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.

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