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Class rings

151949 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:26:28 GMT

We had fun with our high school hair - now how about class rings. Did you buy one? Do you still have it? What does/did it look like?

Mine was a rectangular shaped stone - they said it is sapphire but I doubt that. There is the school emblem on the top. I went to South Hills High School so instead of it saying all that it just has SHHS.Then it has 19 on one side and 66 on the other side.I still have it but it is a size 4 so I can't wear it except on my pinky finger.

I couldn't afford to buy a ring in nursing school,but my Grandma went to my same school and I have her class ring, and her school pin, as well as my own.

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I am still oxox — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:33:33 GMT

I think I have a HS ring and I know I have a college ring, it is a very recognizable design, in fact many years ago I was getting off the shuttle boat in the Bahamas and a woman asked if it was a Hunter college ring and it was.

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Stray — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:33:40 GMT

I love class rings. I went to a small private HS and there were no rings. In Nursing School, I took mine off to wash my hands in our nurses residence and someone stole it....I just couldn't ask my Dad to buy another as funds were tight then. When I went back to school later in life, I was so excited to finally get a class ring....but, I still have been looking on eBay to possibly find a ring from my nursing school, now closed. It was a black onyx stone with a caduceus in gold ...I loved that ring....I hope the person that took it had bad luck

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Stray — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:34:22 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
I think I have a HS ring and I know I have a college ring, it is a very recognizable design, in fact many years ago I was getting off the shuttle boat in the Bahamas and a woman asked if it was a Hunter college ring and it was.

@I am still oxox- Hunter in NYC?

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deepwaterdotter — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:36:58 GMT

High school has a square green stone, college has a round tiger's eye stone.

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151949 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:40:40 GMT

When I was in high school I wanted my boyfriend's class ring in the worst kind of way but he said he wanted to wear it a little while first, and he'd give it to me in the fall when he left for college. Well, he lost it about 3 weeks after he got it. I told him if he had given it to me I wouldn't have lost it. I recall being really mad at him, and so was his Mom.

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I am still oxox — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:43:21 GMT

@Stray Yes, it is part of the CUNY system, at 68th Street & Park Ave, it was originally a women's only school with a campus in the Bronx now Lehman college and the building at Park and 68th. My Mom went there in the 40's and spent two years uptown in the Bronx and two years at Park Ave.

@Stray wrote:
@I am still oxox wrote:
I think I have a HS ring and I know I have a college ring, it is a very recognizable design, in fact many years ago I was getting off the shuttle boat in the Bahamas and a woman asked if it was a Hunter college ring and it was.
@I am still oxox- Hunter in NYC?

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beckyb1012 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:43:31 GMT

Bought it my Jr. year in high school (1979) and still wear now from time to time when feeling sentimental. When I got married I had it sized from my ring finger on my right hand to a pinkie ring. Has the Red stone for the school color, my first name on it, the year 1980 and a Drill Team Dancer for my main extracurricular activity of high school.

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missy1 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:54:00 GMT

No high school ring. I have my college ring.

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namaste000 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:03:08 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
@Stray Yes, it is part of the CUNY system, at 68th Street & Park Ave, it was originally a women's only school with a campus in the Bronx now Lehman college and the building at Park and 68th. My Mom went there in the 40's and spent two years uptown in the Bronx and two years at Park Ave.

I have my Hunter/Lehman ring from 1970. We were the first graduating class after the name change. I remember a bunch of us organizing a 'sit in' to protest the name change...but the Lehman family donated a lot of money.

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patbz — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:15:06 GMT

I still have my H.S.ring (onyx with good crest, Montgomery Blair, 1962) and my Mom's (1929, Oxen Hill, all good and very worn). I never got my college ring (too expensive not to wear for more than a couple of years).

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gidgetgh — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:35:02 GMT

I did have a class ring and still have it. It came from Balfour. It has an "aquamarine" stone in it because I liked blue. Oval stone.

When I die, I've asked that I be buried with both it and my sorority pin.

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Stray — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:55:35 GMT

@namaste000 wrote:
@I am still oxox wrote:
@Stray Yes, it is part of the CUNY system, at 68th Street & Park Ave, it was originally a women's only school with a campus in the Bronx now Lehman college and the building at Park and 68th. My Mom went there in the 40's and spent two years uptown in the Bronx and two years at Park Ave.

I have my Hunter/Lehman ring from 1970. We were the first graduating class after the name change. I remember a bunch of us organizing a 'sit in' to protest the name change...but the Lehman family donated a lot of money.
@namaste000- I had a few friend who taught at Hunter and many of my friends attended Hunter. It was my #6 train stop. I went to Marymount Manhattan College not far from Hunter and of course, most of my medical appointments bring me to the Hunter stop today.....

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kaydee50 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:03:34 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
I think I have a HS ring and I know I have a college ring, it is a very recognizable design, in fact many years ago I was getting off the shuttle boat in the Bahamas and a woman asked if it was a Hunter college ring and it was.

I had a Hunter college of CUNY ring. Sold both it and high school ring years ago. Never wore them and they were made out of 10K gold.

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shoptilyadropagain — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:22:42 GMT

I had a high school ring....gold with a square sapphire stone. I never wore mine after I graduated. When we ordered class rings, a couple of girls opted to go to a local jeweler and get a gemstone ring instead. At the time, I thought they were strange but now I think that was a much smarter thing to do as mine didn't really hold a lot of meaning.

A few years ago, I took it and several other pieces of 14k gold jewelery and sold them for the $$$.

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hennypenny — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:43:26 GMT

Never got one. I thought ours was ugly. It was white mother of pearl, with logo.

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RedTop — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:29:28 GMT

I still have my high school class ring, and the plastic bag it came in with the price tag of $39.95. Yellow gold, garnet stone, with my initials inside. I haven't worn it in many years, and have considered selling it the next time gold prices are up. I also have 2 school necklaces; one is a senior key, and the other is smaller, more delicate with the garnet stone, both have my initials.

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Sunnyfield — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:33:53 GMT

I had a HS class ring which I sold years ago...my late husband (high shool sweetheart) gave me his HS class ring when we started "going steady"...I returned it to him when we broke up....

Fast forward...we reconnected 30 years later and he gave the ring to me again! When he passed away I gave the ring to our son.

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151949 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:35:44 GMT

When I got my BSN I didn't even go to graduation , let alone buy a class ring or a school pin. I'm sorta sorry I didn't get the pin.

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SahmIam — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:37:18 GMT

I did but it was flushed down the toilet in a restaurant a year after I graduated (it slid off my finger). That was the end of that.