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From the Archives
On April 18, 1997, St. Andrew’s celebrated the groundbreaking of the Postoak Campus. To commemorate the moment, a time capsule was assembled and placed in a military foot locker, which was affixed with the label, “St. Andrew’s Time Capsule To Be Opened In 2022.”
Twenty-five years later, we now know the contents of that time capsule, which range from newsworthy artifacts to mementos from the groundbreaking. There’s a Washington Bullets baseball cap and a ticket stub from one of the team’s final games before becoming the Wizards; a magazine cover depicting Comet Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed astronomical spectacles of the 20th century; and a custom license plate frame inscribed with “Lions On the Move,” marking the move from Bradmoor to Postoak.
Perhaps most notable of all the contents was a paper envelope filled to the brim with handwritten letters. According to directions written and signed by the late Joanne Beach, all students were instructed to write a few lines about what life was like in 1997.
Some students wrote about their time at St. Andrew’s and what was happening in the world in the late 1990s, while others introduced themselves and wondered at what their lives might be like in 2022. April 1997
DO YOU REMEMBER WRITING A LETTER FOR THE TIME CAPSULE?
Share your memories from this moment in School history by sending an email to alumni@saes.org.
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