On March 19, 2013, one year after the Tacoma Mountaineers' centennial anniversary, a time capsule was installed in the fireplace hearth, to be opened on the branch's sesquicentennial anniversary - March 19, 2062!
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| Contents of Time Capsule |
A collection of odds & ends were assembled from members over the last year - an ice axe signed by the then-branch Council at the Program Center renovation groundbreaking ceremony, a set of building drawings, miscellaneous notes from Tacoma Mountaineers members, copies of the Redbook - current and 2009 edition, a plastic kayaker, a film camera, a copy of the Tacoma News Tribune and the New York Times, etc.
Bud Truitt - Centennial Committee Chair, spearheaded collection of materials and construction of the time capsule with the able assistance of Steve Townsend, who built the containing box and worked with Bud to prepare the hearth to receive it.
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| Steve Townsend and Bud Truitt coax the time capsule into the space beneath the hearth. |
We were reminded that before the Tacoma Program Center renovation was completed in August 2012, it was over 50 years since the original Clubhouse was completed in 1956!
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| Time Capsule sealed until 2062! |
