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Finders, keepers not the rule.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
Back in 1973, Sandy Baumberger was working as a student secretary at the former Shurtleff College campus in Upper Alton, Illinois, while the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine was being constructed.
"I had left my desk to go do something," Baumberger told the Alton Telegraph. "When I got back, I found my purse still there, but the wallet was missing."
The wallet remained missing for 35 years, until recently.
Along came Eric Wherley of Decatur, Illinois, a second-year dental school student. As he entered a restroom stall in the building, he saw a pile of debris on the floor, consisting of fallen ceiling tiles, and a wallet.
"It looked really old. I was wondering if someone didn't steal it," Wherley told the Telegraph. The wallet had been missing since before Wherley was born!
Though there was no money in the wallet, it did contain an old Illinois driver's license, a student ID card, library cards, and Baumberger's Social Security card, all in her maiden name, but still troublesome in the wrong hands in these days of identity theft.
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