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Time Capsule Opening
November 8, 2008
Students, faculty, and staff gathered to open the 1965 Gibson Fine Arts building time capsule and prepare its successor for future generations to uncover.
Click to enlarge photos by Karly Kolaja '11.
Standing in front of the quickly progressing Gibson Center for the Arts, President Baird Tipson welcomes students, faculty, staff and friends of Washington College to the 1965 Gibson Arts Center Time Capsule opening.
Listening attentively, Aileen Brenner '09, R. Clift Greene '10, Dorothy Johnson '09 and Colleen Kerins '09 wait to help President Tipson fill the new time capsule.
Music Department Professor and Chair, Garry E. Clarke, offers his remembrances of the old Gibson Arts Center.
Professor of Drama, Timothy B. Maloney, harkens back to past drama performances and speaks of his eagerness for more to come.
Laughing, John and Elizabeth Seidel (Director of the Center for Environment & Society and Staff Archaeologist, respectively) open the 1965 time capsule.
The Washington College 1967-68 Student Handbook was among many other texts and prints held in the capsule.
John Seidel displays a drama production booklet to the crowd.
President Tipson unfolds blueprints of the 1965 Gibson Arts Center for all to see.
After the ceremony, those gathered were invited to look over the cargo of the two capsules.
Tofer Strack '12 and John Seidel peruse capsules' contents.
Jory Peele '10 looks over the old Student Handbook.
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