Texas Tech college’s 50-year time capsule reveals message from the past

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Texas Tech college’s 50-year time capsule reveals message from the past

The contents of a time capsule have been revealed, delivering a message and artifacts that Texas Tech journalism students and faculty members half a century ago hoped to share with an audience on Feb. 10, 2025.

Event attendees at the Tech Tech College of Media and Communications time capsule opening ceremony admiring a copy of The University Daily from 1975 and other artifacts stored in the college’s time capsule from 1976 on Feb. 10, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

The metal container – about the size of two shoe boxes – was opened

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in Texas Tech’s College of Media & Communication in front of an audience of students and faculty members, including longtime faculty member Bill Dean – who was with the program at the time the capsule was sealed – as well as former Dean Jerry Hudson and newly named College Dean Bey-Ling Sha.

In 1975, the faculty and students of the Department of Mass Communications (now College of Media & Communication) sealed a metal box that contained copies of the University Daily (now 

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) and the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal; tapes of KFYO radio’s news broadcast; the audio portion of KCBD-TV newscasts; and a copy of broadcast material from KTXT-FM, among other items, according to a Tech news release.

“The contents of this time capsule are not just objects,” Chris Cook, the college’s assistant dean for enrollment management & marketing, said before he opened the time capsule. “They’re the seeds from which our college has grown.”

The box was sealed into a wall of the department’s old building near Memorial Circle and was torn out when the college moved to its current location in the old business building tower along Flint Avenue in 2012. It had sat in a display case since that time.

The time capsule was originally organized to mark the 50th anniversary of Texas Tech’s first graduating class, on that year’s Founder’s Day. Monday, Feb. 10, marked the 100th anniversary of that date.

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Texas Tech College of Media and Communication dean Bey-Ling Sha and the college’s founding dean, Jerry Hudson, shake hands at the college’s time capsule opening ceremony on Feb. 10, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

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