MAKE MINE AN OUTING TOO DING - - - - - - - - Four thirty a. m., May 3, 1948, and alarm clocks located in stratigie ·spots over the campus started to sing their shrill songs to awaken the thirteen members of the GALAXY CLUB. It was outing day for the GALAXY and af te:-r rubbing their eyes, stretching, and that inevitable early morning yawn they were up aad getting ready to meet their d'ltes as the sun was announcing its ·approach over the horizon. # "Red Bluff" was the destination 1Pr the outing, but this short twenty miles from Searcy was reached onlyafterafewcomical early morning expierences that h~lp tomak.-ejustanouting--- ''a good. outing.'' First it was decided that it would be wise to send an "advance party'' to the Bluff to bUild.& fi_re and start breakfast in preparation for the rest of the group thatwasto followafewminutes later in the R. K. Adams bus. The advatiee ~ty consisting of Betty Perkins, Gerald Ken~ck, Kathy Stubblefield, Jack Plummer, Ruth Cummings and Byron Corn, loaded the breakfast provisions and started on what they thought was the road to "Red Bluff". Thirty minutes of driving brought to these "Arkansas travelers" no recognition of land-marks that would have told them they were ' app-roaching the Bluff. After a brief strategy conference and the advice of a local native it was decided they were obviouSly on the wrong road to the destination. A quick 180 degree turn
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