The Department of the Interior announced today that Kenneth K. Crites has been appointed superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Mt. Edgecumbe School at Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska, effective August 30. He succeeds Robin Dean, who retired recently.
Mr. Crites began his service with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1938 as a teacher at the Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Indian School. He held positions of progressive responsibility at the Rosebud Indian School in South Dakota, Shiprock school in New Mexico, and the Chinle (Arizona) Boarding School, and in 1952 Was made assistant area director of schools at the Bureau's Juneau Area Office.
A native of Buckhannon, West Virginia, Mr. Crites received his bachelor's degree in Education from Salem College, Salem, West Virginia in 1938, and did graduate work at George Washington University in Washington, D. C., during 1937-38.
