HEBRON – Four students who graduated from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on Saturday returned to their elementary school Tuesday afternoon to uncover a time capsule they placed in the wall of the library six years earlier.

“We don’t remember what we put in here,” said Courtney Burnham after the students climbed a ladder and reached behind a panel in the wall to pull out the 2-foot cylinder.

“I think we put letters in there. It’s been a long six years,” said Josh Desrosier, one of nine members of the sixth-grade class when the Hebron Station School was built and the time capsule hidden.

Burnham, Desrosier and classmates Jonathan Desrosier and Hillary Aube returned to the school to unseal the capsule and show the contents to the current students.

After a slide show of pictures of the first sixth-grade class in various school activities, Superintendent Mark Eastman spoke to the students assembled in the gymnasium.

“For many years we had a dream here in Hebron that someday we would have our own school,” Eastman said. It took 20 years and three superintendents and an agreement by Hebron resident “Granny” Jeannette Packard to sell some of her land before the school construction was able to begin.

Holding up a trowel, Eastman said, “We all took a scoop of dirt to start the construction. It was Sept. 12, 2001,” the day after the terrorist attacks on the United States.

Eastman said they asked each other if it was appropriate to have a groundbreaking on the day after such a tragedy. They decided it was.

“We were telling the world we were going to continue on our journey to have our own school,” he said.

After Eastman’s remarks, the high school graduates opened the cylinder, pulling out student and staff pictures, programs, a trowel used in the groundbreaking ceremony and the original key to the former Hebron Elementary School, which has been renovated for use as the Hebron Town Hall.

The students spoke about what Hebron Station School meant to them.

“I never forgot I was a part of a nine-person (class,)” Aube said. “It really set me on my way.”