On Feb. 13, 1925, students and staff from the North Mission Grammar School buried a time capsule.

On Thursday, 100 years later, items from the time capsule became part of an exhibit at the Mission History Museum.

The contents collected in 1925 include lists of handwritten names and signatures of students and staff from the grammar school, along with a religious text and a poetry book written by Thomas Elmore Lucey.

A group of 35 Mission CISD students is now continuing the tradition. 

Mission History Museum Assistant Charlotte Underwood said she thought of the idea to have the students enter a contest to submit original poems, essays and artwork. 

The submissions were placed in a new time capsule that was buried outside the museum, and won’t be opened until 2125.

Two students from each Mission CISD campus were selected as winners to have their work in the time capsule.

“[It’s] to allow people in the future to get a snapshot of what kids are concerned with,” Underwood said.

Mission Junior High School Student Gracelynn Best has a poem in the time capsule.

“I really want the people in the future to see that and to keep happening, cause it's just a really great thing to learn about our history — where we were and how we are now,” Best said.

To see the items from the 1925 time capsule, go to the Mission History Museum, located at 900 Doherty Ave.

The museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free. 

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