Today would be the birthday of (Lucille) Edna Mulder Zuidweg, my wonderful grandmother, born April 17, 1912. We lost her on September 21, 2000.
In honor of Grandma, I’ll share more from her high school graduation scrapbook, which has quite a few goodies in it. I wrote about it before in the post Who Put the Ring Stain on the Scrapbook? Today I’d like to share one page of the scrapbook.
This page is my favorite because I learn more about my grandmother here. In the upper left is a photo of my grandparents, which means that they were dating by the point she glued that photo in the book. Aren’t they cute? When and where did they meet?
In the upper middle is a photo of Grandma’s best friend Blanche Stauffer, Class Valedictorian. Grandma was Class Historian and her older sister Dorothy was Salutatorian. The newspaper clipping on the upper right explains all that.
The congratulations note by Elsa looks treasured. At the bottom left is a newspaper clipping which is from April 1920:
Miss Edna Mulder celebrated her eighth birthday anniversary with a party Saturday. Twenty little people were present.
In the bottom right corner is another clipping. This one is also from 1920:
The first of the spring flowers again comes to our desk through the thoughtful kindness of little Edna Mulder. Flowers while we live to enjoy them are far sweeter than those at death for does not some one tell us that “Flowers on the casket can cast no fragrance backward over life’s rugged way.”
One more scrapbook treat is the “entertainment” for Grandma’s 8th grade graduation, which took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 12, 1925:
The Family Kalamazoo 