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For Immediate Release: May 6, 1958

With the retirement of Kenneth A. Marmon as superintendent of the Seminole Indian Agency, Dania, Fla.; on May 31, Virgil N. Harrington will take over full responsibilities of the position, the Department of the Interior announced today.

Since last January Mr. Harrington has been sharing the responsibilities jointly with Mr. Marmon, who retires after 35 years of service with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Mr. Harrington has been with the Indian Bureau since November 1948, when he was appointed Soil Conservationist at the Pawnee Indian Agency, Pawnee, Oklahoma. In June 1955, he was promoted to Agency Land Operations Officer and transferred to the Consolidated Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colorado, where he served until the move to Seminole in January 1958.

Prior to his Bureau service Mr. Harrington was with the United States Naval Ordnance Depot, McAlester, Oklahoma. He majored in Agriculture at Oklahoma A&M from 1938 to 1942. He was born at Ward-Springs, Oklahoma, on September 5, 1919.

Mr. Marmon was appointed superintendent of the Seminole Agency, which was then located at Fort Myers, Florida, in 1942. He and Mrs. Marmon expect to live in Miami near their four grandchildren.