Genevieve Coy
Genevieve Coy | |
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| Born | 1886 |
| Died | July 31, 1963 |
Dr. Genevieve Lenore Coy (1886 - July 31, 1963) is an American Bahá’í who wrote articles and essays on the Bahá’í Faith, made several traveling teaching trips, pioneered to Iran to work at the Bahá’í run Tarbíyat School for Girls, assisted with the development of the Green Acre Bahá’í Summer School and Local Spiritual Assembly of New York City in the United States, and pioneered to Zimbabwe to support the work of the Ten Year Crusade where she passed away.
Biography[edit]
In her professional career Coy worked in education specializing in the field of educating gifted children and teaching psychology and she completed a PhD at Columbia University in the Spring of 1921.[1] She became aware of the Bahá’í Faith in 1911 and joined the religion at some point writing a letter to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in October, 1918, and receiving a Tablet in reply.[2] In September 1920 she went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in person.[3]
In December 1920 Lillian Kappes, the director of the Bahá’í run Tarbíyat School for Girls in Tehran, Iran, passed away and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá asked the American community if there was an American Bahá’í who would be able to assume her position resulting in Coy being nominated to do so at the 1921 American National Convention. She studied Persian during 1921 and sailed to Egypt from New York in May, 1922.[1] She visited Haifa in June, 1922, and met with Bahíyyih Khánum, but was unable to meet Shoghi Effendi as he was in Switzerland, before traveling on to Tehran where she assumed her position as school director.[4]
Coy later returned to America from Iran and settled in New York City where she began working as the principal of the Dalton School.[5] She was also elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of New York City and helped develop the body. When the Ten Year Crusade began in 1953 she hosted a session devoted to studying the goals of the Crusade and tasked participants with locating all the information on the goals they could find at a public library which resulted in many of them pioneering.[1]
In 1957 Coy retired as principal of the Dalton School. In May 1958 she attended the Chicago Intercontinental Conference held to commemorate the mid-point of the Ten Year Crusade and she volunteered to pioneer to Alaska or Africa and pioneered to Salisbury, Rhodesia, (now Harare, Zimbabwe). She was an active member of the community up until her passing in Salisbury in July, 1963.[5]
Publications[edit]
- 1939 - The Bahá'í House of Worship: An Institution of the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
- 1956 - Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh: (This Course Was Given at Green Acre Bahá'í School, 1955)
- 1978 - Counsels of Perfection
- 2011 - In His Presence: Visits to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (with Stanwood Cobb and Roy Wilhelm).[6]
- ???? - How You and I Can Become Better Teachers
- ???? - Improving Our Bahá'í Consultation
- ???? - A Week in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Home
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1974). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 14 (1963-1968), Pg(s) 327. View as PDF.
- ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 10, p 28
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1974). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 14 (1963-1968), Pg(s) 326. View as PDF.
- ↑ Earl Redman, ‘’Through the Pilgrim’s Eye: Volume 1’’, George Ronald: Oxford, ‘’’2015’’’, p 53
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1974). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 14 (1963-1968), Pg(s) 328. View as PDF.
- ↑ In His Presence at KalimatPress.com
References[edit]
- Publications listed in Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., p 72
