Janet Elizabeth Kelley - Vienna. WV Keith Kelley - Li ttle Rock , AR Todd Daniel Kempton - Indianapoli s, IN Janet Carol Kesler - Columbia . TN Tara Tyler Kibler - Palm Beach Gardens, FL Lisa Ann Killen - Beaverton , OR Jerry Wayne Kimball - Searcy, AR Jeffrey Thomas Kincannon - Wylie, TX Andrew Todd Kinser - Middletown , OH . Lisa Carol Kirk - Springdale , AR Rian Koch - Charleston , IL John David Kodatt - Hiawassee, GA Pitwaty Koentjoro - Jakarta , Indonesia John H. Krantz - El Paso, TX William Davis Lane - Memphi s, TN Hubert E. Langston - Birmingham , AL Suzette Maria Langston - Pl ainfield , IN James William Laughary - Apache, OK Christopher C. Lawrenson - Pak.in. IN Graham D. Leighton - Utica, MI Philip Quinton Lester - Grand Prairie, TX Jay Alan Lightfoot - Russellville, AR Diverse definitions of dating H ere's a question: What exactly was a date? It seemed to be different here at Harding. There were several different types of dates here. There was the "not-considered-adate-anywhere-but-Harding" date. At home, did you consider going to church, studying, sitting in a swing or doing laundry a date? Pledge Week dates and "Did you eat yet?" didn't qualify, either. Then, we had the "almost-a-date-butnot-quite-really" date. Usually these started out in the Student Center or the cafeteria. I saw you or you saw me, one of us says to the other, "The movie starts in ten minutes, let's go." Not quite a "real" date. These seemed to be the most common of the dates here. Group dates , double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, and club mas dates were classified here. Did you call it a date when a friend, Blair, came up to a group and asked, "What are ya'll doing tonight?" Everyone else: "No real plans." Blair : "Let's rent movies and pop popcorn ." We all went. Not quite a date in my book. Now, what is a "real" date? One thing that made a "real" date real was that it was planned. Celeste Selby, a New Orleans sophomore, put it this way. ' 'A real date is planned and looked forward to. He comes to pick me up and we do something different , maybe even romantic." Most of the guys that commented on what a "real" date was, mentioned money. They seemed more worried about how much was spent on the date than the girls that I talked to. The girls wanted the date to be planned and with someone that they enjoy spending time with. I'm not exactly sure why the guys seem so worried about it. Don't get me wrong - it was nice to have soemone spend money on you, but we were, after all , college students. Most of us were able to relate to being broke. "Real" dates just involved doing something and having fun. That something may have been playing on the merry-go-round at the Harding Academy playground or going to a ballgame, campus movies, campus plays , or out to eat. A "real" date consisted of two people, not two people and half of their friends. George Tsirgiotis thought that a date wasn't "real" unless "one of the two poeple spills something on himself." Lastly, there were "special" dates. These were usually off-campus and involved real food. Both people dressed up, the guy shaved (if he didn't have a beard) and after he came to get the girl, she didn't touch a door handle all night. "Special" dates were also definitely planed in advance. Banquets, going to diner and a movie, spending the day in Little Rock and ending it by walking along the riverfront - those were "special" dates. I thoroughly enjoyed being treated like a lady. The little extras did matter. Having doors opened, being asked what I wanted to do next and being complimented sincerely made me feel wonderful. That is what made a "special" date truly special for me. It was hard to date as just friends here at Harding. Having some really terrific male friends, I've spent some real quality time with some of them. One comment made about Harding dates was, "Just because two people go out on a really terrific date, that does not mean those two people are getting married!" Can anyone relate? - Nisha Thorne Cute couple. After dining at the College Inn , Greg Stevenson , a junior from Effingham, IL, and Saysavad Phengsom, a freshman from Red Bank, NJ, visit their friends in the Petit Jean office. - photo by Bill Tripp.
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