Selection of Glenn R. Landbloom, a veteran Indian Bureau employee, as general superintendent of the Navajo Agency at Window Rock, Ariz., was announced today by Glenn L. Emmons, Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior.
Mr. Landbloom, assistant area director for the Bureau at Aberdeen, S. Dak., since 1954, is expected to report for duty at Window Rock around September 1. He succeeds G. Warren Spaulding, who retires August 31 after more than 30 years of service with the Bureau and four years as head of the Navajo Agency.
Mr. Landbloom's career with the Bureau began in 1938 at the United Pueblos Agency, Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he joined the staff as a field aid. About a year later he was transferred to the Rosebud Agency in South Dakota and promoted to farm agent. After four years in this position and three years of military service in World War II, he moved to the regional office at Billings, Mont., as credit officer in 1946. Four years later he was put in charge of both extension and credit activities for the Aberdeen area and in 1954 was named to his present position as assistant area director in charge of resources.
Born at Fargo, N. Dak., in 1909, Mr. Landbloom has both a bachelor's and a master's degree from North Dakota Agricultural College. Before joining the Indian Bureau, he worked for the Soil Conservation Service and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture. He is married and has two children.
