Today Hendricks — who plans to move back to College Station, where A&M is located, if and when he retires — proudly has his new Aggie ring on his finger. “I'm going to keep wearing it,” he ...

When I told him his worn Aggie ring looked like it had been run over ... five decades of wear and tear — and never leaving his finger. He said with a grin how he wore it in the sawmill of ...

For Dr. Rohn Hendricks, a beloved 70-year-old equine veterinarian, one such thing was an Aggie ring—a tradition revered by graduates of Texas A&M University. Nearly five decades after graduating ...