Lost and found: K-State class ring discovered in pipe and returned to owner after nearly 30 years
At the K-State Alumni Association, we’re proud of keeping K-Staters connected to their
alma mater — and sometimes, that means doing a little detective work.
Louis Fender, assistant superintendent with the City of Kerrville, Texas, Wastewater
Collections, recently contacted the K-State Alumni Association after some of the city
employees discovered a K-State class ring in Kerrville’s pipe system. Surprisingly,
this is the third class ring that city workers have found while Fender has been employed
by the city. They were able to successfully return the other two rings and wanted
to try to find the owner of the K-State ring, as well.
The clues were:
- The ring was from 1990.
- The initials R.F. were written on the inside.
- A Wildcat was depicted on one side with the word “Fox” on the other.
Crystal Danker, the K-State Alumni Association’s director of data management, immediately
got to work. She researched potential owners and eventually located Randy Fox ’89,
who was overjoyed that someone had found his class ring that he lost 29 years ago.
“I’m grateful,” Fox says, chuckling that he is “waiting very impatiently” to be reunited
with his former keepsake via mail. “I never thought that I would get it back.”
View local news coverage of the lost and found ring.
Learn more about K-State Class Rings.