Louise Hearst Entzminger probably figured her college class ring was gone for good after it fell to the bottom of a popular swimming hole near Longwood in the 1930s.
But now, almost 37 years after her death, Entzminger's gold ring — with a Mississippi Woman's College emblem on the outside and her maiden name inscribed on the inside — is in the hands of her 75-year-old grandson, thanks to the efforts of a determined scuba diver.
"It's a pretty amazing set of circumstances," said grandson John Entzminger of Oakton, Va. "I had absolutely no idea that my grandmother lost it."
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