The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, announced today that John O. Crow, Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau, has been named as one of 10 Federal employees to receive the Career Service Award presented by the National Civil Service League.
The awards, now in their 10th year, are given in recognition of outstanding competence in public service, and winners are chosen from the nomination of cabinet officers, heads of Federal agencies, and the D. C. Commissioners. The 1964 winners will receive their awards at the April 14 presentation dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D. C. Members of the Cabinet, Congress, the various Federal agencies and the judiciary will join businessmen, members of the public, and government employees to honor this year's awardees.
Mr. Crow, a Cherokee Indian, receives his award for sustained superior service in the Bureau of Indian Affairs throughout a career that began 30 years ago.
He entered service with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933 as a temporary clerk at the Fort Totten Indian Agency in North Dakota. Successive assignments took him, in 1935, to the Truxton Canyon Indian Agency at valentine, Arizona, where, in 1942, he was made superintendent of the agency; and to the superintendence’s of the Mescalero (Apache) Indian Agency in New Mexico, from 1946 to 1951; the Fort Apache Indian Agency, W1literiver, Arizona, from 1951 to 1955; and the Uintah-Ouray Agency at Fort Duchesne, Utah, from 1955 to 1957.
He came to the central offices of the Bureau in Washington, D. C., in 1957, as assistant to the Assistant Commissioner for Resources, and in 1960 he was made chief of the Bureau's Branch of Realty,
