Stanley M. Speaks, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has been named Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Agency at Anadarko, Oklahoma. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced that the appointment was effective June 22.
Speaks has been Acting Superintendent of the Intermountain Indian School at Brigham City, Utah, this past year. He has worked in Indian education programs with the Bureau of Indian Affairs since 1959. He was the Supervisory Guidance Counselor at Intermountain for five years.
Speaks has been actively involved in Indian youth programs, particularly scouting. He is a member of the American Indian Relations Committee (Boy Scouts of America) and was Chairman of the 16th American Indian Tribal Leaders' Seminar on Scouting 1972-73. He is also a member of the Rotary International.
Speaks, 41, is a graduate of Northeastern State College, Oklahoma, where he also earned a Master's degree in Education.
