Name: Walker and Lola Hill leave for a two-year India education assignment, 1963
Start: 1963-01-10
End: 1965-01
Location: Beaver Island

Walker and Lola Hill leave for a two-year India education assignment, 1963

Also Walker and Lola Hill India education assignment · Rustic Villa owners overseas assignment 1963

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TypeEvent

Dates1963-01-10 – 1965-01

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Dates: 1963-01-10 – 1965-01
Kind: Migration
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: migrationeducationtourism
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The January 1963 Beaver Beacon reports Walker and Lola Hill leaving for India on a two-year Columbia University assignment to develop testing methods for Indian education systems.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper travel and assignment notice. It does not establish the contract terms, project results, or complete itinerary.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 1963, “Tidbits.”
Reports Walker and Lola Hill leaving in January for India via New York, London, Paris, and Athens, with Walker assigned by Columbia University to develop education-system testing methods for two years.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1963, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the travel and assignment notice; it does not provide a university contract or travel record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Walker and Lola Hill leave for a two-year India education assignment, 1963”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-hill-india-education-assignment-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1963, “Tidbits.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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