halfdime
Silver Member
For those of you following the saga of the West View High School class ring (1953) I found last Saturday, I mailed it yesterday morning, with delivery promised by 3PM Saturday. While watching Miss halfdime at her horse riding lesson this morning (Friday), my cell rang; it was J H M, calling to tell me that the ring had just arrived! He was delighted to have it, and will be sending pictures early next week. When I get them, I'll attach them to this thread. As he still has family in the Pittsburgh area (remember, his son and I attend the same church), he makes frequent visits back here and would like to meet face to face. If not for the initials in his ring, none of this would have happened!
), this wasn't a case of being honest. Had I chosen not to pursue the owner of this ring, I wouldn't have felt a twinge of guilt about it; this was just what I wanted to do. I found another class ring about two years ago and made an effort to find its owner; I got no response to overtures I made with the school and class officers so I finally sold it - and felt no remorse about it. That ring also had initials in it, and any help at all from others would have gotten the ring returned (probably). In this case, I wanted the experience of sleuthing more than I wanted the $30 or so the ring would have fetched. I also wanted to use the opportunity to cast our hobby in a good light; my first thread about this ring mentions a visit I had from the police just after I found the ring. Whoever called them must have imagined me/us as some kind of bandit and finding the ring's original owner might dispel that notion. The pastor of the church where I found it is going to tell his congregation the whole story tomorrow; that's a lot of people who will hear positive things about our hobby! He'll also advise them the best way to go about finding a ring they might have lost 
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