Mann, Dr. Edward S. of Quincy, August 18, 2005.
Beloved husband of Katherine (Brown) Mann and the late Cora (Herrschaft) Mann. Loving father of Edward of Plymouth, Merritt of Pembroke,Robert of Arlington, TX and Richard Mann of Wollaston. Brother of Dr. Roger Mann, Gwendolyn Mann, Genovieve Mann and Marguerite Nielson, all of Waterville, VT. Grandfather of David of Weymouth, Laurie Beth Strenge of Marshfield, Jennifer of Arlington TX, Mark of Rose Boom, NY, Douglas of Lima, Peru, Bradford of Arlington TX, Courtney of VA, and Eric of Somerville. Also survived by 8 great grandchildren.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the visitation in the Rotunda of the Administration Building, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy on Sunday from 4 to 7 PM, followed by a reception in Munro Parlor.
Funeral service will be Tuesday at 1 PM in the Waterville Church of the Nazarene, Waterville, VT.
Burial in Mountain View Cemetery, Waterville, VT.
Dr. Edward Stebbins Mann, who came to Eastern Nazarene College in 1925 as a 16 year-old freshman and remained to become President and later, President Emeritus, died Thursday at Marina Bay Skilled Nursing Center after a long illness at the age of 96.
Dr. Mann has been called ENC’s Master Builder. As a student, he helped build the school’s first baseball field, and then raised money for and personally helped dig out the foundation for the school’s first gymnasium. As president, a position he held from 1948 to 1970, he was involved in the construction of seven major buildings including a library, three residence halls, a science building, a religion building and a campus center/student union building.
He graduated from ENC with a degree in Mathematics in 1929, and immediately joined the faculty. He earned his MA in Mathematics at Boston University in 1932. While serving at ENC he taught Mathematics and Physics, was Dean of Men, Business Manager, Assistant to the President and Vice-President. He was elected President of ENC in 1948, was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree by Northwest Nazarene College in 1949, and a Doctor of Divinity Degree by the University of Vermont in 1966.
Later in his career, Dr. Mann served the International Church of the Nazarene. He was elected as President of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene in 1966. In 1970 he was appointed Executive Secretary of the denomination’s Department of Education in Kansas City, with oversight of eight colleges in the US, one in Canada and one in Great Britain. In 1983 he returned to Quincy and was given the title of President Emeritus of Eastern Nazarene College.
He was active in the City of Quincy, serving as an elected member of the Quincy School Board for ten years. He was a member of the Quincy Rotary Club, the Quincy Historical Society, the Massachusetts Schoolmaster’s Club, the National Education Association and the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Director of the Evangelistic Association of New England, the General Theological Library, the Norfolk County Tuberculosis Association, the Quincy YMCA, the Protestant Social Service Bureau, the Quincy South Shore Chamber of Commerce, the Quincy Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Quincy Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Quincy Savings Bank and the South Shore Mental Health Association. He was the President of the Quincy Council of Churches and President of the South Shore Council of Churches. He received the Benjamin Franklin Hodginson Award for Outstanding Service to Quincy in 1963 and the Quincy Jaycees Distinguished Service Award in 1968.
Edward Mann was born in Waterville, Vermont in 1908. In 1932 he married his college sweetheart, Cora Herrschaft (1906 – 1988), of Brooklyn, New York. He returned to Quincy and settled near the college in 1983 and married Katherine Angell, of Quincy, in 1989. An avid sports fan, he often attended college sporting events at ENC and faithfully followed the Red Sox. He loved to vacation at his beloved cottage, Hearthside, on the shore of Lake Champlain in Vermont.
Donations in memory of Dr. Mann may be made to the Edward and Cora Mann Scholarship Fund, Eastern Nazarene College, 23 East Elm Ave., Quincy MA, 02170.
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