A man found the class ring from a high school in Nebraska while metal detecting in Belmar last summer.
A 60-year-old class ring from a high school in Nebraska found on the beach in Belmar has been returned to its owner.A New Jersey man reunited a nearly 60-year-old high school class ring with its owner weeks after finding it on a Belmar beach last summer.
Andrew Ciffer found the gold ring on the morning of Aug. 3 while metal detecting near 19th Avenue during low tide. The ring was engraved with “Crete H.S.” “1966” and the initials “BW.” “I go when it’s low tide so it exposes more wet sand because that’s where people lose the stuff when they’re in the water,” Ciffer told NJ Advance Media on Thursday. “It was very close to the surface, like it was just lost.”He and a friend, who is a fellow member of local metal detecting organization East Coast Research and Discover Association, quickly determined that the ring was from a school in Nebraska — not one of a similar name in Illinois. Ciffer called Crete High School and was referred to the local library in the small Midwest town. A librarian there checked the 1966 high school yearbook and found a match thanks to the initials on the ring. A charitable foundation associated with the school eventually helped connect Ciffer to the ring’s owner Barbara Wielage about two weeks later. “Finding a gold ring doesn’t happen too often and it is usually a nice prize,” Ciffer said. “But since this was a high school ring there was a chance to identify the owner.” Although the ring has been returned to Wielage, it remains a mystery how it wound up in the Jersey Shore’s sand, some 1,350 miles from her town of 7,500 in southeast Nebraska. Wielage’s family told Ciffer that she lived in Boston for about 50 years but has no recollection of when or where she lost the ring. Still, the locals in Nebraska are glad the ring has made it home. “A huge thank you to Andrew for his persistence and kindness in helping bring this small but meaningful piece of Crete history back where it belongs,” the Crete Public Schools Foundation said last week in announcing the ring was found. Jeff Goldman is a morning/early afternoon breaking and local news reporter for NJ Advance Media. He joined the Star-Ledger in 2010 after previously working as a high school sports reporter and sports copy...
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