meters is securely cemented to the top where it could be seen for hundreds of years by planes passing by in a nearby local airport in Rio de Janeiro. Because of the delay in the delivery of the mosaics, I had to do a special operation of air shipping the 250 kg package and setting them over night and praying that they dry by the following morning. In the same year the Centenary of the passing of Bahá’u’lláh was celebrated at the Brazilian Congress.

1996 – At the request of one of the counsellors I prepared and presented a document, based on a methodology which I am author, UTOE, to help strategic planning of National Teaching Committee for the process of entry by troops in Brazil.

2009 – Treasurer of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Littleton

2010 – Chairman of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Littleton

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