How a McMaster University class ring, lost in 1977 in the Atlantic Ocean off Barbados, made it home [Video]

It’s not unusual for McMaster University’s alumni office to hear from someone looking to get in touch with a person who went to the Hamilton school.

But a recent request was “unique” and resulted in an unexpected reunion, director of alumni engagement Karen McQuigge told CBC Hamilton.

In mid-October, a diver in Barbados reached out to say he’d found a McMaster class ring from 1965 that was buried underwater near Miami Beach. The gold ring had the initials “FMP” engraved on it and if possible, the diver, Alex Davis, wanted to return it to its original owner.

McQuigge said her team searched their database and only one name matched the initials: Morgan Perigo, a math major who graduated from the faculty of science in 1965. Fortunately, Perigo kept his contact information up to date with the alumni office. 

“If he hadn’t done that, we probably would not have been able …