Growing in Love and Unity Chi Sigma Alpha and Regina social clubs "stepped to the wi ld side" in April of 1983 when the combined groups captured the annual Spring Sing sweepstakes competition for the third consecutive year. Dressed as jungle cannibals, the singing natives topped three of the four judged categories with their hit show, "A Sandwich is a Sandwich, but a Man is a Meal." After a relieving summer vacation, both clubs returned to campus to prepare for the new school year. Chi Sigs accomplished much of the year's planning during their traditional stag outing to Camp Tahkodah where they went to meet, discuss, play and catch up. The new versioi"t of Induction Month soon followed, and Chi Sigs and Regina enacted their experimental schedules. A number of mass club dates filled inductees' once-spare moments. One Friday during the month, Chi Sigs reserved the gym for themselves and played games from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. A special service project for the two clubs carne in the form of Michael Schoenberger, a young man in his mid-twenties who has been an invalid since birth. Club members visited the Schoenberger home weekly to talk with Mike and his mother and to help her with household tasks. During the month of induction activities, the men of Chi Sigs spent several work days helping Mike's father with heavier outside chores, digging postholes, spreading driveway gravel and putting up a new fence. During Spiritual Week of induction, Regina's theme, "Frui ts of the Spirit," prompted their candlelight devotional on the roof of Cathcart late one evening. The Chi Sigs' hayride in the fall took the men and their dates to a farm owned by Searcy doctor David Staggs, who is one of the club 's sponsors. Reginas bundled up for a hayride, too , but not before they made their traditional outing to Petit Jean Mountain in October. The women packed homemade picnic lunches for themselves and their dates and spent the day hiking and admiring the scenery of the mountain. A candlelight, semi-formal Christmas party at American Legion Hall ended Regina's autumn activities. Club 276 Chi Sigs and Regina members cooked the meal and provided their own brand of entertainment. The two clubs had a potluck together in the spring, shared devotionals with TNT and Zeta Rho and Knights and Phi Delta and jointly celebrated Valen tine's Day. Reginas invented and threw and Regal Rendezvous party, punning on the club's name which is Latin for "queen." A canoe trip down the Buffalo presented a welcome break to Chi Sigs in the spring. Both clubs participated in the sports programs. Chi Sigs teamed up for softball, volleyball, basketball, swimming and track, and Regina played softball , volleyball and basketball. To show their support, club members also .in the Harding pep band once showed up for a Chi Sigs football game to lend the team their musical encouragement. Senior Chi Sig Jim Ware said, "If I had to sum up Chi Sigs, I would say they are men full of God's love, working together as a unit to serve God and their fellow men Junior Stacey Windisch, a transfer student in Regina, said this: "I wasn't sure I was going to survive the adjustment {of the transfer}, untill walked into a room full of Regina girls! ... From that most memorable moment on, Regina has continually been my inspiration to press forward without looking back .'~ - W.. s Holland - John J. Radcliff.. - Creg O;:bim
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