Henry S. Coleman

Henry S. Coleman

Henry S. Coleman EN '46 was a former administrator, who served as the acting dean of Columbia College from 1967-1968 and dean of students from 1972-1979. He was famously barricaded in his Hamilton Hall office during the spring 1968 campus demonstrations.

On July 25, 1972, Coleman was shot five times in his office by a suspended student. He was rushed to the hospital by Columbia's volunteer EMT service (forerunner of CAVA) and survived.

He died on January 31, 2006.

Henry Coleman looks out from his office while students occupy Hamilton.

External Links

• Columbia College Today Obituary for Henry Coleman

Preceded by David B. Truman

Acting Dean of Columbia College  1967-1968

Succeeded by Carl Hovde