Norwin grads digging up the past
A group of Norwin High School graduates who attended the former Hartford Heights Elementary School plan on Wednesday to hunt for, and hopefully dig up, a time capsule they buried on school grounds when they were students there in the late 1980s.
Keri Holton of North Huntingdon said they are not certain of the location of the time capsule they buried in the school courtyard in 1989. Holton believes there were a number of time capsules buried on the school grounds, long before it closed in 2003.
“I know many other classes also buried time capsules, so we are not sure what all we will find,” Holton said.
To help find the time capsule, Holton said one of her classmates, a Murrysville police officer, planned to bring a metal detector to make it easier to find it, or at least a time capsule that was buried on school grounds.
Holton recalled that students were given the opportunity to place items in the time capsule, including notes. The time capsule was filled with mementos and buried during a project led by the late James Pogue, a sixth-grade teacher at the school, which was along Ardara Road in North Huntingdon.
The time capsule is being unearthed 25 years after Holton and her fellow classmates graduated from Norwin in 1995. As for the elementary school, the building has served as the Adelphoi Village Academy for at least 15 years.
“We are anxious to hopefully find what we buried over 30 years ago,” Holton said.
Joe Napsha is a TribLive reporter covering Irwin, North Huntingdon and the Norwin School District. He also writes about business issues. He grew up on Neville Island and has worked at the Trib since the early 1980s. He can be reached at jnapsha@triblive.com.
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