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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1906 137 

GRADUATE HOLDING CERTIFICATE BUT NOT DEGREE 
Rudo L. Fromme 
Olympia, Wash. 
Rudo Lorenzo Fromme was born July 10, 1882, in Saint Paris, Ohio, 
the son of Frank W. Fromme, advertising manager for some years 
for Gaar Scott & Company (manufacturers of threshing machines) of 
Richmond, Ind., and Stella L. (Riker) Fromme. On his father’s side 
he is of German and Spanish and on his mother’s of German and Scotch 
ancestry. He has one brother, Fred Denton Fromme, B.S. South Dakota 
State Agricultural College ’11, and one sister, Nola Katheryn Fromme, 
B.S. Ohio State University ’o5. 
He was prepared at the high school in Richmond, Ind., and during 
the year I90I-02 attended Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. In 1905 
he received the degree of B.S. from Ohio State University, where he 
was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho. He spent three months in the 
summer of 1905 as forest student. 
He was married May 20, 1908, in Priest River, Idaho, to Miss Ruby 
Ellen Gowanlock of Priest River, daughter of John A. Gowanlock and 
Mederise Gowanlock. 
Fromme has been supervisor of the Olympic National Forest 
with headquarters in Olympia, Wash., since September 1, 1912. 
On August 16, 1912, he wrote: “Since leaving Yale I have 
traveled but very little excepting on official business connected 
with the Forest Service. My first assignment after leaving 
Washington, D. C., was to the old Priest River National Forest 
in Northern Idaho as forest assistant, where I spent the summer 
of 1906 on and in the vicinity of Priest Lake, mostly fighting 
fires, carrying tools and supplies by row or sail boat up the lake 
and then packing them back into the mountains on my back. 
During the fall and winter I estimated timber, and later put 
through the first large commercial sales on that, now the 
Kaniksu, forest. In August, 1907, when Supervisor McConnell 
was dismissed, I was placed in charge of the Kaniksu and my 
headquarters changed to Newport, Wash. On May 20, 1908, 
I married my present wife, who was then residing with her 
parents in Priest River, Idaho, and in the latter part of Septem- 
ber, same year, we disposed of most of our newly purchased 
furniture in order that I might accept a new assignment as 
chief of operation in the San Francisco district office, obtaining 
