Unearthing memories

The Portales High School Class of 2008 — just before graduating Friday night — unveiled a time capsule Friday afternoon at R.M. James Elementary School that they buried in 2000, when they were all in third grade.

Not even a little water could dampened eight years of preserved memories buried about 2 feet down in front of the school. Letters students wrote were still visible as were photographs, cookbooks and other artifacts.

Among the recovered treasures were:

• A videotape containing interviews with students about what they want to be when they grow up.

• Class photos

• Newspaper clippings

• School programs

• A handout of Character Counts pillars

• A class cookbook students made

• A hockey puck

• A yo-yo

• Furbies

• A Saxon math handout

• Coins

• Rockets student made in science

• A hand drawing of the school

• Various plastic toys

Included amongst the papers were also letters that students in Patsy Neely’s class wrote, pledging to remain drug free and to finish school.