Clyde W. Pensoneau, a member of the Indian Bureau staff at the Colorado River Agency, Parker, Arizona, will become superintendent of the Hopi Agency, Keams Canyon, Arizona, on May 23, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay announced today.
Mr. Pensoneau, who has been agricultural extension agent at Colorado River since 1952, has 13 years of experience with the Bureau in extension and credit work. He joined the Service in 1941 as a farm aide at the Uintah and Ouray Agency in Utah. A year later he was promoted to farm agent. In 1944 he was transferred to the Carson Agency, Nevada as principal agricultural aide and after a year was named farm management supervisor at the Pyramid Lake Subagency, Nevada. In 1948 he was given supervision of extension and credit work at Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota and remained in that position until he transferred to Colorado River.
Born in Jones, Oklahoma, in 1914, Mr. Pensoneau graduated from the Oklahoma A & M College in 1941 with a degree in animal husbandry. At Hopi Agency he will succeed Dew Carnal, who is transferring to the position of school principal at Turtle Mountain Agency in North Dakota.
