In 2014, as the campus was being converted into Phillip Burton Academic High School, a group of adults from the first graduating class were invited to participate in the unearthing of the time capsule. My mother happened to have been class president her senior year, so she was extended an invite to attend. You can see her in the second photo down to the left of two other Class of '64 kids.
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| Unfurling the class photo |
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| Prom program, the theme was “Non Dimenticar,” Italian for “never forget". Tickets were $5. |
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| School newspaper |
Having closed its doors in 1996, Wilson High School is now but a distant memory. How nice for my mom and her old school chums to have been able to participate in the time capsule excavation.
That must have been interesting for her. Funnily enough, my parents graduated high school in 1964, too. (Although way south of San Francisco.)
ReplyDeleteDid their school(s) put a time capsule in the ground as well? -kind of a neat thing to have done.
DeleteNot that I know of. They've never mentioned it. Jordan High School wasn't new when they were there, so I doubt it.
DeleteI think our school buried a time capsule in 1967, the year of Canada's Centennial. I don't know if it was dug up for the Sesquicentennial in 2017. I've been long gone from there.
ReplyDeleteAh, I wonder what would be found inside were it to be unearthed? Perhaps the contents would be as mundane these. :)
DeleteI wonder whether a time capsule planted today would focus on the school? I suspect not.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, how lucky for your mother to be able to participate at both ends.
For sure the 2019 time capsule would include some type of tech. A mobile phone, maybe?
DeleteI've never heard of this idea before. It must have been very interesting for your mother.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think she was pleased.
DeleteI graduated in 1961. I've been back to one class reunion, in all these years. Like your mom's school, mine was in a very blue collar neighborhood. Your mom's grey hair is wonderful. Mine's half way there.
ReplyDeleteMy mom went grey in her early 40s, but her husband said something like 'I didn't marry a woman with grey hair', so she colored it for years. :(
DeleteSan Francisco's swung in such the other direction that young families who can afford living here send their children to private school. Or, as one parent said within earshot of me, privée. Oh, brother!
All the contents look exceptionally well preserved. I've sometimes read of time capsules being opened only to find decaying lumps of mush.
ReplyDeleteYes, I suppose that capsule must have been sealed very well. Lucky them!
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