In celebration of the South Huntington School District’s 100th anniversary, the district will bury a time capsule on Sunday, May 4th at 2pm to be opened in 50 years.  The time capsule will be lowered into a specially-built vault on the grounds of Walt Whitman High School during a ceremony at the district’s Centennial Celebration Family Picnic at the high school’s athletic complex.   

The large stainless steel rectangular time capsule measures 48" x 40" x 16" and features the district’s Wildcat logo.  Each one of the seven schools in the district  – Walt Whitman High School, Stimson Middle School, Silas Wood Sixth Grade Center, Birchwood Intermediate School, Maplewood Intermediate School, Countrywood Primary Center and Oakwood Primary Center – has created its own smaller time capsule that will be enclosed within the larger one.  Students at each school helped their administrators decide what to include in different ways, including contests, surveys, majority votes, and class officer picks.  

Contents include everyday items such as money, photos, newspapers, yearbooks, and school t–shirts to 2000s popular technology like game controllers, mobile phones, and earbuds to more personal items like “letters to my future self,” letters from the current principals to the future principals, and letters from the current freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes at Walt Whitman High School to their future counterparts.  The time capsule location will be marked with a brass plaque and registered with the International Time Capsule Society. 

The South Huntington Union Free School District was created on December 10, 1924 after a vote by 140 taxpayers (73 “yes” votes to 67 “no” votes) to merge South Huntington, Common District #12 and West Hills, Common District #13.  The vote took place because both districts needed more room for students due to Huntington’s rapidly growing population. At the time, the West Hills/South Huntington area had only three small one or two room schoolhouses. Click History of the South Huntington School District for more detailed information.

Countrywood Primary Center’s time capsule

Oakwood Primary Center’s time capsule

Birchwood Intermediate School’s time capsule

Maplewood Intermediate School’s time capsule

Silas Wood 6th Grade Center’s time capsule

Stimson Middle School’s time capsule

Walt Whitman High School’s time capsule

District/Board of Education/100th Anniversary Committee time capsule