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Jack E. McCants

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Jack E. McCants
BornJanuary 19, 1930
Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
DiedMay 7, 2023
NSA memberUnited States
1969 - 1970
1986 - 2002
Samoa
1975 - ????
ABMAmericas
1964 - 1967
 Media

Jack Edward McCants (January 19, 1930 - May 7, 2023)[1] was an American Bahá'í who has served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and as an Auxiliary Board member.

Born and raised[edit]

Jack was born on January 19, 1930 to William Asbury McCants (1880-1951)[2][3] and Daisy Wolton McCants(~1893- 1977),[4] in Dallas at the Methodist Hospital. The family lived on Clarendon St, and William was a salesman and Daisy was a house wife. William was born in Ozark, Arkansas, and Daisy was born in in Coleman, Georgia.[3] By April 1930 the family was living in Dallas, Texas, with William working as a wholesale paint merchant.[5] In later years McCants recalled that in the 1930's there were no paved roads, and that he used an early hand-crank phone and had no electricity in his house.[6]:7m54s

An uncle died in 1933.[7] In 1934 William ran for state office[8] but lost.[9][6]:9m27s Later in life he retired as a tax collector in Palestine, Texas.[2][10] In 1940 the family had siblings Georgia Walter, 12 yrs old, Jack E., 10, and other kin all living in Gilmer, Texas.[11] He recalled playing in the front yard hearing the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.[6]:8m52s He had some breathing difficulty in the 1940s that has bothered him from time to time.[12]:1h13m33s

College[edit]

During the years of the Korean Conflict, McCants was noted as a junior at Stephen F. Austin State College in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1950.[13] so he probably went straight from high school to college.

Jack's father William died November 30, 1951, in Palestine.[14] About the same year, McCants became a Methodist minister.[15]

In 1952 McCants was in the Stephen F. Austin State University grad school for secondary education,[16] but was visible in the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University(SMU) in Dallas the next year loosing in a race for student government representation,[17] though he was also known for playing basketball.[18] He was a junior there in 1953.[19] That summer Jack was an assistant at Camp Grady Spruce, of the Dallas YMCA.[20] He had also finished a degree at the Southern Methodist University by 1954 and wed Tommy Jean Dillard in May.[21] Tommy was born March 10, 1931,[22] but the marriage didn't last long. Less than a year later she had married and had a child by another.[23] During the next several years McCants had served 2 yrs in the 35th Infantry Division (United States), National Guard, 2 yrs in the US Army, of which one was in Korea for Educational Field Service of 24th Division Medical Battalion, and later remembered being there in winter and it snowing.[6]:49m12s McCants was also a graduate of the US Army Medical Training Center at Fort Sam Houston. McCants had heard of the Bahá'í Faith during the training there but didn't read Baha'u'llah and the New Era because it had "an ugly cover".[12]:1h4m5s As time went on he had earned degrees of BS, MS and BD.[24] The BS degree was from Stephen F. Austin College, MS at Florida State University.[25] He had been a Methodist minister for 8 years across the period 1951 to 1959 serving in Athens, Hughes Springs, and Grand Saline, Texas.[15] He was a senior at SMU from Grand Saline in 1959 during part of his 3 years graduate school work at SMU,[15] He was a senior at SMU in 1959,[26] when McCants joined the Bahá'í Faith.[27][28] He later credited the writings of `Abdu'l-Bahȧ as crucial to his adoption of the religion and some answers to questions that "satisfied my head and my heart."[6]:43m47s Howard Menking was part of the process, previously a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Cape Verde.[12]:52m8s

The first publicized list of local assembly members of Dallas was published April 1950.[29] In 1956 the Bahá'ís held a seminar on SMU campus run by Florence Mayberry.[30] She was followed in July by another Bahá'í speaker on campus.[31] In 1957 Dallas Bahá'ís had coordinated a series of meetings at the SMU School of Divinity on campus.[32] Dr. H. Neill McFarland was a professor of the SMU School of Divinity who attended the first Southwestern Bahá'í School, expecting some 70 attendees, held at Bachman's Lake YMCA Camp Kiwanis in Dallas,(also the first time the camps was opened to people of color) in 1958.[33] Auxiliary Board member Mrs Velma Sherrill, and Florence Mayberry, were among the faculty. The 1959 event had Ellsworth Blackwell, Ruth Moffett and Velma Sherrill as faculty, and more widely noted as open to blacks attending.[34] Florence Mayberry was also in the area at the same time.[35] Contact person for registration that year was Mrs Allen Squires,[36] and a picture of attendees was published in Baha'i News in December; Florence Mayberry is just behind the front row on the far left.[37] Professor McFarland also appeared in a 1961 panel hosted by the Bahá'ís in town.[38]

Bahá'í Faith[edit]

In 1960 McCants was employed at the US Post Office in Galvaston, Texas.[15] By January 1960 Jack was visible serving on the same Southwestern Bahá'í School Program Committee,[39] and in February was visible giving talks for the religion in Galveston.[24][15] In May Ruhiyyih Khanum came to Dallas.[40] It is not clear of which local assembly he was speaking of but in comments from circa 2010s McCants reported the chair of that assembly was a woman and he had difficulty with it but grew to like it.[6]:35m20s

From 1960 to 1963 McCants was regularly elected to go to the national Bahá'í convention to consult on the progress of the religion and to elect the next national spiritual assembly.[27] The first winter of 1960-61 he was among the faculty of Frogmore Winter Bahá'í Conference for the Carolinas giving a class on “Baha’i understanding of Christian subjects” and “Why I became a Baha’i”, though the mention did not include a record of the story,[41] and returned for the summer school.[42] In January 1961 McCants appeared for a World Religion Day in Fort Myers,[43] and was noted living in Bradenton, Florida, a suburb of Tampa, by December.[44] He had been employed as a teacher in Tampa, Florida.[27] In June 1962 he was living in Longboat Key, Florida, outside Tampa, and gave a talk in Little Rock,[45] Milwaukee,[46] and at the Wilmette Bahá'í Temple,[47] Augusta, Georgia,[48] before returning to Frogmore in the later Summer.[49] He was then married to Jane Faily[citation needed] by min-August and appearing together in a meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, where he appeared in the area again in November.[50] By January 1963 he was back in Greenville.[51] In February Jack and Jane were members of the South Eastern Summer School Committee.[52] In April Jack appeared again in Greenville.[53] That fall McCants gave a talk for World Peace Day observance in Miami, Florida,[54] and the Pinellas County, near Tampa, Florida, Bahá'í observance of UN Day observance in October.[55] By 1964 he was Project Director for Community Service Foundation and Florida Council of Human Relations.[27][56] McCants had went to the November 1963 Bahá'í World Congress in London and then gone on pilgrimage - he gave a post-pilgrimage talk at Green Lake, Wisconsin, Baha’i Institute in October 1964.[27] Paul Haney had taken the pilgrim group to the Shrine of the Báb, Abu'l-Qásim Faizi took the group to the Shrine of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.[12]:1h8m24s The previous August McCants spoke at a picnic in Atlanta.[57]

By 1964 McCants was aiding the training of the first set of what was then called a domestic Peace Corps group,[58] later called VISTA volunteers.[28] McCants was in Appleton Wisconsin[27] and then directed a Miami Baha’i Institute in October of that year, and was mentioned as a member of National Teaching Committee.[59]

National and regional service intermingled with pioneering[edit]

McCants was appointed to the Auxiliary Board in March 1965 based out of Tampa, Florida,[60][28] and he was soon visible in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,[61] and returned to Frogmore.[62] In August he was at Green Acre and known as a Peace Corps Director,[63] and was then in Mobile, Alabama, among faculty of a youth institute meeting,[64] before returning to the Miami area for a UN Day event,[65] and then joined in a meeting in Biloxi, Mississippi, with Hand of the Cause Zikrullah Khadem, listing McCants as from Odessa, FL, in 1965[66] and early 1966.[67] McCants was part of institute meetings in Fort Worth where he was mentioned (in the words of the report, that “Christianity did not fulfill the needs of modern man.”[68] Among those events in Texas he was in Wauwatosa,[69] and Waukesha.[70] In September he was in Baton Rouge for the state convention coming from Atlanta.[71]

In November 1967 came news that McCants had gone to Africa and was was relieved of service as an Auxiliary Board Member while his wife Jane was appointed “until she departs for Africa."[72] He lived with and assisted William Sears.[12]:1h12m39s Several months later Jack and Jane were received in Greenville, South Carolina,[73] and soon named as SE Regional Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Job Corps; Jane working on a PhD in clinical psychology.[74] McCants still made it to in May,[75]

That year McCants was elected to the national spiritual assembly and observed Ayyam-i-Ha in Marietta, Georgia,[76] Huntsville, Alabama,[77] and then in Terre Haute, Indiana, in late April.[78]

January 1969 McCants had spoken for World Religion Day in Atlanta,[79] and both McCants taught at the Georgia state conference of July 1969. Jack and Jane were both profiled some - she was still an Auxiliary Board member and seeking PhD at University of Georgia.[80] The McCants had attended a reception for William Whitaker Allison,[81] and then McCants was at the Bahá'í Council Fire for Indians gathered at Neah Bay, Washington,[82] In October Jane had finished her PhD and was an intern at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(UNC).[83] McCants himself was also at UNC, in the US Public Health Department, for 1969-70.[84] He earned a Masters of Public Health at there and went on to earn a PhD in public services administration at Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, California, [85] sometime circa 1978-1987.

In 1970 McCants was again elected to the national assembly,[86] but in 1971 McCants was at Guam and as part of the Auxiliary Board there.[87] In February 1973 McCants was in Tokyo chairing a conference for pioneering.[88] Jane joined him as chief psychologist at Guam by 1973,[89] but was back in the States soon.[90]

McCants was not well tracked in American media while he was abroad. He later referred to liking the climate and people's culture while pioneering.[91]:13m[92] He was in Pohnpei of the Carolina Islands at one point when Hand of the Cause Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir came.[12]:1h17m23s

McCants was secretary of US National Spiritual Assembly for 1975-6,[28] but was also abroad as an Auxiliary Board member for SE Asia aiding the Philippines the next year.[28] He returned to the states from Samoa,[93] where he had been secretary of the national assembly,[92]:16m58s and had married Toni Mantel who was a pioneer to the Pacific and had three children - William Faizi McCants(born 1975)[94], David Gibson McCants(~1978), and Martha Marie McCants(~1982).[28] Mantel had been on the national assembly in the Philippines,[95] and an Auxiliary Board member in east Asia.[96] In 1982 when McCants was a faculty of the Baha'i Summer School held at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.[97] A couple years later McCants was noted living in Weatherford, Oklahoma, while giving a talk at the Dallas Baha'i Center.[98] He was a hospital administrator there,[99] at the New Horizons Mental Health Center in nearby Clinton,[85] which later merged with Red Rock Behavioral Health Services.[100]

National service a second time[edit]

McCants was elected to the national spiritual assembly again in a by-election in November 1986 replacing Soo Fouts who was asked to serve as an Auxiliary Board Member.[28] In January 1987 McCants was in Shreveport, Louisiana, in January, 1987, in support of the local Peace Week activities.[101] By May McCants had changed jobs and locales from being a hospital administrator in Weatherford, Oklahoma to being the Executive Director of the Beckman Center in Greenwood, South Carolina.[85] In the fall McCants was appointed to the Lander University Board of Visitors,[102] who are goodwill ambassadors and advisors to the university.[103] and in December McCants was among the speakers for a conference of some 200 Bahá'ís held in Greenville, South Carolina.[104] The following year locals Alberta Deas and McCants were both members of the national assembly who participated in the election of the membership of the Universal House of Justice in 1988.[105] In January 1989 a Columbia, South Carolina, regional peace conference of some 1000 Bahá'ís gathered with all the national assembly members attending including McCants and Dias.[106] McCants' talk was entitled "Sacrifice and Action".[107] It was part of a world-wide series of conferences.[108] In September McCants introduced Hand of the Cause Bill Sears at a conference in Greenlake, Wisconsin.[109]

In 1990 McCants spoke at a January Martin Luther King Day with Red Grammer outside of Atlanta,[110] still with Beckman Center.[111] In 1991 a profile of South Carolina Bahá'ís out of Columbia noted McCants as one of the two South Carolinian Bahá'ís serving on the national assembly - the other was Alberta Dias.[112] In January 1992 Toni was one of the organizers of a Lander's campus meeting of international students cosponsored by the Bahá'ís of Greenwood.[113] In mid-February McCants gave a talk in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[114] In November some 260 South Carolina Bahá'ís were noted going to the World Congress to be held in New York, including McCants family.[115]

The McCants remained in Greenwood through around 2002.[116]

In March 1993 McCants gave a talk in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the centennial(plus 1) observance of the anniversary of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh.[117] In 1994 McCants son William was a volunteer at the Bahá'í World Center.[118] In 1995 McCants spoke at a local conference of Bahá'ís in St. Petersburg, Florida..[119]

Retired from Beckman Center[edit]

In January 1996 McCants was noted as retired from the Beckman Mental Health Service speaking at an award's banquet for a Service to Humanity award in Augusta, Georgia.[120] In February he took part in a race-unity conference in Charleston,[121] and spoke multiple times at a Galveston area conference of Bahá'ís in October.[122] Son William had been to China and was in race-issues dialog at Lander College in March 1997.[123] Will graduated that year.[124] In October McCants, noted as a worker for 25 years in mental health and still member of the US national assembly, had been a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Samoa, and gave a talk in Shreveport and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[125] In November McCants spoke on AM radio KZYP, Pine Bluff, Arkansas noting he had served on the national Assembly since 1986 and earlier in 1969 through 71.[126]

In June 1998 McCants spoke at a Race Unity Day rally held by Bahá'ís in Springfield, Illinois.[127]

In 2000 McCants and Patricia Locke represented the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States at the funeral of Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum.[128]

In 2002 McCants and his children went on Bahá'í pilgrimage together.[129]

McCants announced his retirement from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States in 2002 after a total of 18 years service at a reception at which his son David spoke. McCants was then living in Houston, Texas. All three of his children had graduated from Greenwood high School.[130][116] He later referred to the need to really listen to other members or he "wouldn't have survived".[6]:42m26s

Videos[edit]

Since about 2013 McCants has appeared and been recorded speaking at the Houston Bahá'í Center. His subjects have been a perspective on the Holy Spirit,[91] wrestling with the changes of society since he had grown up that doesn't believe in God and praising a local conference of youth that had been called by the Universal House of Justice,[6][131] pioneering with great enthusiasm,[92] and about being "born again".[12]

Son William Faizi McCants[edit]

McCants son William F. McCants was a PhD student at Princeston University in 2004.[132] He has a number of translations of Bahá'í writings he has published,[133] as well as maintaining a website which "is an anthology of Shaykhi, Babi, and Baha’i writings not familiar to English-speakers. A kashkul is an alms bowl, such as the one used by Baha’u’llah during his sojourn in the mountains of northern Iraq (pictured in the title above). It is also what some Shi`i scholars, like Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa’i, called anthologies of their favorite writings.[134] He currently works for Google[135] and has been an alumnist supporter of Landers University.[136]

Talks[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Jack McCants Obituary at DignityMemorial.com
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "William Asbury Mccants Texas Deaths, 1890-1976". FamilySearch.org. Nov 30, 1951. Retrieved Jun 26, 2019.(registration required)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Jack Edward Mccants Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935". FamilySearch.org. Jan 19, 1930. Retrieved Jun 26, 2019.(registration required)
  4. ↑ "Daisy W Mccants Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998". FamilySearch.org. 11 Apr 1977. Retrieved Jun 30, 2019.(registration required)
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  8. ↑ * "The Corsicana Daily Sun…". Corsicana Daily Sun. Corsicana, TX. 7 Mar 1934. p. 9. Retrieved Jun 26, 2019.
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