Assiniboine College unveils 59-year-old time capsule
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Assiniboine College staff unveiled a 59-year-old time capsule on Wednesday as part of the lead-up to its 65-year anniversary celebration next year.
The time capsule — a small metal box held together by rusted fasteners — was housed in a stone entrance sign outside the college’s Victoria Avenue East campus in Brandon in September 1966.
Library clerk Kimberley Lynn removed the perfectly preserved contents of the box in front of about 50 people who attended the unveiling.
Organizers laid out artifacts of the time capsule on a table for faculty and students to see during Wednesday's ceremony in Brandon. (Alex Lambert/The Brandon Sun)
The contents included photographs, newspaper clippings, miniature Manitoba and Canada flags, and four copies of the minutes of the first meeting the college had when it opened in 1961.
“It’s exciting — and there is a couple of things here I don’t already have, so I will electronically scan them, label them, keep them and have them in our archives, added to what we already have,” Lynn said.
“It’s nice to have some history.”
Assiniboine College president Mark Frison said reflecting on how the college has changed in the last 60 years is an important part of its history.
“Sixty years later, opening it up, seeing what’s in there, it’s fun to see what was important back then and reflect on that today,” Frison said after the ceremony.
Assiniboine College library clerk Kimberley Lynn examines newspaper clippings from 1966 detailing the renaming of Manitoba Vocational School to Assiniboine Community College. (Alex Lambert/The Brandon Sun)
“These occasions in general — anniversaries — are good ones for the internal community and our alumni and former employees to be able to celebrate progress.”
The newspaper clippings, which came from the Virden Empire-Advance, showed the transformation of the then-named Manitoba Vocational School.
In late 1966, the provincial government revamped three colleges in what was described as an expanded role beyond vocational training. Along with changing the name of the vocational school in Brandon to Assiniboine Community College, the initiative included what is now Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg and University College of the North in The Pas.
When the Manitoba Vocational School first opened its doors in February 1961, it had 22 students in only two classes. Assiniboine College now has 4,300 full- and part-time students in 60 certificate, diploma and post-graduate programs.
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