Even better: it says Steve.
Seem to be pretty popular around my neck of the woods.
I wanted a class ring but we were too poor. I still get a little sad when I think about it 
I have my hs ring, on a chain, with my initials engraved on the inside.
I loved my high school, and I am not sorry I have something to remember it by. (Man, that was a great place).
I just went to that Josten’s site and designed a ring…I found it rather odd that you can get sports-team logos and NASCAR on your class ring…you can get Christian symbols, Deaf Pride, various awareness ribbons, and display proudly your abiding love for rollerblading or Barack Obama…but you can’t get any kind of Gay Pride symbol. (No, I wasn’t particularly looking for one, but I decided to after seeing some of the other slightly headscratching choices.)
What do you think the rollerblading icon means? 
I still have my HS ring, but it means very little to me. I tried to trade it in on my daughter’s ring but Balfour only offered $30 at the time so I passed.
In 2008, I bought a 14k gold nursing school pin for $200 that I would not take $1,000,000 for. Perspective!
You guys all know what song I have stuck in my head right now, don’t you?
“Hello, sunshine, goodbye, rain.
She’s wearin’ my school ring on her chain.”
Thanks for the earworm, everyone. 
I’ve got one (1996). I haven’t worn it since I started my freshman year in college, but I still have it. I wore it for about a year and a half (junior/senior year if HS). I didn’t get a college ring. I think it’s sort of nice to have, though.
Ditto. I graduated in HS in 1999, I had zero interest in a class ring. My mom bought one anyways, I imagine it must be in a box in my parents basement. I can’t even remember if I ever saw the thing, let alone put it on.
My dad did have a HS class ring that he kept on his dresser, but he never wore it.
Another 1970s high-school graduate here, and I not only did not bother getting a ring back then but also didn’t for any of the universities I graduated from. Just never saw the point.
I graduated in 1979, thought about for about 5 minutes but we couldn’t afford it.
I loved high school, but I thought the rings were stupid.
Of course, I bought replica of Bela Lagosi’s Dracula ring that I tell everyone is my high school ring. 
Now that money is tighter, I agree that it’s pointless. But I don’t see any sign that they’ve become passe amongst the juniors who buy them, at least around here. There’s even the cheap people who go and buy a cheap ring at Walmart instead, but still engraved with the graduation year and everything.
It’s not like they have to even reference your school, BTW. Mine didn’t–it just points out I graduated in 2003, has my name and interests on it. It’s more a sign that I graduated than anything. Well, that and an excuse to wear a ring as a guy without it seeming tacky.
I know; all those married men. Tacky!
I graduated in the mid-90s. Never got one. I thought they were kind of cool back when I was in middle school and saw the older kids on the bus flipping through their ring catalogs. But by the time I actually got to high school, I no longer gave a shit. I tend to agree with one of the posters above that this is the sort of thing for people who peaked in high school, and even when I was 15 I knew my best days were ahead of me.
My best friend, though, did get one, because he thought it would impress chicks.
I have my college ring-rarely wear it. I always thought that MIT had the best class ring (instead of a stone, it has a beaver-the MIT mascot)!
I’d say they were somewhat popular at my high school among the Letterman jacket-wearing set. This was in 1995.
But I knew they were lame. I knew the moment I graduated from high school it would become a source of embarrassment.
My family bought me a ring in 1990. I wore it through high school, now it’s on a corkboard I keep wristbands, ticket stubs, nametags, my tassel, and other souvenirs on.
I wanted one in high school, and my dad said he’d get me one… if I had no intention of going to college. He figured High School rings are like College class rings for folks who don’t plan to further their education.