Biography:

Linguist;  university professor. Born– June 10, 1904, Livingston. Parents– Wade Hampton and Lillian (Jackson) Coleman. Married– Margaret Pauline James, June 3, 1930. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1925, M.A., 1927; graduate study at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at the University of Chicago. U.S.Navy, WWII.  Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Alabama after 1928. Received the Palmes Academique from the French government in the 1950s. Died May 30, 1973.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 2, and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publications;

Verse Writing in Alabama.  University of Alabama, 1927.

Contributor;

Learning Aural-oral Spanish Skills by Television: A pilot study of the effectiveness of televised instruction in Foreign Languages. University of Alabama, 1960.