----- Bisbandment: Friendships Carry On isbanding Jniversal 1chesOut \rsistent ~ivatesTo Ll:-- God:si Great L6VE -27. 198~ nCol Flippin' good time! Dan Shill , a sophomore from Memphis, adds a bit of sarca~m while conversing with senior Quillane Stevens from Texas. This wa~ one of the few club meetmgs Alpha Kappa Phi held before disbanding. - pho_to by John Radclzffe . ll good things must come to an end, unfortunately. This maxim proved true for two social clubs which disbanded this year - TOFEBT and Alpha Kappa Phi. TOFEBT was one of the oldest women's clubs on campus, according to former member Karen Winters, a senior at Harding. "I think it's really sad that an old club like that would have to disband," she said. The club was forced to disband due to decreasing membership. Winters believed that the disbanding of their brother club greatly affected TOFEBT. "After Praters disbanded it kind of dwindled down," she said. 'The next year we had just a few pledges. " The club also faced the problem of having a large percentage of its members graduate at one time. 'That left really young people to try to hold the club," said Winters. The club was unable to keep going, and this fall they agreed to disband. Winters had fond memories of the members of TOFEBT, however. "They were real down to earth people who cared about other people - that's why I got in it," she said, adding, "I loved it - it was a good club." Alpha Kappa Phi also disbanded this fall. Unlike TOFEBT, it was a young club, formed two years ago by some men from the clubs Praters and Koinonia, both of which had disbanded. According to Mark Thompson, a former member of Alpha Kappa Phi, the club began with about 40 members, but then quickly dwindled as many of the charter members graduated. 'There were so few of them they really couldn't function as a club," said Thompson. "It was just a bunch of friends together." 'We were not growing as a club, and most of our people were upperclassmen -we didn't have the members to keep it going," added Mike Sweitzer, another exAlpha Kappa Phi member. Sweitzer regretted the loss of the club. "I liked the clos~ness of the members and the spirituality," he said. "Everyone seemed to be working toward a common goal- to be more Christ-like. Our motto was "Brothers and Friends," and everybody seemed to exemplify that." - Sherry Daniel Friends forever. Louise Fry , a senior from Hope , Arkansas , and Karla Foster, . a sophomore from Fayetteville, share a speczal moment during open house. This was the last open house Tofebt participated in , as they disbanded in early fall. - photo by Johnny Couch. Disbanding 59
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