The U. S. Department of the Interior today announced the appointment of Doyce L. Waldrip to the post of Superintendent of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. He will replace Allan W. Galbraith who transfers to the Portland Area Office to become Assistant Area Director for economic development.
Since January 1960, Waldrip has served at the Seminole Agency in Hollywood, Florida, first as administrative officer and, since 1963, as superintendent. In fifteen years of service with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he has also been stationed at the Turtle Mountain Agency in North Dakota, and the Cheyenne River Agency in South Dakota.
During World War II, Waldrip served for three years in the Army Air Corps. A native of Hollis, Oklahoma, he attended New Mexico A &M State College and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950 from West Texas State College.
Galbraith, in his new post in Portland, will participate in local administration of the programs of BIA’s Division of Economic Development. His responsibilities will involve land operations, real estate appraisal, forestry, credit and financing, real property management, housing development, road construction and maintenance and industrial development.
A native of Washington State and a World War II veteran, Galbraith had served as superintendent at the Warm Springs Agency since 1957. Previously, he held similar posts at the Klamath Agency in Oregon and the Jicarilla Agency in New Mexico. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, and has served as secretary and treasurer of the American Society of Range Management, Northwest Section.
