Edward S. Mann

Edward Stebbins Mann (1908–2005) was the president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

Early life and career

Mann was born September 24, 1908, in Waterville, Vermont, the son of a state senator. In 1925, at the age of 16, he enrolled at Eastern Nazarene College. As a student, he helped raise funds for the school's first baseball diamond, later raising more funds and helping dig the foundation for the school's first gymnasium.

Mann started teaching at Eastern Nazarene as a math professor in 1929 and became the assistant to the president, Gideon B. Williamson, in 1941. He remarried in 1989 to Katherine (Brown) Angell, widowed daughter-in-law of Ernest E. Angell. Mann had four sons, Edward, Merritt, Robert, and Richard, and three stepchildren, Gary, Gordon, and Katherine Angell. A sports fan, he attended ENC sports events and followed the Boston Red Sox. He also enjoyed vacationing at his cottage, Hearthside, on Lake Champlain in Vermont.

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