Louis Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator, was born July 2, 1913 in Ishpeming, Michigan. His family moved to Hawkins when he was six years old. After attending public schools in Hawkins, Hill received his B.S. from Northern Michigan University in 1939 and his M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1957. From 1939 to 1942 Hill taught high school social studies and coached basketball and baseball in Hawkins and Tony, Wisconsin. Following service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1943, Hill became the principal of the Kasson, Minnesota, High School from 1945 to 1948 when he returned to Hawkins to work as teacher supervisor for Rusk County. This position was expanded to include Sawyer and Bayfield Counties in 1960 but was terminated in 1965 by the County Supervisors. Throughout these seventeen years Hill was a member of the Wisconsin Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (WASCD), and he was its president in 1961. His next position was elementary school coordinator in the Flambeau, Wisconsin, school system from 1965 to 1975 where he also began two Title I programs in Tony and in Bruce in reading skills. Retired since 1975, Hill has continued to write local histories which he began researching in the 1950's. Throughout his life Louis Hill has been a sporadic member of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club. The irregularity of his participation was necessitated by his frequent periods of absence from the town.
