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For Immediate Release: October 19, 1967

Robert Lo Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, announced today that Lawrence J. Kozlowski, formerly superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs· Miccosukee Agency, Homestead, Fla., has been appointed superintendent of the Jicarilla Agency, Dulce. N. M.

He will fill the position left vacant by the recent transfer of Ralph Bo Armstrong to the post of Project Engineer in the Navajo area. The transfer is effective October 22.

Kozlowski is a native of Illinois and received his bache1or·s degree in Education from Roosevelt College. Chicago. There he also took graduate work.

In August of 1951 he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a teacher with the Alaska Native Service, Wrangell. Alaska. In February, 1966. Kozlowski as promoted to the superintendency of the Miccosukee Agency.

He served with the U.S. Navy during World War II as a signalman aboard U.S. merchant ships.

Kozlowski is married and the father of two children.