Stanley D. Lyman, 58, former Superintendent of the Fort Peck, Montana and Uintah and Ouray, Utah, Bureau of Indian Affairs agencies was today named Superintendent of the Bureau's Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, borne of the Oglala Sioux Indians, by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce, himself a member of the Oglala Sioux as well as the Mohawk Indian tribe.
Lyman will assume his post October 17.
He replaces Brice L. Lay, who recently became Chief of the Bureau’s Division of Public School relations in Albuquerque.
Said the Commissioner in announcing the appointment: "We are pleased that we have a man with' a solid background in administration and in dealing with Indian people assuming the Pine Ridge post."
Lyman received his BA in 1936 from Yankton College, S. Dak., and his MA 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, S.D. 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 a placement and relocation officer at the Aberdeen Area Office, Aberdeen, S. Dak., and Bureau of Indian Affairs 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.
