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Tuesday, November 19,1985AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Aggie rings November 27 is last day to order momentos this semester ist stand firm he agricultural I :lose to the mar' as obvious tk for farmers it olid ground. 15 to 20 perceni ng to go out ol months. Hard a. 1 > will survive art osts and operait vernmentcanno out of its ecir nerican agricul merican agrictj ior agricultural By PAGE PATTON Reporter The deadline for ordering an Ag gie class ring this semester is rapidly approaching. Orders will be taken until Nov. 27, said Carolyn Swanzy, class ring ad ministrator. “After the 27th, orders will not be taken again until after the first of the year,” she added. Swanzy said that this order should be delivered around mid-March. “The rings are manufactured by the L.G. Balfour Co. in Massachu setts,” she said, “so they will not re ceive the orders until the first of De cember. “That means they really only have three months to manufacture the rings.” Swanzy explained that the aver age delivery time for the rings usually is three to five months. But there are many factors that can af- , feet the delivery time. “The number of orders placed af fects the delivery time,” Swanzy said, “because we have anywhere from 400 to 2,000 orders for an ordering period.” Swanzy added that all rings are custom made, not premanufactured. “The Balfour Co. must fulfill indi vidual orders,” she said, “and this adds to the delivery time.” Another factor is that each ring is engraved on the inside with the stu dent’s name. “All the engraving is hand done,” Swanzy said. ‘This is becoming a lost talent, which means one or two peo ple probably do all the engraving.” Sne added that Texas A&M is one of the few schools that still has hand engraving done. Swanzy explained that the prices for the rings are established by the Balfour Co. “We can guarantee a price only up to a certain date,” she said. “This could be anywhere from a four-to eight-week period.” The price of the rings is what de termines the length of an ordering period. “For this ordering period, a man’s ring costs $226.50 and a woman’s ring costs $119.75,” Swanzy said. When ordering a ring a few lions are available for a student. op- One choice is between either a black antique finish or a rose finish. A black antique finish is a gold ring with black outlining everything on the ring, and a Rose finish is a plain gold ring. A student also has the choice of ordering a ring with a diamond placed in the top center shield. The diamonds are available in dif ferent sizes and the price for the ring then is determined by the di amond size. “The size of the diamond also de termines what part of the design can be left in the shield,” Swanzy said. “If a student has his own diamond that he would like put into his ring, he must take that up with a private jeweler.” Another choice is between buying either a 10 karat ring or a 14 karat ring. “The 10 karat ring is more popu lar because it is harder and more du rable,” Swanzy said. She added that the 14 karat ring is softer, and the lettering on the ring wears faster. Swanzy said the ring that is avail able today has been only slightly al tered and is basically the same as the original ring. “The top circle has been raised to protect the lettering and the shield, the canon has changed shape and di rection, and the eagle has evolved a bit,” she said. “But the design is ba sically the same.” The design of the ladies rings came from tne old sweetheart rings, she said. The sweetheart ring origi- “The top circle has been raised, the canon has changed shape and direc tion, and the eagle has evolved a bit. But the de sign is basically the same. ” — Carolyn Swanzey, class ring administrator. nated before women were allowed on campus. “The sweetheart rings were for the male students to give to their girlfriends, wives or family mem bers,” Swanzy said. The Class of‘72 was the last group of male students who were able to buy the sweetheart ring. A new program the office has started is the Lipscomb Anderson Perpetual Ring Program. “An individual with an Aggie ring can donate it to a qualified, currently enrolled student to be remade for that designated person,” Swanzy said. The program was named in honor of Lipscomb Anderson, Class of‘27, who encouraged the Board of Directors of the Association of For mer Students to initiate such a pro gram. To qualify for the program, the class year on the ring must date back 25 years. The only exception is if the original owner is deceased. The ring must also be intact and the name of the original owner should be legible on the inside. A signed and notarized applica tion from the owner should be sub mitted with the ring. >n yi put on the top ofithe ring,” S\ >P said, “and both on the inside.” wanzy names are engraved To order a class ring, students' must have completed 92 class hours. At least 30 of those 92 hours must have been taken at A&M. Before students can order their rings, they must stop by the Ring Of fice in 119 Pavilion. “The student will need to leave us some information so that we can check his transcript,” Swanzy said. “This usually takes three to five working days.” Or a student may bring in a copy of his transcript, she said. The Ring Office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Perot negotiating for museum pieces n strapping and | mdards, expen-; itors and equip- >uld-be warrior. ills of those en- vractical expen- :e re-creation of :ed the modern ord,” into their iJA members id batons. This is) the author (or: pth of researdi ke our own cos-! es on a profes-: fiber arts (wear- metalworking ronze and cop urniture, siege entertainmeni ring and vintn- he article, call ide reputations a.” This means ional organ® lia and Associated Press DALLAS — Dallas billionaire H. Ross Perot is negotiating with Har vard University’s Peabody Museum about moving part of its collection to Texas under a long-term loan ar rangement. Over tens of thousands of artifacts in the three-million item Peabody in ventory would be rotated through a museum to be built by Perot in Texas, probably in the Dallas area, the Dallas Times Herald reported Monday. The agreement between Perot and the museum would last at least lOyears, the newspaper said. Small, short-term loans between museums — traveling exhibits of a few hundred pieces — are extremely common. But museum experts said no insti tution has ever allowed the loan of so many items for so long a period of time. “There’s never been anything like that at all,” said an anthropologist connected with another museum. “Texas could end up with a better Peabody museum than what Har vard has.” Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems Inc., a sub sidiary of General Motors Corn., said he was enthusiastic about tne idea and hoped to meet with Har vard officials in Massachusetts be fore Christmas. “I think it would be great to have a piece of Harvard in Texas,” he said. Peabody director C.C. Lamberg- Karlovsky said he recently sent Perot a three-page document outlining his approacn to the project and has had follow-up discussions with Perot’s staff. “We are very serious,” he said. Perot’s contacts with the Peabody, which have intensified in the past month, are his second involving an anthropological museum in the Northeast. He has offered $70 million to move New York’s Museum of the American Indian to Texas, spurring intense opposition from New York elected officials who are trying to force the museum to merge with the American Museum of Natural His tory and stay in New York. The financially struggling tly filed a Indian museum recently filed a lawsuit seeking court permission to move to Texas. The suit is still pending. The 119-year-old Peabody Mu seum — formally named the Pea body Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology — has a significant Amer ican Indian collection but is better known for its collection of items gathered by Lewis and Clark, the American explorers, and by Captain James Cook. 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