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Juniors Receive Class Rings
Ring day reveal during school photo
Moments after the shutter closes on the last official 2017-18 all-school photo, students are asked to shout “the Ring We Wear for Her,” as a banner unfurls from the Middle School balcony announcing the arrival of the GPS class rings for our juniors.
Squeals of delight echo across the lawn as the girls in yellow spill out of line to race to Caldwell Commons. It is official. Their long-awaited class rings are here.
Revered as the symbol of an academic career at GPS, the class ring is the most recognized emblem among GPS alumnae. Each year the arrival of the rings is cause for much celebration.
Caldwell Commons sounds like a dance party with music playing and huge decorated cookies top the tables. Before heading to class, the girls take their time, posing for photos, admiring each other’s rings, and turning their friends’ rings around their fingers. Tradition dictates that the Class of 2019 will turn their rings around their fingers 119 times, 100 plus the last two digits of their graduation year, a practice that began in 1977.
The Class of 1927 was the first class to wear the distinctive black onyx stone topped with the GPS crest on a ring of gold or silver with filigree, and GPS alumnae are quick to recognize the iconic symbol across the world.
For more lots more photos of Ring Day, please see our SmugMug account.
