This men's class ring is from Rome Catholic High School in Rome, New York! There are two years on it: 1962 on one side; and 1967 on the other! There are initials inside: The first is E, the last is H. The middle initial is being reserved for positive identification of the owner. The school says there is no one in the 1967 yearbook graduating class with those initials! This may have belonged to a "military brat" as there was a military base located there until recently! Although the chances are slim anyone will know this person, a lot of folks read this forum and it is worth a try! If you have information, contact: thisisdoc@aol.com OR marmacz@aol.com And thank you for whatever help you may be able to provide so this ring can be returned to the hands of its rightful owner! Imagine how excited you'd be if someone found your lost ring and returned it to you!

-- MaryNY (marmacz@aol.com), February 18, 2001

Answers

try looking up "classmates .com"

-- fred in wi (sixuvusmeyers@aol.com), February 18, 2001.

Mary, having been a military brat myself, I know that they don't have much say over when they come and when they go. It could be that he had to leave before the yearbook came out and before graduation or was sick that day. Check the year previous to '67. You might also want to see how many people had names ending in "H" and see if their middle initial corresponds to what you have. The first name initial on the ring might not be the first name in the yearbook. Nickname? Hope this helps find him because they really get excited to find their lost ring has been found and returned.

JackD

-- JackD (jdenterprises@centurytel.net), February 18, 2001.

If you live in Rome, call one of the reporters on the local paper and ask them if they would like to do a human interest story on your attempts to return it to its owner.

Read somewhere not long ago someone lost their class ring while at a beach on the Atlantic coast. It turned up years later on a college campus in Texas.

I rather doubt it was a military brat as they normally don't stay at one high school. Funny it covers five years when normally high school is four.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), February 18, 2001.

We had an interesting experience years ago. Daughter was persuaded to "loan" her classring for one day to a guy who promptly lost it in an amusement park 200 miles away. Months later we got a call from a mother 2/3 of the way across the US. Her son worked that summer in the amusement park, and found the ring in the arcade. It had first and last name and the name of the school, so she was calling all the people of our last name listed in any of the towns by that name! She found us on the second call! And of all the coincidences, they were coming all this way to a car festival just a few miles away, so it was hand delivered! Good luck! Cora-Vee

-- Cora-Vee Caswell (coravee@locl.net), February 18, 2001.