{"id":2387,"date":"2012-09-13T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:51:31","slug":"coggins-wilmer-jesse-1925-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"COGGINS, WILMER JESSE, 1925-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician; medical school administrator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 20, 1925, in Madison, Florida.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Wilmer Jesse Coggins and Audrey Walker Collins.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Deborah Ferne Reed, April 16, 1949.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Georgia Military Academy; Duke University, M.D., 1951; internship at Georgetown University Medical Center, 1951-52. residency in internal medicine, University of Florida, 1960-62.\u00a0 Military service, World War II.\u00a0 Private practice in Boca Grande and Madison, FL, 1954-1960; faculty member and administrator at the University of Florida, 1962-1980; Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama, 1980-91.\u00a0Served as a consultant to the Robert Wood\u00a0Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. \u00a0Active in the Florida Medical Association and the American College Health Association (president, 1972-73).\u00a0 Awarded the Ruth Boynton Award for distinguished service by the American College Health Association.\u00a0 Designated a Laureate of American College of Physicians, Alabama Chapter.\u00a0 Awarded the status of dean emeritus on his retirement from the College of Community Health Sciences\u00a0in 1991. Died September 9, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Downey-Anderson, Charlotte, &#8220;The &#8216;Coggins Affair&#8217;:\u00a0 Desegregation and Southern Mores in Madison County, Florida,&#8221; Florida Historical Quarterly, 59 (1980), 464-72.<\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, 12 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Coggins Affair.\u00a0 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Special Kind of Doctor:\u00a0 The History of the College of Community\u00a0 Health Sciences.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa, AL:\u00a0 College of Community Health Sciences, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Physician; medical school administrator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 20, 1925, in Madison, Florida.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Wilmer Jesse Coggins and Audrey Walker Collins.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Deborah Ferne Reed, April 16, 1949.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Georgia Military Academy; Duke University, M.D., 1951; internship at Georgetown University Medical Center, 1951-52. residency in internal medicine, University of Florida, 1960-62.\u00a0 Military service, World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}