After 20 years: The high school class ring reappears

[kevyn]

Well how about that.

I was contacted by an administrator at my old high school in Kentucky, Ft. Knox High School, who found me here on LJ. I had listed Ft. Knox as my high school on my profile, and she was able to locate me because of it.

Turns out, someone in Barnes, Kansas had contacted the high school, saying that they had found my high school class ring!

Tonight, I called the woman who had it. Her husband is a building contractor. His crew was digging a basement in the University Park subdivision by Tuttle Creek (near my home town, Manhattan). They found the ring, wondered if it was worth anything (it isn't, I think mom paid about $160 when she bought it for me in 1986), and she went looking for me. Seems she likes a mystery.

Her name is Linda, and she was quite kind to return it to me. I am grateful for her diligence. I only wish I wasn't so broke right now. She's sending it, along with more details about the ring's finding, which she said she'd ask her husband about.

My my my.

The last time I saw that ring was about twenty or more years ago. I was spending the summer in the University Park House, when I first moved away from home. I was helping dad hang some drywall and insulate the place with rock wool (yuck).

At some point, I think during the summer of 1988, was the last time I saw the class ring. It disappeared when I was staying at University Park that magical, lonely summer, and I never knew where it got to.

And after all these years, it's returning to me. Wow.

More when it arrives.

Comments

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

You know, sometimes when I lose stuff, I find a wave of more different stuff. Like there's some sort of cosmic exchange going that I have no control over. Maybe more things you lost 20 years ago will start drifting back.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

The Universe is unfolding.

[jcruisedirector.livejournal.com]

I lost my high school class ring behind my mothers house when I was 19. That house has since burned to the ground, and the ring? Lost to the universe.......

[kcfairy.livejournal.com]

My shit-for-brains first husband lost my class ring.

class ring

[clattea.livejournal.com]

I am not an administrator. I am a teacher's aide who works in the office when the other girl is sick. The administrators additude was, Don't know how to find him, Oh well.
If it were my class ring I would want It back. I lost mine for about 3 to 4 years.
It took me about a year and a half to find you.
You remind me of my middle son. He is 6'5". He is in The Society for Creative Anachronism.
He has always been big. They started calling him Ogre when he was in school and they call him that
today.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

I dunno... there's some stuff from 20 years ago I don't WANT coming back! ;-)

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

All is as it should be.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

You never know. I thought this ring was lost to the universe, too, and lo and behold, it's come back!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Probably pawned it.

Re: class ring

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

> I am not an administrator. I am a teacher's aide who works in the office when the other girl is sick.

Oh, I stand corrected. Still, I thank you for looking for me!

>You remind me of my middle son. He is 6'5". He is in The Society for Creative Anachronism. They started calling him Ogre when he was in school and they call him that today.

Ha ha! I know the feeling... when you're this big, people NOTICE you when you walk in a room, and nicknames -- like Hagrid, or Ogre -- are common.

I don't know how my mother shopped for clothes and shoes for me before the Internet. There weren't many places in Radcliff or E-Town to buy big and tall clothes when I lived down there. No doubt, you had similar troubles with your son!

Incidentally, I received an anonymous message, saying that there was someone looking to organize a class reunion for my class (1986)? If so, yea, please, give them my contact information.

Thanks again!

-Hagrid