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Bowering, Marilyn, 1949-

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  • 1949-

Marilyn Bowering is a writer of poetry, drama and fiction. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Victoria, B.C. She received an M.A. degree in 1973. She has worked as a University instructor, editor, writer-in-residence and in communications.

Calvert, R.

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Coleman, H. T. J. (Herbert Thomas John), 1872-1964

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  • 1872-1964

Herbert Thomas John Coleman was born in Darlington Township, West Durham, Ontario, on 20 January 1872. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Toronto and later his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught high school in Spokane, Washington and was professor of education at both Colorado State University and the University of Toronto. He became a U.S. citizen in 1899 but returned to Canada to teach at the University of British Columbia, serving from 1920 to 1928 as UBC's second Dean of Arts and Science; during the same period he was also Head of the Dept. of Philosophy and Psychology at UBC. In 1923 Coleman became provisional Director of the post-graduate course in Teacher Training at UBC. He resigned as Dean in 1928 and thereafter devoted his time to teaching and writing poetry and essays. He also collaborated with Alan Thompson on the song, "The New Hat". By 1940 he had become UBC's "ungarlanded poet-laureate", and in 1945 he was named Professor Emeritus.

Coleman, his wife Grace and their daughter Alice spent many summers at Brentwood Bay near Victoria, and after leaving UBC Coleman retired to nearby Deep Cove. Coleman maintained contact with his sister Elizabeth, who lived in Vancouver, and his brother Rufus, also a teacher and poet, who lived for some years in Missoula, Montana.

Among Coleman's many books of children's poetry are All About Babies, a book of poems about baby animals, which was published by Gray's Publishing in Sidney in 1963; Cockle-Shell and Sandal-Shoon (Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1927); The Far Hills (Ryerson, 1958); Patricia Ann: The Story of a Doll (J.M. Dent & Sons, Toronto, 1936); The Poet Confides (Ryerson Chap-Books, Ryerson Press, 1928); and A Rhyme for a Penny (The Clarke & Stuart Company Limited, Vancouver, 1934). He died at age 92 on 9 June 1964 in Deep Cove.

Coleman, Rufus A.

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  • 1886-1975

Rufus Arthur Coleman was born on 19 June 1886 in Arthur, Ontario. He came from a well-known family of educators, his brother Herbert having taught at UBC and published numerous books of children's poetry.

Rufus Coleman obtained an A.B. degree from Whitman College in 1909, attended the University of Toronto in 1912-1913, and obtained his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1937. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the life and works of the American writer John Townsend Trowbridge. Coleman was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Montana State University in 1927 and promoted to full professor in 1936 and became Professor Emeritus in 1956. He was also Visiting Professor during summer session in 1938 at the University of Alberta, in 1939 at Washington State College, and at Victoria College, B.C., in 1959.

In addition to his research on Trowbridge, Coleman wrote essays on other American writers including Mark Twain, and also wrote poetry. In 1958 he moved to Victoria after retiring from Montana State, and died in Victoria on 22 January 1975.

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