Appointment of Charles B. Rovin as Chief, Branch of Welfare, Bureau of Indian Affairs, succeeding Robert W. Beasley, who resigned effective March 1, was announced today by Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons.
Mr. Rovin, a trained social worker, first came with the Indian Bureau in 1950 as placement officer in the area office at Muskogee, Oklahoma. After one year in this assignment he was transferred to relocation work in the Washington office and eventually became assistant chief of the Branch of Relocation. Since last August he has been detailed to the United States Public Health Service to participate in a survey of Indian health and related matters. His career before joining the Bureau included work with the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Social Security
Board, the International Refugee Organization, the Office of Military Government for Bavaria, the Chicago Relief Administration, and the American Red Cross. He is a native of St. Louis, Mo., and has degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago.
Mr. Beasley came with the Bureau in early 1952 as a program officer and later that same year was named head of the Welfare Branch. Previously he had about 16 years' experience with the Social Security Board and also several years of earlier experience with State and local relief agencies in Illinois, Colorado, and Wyoming. He was born in Linton, Indiana, and is a graduate of Washington State College and the University of Chicago.
