I I I "Since we are small we get to know each other really well." - Paul Brooks T he year was active for Echad, Harding's only co-ed club. Echad, which is Hebrew for "unity," planned its year around the theme for which the club is named. Echad closed out last spring with a banquet at Murry's Dinner Playhouse in Little Rock. In addition, the club conducted a charity chess tournament, the proceeds going to the Brown's Home in Searcy, as its service project for the spring semester. The fall semester began with the addition of one more member into the club, which proved to be a fun experience for him during pledge week. Ac - cording to member Jeff Terwilliger, many of the other clubs' pledges were required to get signatures from Echad pledges so "everyone was out looking for one pledge; he got a kick out of it." The club celebrated the end of the week by going hiking. Hiking and other spontaneous get-togethers, like going to Wyldewood, served as ways throughout the year that Echad mem hers could share time together and build their unity. Also fun for memhers were game nights, in which members got together to play board games. The club maintained closeness between members through devotionals every other week, and through service projects. One such project planned for the spring included a "rock-a-thon," at which participants raised money for "His House," sponsored by the College Church of Christ, by taking pledges for each hour of rocking in a rocking chair. Echad 's spring '90 banquet was held again at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, where they saw "Annie, Get Your Gun." Echad president Paul Brooks said of the club: "Echad might be small, but we still get a lot done. Since we are small we get to know each other really well." - Phillip Tucker Front row: David Buskirk, Paul Brooks; Second row: Tammy Johnson, Kristine Paskavich, Tena Brooks; Back row: Jeff Rose, Kathleen Davis, Jeffrey Terwilliger. - Photo by Jeff Montgomery. 236 Endless Friendships SCHOOL DAZE. Senior Echad member David Buskirk listens to a fellow club member's conversation at the women's club open house. Echad was the university's only co-ed club. - Photo by Sharon Bowles.
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