{"68571":{"#nid":"68571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ramblin Through Time: The Earliest Class Ring","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: the earliest known Tech class ring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following excerpt is number 8 on the list \u201c125 Pieces of Tech History,\u201d featured in the September\/October 2010 issue of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe earliest known Tech class ring was presented to President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson in a ceremony at the Alumni House in July 2010. Russell Holmes, great-grandson of the ring\u2019s original owner, Tech graduate Trezevant Holmes, handed over the ring. Class rings at Tech were not widely popular until the 1920s. The next oldest ring the Institute has is from 1919.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe ring may have actually been made here on campus by Mr. Holmes as a shop project,\u201d said Living History Director Marilyn Somers. \u201cThe only mark it bears is his signature carefully engraved on the inside \u2014 a signature that matches the one he entered into the registrar\u2019s book in 1890. All in all, the ring is a remarkable piece of Georgia Tech memorabilia.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: the earliest known Tech class ring.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: the earliest known Tech class ring."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-06-27 14:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68572":{"id":"68572","type":"image","title":"Earliest Class Ring","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Earliest Class Ring","file":{"fid":"193337","name":"class_ring.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/class_ring_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/class_ring_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1650052,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/class_ring_0.jpg?itok=0-Tdm0Jz"}}},"media_ids":["68572"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8271","name":"alumni magazine"},{"id":"13529","name":"earliest Tech class ring"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}