In the spring Sears visited the Panamanian Baháʼís, attended the national convention of Guatemala as well as visiting the newly elected International Baháʼí Council, a precursor to the Universal House of Justice. While there he was a co-signatory to a letter to the Baháʼís of Australia in their efforts in the concluding years of the crusade. In 1962 he visited at the University of Urbana-Champaign and then participated in a radio program on WLS (AM) in Chicago before attending that year's U. S. national convention (where he advocated for easing enrollment conditions that were then common practice and shared prayers in an African language,) and then the French Baháʼí summer school.