Canon Geyer to Direct National Mission Unit
Episcopal News Service. July 14, 1983 [83133]
NEW YORK (DPS, June 14) -- The Rev. Canon Edward Blaine Geyer, executive assistant to Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, has agreed to become executive for National Mission in Church and Society at the Episcopal Church Center.
Geyer, who has been working with Allin since 1980, will succeed Mrs. Alice P. Emery when she retires at the end of this year after six years as executive. As executive, he will oversee the work of the hunger, public issues, mission development, social welfare, and housing offices as well as the ministries with black, native American, Hispanic, and Asiamerican people. The Coalition for Human Needs -- a cooperative grantmaking agency of all the offices -- and the Washington office are also part of this unit.
A native of New York, Geyer is a graduate of New York University and the Philadelphia Divinity School. Following his 1958 ordination, he was assistant at St. Peter's in New York for two years and then was called as rector of St. Luke's in New Haven, Conn. During his eight years there, he served the diocese in Christian education and on the executive council and the city as a prison chaplain.
He then spent four years as rector of St. Peter's, Bennington, Vt. before returning to New Haven as rector of Church of the Good Shepherd where he served until 1980. He has been a deputy to two General Conventions and has served on the Council of Advice and the Prayer Book Committee of the House of Deputies and on the Convention's State of the Church Committee. He has also been an officer of the Union of Black Episcopalians.
Emery has been a member of the Church Center staff since 1970 when she became coordinator of the United Thank Offering. She is a native of Minneapolis and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. After the death of her husband -- North Dakota Bishop Richard R. Emery -- in 1964, she returned to Minneapolis and served as executive secretary for the diocesan University Center for five years.