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Former Student Reunites With a Diary From His Sixth Grade After 33 Years
A retired Canadian teacher, who couldn’t bear to throw away unclaimed diaries from his classes’ creative writing projects in the 198os, has tracked down many of his former students.
With the help of social media, Hugh Brittian, 78, sent the time capsules, replete with preteen secrets, opinions, and ambitions, back to their original owners.
One of them was Austin Hutton, 45, who now lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Brittain was his sixth-grade teacher at Havelock Elementary School in New Brunswick.
Receiving his diary back from Brittain in the mail, according to Hutton, was both exciting and emotional.
A retired Canadian teacher is giving some of his former students a look back at their childhoods by returning long-forgotten diaries they wrote decades ago in his class. In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Hugh Brittain would have his Grade 6 students at Havelock Elementary School in Saint John, N.B. keep a diary for a week as a creative writing exercise. They would seal them up and I gave them free rein to write whatever they wanted to what was bothering them, or what was important in their lives at that time, Brittain told CNN. He never read the diaries, but he held on to them so that he could return them at graduation and have his students look back at what they were like at 12-years-old.
Updated 5:43 PM ET, Wed March 10, 2021
Hugh Brittain saved his former students unclaimed diaries for years because he couldn t bear to throw them away. Now he s tracking down the authors to return them. (CNN)A retired Canadian teacher is giving some of his former students a look back at their childhoods by returning long-forgotten diaries they wrote decades ago in his class.
In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Hugh Brittain would have his Grade 6 students at Havelock Elementary School in Saint John, New Brunswick, keep a diary for a week as a creative writing exercise. They would seal them up and I gave them free rein to write whatever they wanted to what was bothering them, or what was important in their lives at that time, Brittain told CNN.
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