Nosrat’ullah Rassekh, born in Tehran in 1924, was part of a distinguished Bahá’í family. In 1946, he journeyed to the U.S. with other Bahá’í scholars, earning a PhD from Stanford and later chairing the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Beloved by students, he led study trips abroad and was deeply active in the Bahá’í community. He served on the Portland Spiritual Assembly and as a delegate to national conventions. Married twice, he had four children and was happily married to Mona Elahi for forty years. A wise, kind, and inspiring man, he passed away in 2014 aged 89.