Vignettes of Remarkable People in the Faith: Eve Nicklin:

Vignettes of Remarkable People in the Faith: Eve Nicklin:

      Eve Nicklin returned in September.  She had been with us for a few days in the spring and, while she was away from the orphan asylum, her supervisor had opened some of her Baha'i mail. Eve was in trouble because her job was with the Methodist Church and the woman who had opened the mail was not very warm about it. She had called in Eve's two assistants, Wreatha (a Baha'i) and Betty (about to become a Baha'i). Eve eventually lost her job with the Church, the job for which she had been trained. Now she was living in Rochester working as a housekeeper. She told us how she had been saving money from her paltry wages; how she had been preparing to offer herself as a pioneer to Peru. As she described her intentions, Willard and I exchanged a glance which needed no words. We gave Eve one of the two hairs of Baha`u'llah that Martha Root had given Willard after his southern tour with Louis Gregory. Eve was leaving Jamestown to consult with members of the National Assembly about pioneering. But this Eve, of the daring black beret and bright red earrings had left her lipstick at home. She fretted, "I'm sure they won't take me without my lipstick."I made a concoction from cinnamon candy which worked as a poor substitute.
     Eve was accepted and became the second pioneer to leave from Jamestown for South America (John Stearns, . . .was the first.) I saw Eve several years ago in the movie, Green Light Expedition. Hand of the Cause, Ruhiyyih Khanum, had called her the "Mother of Peru".
  [Doris McKay, Fires in Many Hearts, pp 263-264.\