Cultivating the Forests of the Mind: Bill Manning
Bill Manning’s friend Ross Morgan, who taught with him at Sterling College in the early 1980s, tells a story he says sums up much about Manning. The two had reached the end of an exhausting semester of teaching, one that concluded not only with the usual rush of final projects and student evaluations, but also with a troubling episode that compelled Morgan to expel a student. Manning and Morgan were to wrap the semester by joining a group of students on an overnight canoe outing, but Manning had to leave town on a fund-raising trip, and Morgan, exhausted, opted to stay on campus to deal with any repercussions that might arise from the troublesome student’s expulsion. Evening was already descending when Manning, returning hurriedly from the fund-raising trip, convinced Morgan that the two of them should set off to catch up with the group.
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