Something Personal

Inside the capsule, there was a newspaper article in the memory of David Michael Raap, who sadly passed away at the aged of 10. The newspaper was from 1967 when this school was originally called Walker Junior High. There were some documents too, including a class program list and a student handbook. You might think that this wasn’t any interesting find but for the school’s students and staff members. It is not every day that we find time capsules. But the time capsule which was found in the Shenandoah University had several amazing stuff inside it and that’s the reason we are talking about it.

Important In Other Sense

For Dr. Horner, the discovered Michigan Association of School Boards paperwork were extremely fascinating. Because the paperwork included information about the school values in education which could help the school to improve further. After this discovery, there were rumors that Central Elementary might be hiding several other time capsules too and near future students might stumble upon one of them. But the Shenandoah University discovery proved one thing that there are some time capsules that hid something very interesting.

Hope For More

The school is still under construction which will finish in 2020. “Our entire building is going to be undergoing construction until basically 2020, So if there are additional time capsules, I’m sure we’re going to find them in the next few years,” told Dr. Horner in the interview to Michigan Live. We hope that they do find other hidden time capsules and we get to know about them. But it was the Shenandoah University that took away all the glory.

25 Years Later

What was found in the Central Elementary has a separate fan base, but in the Shenandoah University in Virginia there was that one time capsule that people wish to find one day. And in the year 2018, their wish came true when they opened the time capsule which specifically said that you should open it in the year 2018. The school staff waited for 25 long years to see what was hidden inside the capsule. 25 years was a long wait but it was totally worth it.

Historical Day

There couldn’t have been a better opportunity to open the time capsule as it was the homecoming weekend in the Shenandoah University. On October 17, 2018, the school staff and students decided to open the capsule to see what was actually there inside it. It was like an event, the time capsule was placed on a table and students and staff gathered around the table to finally discover the content inside it.

The Event Began

As we said that it was kind of an event, before they opened the time capsule, a spokesperson for the Shenandoah University addressed the audience to tell them about the discovery and to make the homecoming weekend more special for the students and staff. “Welcome, thank you for joining us for our 1993 flashback,” she says. “I also want to say thank you to the class of ’93 for thinking of us 25 years ago.”