Promotion of Harry L. Stevens from the position of superintendent, Papago Indian Agency, Sells, Arizona, to assistant area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Phoenix, was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay.
Albert M. Hawley, reservation principal at San Carlos Agency, San Carlos, Ariz., succeeds Stevens at Papago.
Mr. Stevens, an Apache Indian, joined the Bureau in 1933 as camp superintendent at San Carlos Agency and remained there until 1941 when he was named senior camp superintendent at Consolidated Chippewa Agency, Cass Lake, Minn. After one year he was named principal field aid in charge of the Fond du Lac sub agency, Cloquet, Minn. and in 1943 was transferred to the Central Office as personnel technician. From 1944 to 1949 he was in charge of the Walker River sub agency, Schurz, Nev., and served for two years as assistant to the superintendent, Colorado River Agency, Parker, Ariz. He was assigned to the Papago Agency in 1951 as administrative assistant and became superintendent in 1953. Prior to entering the Federal service, he was an instructor in the Arizona State Prison and high school teacher at Holbrook, Ariz.
Mr. Hawley came with the Bureau in 1935 and for eight years was a boys' advisor at the Carson Indian School, Stewart, Nev. After Navy service during World War II, he returned to the Bureau as principal for the Carson School in 1946 and one year later was name reservation principal. In 1950 he became principal of the Tuba City Boarding School on the Navajo Reservation and in 1951 returned to the is position at the Carson School for two additional years. He has been reservation principal at San Carlos Agency since 1953.
