Alberta Deas
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| Born | March 15, 1934 Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| Died | January 9, 2016 Alabama, USA |
| NSA member | USA 1983 - 1998 |
Dr. Alberta Deas (March 15, 1934 - January 9, 2016) was an American Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States.
Biography[edit]
Deas was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1934. She studied at South Carolina State University in her youth graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1956.[1] In 1959 she settled in Mobile, Alabama, where she began working as General manager of a radio station,[1] and in she was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith and declared in Mobile that year.[2]
In 1961 Deas established a Preschool in Mobile and served as its director and in 1962 she was appointed the chairman of the business education department of Carver Technology.[1] In 1969 she began working as a program analyst for the Office of Economic Opportunities in Charleston working in the position until 1971 when she began working as an administrator of the Bahá’í Regional Office of South Carolina in Goose Creek.[1]
Deas completed a Master of Education degree at the University of Massachusetts in 1975 and she began working in education serving as a project director at Westfield State College in Massachusetts that year and in 1977 she became an assistant professor at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. In 1978 she became a Doctor of Education. In 1980 Deas became the administrator of the Louis Gregory Institute and in 1982 she became manager of the radio station WLGI-FM in Hemingway, South Carolina, which was the first Bahá’í radio station in North America.[1]
In addition to her professional career Deas also actively served the Bahá’í community serving on several Local Spiritual Assemblies in South Carolina during the period the Faith began growing considerably throughout the 1970's and she served on the South Carolina Regional Teaching Committee for fourteen years. She was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States in 1983 and served until 1998.[2]
In 2016 Deas passed away survived by her two children, four grandchildren, and several great grandchildren.[2]
Talks[edit]
- 1983 - Reflect the Light of Glory
- 1983 - A Reflection of Heaven
