Paul W. Hand, Special Assistant at Palm Springs, Calif., to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Director for the Sacramento Area, has been appointed superintendent of the BIA agency at Chinle, Ariz., on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He fills the position vacated by Paul A. Krause, who transferred to the superintendency of the Bureau's Bemidji, Minn., agency last July. The new assignment became effective September 11, 1966.
Hand, a native of Spokane, Wash., has served the Bureau of Indian Affairs at various posts since 1952. His assignments include the Washington, D. C., headquarters office; the Colorado River and Navajo Reservations in Arizona; and since July 1963, the office at Palm Springs. He holds a degree in engineering from the State College of Washington, at Pullman, and the degree of doctor of laws from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash.
In a second recent personnel action Raymond J. de Kay, coordinator for OEO Programs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Minneapolis, Minn., area since 1964, was named Superintendent of the Consolidated Ute Indian Agency at Ignacio, Colo., effective August 28, 1966. He succeeds Jose A. Zuni, who transferred last June to become superintendent of the Nevada Agency, Carson City, Nev.
de Kay, a native of Greenwich, Connecticut, has since 1958 held various Bureau positions--at the Bethel Agency, Bethel, Alaska, and at the Juneau Area Office, Alaska, prior to his assignment in Minneapolis, Minn. He holds a master's degree in Social Sciences from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
