Appointment of Herman E. O'Harra as superintendent of the Hopi Indian Agency, Keams Canyon, Ariz., was announced today by Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs W. Barton Greenwood.
The new appointee will take over January 28 succeeding Clyde W. Pensoneau, who joins the Indian Bureau's extension staff in Washington. Mr. O’Harra, who has been administrative officer in charge of the Pima Area Field Office at Sacaton, Ariz., for the past four years, came with the Bureau originally in 1931 as farm agent at the Crow Agency in Montana. Over the following 21 years he served as agricultural extension agent at the Menominee Agency in Wisconsin, the Klamath Agency in Oregon, and the Carson Agency in Nevada. He was born at Weston, Oreg. in 1895 and attended Oregon State College.
Mr. Pensoneau has been superintendent at Keams Canyon for almost two years. Before that he had 13 years' experience with the Bureau in extension work at agencies in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. He was born at Jones, Okla., in 1914 and is a graduate of the Oklahoma A & M College.
