	{"id":85513,"date":"2022-06-30T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=85513"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:36:54","slug":"uni-unearths-buried-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/uni-unearths-buried-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni unearths buried memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN you think of Federation University\u2019s SMB campus in the late 1990s, what do you think about?<\/p>\n<p>Well, now the university is making that picture clearer with the recent unearthing of a time capsule buried at the institution in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Fed Uni\u2019s Ballarat campuses Associate Professor Sam Henson said the period represents a turning point in the university\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was just before the Wimmera Institute of TAFE, the School of Mines and Industries in Ballarat and the University of Ballarat came together in 1998,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capsule represents the last of that time when SMB was a standalone institution and that was the reason for it going in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re mementos are of that time for people who were working here and just some of the everyday items they would have faced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of conservator Kirsten McKay, the capsule was dug up in April to allow for construction of SMB\u2019s new IBM building, to be built where the capsule was buried.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85515\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85515\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/IMG_4951-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The contents of the time capsule were originally meant to be showcased on the institution\u2019s 150th anniversary in 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Community members were invited to see the contents last week with a video presentation depicting the opening of its PVC shell.<\/p>\n<p>The over-50 items include medallions, a payslip, campus newsletters, the SMB flag, a shirt from the cycling team, and a CD containing about 160 photos.<\/p>\n<p>They will be included as part of Fed University\u2019s historical collection, which convenor Clare Gervasoni said the items have come up in pristine condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are things we would do differently now like not laminating, using PVC or holding the contents in a garbage bag,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut funnily enough, it\u2019s totally protected everything and it\u2019s come out really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach item will be individually numbered, and they\u2019ll be put up online on Victorian Collections for people to be able to look up all the contents from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ll also be some showcases in the library which is where they\u2019ll be displayed once they\u2019re catalogued.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN you think of Federation University\u2019s SMB campus in the late 1990s, what do you think about? 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