Dale M. Baldwin, a career employee of 17 years' service, will head the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland, Oregon, the Department of the Interior has announced.
The transfer from his present post as Superintendent of the Nevada Indian Agency at Stewart, Nev., will be effective March 20, 1966.
In 1965 Baldwin was cited for outstanding performance during his five years of work with the 26 tribal groups throughout Nevada.
His advancement to Area Director will place under his administrative purview nearly all the Indian tribes of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. He will succeed Robert D. Holtz, who retired in December 1965.
A native of New Castle, Pa., Baldwin is a graduate of Oregon State College and has spent much of his career in the Northwest. His first post with the Bureau of Indian Affairs took him to the Colville Indian Agency at Nespelem, Wash., as a soil conservationist. Two years later he moved to the Umatilla Agency in Oregon, and later served at the Fort Hall Agency in Idaho.
In 1957 he joined the Washington, D. C., staff of the Bureau as a program officer and in 1959 was appointed superintendent of the Fort Peck, Mont., Indian reservation.
Baldwin is an Army veteran of World War II. He entered the service as a private in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain.
