Another vote to contact the fraternity. They’ve got the records and the youthful idealism to deal with it, unless they get drunk and forget about it. Seriously, though, these are the most likely people to care enough and have the resources to get that ring back to who bought it. Initials and class are a pretty good bet for ID; there can’t be more than a couple guys in any given class with the same initials, especially if you have three initials, not just two. There’s a real chance that they have more contact info than the school does, and even if they’ve got old framed class pictures on the walls, you might be able to get a name.
Cool story, Bricker.
I figured that a class ring would be meaningless the day I entered college, so I bought a different ring instead. I’m still wearing it 35 years later. Gold and onyx with a hoplite carved in it.
Balfour was (is!) my company.
The ring had my full name (engraved inside the band) and high school. My mother still lives at the address where I went to high school, and my last name is unusual. (For this area… it’s quite common in El Salvador).
So she looked up my last name, found my mom’s address, called my mom, and asked if my mother knew of someone with my name. My mom gave her my home phone number, which she used to get my address.
That is just very cool. Random things the universe does to let you know that the universe is running things.
Enjoy the ring !
Very cool story Bricker! Mine was stolen my freshman year at college during a party in our dorm room. I would love to have it back, but there is no way it would fit after 20 years. I do still have my grandmother’s class ring from 1945. My mom wouldn’t let me take it with me to college or it would have been stolen with the rest of my jewelry that night.
I have my dad’s ring, which I wear a lot. We graduated from the same high school, 51 years apart – 1925 and 1976.
Mine was stolen out of my jewelry box once when my house was robbed. As if it was worth something! 
At the time, I did not own one single piece of real gold, nor one single real gem of any kind. Come to think of it, I don’t think I have but maybe one ring now.
Anyway, I’m going to go register on that website and see if I can ever get that thing back. I vaguely recall working at Rax Roast Beef to pay for that thing, which was in the $75 range. What a racket! No way those rings are worth $75.
Reviving this thread with a rather strange update.
I got a call today from the woman who sent me my class ring.
“I think you got a couple of hang-up calls this past week,” she said. I told her I probably did, but that I couldn’t say for sure – a hang-up call doesn’t really stick in my memory.
“I just wanted to tell you I’ve moved out of my home and am divorcing my husband.”
And you’re telling me this why?
“He’s not taking it very well. He’s convinced I’m having an affair. And so he’s gotten all my cell phone call records and is calling them all trying to figure out who it is.”
So I told her how sorry I was to hear that, and that I had no problem at all explaining to the man that I had spoken with her twice about a piece of lost men’s jewlery, or if she preferred I’d say nothing at all, since it really wasn’t his business. And she said I could do whatever I wished to do, but that she thought it was incumbent on her to warn me about the situation.
So… strange event takes a strange turn. How weird is that?
She wants you.
One Ring to go astray
One Ring to assuage him.
One Ring to bring her to you
And in doing so enrage him.
With this ring
I thee bed.
I mangled my meter. Allow a small fix?
One Ring to go astray.
One Ring to assuage him.
One Ring to draw her neigh-
In doing so enrage him.
I lost my high school ring (class of 1991) in 1994, probably while at college. I had been considering trading it in for credit on a college class ring, so had been carrying it around in my pocket. It must have fallen out. I still have my college ring though. I just registered it on that site. Never wear it though, so it is in the safe deposit box at the bank. I’d much rather have that money towards something more practical these days!
This reminds me to look again for an old ex-boyfriend. I have his high school ring and need to return it to him.
Oh, good idea! Mine has been in my jewelry box for 45 years. I mean, you only really wear it when you get it at the end of your junior year until you graduate. No one really wears a high school ring after that, IMHO anyway.
Thank you I registered today.
I believe one night when we were out the babysitter helped herself to my ring from the Caliornia Maritime Academy in 1970. Probably ended up being melted down for gold.
I used to have a pretty sweet class ring but some midgets stole it and threw it into a volcano. Just unacceptable in this modern era, I contend.
And here I thought this was going to be resurrected for Bricker to say he lost it again…
The only reason I got a class ring was for the hope of some girl wearing it.
That did happen btw. I haven’t seen it since.
I got a class ring because I didn’t want to be the one weirdo who didn’t. That being said, I got the very cheapest one they had.
I don’t even know where it went; I probably have it somewhere.
On the other hand, I do care about my college class ring (my school is very big on them) and wear it daily. It cost me about $375 about 15 years ago, and has probably doubled in value since then (it’s a big honkin’ ring of 10k gold).