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Oglethorpe's "Father Time" Heads to Thailand
Atlanta – Atlanta’s resident time capsule expert,
Oglethorpe University registrar and lecturer in history Paul Stephen
Hudson, is in Thailand as part of the Asian Institute of
Technology’s (AIT) 40th Anniversary celebration on September 8,
1999.
Hudson, a co-founder of the International Time Capsule Society
headquartered at Oglethorpe University, is on hand to supervise the
interment of the AIT time capsule. The purpose of the AIT time
capsule is to provide an insight into the work of AIT from
1959-1999. The time capsule will be opened during AIT’s 200th
Anniversary in the year 2159.
Also present will be Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn of Thailand.
The International Time Capsule Society was founded in 1990, 50
years after the sealing of Oglethorpe University's famed Crypt of
Civilization. Founding members include Knute "Skip" Berger, a
writer; Dr. Brian Durrans, anthropologist and deputy keeper in the
ethnography department of the British Museum; William Jarvis, head
of acquisitions / serials at Washington State University Library;
and Paul Hudson.
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