A Day For All To Remember

By Edwin B. Petersen

HELLO FOLKS – Attended Grandma Hansen's 100th birthday celebration at Trinity Lutheran Church on Mother's Day. I consider it a real honor to be considered one of her friends and to have known her for the past 23 years, not alone for the fact that she lived to be 100 but for the example she has set in positive living.

There are too many of us today who probably because we are afraid of being criticized, fail to be positive in our thinking and living. As a consequence we fall far short of our abilities and end up in a rut.

Not so with Grandma Hansen; if she has a view she expresses it, and it is pretty apt to be a good one.

I am sure that there was not another person who enjoyed the day more than Grandma did and I don't believe she was too weary at the end of the day either. I don't know if she had another meeting that evening but if she did have I'll wager she attended it.

I hope she has many more birthdays and from as active as she is she is pretty apt to have them too.

The program for the occasion was M.Ced by Dr. Ted Hansen, Which was very appropriate. The talk given by Pastor Jacobsen was right to the point with the right blend of wit, humor and spiritual- (missing text).

I don't know how many there were there that day but I believe it probably passed the 500 mark.

It is kind of nice to know that there will always be a little family tie with Grandma Hansen as my brother Clarence is married to a granddaughter. (Delona Romer).

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IT IS ABOUT four or five years ago that I bemoaned the fact that there was not a course in our high schools teaching Family Relations.

It is a great satisfaction to me now to find a real good course of study in that field. My daughter Karen is taking it and I'll say it is a good one. She gets it in home management class.

One other course that I have been plugging for is a course in American Economics. It is sorely needed, if we are to successfully counteract the influence of the communist world. I doubt that one student in 100 knows what it takes to create a job, or how our economy operates and if he or she learns it is not in our high schools it is learned, unless of couse there is a new course in it that I am not aware of.