# High school rings and letter jackets? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-rings-and-letter-jackets/731338 "2015-09-15T09:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-rings-and-letter-jackets/731338/41 "2015-09-16T23:23:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I got a college ring in 1982. My modern poetry prof always wore his Harvard ring to class. He had studied there with Robert Lowell and really made Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden, etc. come alive for me. > > Neither of our rings are the enormous Zircon paperweights. Simple gold bands with the university coat-of-arms on the face. > > Mine is in a box on my dresser along with a variety of broken watches, tie-pins, and other miscellanea. > > Little Pianola, my daughter, graduated Yale in 2012, thirty years after I did. I asked her if she wanted a class ring, and she said “What the fuck for?” She’s just being shy…surprise her with one! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-rings-and-letter-jackets/731338/42 "2015-09-16T23:24:17Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > When I graduated in 1987, both were very popular. Letter jackets for sports kids. Rings for everyone. Ditto. I got the faux white-gold class ring. I wore it my senior year of high school and that’s about it. It now lives in my jewelry box. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-rings-and-letter-jackets/731338.md?page=2)