Kenneth W. Mann ’37

Ken Mann died Feb. 25, 2012, in Nyack, N.Y.

He was a retired Episcopal priest and a clinical psychologist. He was born in Nyack and graduated from Nyack High School, where he was salutatorian of his class, before coming to Princeton. After graduating, he attended General Theological Seminary in New York and then the University of Michigan, where he received a Ph.D.

Ken was vicar of All Saints Episcopal Church in Valley Cottage, N.Y., and then vicar of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Pearl River, N.Y. He became president of the Rockland County Ministers Association and also executive secretary of the social service commission of the Diocese of New York. Later he worked as a priest and psychotherapist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and as chaplain at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Ken moved to California in 1945 but returned to New York in 1965. He became executive of the Office of Pastoral Services, a national position in the Episcopal Church. As a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he published several books, including Religious Factors and Values in Counseling, On Pills and Needles, and Deadline for Survival.

To his nephew, Orville Mann ’57, niece Mary Todd Mann Donley, and their families, we express our sincere sympathy.