Appointment of George A. Boyce, superintendent of the 2,000-pupil Intermountain Indian boarding school at Brigham, Utah, to develop a new instruction program in Indian arts and crafts at Santa Fe, New Mexico, was announced today by the Department of the Interior. The appointment will be effective August 6.
Boyce was the first superintendent of the Intermountain School when it opened in 1949 and served there for eight years. In 1957 he was relieved of these responsibilities and given a variety of research assignments in Indian education. He was renamed superintendent at Intermountain in 1960. Before moving into the Brigham position originally he served for eight years as director of schools on the Navajo Reservation at Window Rock, Arizona, and for three years as curriculum specialist and textbook writer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas.
Prior to coming with the Bureau in 1938 Boyce had seven years of experience as a high school teacher of mathematics in Bronxville, N. Y., four years as a teacher at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, four years as dean of Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, Pa., and two years as a business assistant at the Lake Placid-Florida School, Lake Placid, N. Y. Born at Scranton, Pa., in 1898, he has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., a master’s degree from Cornell University, and a doctor of education degree from Teachers College, Columbia University.
