A Topeka pharmacist has been reunited with the class ring he lost in 1987.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Jim Schwartz, owner of King Pharmacy, had his class ring custom-made in 1984.
He had attended the University of Kansas for five years while he majored in pharmacy. The $600 ring represented that journey.
In 1987, Schwartz put his ring on a metal tray above a bathroom sink while attended a compounding conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said it was gone when he exited the bathroom stall.
Thirty-four years later a a man in Minneapolis left a message on his answering machine. He told Schwartz his ex-girlfriend of three years had purchased the ring at an estate sale before they met.
The man contacted the registrar of the pharmacy school at the University of Kansas. Together, they found Schwartz.
The good Samaritan mailed back the ring a few days ago. It arrived in a lime-green Velcro bag.
“It’s weird, surreal,” Schwartz said. “I feel changed in a sense that whatever bad vibes are going on around the world, it gives me hope that there is a new future.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.