Green Acres To Break Out Time Capsule At 80th Anniversary Event

Green Acres students help dig up a time capsule left in 1983 by the school's Class of 1984, via Green Acres School

A North Bethesda school will reveal items found in a time capsule buried 31 years ago by the school’s Class of 1984.

Green Acres School, a pre-K to Grade 8 school with more than 320 students, will present some of the items found in the time capsule during a celebration of the school’s 80th anniversary on Saturday.

Last month, middle schoolers at Green Acres helped dig up the time capsule, situated in a small outdoor amphitheater on school grounds.

Saturday’s event will include members of the Class of 1984 along with the school’s current eighth graders. They will show off the items those students left behind in honor of the school’s 50th anniversary.

The school got some help from a specialist who used ground-penetrating radar technology to find the capsule — a map showing the exact location of it had apparently been lost. Students took turns digging and found the capsule about three-and-a-half feet underground.

The time capsule was actually a trash can full of memorabilia meant to show off American culture at the time. A member of the Class of 1984 who lives locally told The Gazette students also recorded interviews of each other on cassette tapes in which they talked about Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” Australian rock band “Men at Work,” and predictions for the future.

The presentation of the capsule items is set for 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at the school (11701 Danville Dr.).

Photo via Green Acres School

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