Teacher unearths his own 'naughty boy' confession from 1976
Mark Lynch recovered a letter he wrote as a seven-year-old buried in Jindera Public School's time capsule.
Mark Lynch dug up a letter he wrote half a century ago, when he was seven and in Grade 1. In neat child's script, young Mark confessed: "I am a very naughty boy", then listed his talents at jumping and his love of books.
Now the general assistant at the same school, he found the capsule recently ahead of the school's 150th anniversary. Mark's two sisters had also written letters, now recovered from Queensland.
The capsule had been moved to the current site in 1992; staff worried the decades underground might have damaged everything, but the papers survived in perfect condition. A self-portrait he drew then looks almost identical to a sketch he made recently.
- 50 years
- Years buried
- 1992
- Capsule moved
- Jindera Public School
- School
- From two sisters in Queensland
- Family letters recovered
Why it mattersA tangible link to the past shows how little we change, and reminds us what schools mean to families across generations.
AustraliaSmall Australian schools like Jindera are community anchors where multiple generations study and work; this discovery celebrates that continuity.
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