Tim C. Dye, 47, Acting Superintendent of the Fort Apache Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, has been given the post of Superintendent, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce announced today. He succeeds Robert Robinson, who was transferred to the Sacramento Area Office of the Bureau in February.
Dye became a Land Operations Officer 'With the Fort Apache Agency in September 1970. He had held a similar post with the Colorado River Agency, Arizona for nine years. Prior to that he had been supervisory General Engineer with the Gallup, N.M. and Holbrook, Agricultural Engineer at Holbrook and conservation Engineer at Polacca, Ariz.
In announcing the appointment of Dye the commissioner said “Mr. Dye is unusually effective in dealing with people. He handles a large operation with many problems very well. We believe he will do the job the White Mountain Apache Tribe needs done at Whiteriver.”
Dye has B.S. degree in agriculture engineering from Oklahoma A & M College and served three and a half years with the Army Air Force.
