Please note, the Alumni Association office is presently closed and we cannot accommodate in-person drop offs. Yet its details are so customized by each year’s student committee that the ring’s manufacturers say the job is upping their game. The 2021 melt ceremony will take place virtually on March 25, 2021. The Brass Ratas MIT’s class ring is affectionately knownis so iconic that it helps unacquainted alums recognize each other across a crowded room.
We are now accepting ring donations for the 2022 melt. All proceeds bolster available funds for the Class of 2023 Ring Committee’s financial assistance program.Ĭomplete a donation form and mail rings to the MIT Alumni Association. The program will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Herff Jones plant in Warwick, RI, where new MIT rings are minted.ĭon’t have a Brass Rat to give but want to help the project? You can make a financial contribution to the Brass Rat Melt Project here. A special MIT Brass Rat melt ceremony will be held virtually in March 2021. The donated rings will be melted and mixed into the alloy that will make the next generation of rings, and the value of the gold will bolster the financial aid program to offset the cost for current students who cannot afford to purchase a ring. Stephen Fantone ’74, a Brass Rat collector who presently has more than two dozen rings, piloted the Brass Rat Melt Project in 2020, donating a number of gold rings from his collection to help raise funds for the Class of 2022 Ring Committee’s financial assistance program, which works to ensure that all MIT students can purchase a Brass Rat. The project is back for 2021, supporting the Class of 2023.
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