FSU Seeking Submissions for Sesquicentennial Time Capsule
Founded in 1865 as the state’s first private normal school in West Virginia, Fairmont State University celebrates its Sesquicentennial in 2015. Commemorative events throughout the year are planned, culminating in the dedication of a Sesquicentennial Time Capsule.
The Time Capsule will be a metal cylinder that is 30 inches tall and 18 inches in diameter. Jeremy Entwistle, Coordinator of the Sculpture and Foundry Department of the School of Fine Arts, has designed and created an iron marker that will indicate the site of the Time Capsule, which will be placed in the ground in front of the Falcon Center during a dedication ceremony as part of Homecoming 2015.
Students, alumni, employees and community members are invited to submit items for consideration for inclusion in the Sesquicentennial Time Capsule to the Office of University Communications, 207 Hardway Hall, by Sept. 16.
Submitted items can be historical, reflecting the past 150 years of FSU, or modern, showing a snapshot of campus life in 2015. All submissions will be reviewed due to space limitations and content; those whose items are selected for use in the Time Capsule will be notified.
For more information, call (304) 367-4135 or e-mail amy.pellegrin@fairmontstate.edu.
About the photo:
In the late 1800s when Fairmont State Normal School was located on the Second Street block of Fairmont Avenue, a Native American burial mound was the center of campus. Typical of mounds of the Hopewell culture, it was 35 feet long, 20 feet wide and 8 feet high and was built between 1 and 500 AD. This is why the yearbook was first published in 1908 it was named the MOUND. On June 12, 1929, the Alumni Association dedicated a “mini mound” on the new Locust Avenue campus, as a remembrance of the Fairmont Avenue mound. A small surface portion of the original mound and a seedling from its tree were brought to the east end of the Locust Avenue campus.
Sesquicentennial Time CapsuleSesquicentennial. Office of University Communications
