By Rachel Rigney Imagine a time when gas was 31 cents a gallon and stamps were five cents apiece. St. Louis’ Gateway Arch had just opened. The Sound of Music had just been released. A Charlie Brown Christmas had just premiered. And Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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By Rachel Rigney Imagine a time when gas was 31 cents a gallon and stamps were five cents apiece. St. Louis’ Gateway Arch had just opened. The Sound of Music had just been released. A Charlie Brown Christmas had just premiered. And Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had just led the second and third marches from Selma to Montgomery. All of these things happened in 1965, but the year didn’t just see these things happen; it was also the year that in a small, rural southern Kentucky town, Somerset Community College opened its doors. To mark the occasion, SCC’s administrators, faculty, staff, and students decided to make and seal a time capsule, not to be opened again for 50 years. On September 9, the long-awaited moment came during a ceremony on the steps of Meece Hall, behind the cornerstone of which the capsule was entombed a half century ago. People from the local community joined the campus community for the occasion. Current students were joined by former students, including four women who
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