{"id":31,"date":"2006-03-05T21:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Class Ring Melt Ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Class Ring Melt Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Monday morning a contingent from West Point to include the 2007 Vice President,<\/span><span> <strong>Cadet Tim O<\/strong><\/span><strong><span>&rsquo;<\/span><\/strong><span><strong>Connor<\/strong>,<\/span><span> the Ring &amp; Crest Chair,<\/span><span> <strong>Cadet Tim Allen<\/strong><\/span><span>, <strong>Cadet Dan Fisher<\/strong> (nephew of one of the donors)<\/span><span>,<\/span><span> the Class OIC<\/span><span>, <strong>MAJ Mike McCoy<\/strong><\/span><strong><span> &lsquo;<\/span><span>97<\/span><\/strong><span> and the Class Advisor<\/span><span> and Regimental Tactical Officer<\/span><span>,<\/span><span> <strong>LTC Tom Macdonald<\/strong><\/span><span> will accompany <strong>John Calabro<\/strong> and<\/span><span> me<\/span><span> to th<\/span><span>e<\/span><span> ceremony<\/span><span> at the Pease &amp; Curren refinery in Warwick, RI,<\/span><span> to melt the twelve rings that have been donated to the program.&nbsp;<\/span><span> We will be joined there by two living donors and the families of three other donors.&nbsp;<\/span><span> As in the past it will be a<\/span><span> solemn<\/span><span> ceremony.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/03-02-2006\/0004312484&#038;EDATE=\" target=\"_blank\">A news release is available<\/a> with more details.&nbsp;<\/span><span> One addition to that release is that in addition to the 12 rings donated this year I will be bringing back a sample from last year which contains some gold from every one of the<\/span><span> 91 rings previously donated to the program.&nbsp;<\/span><span> T<\/span><span>he<\/span><span> management and staff of the<\/span><span> Pease &amp; Curren<\/span><span> refinery<\/span><span> have been full partner<\/span><span>s<\/span><span> in this process for the past five years and have offered their services gratis.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning a contingent from West Point to include the 2007 Vice President, Cadet Tim O&rsquo;Connor, the Ring &amp; Crest Chair, Cadet Tim Allen, Cadet Dan Fisher (nephew of one of the donors), the Class OIC, MAJ Mike McCoy &lsquo;97 and the Class Advisor and Regimental Tactical Officer, LTC Tom Macdonald will accompany John Calabro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}