Athletics places time capsule in refreshed Bardo Gym

In 2025, Bardo Gymnasium – dedicated in 1937 as the new gym for Williamsport High School – underwent an interior transformation: a complete replacement of the building’s original gym floor and a series of other updates that include a renovation of its main entrance lobby. The lobby became home on Wednesday to a time capsule to be opened in 2050.

“With these changes, we realized this moment was not just about the renovation of this facility: It was about renewal,” athletic director Scott E. Kennell told those who gathered for a dedication of the capsule. “We decided that now is the perfect time to begin a new tradition that will connect our present time to the future.”

The time capsule was placed by Student-Athlete Advisory Committee President and Vice President Hunter P. Gabloff (men’s soccer), an electronics & computer engineering technology student from Succasunna, New Jersey, and Sierra N. Klinger (women’s soccer), a business administration student from Klingerstown.

Among the contents is a piece of the original gym floor and a letter written by Kennell to those who will open the capsule in 25 years: “Words can’t express how excited we are for you to see a glimpse of our past,” he wrote.

The letter ends with a charge to keep the tradition alive by creating a new time capsule to be opened in 2050.