Hiahlighting the winter season are the social club banquets - as typified by the Regina scene. Boyd Garner and Rayburn Knight find work as well as fun at the Sub T cabin. Socially Speaking , There Were Parties, Outings .. . "Everybody at Harding can belong to a social club." As the new students mulled this statement over in their minds, little did they realize all the possibilities of their forthcoming club life! Pledge week came - and all the confusion, bewilderment, dates, and fun came right along with it. For one week during October, the campus was studded with everything from crowns to dunce caps, and from garters to coat hangers with ribbons tied on the ends. But all the fun of getting acquainted was worth every bit of the pledging. After pledging came initiation. Some had it formal; others had ilotherwise. Either way, it made the pledges £Ullfledged members. All the ridicule and work was forgotten by the pledges. All the humiliating names of "Mud," "Rat," "Stupid," and just plain "Pledge!" were forgotten. All was put aside until next year when the ex-pledges will take it all out on the unsuspecting newcomers! Next on the social club agenda came a concentration on cooperation, fun, and fellowship. Full membership had brought on participation in dorm parties, regular club meetings, stag outings, banquet and outing plans. About the turn of the year, the flood of lavish banquets began. Themes representing everything from exotic Arabia to forlorn shipwrecks were used . The banquets took time, originality, and lots of work. Results? Good food, good entertainment, pretty girls, and handsome men . Places like the Mayfair Hotel, the Rendezvous, the Legion Hut, and Bill's Grill served as locations for these gala events. Books do not indicate study at Oege bunking party. Food was only one of the attractions on the Sigma Tau outing at Petit Jean Mountain.
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