Class of: 1996

Marnie (Pierce) Jones

Marnie (Pierce) Jones (COM’96) was reunited with her BU class ring in November 2024, nearly three decades after losing it. “It is as glorious as I remember! How incredibly special,” she writes. “I received it right before Thanksgiving, so we opened it as a family.” Back in October, the BU Alumni Help Desk received an email from a woman in North Attleboro, Mass., who wanted to return the ring, which her mother had found in downtown Boston many years before. The Help Desk staff contacted Marnie—the ring was engraved with her name, college, and class year—and set the wheels in motion. “There is more to this story than just finding the ring,” Marnie wrote in her thank-you note. Just hours before receiving the Help Desk’s email, her father had passed away. “He was the one who bought me my class ring back in 1996,” she wrote. “I remember being heartbroken (and terrified to tell him!) when I lost it, somewhere along a frigid, dark, and wet commute from Cambridge to Congress Street during my first year out of college.”

From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.