What's the scoop?

Thanks.

Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

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DON'T DO IT

I know of two friends who have them--and prize them almost as much as their wedding rings.

Where can you buy such a ring?

Wow, I didnt know they had them. I do know West Point has mini-rings for the spouse which are very nice.

It is my understanding that they only offer them if your graduation date was BEFROE they started admitting women. My mom has one, but my dad graduated in 1950. BQMOM might know the scoop for better. She has one also ('72--is that right MOM?).

As I re-read and see that Fred is class of '65, let me add that all you need to do is call the ring office and give them all your info.

You are right 5 aggies--they were available for the wife or mother--in the days before women were admitted. We sit in a rather senior section of the stands--and a number of white haired ladies wear them with pride.

I have a friend who got one. It looks like a class ring, so pretty cool. I wanted to get one for my wife who helped put me through shcool and could not finish her degree at A&M. She already has a degree from twu, but attended A&M in an attempt to attain a second degree. But could not finish due to pregnancies. I ended up buying a ring for her from somebody who had lost one, ordered a new one, then found the old one. She is going to get the ring for Christmas. Anyway Fred, get her the ring!

Aggie Fanatic, I am also a TWU grad. and I have a sweetheart ring. I wear it with a lot of pride. My TWU ring has long ago been relagated to the jewelry box. It is nice, but not as distinctive as an Aggie ring. I'll bet your wife will be really thrilled to get hers.

I think so also lifelong. She has always been disappointed that I could not get her sweetheart ring, so this should really make her happy. She has put just as much into my schooling as I did. And she loves Texas A&M with all her heart. She is more loyal to A&M than most Ags I meet on campus. She even attended all the games during her first pregnancy. Granted we sat in consideration, but she still went!

She sounds like my type of Aggie! One of the things I enjoy so much about being active in Aggie Moms is watching non-Ag moms become enthusiastic Aggies just because A&M is such a family school. One of my best Aggie Mom friends went to Arkansas. Her daughter graduated from A&M in '97, but Martha and her husband still have season tickets to Aggie games and definitely bleed maroon.

I wish there was a way for "younger" ags to get something like that for their wives.

I thought about a ring also, but I went out yesterday and bought her a new car instead.

My wife would rather have the ring.

jbirdag, check on ebay on a weekly basis or go to a pawn shop. You will eventually come across a ring. I was blessed to have found one that had never been worn. I have not checked pawn shops, but I hear you can find them.

Can you order the rings at the ring center in College Station?

You could order a sweetheart ring until class of 72. But A&M admitted women as early as the mid 60's and they had to fullfill the same requirements as the men to get their rings while these other ladies just got theirs. The sweetheart rings and the women's Aggie rings were identical and this really irrated the women that earned theirs.

My mom, as well as my dad, is class of '70 and many people just assume that her ring is a sweetheart ring. I know that occasionally makes her mad but she knows she earned it.

I think they should stop selling these rings because it is unfair to all the women past and present that have earned rings. I don't mind the rings that were given when we were an all-male school but I think they should be relegated to the past.

Side note:
I remember how pissed people were at times that Galveston gets the same ring as main campus. Why doesn't the sweetheart ring make people as mad.

I did about 40 years ago and I can say today it was worth it.

aggiepublius, For those women who worked their butts off to help their husbands make it through school that sweetheart ring was earned. Considering how few sweetheart rings are out there I cannot believe that a girl would be so petty as to actually get bothered by someone having one. If they were still selling them to current grads and they still looked the same as a regular ring then I might understand them being upset. But since that is not the case these women need to pull themselves together and get a grip.

edit = found a spelling error, sorry.

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It was my two Aggie daughters with their own earned rings who thought of the idea to get me a sweetheart ring. They said it was because I have been an Aggie all my life despite not being able to attend school there. I very proudly wear that ring because it meant so much to my daughters and my husband. The Class of '70 wife who has her own ring is lucky. At least she had the opportunity to actually be on campus to earn it. I was born about 5 years too soon.

I bought my fiancée a sweetheart ring. She attended A&M one summer but later graduated from Stephen F. Austin in 1967. We broke up before we married and I have no idea what she did with her Aggie ring. It was identical to the rings the women graduates of A&M purchased.

I wish I had purchased one for my mom who actually did attend Aggieland in the 1930’s. Even though she graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College, she loved A&M.

Your mom is lucky. I was of that same era, and those first women who could get degrees had to either be married to or the daughter of current faculty or students--or had to be seeking a major not available at other schools in Texas. Dad was considered faculty at the time--worked for the Extension Service--so I could have gone. We spent two days down there looking, and could not find a place for me to live. I had very conservative parents, and they were not about to let me live in a house. We looked at a rooming house that had vacancies--and rats bigger than my cats, and there was nothing avaible. If your mom was able to go there in 67 she was lucky.

There are many of us who were not lucky. It was still really difficult to find a place to live--just a few pretty run down apartment complexes in 71 when I went for grad school. I had a roommate and that there were still zero dorms for girls. No way that even then my parents would have let me attend as an undergrad. In those days single girls just did not live on their own--at least if you were from a small town with typical small town partents.

I did have an aggie diploma--back then my ex's department gave the wife of married grad students an identical degree with our name on it--but the fine print said PHT not phd --for putting hubby through. That really was what most women at aggieland were doing--even in the early 70's. Somewhere through the years I don't know where that paper is--but it was a replica of the real degree. I would have given anything to have one of those sweatheart rings--and the fact that my husband never cared enough to get me one says a lot about how bad our relationship was--on both sides.

Give your wife's those rings--it will be the best and most appreciated gift they ever get.

3ga, I have a "diploma" with "pht" on it from Ft. Sill OCS. The early female students who have earned their degrees have something that those of us who only have sweetheart rings do not have -- a diploma that they earned. I would have loved to have had "his and hers" diplomas on our wall instead of his A&M and my TWU. But, I am content with what I have..........a family full of Aggies who love the place as much as I do and each has her/his own ring and diploma.