The Bedford Junior High School National Junior Honor Society with adviser Pamela Pilewski, standing at left, and, fifth from right, Wayne Thompson, the adviser in the first year, with Elizabeth "Buffy" William Ruddy, vice president in that first year. Bedford Junior High School National Junior Honor Society students opened a time capsule that had been buried 24 years ago by then-adviser Wayne H. Thompson to mark the organization's first year and the group's donation of the school sign.
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Bedford Public Schools superintendent Dr. Ted Magrum.
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Bedford Junior High School principal Roderick Hurley.
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Elizabeth "Buffy" William Ruddy, left, speaking with Wayne Thompson before the digging begins.
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Patrick Dillon, 14, an eighth grader and vice president of the National Junior Honor Society, hands the excavated time capsule to an applauding Wayne Thompson.
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Eighth graders and society officer Patrick Dillon, 14, left, saws the PVC pipe while Wayne Thompson, and eighth graders and society officers Allison Grim, 13, and Abby Coulter, hold it for him.
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Wayne Thompson holds the sawn-off end of the time capsule while eighth graders and society officers Patrick Dillon, 14, left, Allison Grim, 13, and Abby Coulter applaud.
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Eighth graders and society officers Patrick Dillon, left, Joey Kochendoerfer, and Hannah Asselin; Wayne Thompson, passing out some of the capsule's contents, and eighth graders and society officers Allison Grim, 13, and Abby Coulter.
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Bedford students open a time capsule. Many editions of the school's newspaper, The Bronco Bulletin, several copies of the Monroe Evening News, a dollar bill, a New York Times review of the main events of 1986, and a letter from then-principal James P. McHugh were among the items in the time capsule.
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Some of the papers found in the time capsule.
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The Monroe Evening News commemorates the Battle of Frenchtown in 1813.
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"Oh my gosh. This is my neighbor," exclaims Allison Grim, left, as she looks over a copy of The Bronco Bulletin with Abby Coulter, right.
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