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     Dan Sachs Citizen Username: Mensadan Post Number: 2 Registered: 8-2004 |
Does anyone remember the time capsule that we buried at Tuscan School way back in 1952? I think it was placed in the base of the new flagpole which was set in 1952. I don't remember when it was supposed to be opened. That flagpole had a major effect on my work career, because of a comment by one of the workers who was installing it. If anyone is interested I will provide more details. Dan Sachs} | ||
| bella Citizen Username: Bella Post Number: 451 Registered: 7-2001 |
Well, don't leave us hanging... tell us the details. | ||
| Dan Sachs Citizen Username: Mensadan Post Number: 3 Registered: 8-2004 |
Ok, here goes. We moved to Maplewood from Newark in Jan, 1951, and I attended Tuscan. Teachers were Ms. Randolph, Hetger and Smethurst in 4-6 grades. In 1952 they set the new flagpole, IIRC. I think it was in the spring, and all of us kids had to be real good under threat of not being allowed to sit outside and watch it being erected. I still remember Ms. Smethurst walking around all of us sitting on the grass, watching for "excessive" talking. She said "I've got a memory like an elephant" to all of us 5th graders, and sure enough I was in her class in 6th grade. Anyway, I noticed the flagpole was silver. As ol' Smethurst wasn't too close, I asked a workman if it was aluminum. No, he said, it was "tempered steel". Upon hearing this, one of my classmates had to jump in with "Aah Sachs, aluminum would bend". I ignored him, but the workmans words made me think, what was this stuff called "tempered steel"? Why was it different from "ordinary steel"? By the time I was 18 I had a pretty good idea of what it was. That helped me land a job in Belleville at the Walter Kidde Co. I answered an ad that they were looking for a "drafting trainee", and that seemed like a lot better job than the one I had in the Newark sweatshop building truck bodies! BUT, by the time I got to Kidde there were no drafting jobs left. All they had was one opening in their metallurgy lab., and I had no idea what they did there. The chief metallurgist asked me a few questions about metals, and I told him (very basically) that I knew that solder was a mixture of lead and tin, and if you added enough chrome to "ordinary" steel it became stainless, and I added what little I knew about "tempered steel". I was hired on the spot! Thus began a 45 year (so far) career working with metals. I finally got my BS in Metallurgy from Empire State College (SUNY) in 1978 and have worked in the nuclear power field ever since-mostly doing failure anaylses of metal things that break and/or corrode. In Sept. 1998 my company in Arizona moved me to Milan, Italy where we're having some BIG "steam generators" built. We build them in pairs, and the first pair are now running at the Palo Verde nuclear Station in AZ. We need 2 more pair, so I'll be here a while. Here's a URL of a bunch of photos I've taken over here. I need to add some more, but there's enough there to keep you busy for a while. Dan http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dsachs1/ | ||
| r2boy Citizen Username: R2boy Post Number: 177 Registered: 5-2001 |
Danny Sachs, class of 59 at CHS....wow, great to hear you have such an interesting life..sure beats working in the hardware store back in the 50's.... | ||
| Barbara Citizen Username: Blh Post Number: 306 Registered: 5-2001 |
Dan A few years back I co-chaired Tuscan's 75th anniversary celebration. (We had attendees from every class in Tuscan's history!) The subject of the time capsule came up at that time; apparently there were two buried. However,we were unable to locate any record indicating where the first was buried. Unfortunately, we believe it may now lie under the newer wings of the school - constructed within the last 10 years. We were also unable to find any information relating to the disposition of the time capsule you mention. Sorry, Barbara | ||
| Dan Sachs Citizen Username: Mensadan Post Number: 4 Registered: 8-2004 |
Did anyone attempt to look in the flagpole base? It might be possible to open it up. I don't remember where we buried it. What year was the one capule you found from? | ||
| jezor Citizen Username: Jezor Post Number: 2 Registered: 3-2001 |
I was there for the 2nd time capsule, around the Bicentennial in 1976 (I have a poem I wrote that was put in there!). If I recall correctly, it was buried down by the outdoor stage (down the hill to the right coming off the bridge). {Jonathan Ezor} | ||
| Bob K Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 11823 Registered: 5-2001 |
There is also a time capsule at Marshall. In the late 1980s when it became time to open it, they couldn't find it. Our kids were students there at the time.  | ||
| Donald Maxton Citizen Username: Don_maxton Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2005 |
Seth Boyden Elementary School also had a time capsule, I would say circa 1961. Does anyone remember? |
