Media Contact: Lovett 343-7445
For Immediate Release: September 27, 1977

Donald E. Loudner, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency at Horton, Kansas.

Loudner has been Superintendent of the Yankton Agency at Wagner South Dakota. He was for six years a member of the South Dakota Indian Commission and for about 20 years served as a liaison with Indian tribes in the state for Mitchell, South Dakota. He also functioned as a consultant for the public school system there.

An army veteran, Loudner replaces Jack Carson who was transferred to the Interior's youth program office in Kansas City, Mo.