#class ring

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It’s been a bit since I have read the books and don’t recall if Neil spoke about how he came up with the last name Josten, but I have a theory. What if he got last name Josten from seeing fliers for the senior graduation rings at one of his high schools while on the run. There is a pretty big company called Josten’s that does caps+gowns and rings so it would also be a hoot if they had to order their graduation gear from the company at the end of his college years.

[swiftclan-object]

Month 9, 3/4.

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[death-limes]

Soooooooooooo do you still regret your class ring

i did a lil reblog-update about this a few months ago actually (X)

the short answer is yes, but not because of the cringe. i actually like it for that, its funnie and it gave me a teeny bit of tumblr infamy. i wish the ring still fit me though 💔

what i actually regret is that i let herff jones (yes thats the specific company, im doxxing them) trick me into thinking it would be an “~investment~”. they made it sound like i could just sell it back to them if i ever needed money but nope…. gotta pawn it. and they dont disassemble the thing for its materials either (i.e. intrinsically-valuable gemstones and precious metals) they just keep the ring as-is and determine the value based on what school it’s for. no pawn shop wants this bullshit from my dinky-ass high school no one’s heard of lmao

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[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

I graduated in high school from high school in 1989. I had to buy my own graduation invitations pictures and class ring. I got the absolute cheapest ring they had and I was extremely proud of it. About 2 years after I graduated it fell down a heater grate at someone's house and I never got it back. It absolutely broke my heart.

I graduated college in 1998 but the college rings were about $700 and there were no other options you got this big clunky gold ring and of course after putting myself through college I had no money at all. But I've always wanted a class ring.

So I've been seeing a lot of ads here on Tumblr and on Facebook too for customized class rings starting at about $35. So that is what I did last month. I ordered a ring and I am thrilled with it. So this is my combination college and high school graduation ring. It's got my initials it's got the three exes for straight edge and it's got the name of my university.

That is my yoda Jedi lightsaber ring right next to it. Can you tell my favorite color is green?

I wanted to show it off and if you are thinking about getting a class ring go ahead and do it it was definitely worth it.

This is the company that I got it from. It cost me $35 and I could not be happier.

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The Other Williamses

One of my favorite things.

On Mothers' Day 1944 Dean Ellis Williams, who was really James Grant Williams, was married to Ruth Elinor Williams by her father, the Reverend William Clark Williams. How often does this happen? And how often are the bride and bride, groom and groom or bride and groom's identical last names a factor in how they meet?

You can blame high school chemistry class, and alphabetical seating in my parents' case. Dean Williams and Ruth Williams were lab partners because their high school teacher needed a little help remembering names. I believe this all started sometime in 1939. The dark Newtonian is Ruth's, her sophomore year. Dean is a class ahead, as you can see by what he wrote in his red 1940 yearbook.

Do you think they were advised to put their names in this spot? These were the days of penmanship, that's for sure.

Poor Dad, a year or so away from discovering he's Jim - but that name weirdness is another post.

Dad's class ring.

Looking an Ruth's 1939 Newtonian I notice that every photo with Dean in it is crudely marked. Something tells me Dad did it himself, being flirtatious and cheeky at the same time, grabbing it when Mom was not looking.

OR, in a rapture of adolescent lust and mark-up, Ruth's pen practically moved itself.

In Dad's 1940 yearbook, his senior year, the mad underliner is at work again, although in this book more arrows point to a certain junior with the same last name. Did Ruth write in Dean's book, tit for tat?

Miss Brom was a friend of Dean's youth who was part of a gang of girls who chased him across a street, like after he'd committed shenanigans against them, into the path of an oncoming car. He broke a leg. But she's better known to me as Aunt Esther my Uncle Paul's wife and sister-in-law to Ruth. When Aunt Esther Brom Williams passed my cousins generously gave me her stand mixer.

These graduation announcements were given to Mom by friends. High school and college related stuff she kept in this special box for patriots to save letters in.

Ruth Elinor Williams Williams, when explaining this surname snarl often added, "I didn't even have to change my name on my driver's license." But she didn't learn to drive until after they were married. Dean tried to teach her but this ended in a bickering newlywed disaster. She went to a driving school instead.

As a kid it was confusing, didn't all your relatives have the same last name? Ruth had mostly brothers (one being the aforementioned husband to Aunt Esther) and on Dean's side the sister we visited most, as luck with have it, married uncle D. Warden. "The Wardens this, the Wardens that," says Ruth in the car as we make the twice (at least) monthly drive to see Grandma (Dad's mom) in Newton, ninety minutes west of Cedar Rapids. My six year old ears heard "wardens," small w,. and I just assumed the Brunners and the Davises (Dad's sisters' families) were occupations I hadn't heard of yet. Adding to this clusterfuck of nomeclature was the fact that there remained in my day my dad's mom, my mom's dad, and his second wife, after being widowed much too early, who we just called Mayme. No need to differentiate between Granpa Williams and Grandpa Williams for me.

And it must have been habit, Dean being the last of her five children to marry, that Besse didn't give a second thought to address herself, in her letters to Ruth, as Mother W. or Mother Williams.

Ruth Williams and Dean Williams met in high school and continued to see each other as Ruth went to teachers college and Dean went to war. And on May 14, 1944 they got married. And were together for the rest of their lives. And saved a lot of stuff.

Next time at All My Stuff, the WCW papers...

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[lunawolf012306]

My class ring came in.

[deepfriedthrifting]

More from yesterday🌞

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My class ring from 2019

[dopaminetreasurehoard]

Gotta spread some love for Meriadoc.

I wish they'd kept a bit more of his personality from the book, because Merry is quite smart.

His relationship to Frodo (though they are cousins) reads more like Cambridge school-chums. Like he's the resident prankster and class-clown due to being both smart and bored.

He fits the type in Regency literature of the guy who's technically in the upper class by title and connections, but whose family's estate is in Ireland or Scotland - an outsider. A gentleman, but not as respectable as the more conventional.

The Brandybucks are like that, too - considered the odd, frontier hobbits compared with the rest.

[unknownjestereye]

I don't know what to say, enjoy

[virgil-upinthestars]

a silmarillion hyperfixation is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to

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Elrond!