Meeting new people is one of the greatest opportunities at Harding, but we never truly realized just how many potential friends there were until that first day in chapel when three thousand faces surrounded us. We could never hope to meet everyone, and wondered if we would meet anyone! Seeing the size of our first New Testament class wasn't encouraging either. Who could possibly hope to make friendships in a class of over a hundred people seated alphabetically? Then, all too quickly, the first club mixers began, and total strangers tried to persuade us to join their part icular club. We spent many nights wandering through crowded rooms, shaking hands, and concentrating on the name tags in front of us until we were struggling to remember our own names. Trying to keep track of even a few people from those clubs with the bizarre Greek names was surprisingly difficult. They all said "hello" in the cafeteria, so we pretended to know who they were. It wasn't until much later that we came to know them as brothers and sisters in Christ. Only then could we begin to recall even a few of the endless names. -Brian R. Speer Index Coordinator HOOP-DE-LOOP. An energetic Sara Ga s ton k eep s h e r hula hoop moving at the Ju Go Ju luau mixer. Th e club us ed th e luau th e me annuall y for their mixers. - Photo by Wa y n e West e rholm. Index Division 301
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