Ringed

Recently I was a temporary warden in the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer and had the privilege of 'ringing' my husband! This is the Iron Ring Ceremony where Canadian engineers acknowledge and commit to the moral, ethical, and professional obligation to humanity in their work. They receive an 'iron ring' as a symbol of this obligation. It takes place in an engineer's last term of school and most students are more excited to get their ring than their degree. It is a private ceremony and only obligated engineers and the candidates are allowed to be present. Close friends and family who have been obligated can come to the ceremony as 'temporary wardens' to place the ring on the little finger of the candidate, in place of the Camp wardens. So, that was me. Most temporary wardens are friends, fathers, or grandfathers, so I felt especially special to be the only wife giving her husband a ring in our ceremony!