Media Contact: Lovett 343-7445
For Immediate Release: September 1, 1977

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has appointed. Jack C. Naylor, a Choctaw Indian, Superintendent of its Miami Agency, Miami, Oklahoma.

Naylor, 42, has been on the faculty of the Haskell Indian Junior College at Lawrence, Kansas, since 1964. He has been a department head, dean of instruction for vocational and technical subjects and coordinator of institutional evaluation. He has been Acting Superintendent of the Horton, Kansas Agency this summer.

An Army veteran, Naylor is a graduate of Northeastern State, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He received a Masters in Education from the University of Kansas and has completed the course work for a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.

He succeeds T. J. Perry who has retired after 13 years as Superintendent at Miami.