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In Memory of
David Taylor
Schneider
Schneider
1922 - 2014
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Obituary for David Taylor Schneider
AMBASSADOR DAVID T. SCHNEIDER
Former Ambassador to Bangladesh David T. Schneider died on September 24 in Charles Town, West Virginia. Schneider joined the Foreign Service in 1950, specializing in South Asian affairs. He served twice in both India (Bombay, New Delhi) and Pakistan (Karachi and Islamabad). While Charge d’Affairs in New Delhi, he was the first foreigner to be informed by the Indians of their detonation of the nuclear device which heralded the India-Pakistan nuclear arms race. In 1966 and 1967 he attended the National War College. Subsequently he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, with particular expertise in Indian and Pakistani affairs, and later was Senior Deputy in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the time of the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks and the American Embassy in Beirut. In 1978, Schneider was appointed Ambassador to Bangladesh by President Jimmy Carter, serving for three years. Schneider retired from the Foreign Service in 1983 with the rank of Career Minister. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Foreign Service Journal, and was retiree representative on the Board of the the Foreign Service Association.
Born in Glendale, Ohio, Schneider spent most of his early life in Winchester, Massachusetts. He interrupted a degree in Political Science from Yale University to join the United States Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II, flying B24 and B29 bombers and flying training flights for B29 gunners. After the war, he graduated with honors from Yale and spent the next thirty three years in the ForeignService. An avid sailor, Schneider often raced sailboats where he was posted. Schneider also skied with friends in Colorado yearly until he was well into his 80’s. Schneider and his wife, the former Ann Scannell, whom he married in 1950, retired to Washington, North Carolina and Hampstead, New Hampshire in 1994. Mrs. Schneider died in 2003. Ambassador Schneider is survived by children and grandchildren residing in New York, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and California.
Former Ambassador to Bangladesh David T. Schneider died on September 24 in Charles Town, West Virginia. Schneider joined the Foreign Service in 1950, specializing in South Asian affairs. He served twice in both India (Bombay, New Delhi) and Pakistan (Karachi and Islamabad). While Charge d’Affairs in New Delhi, he was the first foreigner to be informed by the Indians of their detonation of the nuclear device which heralded the India-Pakistan nuclear arms race. In 1966 and 1967 he attended the National War College. Subsequently he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, with particular expertise in Indian and Pakistani affairs, and later was Senior Deputy in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the time of the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks and the American Embassy in Beirut. In 1978, Schneider was appointed Ambassador to Bangladesh by President Jimmy Carter, serving for three years. Schneider retired from the Foreign Service in 1983 with the rank of Career Minister. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Foreign Service Journal, and was retiree representative on the Board of the the Foreign Service Association.
Born in Glendale, Ohio, Schneider spent most of his early life in Winchester, Massachusetts. He interrupted a degree in Political Science from Yale University to join the United States Army Air Force as a pilot during World War II, flying B24 and B29 bombers and flying training flights for B29 gunners. After the war, he graduated with honors from Yale and spent the next thirty three years in the ForeignService. An avid sailor, Schneider often raced sailboats where he was posted. Schneider also skied with friends in Colorado yearly until he was well into his 80’s. Schneider and his wife, the former Ann Scannell, whom he married in 1950, retired to Washington, North Carolina and Hampstead, New Hampshire in 1994. Mrs. Schneider died in 2003. Ambassador Schneider is survived by children and grandchildren residing in New York, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and California.
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