{"id":22236,"date":"2020-06-12T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=22236"},"modified":"2020-06-12T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:49:26","slug":"ring-story-all-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/ring-story-all-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Story: All in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Louis Herns \u201981 donated a class ring to the Alumni Association for his daughter when she graduated, he knew he would do the same for his son<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/RingStory2-1500x630.jpg' alt='Ring Story: Louis Herns &#039;81' title='Ring Story: Louis Herns &#039;81' height=\"630\" width=\"1500\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWHAT YOU DO FOR ONE CHILD, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">you have to do for the other,\u201d Louis <\/span>Herns \u201981* said about his most recent gift to the Alumni Association. It wasn\u2019t <span class=\"s2\">money or time but a class ring \u2014 the <\/span>second one he\u2019s donated. The first ring he donated was in honor of his daughter Abbie\u2019s graduation in 2016, and the most recent ring was in honor of his son <span class=\"s2\">Patrick\u2019s graduation in 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Alumni Association\u2019s collection of Clemson class rings can be found in the alumni center on campus and includes rings from every year since the <span class=\"s2\">tradition began in 1896, relying on the <\/span>generosity of alumni willing to contribute. Rings come in traditional and dinner ring styles and are often instantly recognizable between alumni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For many alumni like the Hernses, the ring is a family tradition as much as it is a school tradition. Herns&#8217;s father, his wife, Robin, and his two children all went <span class=\"s1\">to Clemson. \u201cIt just seemed destined for [the kids] to go to Clemson since they <\/span>went home in orange from the hospital,\u201d Herns laughed. For him, donating the rings to the Alumni Association\u2019s collection was a way to honor his family and the University at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt takes a lot of hard work to earn the ring,\u201d he said, \u201cand it lets people that you meet see that you\u2019re proud of your diploma, you\u2019re proud of your education and you\u2019re proud of your university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">On the traditional ring, there\u2019s a little-<\/span>known inscription beneath the palmetto tree in the South Carolina coat of arms, a phrase that sums up what the ring really means to the Hernses and all of the other alumni who wear the ring: \u201cWho shall separate us now?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Louis Herns \u201981 donated a class ring to the Alumni Association for his daughter when she graduated, he knew he would do the same for his son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[646,706,2421,2804,3062],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-class-ring","tag-clemson-ring","tag-ring-story","tag-summer-2020-lifelong-tigers","tag-tradition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/RingStory2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}