1. Evan Hill was an American journalist and professor at the University of Connecticut, where he chaired the journalism department from 1965 to 1984.
22 Facts About Evan Hill
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Evan Hill mentored many editors and reporters in the region and served as a director and trustee of The Day.
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Evan Hill was born in Philadelphia on January 20,1919, to Louis and Marie Evan Hill.
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Evan Hill graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington, where he worked in a drugstore and a cannery while reporting for the local KVOS television station in 1938 and 1939.
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Evan Hill underwent six major operations and spent four years in and out of California hospitals.
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Evan Hill was discharged with the rank of captain in 1947.
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Evan Hill moved to Newport, New Hampshire, to serve as editor for the Argus Champion, a semi-weekly newspaper, in 1948 and 1949.
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Evan Hill earned his Master of Science degree in journalism from Boston University in 1950.
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Evan Hill stayed at Boston University teaching journalism until 1956, when he joined the journalism faculty at Ohio State University.
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Evan Hill's work was published in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Redbook, New York Times Magazine, Saturday Review, Yankee, Coronet, and other periodicals.
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Evan Hill was a ghostwriter for prominent pollster George Gallup and several US government officials.
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Evan Hill accepted the position, moved to Storrs, and chaired the department until he retired in 1984.
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Evan Hill mentored future editors and reporters for major American periodicals; other students became corporate public relations executives.
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Evan Hill consulted for the Boston Globe, the Providence Journal, and the US Office of Science and Technology.
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Evan Hill served on the board of directors of The Day Publishing Company and as a trustee of the Bodenwein Foundation from 1978 to 1989.
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Evan Hill stayed active in the community, serving on the public library's board of trustees, the school board, the budget advisory committee, and the planning board.
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Evan Hill taught writing to local middle-schoolers in after-school programs and to adults in evening classes.
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Evan Hill continued writing for local papers and the Boston Globe and compiled a historical chronology of Newport.
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Evan Hill was a member of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
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Evan Hill died from congestive heart failure at the Woodcrest Village assisted living facility in New London, New Hampshire, on April 10,2010.
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Evan Hill met his future wife, Priscilla Fiske, of Natick, Massachusetts, at an Alaska dance.
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Evan Hill was survived by his daughter, Lucinda Hill Hogarty, son Peter Hill, and three grandchildren.