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chusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. 
His engagement has been announced. 
Winter is an attorney-at-law in the firm of Winter & Hen- 
dricks. In 1907 he was foreman for the Gulf Lumber Company, 
Louisiana, and in 1907-08 was employed with the International 
Paper Company of Palmer Falls, N. Y. He entered the United 
States Forest Service in 1908 as land examiner and later became 
forest assistant. In 1910 he was appointed civil engineer in the 
firm of Albright & Mebus, Philadelphia, Pa., which position he 
held until 1911, when he went into his father’s office as attorney. 
He became a partner of the firm in February, 1912. 
Non GRADUATES 
J. Franklin Bruins 
Box 249, Pocatello, Idaho 
John Franklin Bruins was born July 24, 1883, in Brandon, Wis., the 
son of Derk Bruins, a successful farmer (now retired), and Cristina 
(Heusinknelt) Bruins. His father was a prominent citizen and church 
worker in the farming community where he lived. His ancestors on his 
father’s side were Dutch farmers, his grandfather having come from 
‘the Netherlands to America as an immigrant in 1847. His mother is the 
descendant of a Dutch family, her parents having come to this country 
from the Netherlands in 1850. He has three brothers: William H. 
Bruins, a graduate of Hope College and McCormick Theological Semi- 
nary, Henry M. Bruins, a graduate of Hope College and B.A. Princeton 
’96, and Dirk Bruins, B.A. Ripon College and M.D. Northwestern Uni- 
versity; and a sister, Minnie H. Bruins, who attended the University of 
Wisconsin. 
He was brought up on a farm, working there during his vacations. 
He attended Ripon College, where he was a newspaper correspondent 
and manager of the college paper, and in 1905 graduated from Beloit 
College with the degree of B.A. 
He was married July 12, 1911, in Madison, Wis., to Miss Rose Wagner 
of Menasha, Wis., daughter of Henry Wagner. 
Since October 1, 1910, Bruins has been forest supervisor in 
the United States Forest Service with headquarters at Pocatello, 
Idaho. From 1906 to 1908 he was forest assistant in the Service 
and from 1908 to 1910 held the position of deputy forest 
supervisor. 



