Two Indian Bureau personnel changes involving positions in North Dakota were announced today by the Department of the Interior.
Harold W. Schunk, superintendent of the Turtle Mountain Agency at Belcourt, N. Dak. for the past three years, was transferred June 30 to the comparable position at Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, N. Dak. He succeeds Joseph W. Wellington whose transfer to the superintendency of the Wahpeton School, Wahpeton, N. Dak., was previously announced.
At Turtle Mountain Mr. Schunk will be replaced July 8 by Herman P. Mittelholtz, now realty officer for the Bureau at Bemidji, Minn.
Mr. Schunk has been with the Bureau since 1933 when he was appointed camp manager at Rosebud, S. Dak. His duties with the Bureau have included a principal ship at the Cherry Creek, S. Dak., Cheyenne Agency, agricultural instruction, and education specialization. In November 1954 he was promoted to the position of superintendent and assigned to Turtle Mountain. He was born July 25, 1907 at Philip, S. Dak., and is a graduate of Southern State Teachers College, Springfield, S. Dak., where he received his B. S. degree in 1931.
Mr. Mittelholtz has been with the Bureau since 1941 when he was appointed teacher at the Fort Berthold Agency Community School at Elbowoods, N. Dak. Since that time he has served in various capacities with the Bureau ranging from a principal ship of the Jicarilla Apache Agency School to realty work with the Great Lakes Consolidated Agency. He has been realty officer at Bemidji, Minn., since February 1956.
He was born in 1909 at Munich, N. Dak., and is a graduate of Bemidji State Teachers College, Bemidji, Minn.
