Mail - Upper Yarra Mail - 14th November 2017

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Upper Yarra

5 Tuesday, 14 November, 2017

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Grand milestone By Kath Gannaway In 35 years of teaching, Pat Hillas says he has never seen a school event to rival Seville Primary School’s 130th birthday celebration on Sunday, 12 November. The highlight was undoubtedly the opening of a time capsule buried 30 years ago as part of the school’s centenary celebrations. The capsule was buried at the entrance to the school where new gates were erected to mark the centenary. “We had two or three hundred people watching the unearthing,” he says recreating the moment when the bricks that have protected the capsule were removed. “Underneath was a mortar bed, under that a layer of sand, then a plastic shield and underneath that a concrete tile,” he said still excited by the process. Under that was the capsule - a beer vat containing among other things students’ work, old school newsletters, newspapers of the time, canteen price lists, an item of school uniform, school council notes and video footage of the centenary. “It was like opening a tomb,” Mr Hillas said. A very special item was a bottle of Seville Estate 1982 Shiraz which, he said, was perfectly preserved, crystal clear and very tempting! The time capsule was part of a full day of celebrations including a fete and activities organised and run by students and staff. School president of the day, Paul Weller and Brad Martin who was project manager for the centenary entrance project buried the capsule and were recalled to unearth it. Both men served on the school council together. Mr Martin said it was a privilege to be invited back for such a special day. “When we finished the gates and put together the time capsule, there were a lot of people in their eighties and nineties who are well and truly gone now,” he said. “I was 35, so you wonder ‘will I be around’, and the plan was always to open it at 25 years, but time went by and it was decided to do it for the 130th.“ He said with four generations involved, it was a particularly special day. Continued page 3

Brad Martin (school plans), school captains Timothy and Erin (capsule containers), Cr Tony Stephenson (Mountain Views newspaper), Pat Hillas (1982 Seville Estate wine bottle) and Paul Weller (Centenary Celebration T-shirt from 1987). 174972 Graeme Peers from Yarra Valley FM interviews school principal, Pat Hillas. 174972

Roger and Barbara Eggletin of Coldstream check out early class photos to see their children. 174972

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