Media Contact: Lovett 202-343-7445
For Immediate Release: June 23, 1976

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today the appointments of two members of the Flathead Indian Tribe as BIA Agency

Superintendents.

Stephen A. Lozar, 50, has been named Superintendent of the Crow Agency in Montana and Wyman J. McDonald appointed Superintendent of the Fort Hall Agency in Idaho.

Lozar, an Army veteran, has been Superintendent of the Western Washington Agency and previously was in charge of the Colorado River Agency. He began his career with the BIA in 1954 and has worked in the Portland and Sacramento Area Offices and the Umatilla, Flathead and Wind River Agencies.

McDonald has been Superintendent of the Mescalero Apache Agency in New Mexico. He has worked with Indian Community Action Programs in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, was an EDA Program Development Specialist with the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. and worked in various BIA agencies.

A Marin Corps veteran, McDonald is a 1962 graduate of the University of Montana and in 1968 completed the Department of the Interior Managers Developmental Program. He is 38.

Both Lozar and McDonald are natives of St. Ignatius, Montana.