[Senter Cove Guy]

I found a 1962 girl’s Beverly (Mass) High School (BHS) class ring in Lake Winnipesaukee during a summer somewhere between 1962 and 1965. I’ve held onto it all these years.

Sometime during the 1970’s, I called Beverly High School and gave them the 3 initials that were inscribed inside the ring and asked them if someone could look at the 1962 class yearbook and tell me who the ring might belong to. They were unwilling to do that because that would amount to providing personal information to an unknown person (me). I was OK with that. I thought about visiting Beverly, Mass one day to look at a yearbook but that never happened.

Last December I decided to initiate another search primarily because 2012 would be BHS class of 1962’s 50th reunion year and I thought it would be neat to get the ring back to the owner before the reunion.

Using the Internet, I located a BHS alumni website and was able to obtain a few email addresses for BHS 1962 alumni. I wrote to them and gave them the 3 initials. Within a few days we had the search down to a single person. BHS 1962 alumni did their best to track down “the person” without success. Their 50th reunion came and went without “the person” attending.

So, as a last resort, on September 30th, 2012, I emailed the editor of the Beverly Citizen newspaper and told her my story. I asked her if she would be willing to place something in her paper to try and find someone who might know “the person”.

SHE DID AND IT WORKED!!

On October 9, 2012, the editor called me with news that a reader had called her with a phone number for “the person” who now lives in Florida. I called “the person” and we chatted for about 20 minutes. She related that she had only had her ring for 2 weeks before she lost it while swimming in Lake Winnipesaukee. She gave me her address and I mailed the ring to her on October 11, 2012. Prior to mailing it, I took the ring to a local Connecticut jeweler who did a complimentary cleaning. The ring came out looking like new. She’s going to be a happy camper.