Marion Bernice Yazdi, born October 9, 1902 at Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan, died February 2, 1996 at Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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 or at Wellesley

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, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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, was the first Bahá'í student at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Stanford University

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. She was a daughter of Crowell E. and Elizabeth Carpenter, natives of Michigan and Ohio, respectively, who moved from Schoolcraft

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, Kalamazoo County, Michigan

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 to Santa Paula, Ventura County, California

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 between the 1910 and 1920 censuses.

She married in 1926 to Ali M. Yazdi (1899-1978), a native of Persia (Iran

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) who immigrated to the United States in 1920. He was a civil engineer, and a noted Bahá'í writer and lecturer who served in the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and as chairman of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Berkeley, California

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for 30 years. His life and service were commemorated by Marion in her 1982 book, Youth in the Vanguard: Memoirs and Letters Collected by the First Bahá'í Student at Berkeley and at Stanford University.