Auburn, NY -- When they were in afternoon kindergarten at Owasco Elementary in Auburn, about 30 youngsters watched as items were placed in a time capsule and buried near the school. That was during the 1997-98 school year. Now, most of those young people are about to graduate from Auburn High School. And Friday, some returned to their old...
View full sizeGraduating seniors returned to Owasco Elementary School where, as kindergartners during the 1997-98 school year, they buried a time capsule that they opened Friday with their former teacher, Colleen Locastro. From left are Tim Smith, Mike Galka, Marybeth Diego, Kara Mahunik, Melissa Duc and Mike Westmiller. Auburn, NY -- When they were in afternoon kindergarten at Owasco Elementary in Auburn, about 30 youngsters watched as items were placed in a time capsule and buried near the school. That was during the 1997-98 school year.
Now, most of those young people are about to graduate from Auburn High School. And Friday, some returned to their old school to watch as the capsule was opened.
Among the items inside was a simple yearbook, so they got to see how they looked as kindergartners.
They also were able to reminisce with their former kindergarten teacher, Colleen Locastro, who has taught there for 24 years. Locastro said classroom mother Trisha Cady came up with the idea to bury a time capsule. She thought the kindergartners could come back one day and see what they had put into it, Locastro said.
Cady’s daughter, Mary Beth Diego, was one of the six there Friday. Work at the school in recent years had resulted in the capsule being unearthed, but it had not been opened— until Friday. That’s when kindergartners past and present were able to take a peek.
And if these seniors had forgotten the good times they had at Owasco, they were in luck. Also in the capsule were stories they’d written 12 years ago about what they liked best about their year in kindergarten.