Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today the appointment of David N. Burch as Superintendent at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Intermountain School in Brigham City, Utah. Since 1970, Burch has been Deputy Assistant Area Director for Education in the Phoenix Area Office.
Intermountain was once the Bureau's largest school as an off-reservation boarding high school for Navajo Indian students. It is now an inter-tribal school, and the administration was transferred from the Navajo Area to the Phoenix Area last summer.
Burch, a Missouri native, is a 1958 graduate of Chadron State College in Nebraska. He earned his Master's degree in 1967 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
An Air Force veteran, Burch has worked with the BIA since 1958. He has been a teacher, department head and school principal. He was the Education Program Administrator on the Turtle Mountain Reservation at Belcourt, North Dakota before moving to the Phoenix Area Office.
