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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 Colu...

  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 t...

Updated 5:43 PM ET, Wed March 10, 2021 Hugh Brittain saved his former students unclaimed diaries for years because he couldnt bear to throw them away. Now hes 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 Joh...

Dear Diary: Today I got a message from my Grade 6 self Austin Hutton’s hands were shaking when he got the package, a portal to the past tucked into a plain manila envelope. It was his diary, written in 1988, when he was a student at Havelock Elementary School. Social Sharing