I picked mine up today, and I like it. But there's one thing I don't get about it. On the top crest it says North Carolina State University 1887. But on the right side of the ring where it says your college, on the bottom it says Wolfpack 1889. Why the discrepancy in dates? Were we founded in 1887 and not named the Wolfpack until 1889, or did Balfour seriously fuck up everyone's ring?

4/24/2006 2:43:45 PM

solution: dont get a ring. They always screw them up.

4/24/2006 3:00:23 PM

Quote :

"In the fall of 1889 the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts began its first academic session. Alexander Quarles Holladay was president and there was a faculty of five: D. H. Hill, professor of English, J. R. Chamberlain was professor of agriculture, W. F. Massey as professor of horticulture, A. Withers, professor of chemistry and J. H. Kinealy as professor of mathematics and practical mechanics"

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~njrose/Special/LongHistory/1889-1906.html

[Edited on April 24, 2006 at 3:05 PM. Reason : ,]

4/24/2006 3:04:58 PM

read your Undergraduate Catalog (of which I am the editor):

North Carolina State University Historical Sketch
On March 7, 1887, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the act that authorized the establishment of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The Watauga Club of Raleigh and the statewide farmers’ movement had convinced the legislature of the need to transfer the funds received by the state under the provisions of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to a new land-grant college in Raleigh. The cornerstone of A. and M. College was laid in August 1888, and its doors were officially opened on October 3, 1889.

4/24/2006 7:55:55 PM

see, I personally think the ring should show the 1889 date rather than the date the land was granted for it. But, you know, some people like to have that information...ON THEIR RING....of all places.....

[Edited on April 24, 2006 at 8:10 PM. Reason : ]

4/24/2006 8:10:12 PM

do all the colleges have the same picture and just a different college name

or are the pictures different for each college?

4/24/2006 8:40:49 PM

ncsu going for the money and giving Balfour the only contract even though there had built up alot of ncsu ring makers (big ones like jostons, but lots of others, some smaller and more local too i think) killed the individuality of rings. there used to be so many options, and now instead of a personal symbol of what you've achieved, it just seems like another piece of jewelry.

I was planning on getting a ring unto they did that one place only contract. Maybe in 10 or 15 years down the road when it expires and everyone can make rings again then I’ll get a class ring. Some of the smaller companies said they still have their molds in storage, so I think they’ll start making rings for students as soon again as NCSU allows them.

4/24/2006 8:57:16 PM

^ ditto. i think the new rings suck and i'm not happy at all with them, hence i'm not buying one.

4/24/2006 9:39:18 PM

I didn't get a high school ring in favor of getting a college one but I don't like these new ones.

4/24/2006 11:51:47 PM

oh man those new rings are fugly
i am sad i didn't get one earlier

4/25/2006 12:22:57 AM

so wait

This whole new Class Ring deal means there's only one design???

Ouch. Glad I graduated before that came down.

4/26/2006 11:42:49 PM