St. Francis Xavier grad reunited with X-ring after it turns up at Dartmouth thrift store
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Thanks to a Facebook post and a group of former students, St. Francis Xavier University graduate Becky Savoie has been reunited with her X-ring after seven years.
The ring was discovered on Jan. 2 at a Value Village location in Dartmouth, N.S.
Shanna Hopkins, the director of the Antigonish university's alumni association, said she was tagged in the comments of a Facebook post someone had made about finding the ring.
She said she wanted to help in the search for the ring's owner.
"All these rings are special to us, but this one in particular was one of my classmates because it was a 2001 ring, the same year I graduated," Hopkins said.
She said the university probably receives a call every month about a lost ring, but most are never located.
Hopkins asked the store for details about the ring.
A blurry inscription looked like Becky B. She started looking at the yearbook for someone with that name.
"Couldn't find anything," she said. "So I actually called one of my classmates who actually graduated in the same year as well.… And she said, 'Well, the only Becky I know is Becky Carruthers, now Becky Savoie.'"
The information for Savoie on the alumni association's database was out of date, so she reached out on Facebook instead.
Savoie, who lives in Dartmouth, answered almost immediately.
She said she had spent the last few years looking for the ring but had lost hope of ever finding it. She was looking instead to replace it.
After confirming with Hopkins that the ring belonged to her, a representative of the university who was in Dartmouth was able to pick it up and take it to her.
"It kind of brought me back [to] the X-ring ceremony," Savoie said. "Every grad looks forward to it. It's pretty emotional.
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