Elda graduated from Augustana College where she was extremely active as yearbook class editor, secretary of the student union, and co-editor of the Augustana Observer. She married Jerome Robbins, and together they raised a son and a daughter.Mrs. Robbins was a popular storyteller and a student of the Bible. Members of the clergy invited her to teach an elective non-denominational religious education course at Central, Wallace, and Merrill Junior High Schools. Her spellbinding presentations of the Bible stories made students eager to find out “what would happen next?” She also would hold graduation exercises at the end of the year. When the Supreme Court ruled against religious classes in the public schools, she studied at the University of Illinois to earn her Master of Arts degree. She then taught at Central and Challand Schools.When she traveled to the Holy Land, the Sterling Daily Gazette featured a series of articles she wrote about her trip. One of her students wrote this about her, “She helped her students stretch their minds and their emotions. She filled them with the desire to improve and accomplish. We all wanted to be like her.”