Appointment of Stanley D. Lyman, 60, Superintendent of the Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge, S. Dak., since October 1971, to head the Indian Trust Protection Office of the Phoenix Area, Bureau of Indian Affairs, beginning November 11, was announced today by Marvin L. Franklin, Assistant to the
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. "Stanley Lyman has been of tremendous service to the Oglala Sioux Indians that live on the Pine Ridge Reservation," Franklin said. At Phoenix, he will head a new, key unit of the Bureau -- the Office of Trust Responsibility. This Office protects and helps administer the Indians' basic resource -- their lands. In this post, Lyman will work with the protective aspect of Federal Indian matters at the field level."
Lyman will be replaced at Pine Ridge by Albert W. Trimble, 45, an Oglala Sioux, who has been named Acting Superintendent at Pine Ridge effective November 11.
Lyman received his B.A. in 1936 from Yankton College, S. Dak., and his M.A. in 1944 from Colorado State University.
He began his government career with the Department of Agriculture in 1941 as an assistant rehabilitation supervisor at Pine Ridge, He then became a farm labor assistant and program supervisor for the Department of Agriculture at Belle Fourche, S. Dak., returning to Pine Ridge in 1952 to join the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a placement officer.
He became placement and relocation officer at the Aberdeen Area Office, Aberdeen; S. Dak., in 1953 and a field relocation officer at Denver in 1954. He moved from Denver to Chicago to become a supervisory relocation officer in 1958 and was named Superintendent of the Fort Peck Agency in 1962 and the Uintah and Ouray Agency in 1967. He is married and the father of a son and a daughter.
''We feel fortunate that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has a man with Trimble's qualifications to assume the Pine Ridge post," Franklin said. ''He has served the Bureau and Indian people for 17 years on two different Indian reservations and in three major cities. In addition, he is intimately familiar with the Pine Ridge Reservation and its people. He returns to South Dakota from a top Washington, D.C., administrative position."
Trimble served in the United States Army for three years, following which he was graduated from Haskell Institute at Lawrence, Kans., now Haskell Indian Junior College.
He began his career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Northern Idaho Agency at Lapwai, Idaho, in 1956. He assumed progressively more responsible jobs with the agency until 1962, when he moved to Los Angeles with the Field Employment Assistance Office there. He became Superintendent of the Rocky Boy's Agency, Box Elder, Mont., in 1967, a post he held until October 1970, when he moved to the Oakland, Calif., area to serve as Field Employment Assistance Officer.
He became Chief of the Division of Employment Assistance for the Bureau of Indian Affairs with offices in Washington, D.C., in 1972.
He is married to Mary Anne Trimble, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. They have seven children.
