Difference between revisions of "Henry Coleman"

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==External Links==
 
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* [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr06/obituaries3.php Columbia College Today Obituary for Henry Coleman]
 
* [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr06/obituaries3.php Columbia College Today Obituary for Henry Coleman]
  
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Revision as of 02:41, 5 April 2007

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.

Preceded by
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Dean of Columbia College 
1967-1968
Succeeded by
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