Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert L. Bennett announced today appointment of Roy Peratrovich of Juneau, Alaska, as Superintendent of the Anchorage District of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Peratrovich is widely known in Alaska. His mother was a full blood Tlingit Indian.
The new superintendent has over 30 years of service with the territorial government of Alaska and with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He also has been active in the Alaska Native Brotherhood, having served five terms as grand president and now being a life member of the executive committee.
Peratrovich was born in Klawock. School, Salem, Oregon, for four years education in Ketchikan.
He attended the Chemawa Indian He completed his high school He became the first Alaskan to receive a United Nations Fellowship, under which he studied the fishing industry of Nova Scotia. He also was awarded a John Hay Whitney Scholarship in 1952 which enabled him to study banking and finance under the auspices of the University of Denver.
Currently, Peratrovich is in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Area office at Juneau, where he is head of the Tribal Operations program in the state. He previously had served as a special officer and then as a credit and financing officer.
As superintendent of the Anchorage District, Peratrovich will have responsibility for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the south central part of the state and the Aleutian Islands c1ain. He will assume his new duties March 3.
Peratrovich has three children, a daughter, Loretta, and two sons, Roy and Frank, and several grandchildren.
