1978-1979 Yearbook

South, freezing roads from Dallas to Nashville, and making several highways into Searcy, inaccessible. U. S. 64 between Memphis and Searcy was solid ice a majority of the stretch, causing many students from the Southeastern area to detour through little Rock when coming back to Harding. The first chapel of the spring semester Dr. Ganus announced the suspension of the :lress code for the coeds in preparation for cold weather. Snowing twice and sleeting several days in January, the precipitation did not seem to equal that of the previous winter which kept sidewalks and roads icy for almost a month. However, the combined temperatures of January and February set new records for an average low. It was the heaviest snowfall on record for February, a total of 15 inches, resulting from snowfalls of 6'12 inches and 7'12 inches and three lesser snowfalls. 3 1_ PERVADING the campus, an early morning haze provides a somber backdrop for a group of students as they cut across the front lawn. 2_ UNPREPARED for Arkansas' "monsoon" season, Vernon Starling makes do with what he has to guard against the rain. 3_ SHROUDED in a white blanket 0/ snow , the campus becomes a "winter wonderland ." 4. HIGH above the world, Nancy Weaver and a friend take advantage of February 's record-breaking snow/all to build a snowman on the roof of Patti Cobb Dormitory. 5. NO RESPECTOR of persons, Laurie Pylkas attempts to bean photographer Brad Watson with a snowball. 6. ENJOYING the unseasonably warm weather during early October, Nancy Huett , Melody Abbott, Mike Turner and Ruthie Tabor sit and visit on the Administration Building's steps. Weather ~ 29

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