David Ned Blackmer

David Ned Blackmer
BornSeptember 29, 1915
Binghamton, New York, USA
DiedMay 21, 2007
Metz, Lorraine, France
NSA memberItaly
1962 - 1966
Luxembourg
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France
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David Ned Blackmer (September 29, 1915 - May 21, 2007) was an American Bahá’í who served as a pioneer in Europe assisting with the establishment and consolidation of the Bahá’í communities of Luxembourg, Belgium, and Italy. He also served as an editor of the international Bahá’í periodical Bahá’í News and ultimately settled in France.

Biography[edit]

Blackmer was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1915.[1] He became an active member of the New York Bahá’í community and facilitated a Bahá’í inter-community picnic at East Mexico Point in 1940.[2] He was serving on the Green Acre Bahá’í Summer School Committee as of 1947,[3] but left the United States that year pioneering to Luxembourg.[4]

In 1950 a U.S. newspaper report on the American Ambassador to Luxembourg positively mentioned Blackmer and his Bahá’í teaching activity when discussing other native Americans living in the country,[5] and that year he delivered a talk on the importance of Bahá’í Summer Schools at the Third European Teaching Conference.[6] At the close of the year he pioneered within Europe to Brussels, Belgium,[7] and in 1951 he taught a course on the history of the Faith at the Second European Bahá’í Summer School held in Scheveningen, Holland.[8]

At the end of 1952 returned to the United States,[9] and he was appointed assistant editor of the periodical Bahá’í News in 1953 serving until 1955.[10][11] He returned to Europe in 1959 pioneering to Italy,[12][13] and he was elected to the inaugural National Spiritual Assembly of Italy in 1962.[14] He later returned to Luxembourg and was serving as secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of Luxembourg by 1967.[15]

By the 1980's Blackmer had moved to France and had been elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of France by 1982 visiting Belgium that year to speak during a conference series organized by the Belgian National Teaching Committee.[16] In 1997 he visited Luxembourg to participate in celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Bahá’í Faith in the country.[17] He remained in France and passed away in Metz in 2007.[18]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263595276/david-ned-blackmer
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 142, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 199, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 228, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 236, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 238, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 249, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1952). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 262, Pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 269, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 291, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1983). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 631, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ https://bahai.works/Annual_Reports/1959-1960/Text
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 376, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 437, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ Baha'i News (1982). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 613, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1999). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 26 (1997-1998), Pg(s) 76. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263595276/david-ned-blackmer
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