Margery Lancaster Walker: Passionate educator, and Baylor’s first Native American graduate
…ribe) in 1936 and Dan Tilden (Cherokee) in 1939. But Walker, who graduated with a degree in music education from BU in 1952, is believed to have been Baylor’s first Native American graduate. Born in 1933 in Albuquerque, N.M., Margery knew hardship early. Her mother, a Navajo (Diné), sadly died during the birth, leaving her father, George Howard Wilson (Lakota/Sioux), to raise her. Her parents did pass on a musical heritage; George was a concert si…