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For Immediate Release: June 1, 1971

Albert L. Lerner, 38, Field Employment Assistance Officer, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Chicago, has been reassigned to the same post in Los Angeles, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce announced today. He will replace Daryl L. Mahoney, who has been reassigned to the position of Area Employment Assistance Officer in the Anadarko Area Office.

Lerner, a native of New York, received his B.S. degree in 1956 from State University, Oswego, New York, and his M. Ed. in industrial education from Oregon State University in 1960 He began his career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1956 as a teacher of vocational subjects at Stewart, Nev. In 1961 he transferred to the Flandreau Indian School as department head for vocational subjects. Four years later he accepted reassignment as an employment guidance specialist in the Cleveland Field Employment Assistance Office.