An investment of $1.8 million followed with plans drawn up and construction projects carried out from 1980 to 1982 and the school re-opened with some buildings restored, others replaced and the mission more explicitly being a residential college and conference center.
[4] Helen, still going by her maiden name of Whitney, sent a message to the Baháʼí News, early monthly periodical of the religion, published in October 1930, of the intention of setting it up as a dairy farm "to operate as far as possible along Baha'i lines".
[8] The faculty included Harlan and Grace Ober, already active in the religion many years in the Boston area and Green Acre Baháʼí School, Mabel and Howard Ives, Dorothy Baker, Fanny Knobloch, and Maye Harvey Gift.
[22] Faculty and subjects included Bishop Brown (Baháʼí administration,) and Mrs. Brown (outline for the study of The Dawn-Breakers,) Pearl Easterbrook (prayer and meditation,) Albert Vail (study of The Dawn-Breakers,) Dorothy Baker (who oversaw a youth meeting of some 18-20 and had many supplemental presentations by other faculty,)[19] Ruth Moffett (the Temple being built, and spiritual illumination,) Maye Harvey Gift (amity work – in 1935 Gift would co-produced the first compilation of Baha'i references to race issues,[23] circulated more in 1942[24] which was revised and republished in expanded form in 1943,[25] and 1956,[26] also owned by Rev.
)[29] Planned for June 30 to July 8, the faculty proposed were: Allen B. McDaniel, Mary Hanford Ford, Shahnaz Waite, Gretchen Westervelt, Dorothy Baker, and Philip Sprague.
[39] They first noted a change in date for the youth session to June 25-8 and faculty and subjects as: devotionals by Dorothy Baker, Baháʼí ideals in a forum by Harlan Ober, effective leadership by Marion Holley, (Olympian in the 1928 games,) spiritual aspects of the teachings by Mary Hanford Ford, Bible study and comparative religion by James McCormick, and had rates from $5 to $8 for four days, meals, and board.
"[43] At the spring national convention Dale Cole described a youth group in Flint, MI, founded by the influence of the Louhelen Summer School, who then formed a Spiritual Assembly in 1935.
An article noted some from Lansing attending: Frank and Mrs. Evans, Grace Coltrin, Alverta Hamilton, George H and Mrs. Angell, Charity Ballard, Cora Reed, David and Mrs.
[102] The winter session for 1940-1 at Louhelen was planned for December 26-January 1, would center on the as yet uncirculated text of Foundations of World Unity, by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, (officially published in 1945,) and would cost $2/day[103] presented by Mrs. (Virginia) David Camelon.
There was some newspaper coverage of the school opening,[114] and the youth session with faculty of Elsie Austin, Mrs. Rexford Parmalee, Lotte Graeffe, Mrs. (Virginia) Camelon,[115] Alberto Liao of Brazil, and Kh-i-Hashimi of Iraq,[116][117] mentioned in various articles.
The Laboratory session had Curtis Kelsey on use of Baha'i literature for the public, Emerie and Rosemary Sala on world unity and a book The Earth one country, and Harlan Ober on developing community.
[179] The winter 1946-7 session included African-American Baha'i and non-Baha'i speakers: Mr. Eason as Flint Urban League Secretary, Baháʼí and African American[180][181] Ellsworth Blackwell, of another interracial couple,[181] and Arthur Patterson chairing the meeting.
[221] A tentative program was announced in March,[222] and finalized in April,[223] as follows: Junior youth session 1 ran July 1–6 had faculty Edna Ketels, Laura and Robert Markovich, and Eulie Horne.
[224] As all the sessions were centered on published texts, individuals were encouraged to bring their own copies but could buy then at the school - to facilitate the aim of "a profound study of the Faith, and not mere wide, but superficial, surveys.
[236] For the fall of 1951 the committee of Ernest and Mrs. Benner, Mrs. Bruce Thomas, Mrs. Charlie Lenk, Mrs. O. J. Ketels and daughter Maxine, and Elizabeth Knill, gathered to plan for the next season's cycle of presentations.
[251] Louhelen Eggelston graduated in 1953 from WMU with a BA in Business Education, was the historian recorder of the Beto Iota chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi honor society and a member of Future Teachers of America.
[253] W. Kenneth Christian of Michigan State University, Harlan[254] and Mrs. Ober, and Elizabeth Kidder,[255] and Horace Holley[256] were among the faculty while attendees came from Port Huron, MI,[257] and a group came from Peoria, IL: Richard and Mrs. Wright, Ann Liner and son Michael, Sallie Kinsinger, Pearle Easterbrook, Zoe Meyer, Esther Wilson, June Miller and Imogene Talbott.
[288] Mrs. Marvin Nochman of WSU was among the early faculty advertised for the 1954 season,[289] and the program committee of Laura Post, Helen Eggleston, Lestor Long, and William Lacey was announced.
[297][298] A larger group of Baháʼís from Hamburg, NY, attended: James B. and Mrs. McCloskey, sons of Eugene and Mrs. Thorpe - Keith and David - Harry and Mrs. Pringle and daughter Bonnie, Nemat Borhani, Marion Joseph, Hbarjan Hayre, George Peng, and John Holby.
Violet Wuerfel was chair of the program committee and general members were Robert Gaines, Dorothy Hoffman, Helen McClusky, Katherine Mills, Lois Nochman, and Joe Zabelski.
[336] The 1957 program committee was David Baral, Stanley Brogan, Sam Clark, Phyllis Hall, Hamilton Niss, Lois Nochman, Ralph Peotter Jr, Jane Rowe, Donald T. Streets, and Violet Wuerfel.
Speakers for public talks included Ellsworth Blackwell, Pearl Easterbrook, Robert Gaines, A. S. Petzoldt, Ruth Moffett, Bula Mott Stewart, Ron Jacobs, and Betty Weston and Winston Evans.
The faculty included Dan and Mrs. Jordan, Jack McCants, Firuz Kazemzadeh, Sarah Pereira, Bettija Walker, Douglas Martin, Jamison Bond, George F. Hutchon, Richard Thomas, Albert Porter, Irvine Lourie, Glenford Mitchell, Alyce Earl, Charles Abercrombie, Ruth Perrin, Ken Jeffers, Richard Greeley, and Tom Hooper, plus youth faculty of Robert Walker, Douglas Ruhe, Roger Williams, with management by Emanuel Reimer and Virgil Ghant, and administration by David and Mrs. Ruhe.
[390] Thelma Cooley, Linda Drake, Glenn Morgan, Susan McMann, Gregory Dahl and Richard Kochman went to Indianapolis to staff a project promoting the religion from Louhelen.
Later another team of Carolyn, Linda and Susan Drake, Terence and Sheila Amerson undertook a public meeting and group discussions in Racine, WI, following their stay at Louhelen.
The 50th anniversary of Louhelen school was held; Magdalene Carney gave a talk - attendees from Lansing included Lisa Irish, Steven Gonzales, Michigan State professors Richard and June Thomas, Robert and Candice Voight, and Eric Harmsen.
[414] Apr 1991 Christopher Buck…[415] The 1990 annual report noted cooperating with the Mid-Western regional committee of the Association for Baha'i Studies and the English Department of the Universityh of Michigan honoring Robert Hayden.
Set as a performing arts collage incorporating music, poetry, story telling and dance by Michigan artists, the evening celebrates women and their role in shaping history and the future.
[447] "Baha'is in Davison Township will host a public meeting of prayer June 7 to mark the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders in Iran, who have spent a year in jail without formal charges or access to their lawyer, Shirin Ebadi.
The families of the prisoners were recently informed that a new accusation has been lodged against them by the Iranian government, the charge of "spreading corruption on earth," which carries the threat of death under Iran's penal code.