Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF – Fri-Yay/ Good News

~ John W. Howell
Photo via Alfred DiStefano

Today’s good news story comes from the Good News Network.

Man Reunited with Class Ring 56 Years After Losing it in the Long Island Sound: ‘It’s a Miracle’

By Andy Corbley –

A man recently received word through social media that a Long Islander and his metal detector had found his missing class ring, lost on a day at the beach 56 years ago.

Then, Alfred DiStefano remembers vaguely standing on a dock or a pier on Cedar Beach, Long Island Sound, when the ring slipped off and fell into the water.

Receiving it through the mail, the now Dr. Alfred DiStefano was able to look at the highly personalized white gold band and ruby for the first time since gasoline cost $0.35 a gallon.

The story begins when hobbyist David Orlowski was on the beach at low tide with his metal detector. Routinely scanning the beaches of Long Island for years, he’s found many rings in his time.

“They go in the water, shrinks your hands, and off your ring goes,” Orlowski told ABC 7.

Digging down more than a foot at the prompt of a loud ‘ping’ from his detector, Orlowski found the ring, which not only bore the name of the school, Fordham University, but also an inscription of a name on the inside of the band.

Orlowski did a few minutes of searching, given that he had so many clues as to the ring’s owner, and managed to find the Fordham class of 1969 reunion Facebook group. There, moderator Karen Manning was so impressed with Orlowski’s honesty that she was determined to find the person to whom the jewel belonged.

“He could have just sold it and made some money on it, but it restored my faith in humanity,” Manning said.

For his part, and true to his honest nature that Manning detected, Orlowski admitted it was his wife who urged him to seek out the ring’s owner.

“She says, ‘Well, if you lost your ring, wouldn’t you want it returned?’ And so, right. The question, answered,” Orlowski told 7’s Sonia Rincon.

Dr. DiStefano considers it a miracle and sent a lovely thank-you present to Orlowski via the return address.

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The good news in this story is the honesty of the finder and the eventual return of the ring. Today’s JohnKu talks about honesty. I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Honesty by John W. Howell © 2025

There is a saying,
What you do when unobserved . . .
Is true honesty

57 thoughts on “Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF – Fri-Yay/ Good News”

  12. Wonderful, feel-good story, and your JohnKu is spot on! It’s like the old question: Do you still stop at a four-way stop sign, even when there’s no other car (or police officer) around?!?

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  17. Wow! Man was landing on the moon, the Miracle Mets were shocking the sports world, Nixon was in office? Anyway, that is a LONG time ago and really, what were the chances?

    I didn’t think people did the metal detector thing anymore but good thing the Orlowskis were doing it, and good thing their hearts were in the right place.

    Great story Boss

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  19. That is pretty amazing. It reminds of then I lost my wedding ring while swimming at the beach in Bermuda on our honey moon. Suddenly my wife sees me running like crazy across the beach holding rented snorkling equipment and then jumping into the sea. She was laughing and wondering what I was doing. Luckily I found my ring and I told her afterwards what happened.

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  22. Love this story John!

    I believe the good feeling David Orlowski gets from this deed will last a lot longer that whatever the $$$ from selling the ring could have brought him.

    Your JohnKu rings true!

    🤭X 🤭X

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