Construction workers disassembling C.S. 163 last week came across a unique discovery in the bricks and debris - a time capsule that was marked to open on June 10, 2025.
"[We] pulled out these tubes that say on them, 'open June 10, 2025' - and we found it three days after it said it should be opened," says Andrzej Chojnowski, one of the construction workers who discovered the time capsule. "I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it."
Chojnowski and his peers brought the three tubes to the newly remodeled C.S. 163 - unveiling newspaper clippings, class rosters, drawings, photographs of the then head administrators and a special note addressed to "the students of the future" — all from class 2-306 in 1975.
Assistant Principal Jillian Lothian revealed the letter contained a special request from the class of 1975, asking to ensure that education would always be pushed to the forefront and to keep the school clean and respectable.
Lothian says the message was heard loud and clear, stating they will continue to follow the same message - regardless that it happened during a different time.
The school says that it plans to preserve the artifacts behind a glass casing in the school lobby and add a few to their own time capsule, marked to be opened in another 50 years.
