Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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1. DEAN PRYOR makes the usual long list of Monday morning announcements at second chapel. 2. TOMMY CARR reads a letter while Debbie Fagan checks the Tri Kappa club box for new announcements. 3. GOOD COMPANY makes the cafeteria food better for Eugene Conner and Sylvia Pectol. 4. THE BREAK between chapel and lunch provides Lynn Watson with a good chance to check for mail. 5. LONG LUNCH LINES make students recall the advantages of home. -'.. H, L , . -- 7 'L ff me i. .i ' ' . -F . hir E- -fi 71 1 i e I , . - 5' Q L - ' 1 it K ' 1 U53 ,,,, 'M .W , V , XA 5 ,Q K : V fl, E fly.. . x M. .L ig e- a t X X' 4' ' A i e us f -Q, ' ,I r Q i 4 1 M ti A Midday: the everyday grooves 20 ' One Day 1

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Morning: a time for hustling While many students are just beginning to rise, the 7:00 breakfast crowd at Pattie Cobb is eating to the sounds of the Beach Boys and those at American Heritage are choosing between the usual selection of doughnuts and eggs. The scrambled eggs and coffee are necessary eye-openers to those students who prefer to eat rather than sleep in the pre-class hours. The sidewalks which were once desolate are s 7 becoming busy. A few students break into a sref i ss'i half-run as the 8:00 bell rings and class com- which Dr. Gary Elliott is discussing ' Anglo-Saxon literature and briefly describing the sounds of the language. t ln Olen Hendrix 207, Elaine Thompson is explaining the techniques of sewing on the top collar of a jacket in Clothing Tailoring. Kent Pate, Rick Cook, Vickie Carrier and several other art students are completing line drawings demonstrating blind contour in their Two-Dimensional Design class, which are due to be finished at the end of the period. lt appears, as one of the students jokes, The really good artists procrastinatef' I Monday mornings are filled with classes for most students. With an average of 57 classes beginning on the , hours of 8:00, 9:00, and 10:00, it is an ideal schedule to get most of the classes out of the way in the mornings, leaving the afternoons sparsely filled and with a lot of available time for other activities. . . A ten-minute interval for changing classes makes more ofa dash than a walk for students who must go from the American Studies Building to the distant New Gym, or from Harbin Hall to the Heritage Building. Whatever the distance between classes, lgowever, the tight schedules make Monday mornings a time for ustling. ' C mences for Literature of the Western World in 1. , CASUALLY sitting on her desk, Dorothyvwright reads a paragraph in French to her Elementary French class, which' meets at 10:00. s 2. BOB GUTIERREZ completes an oil painting for his Introduction to 'Painting class in his spare time. T . I I . y ' I 1. I 3. MARK HOOPER begins his Monday morning with an 8:00 Elementary Hebrew class, which meets in room 108 of the Bible Building. j 4. ATIENTIVELY, Paul Symanowitz listens into Selected Letters to Christians. 5. LATE NIGHTS make sleepy mornings for David Mitchell, who catches some sleep in his 9:00 New Testament class. ' ' , ' 6. CHILD DEVELOPMENT class, meeting at 8:00, provides Home Economics major lulia Wells with the opportunity to work directly with children. one Day - 19

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The day is broken by chapel and lunch. This year two chapel sessions are charac- terized by 1,250 filled chapel seats and foldout chairs down the three floor aisles. The student body divides the whole into two halves - early chapel at 11:00 while the rest eat lunch and then exchange as late chapel commences at 11:45 and the lines at Pattie Cobb and American Heritage once again lengthen. Chapel means different things to different people. For some it is a time to study, catch up on lost sleep, or a time to sit next to a special person, but to others, it is a chance to skip and complete the overdue. Its purpose, though, however fulfilling to the individual, is to pause in the day for worship - singing and praying to, and meditating on the One who made this mundane Monday so glorious, The Student Association is directing chapel as they will the rest of the week. Their theme is Cod is active in the lives of His childrenf' and in first chapel David Cranford reads promises that Cod will protect his children, from Daniel 6:33 and Psalms 121. A visit to the student center is never complete without checking the club boxes. Fastened to a wall left of the front entrance, it is attended by such a hub of news seekers that those attempting only to enter the student center must shuffle through the crowd. Today the assembly is segregated into cliques of the respective clubs who are conveying announcements of meetings, football games and other club news among themselves so that they actually appear to be holding club meetings. The main attraction to the student center are the mail boxes, which are visited by almost every student several times a day. Although today is Veteran's Day and no mail will be delivered, there are still many students who cannot resist inclinations to :heck their boxes. The combinations have become as familiar as social security wumbers with most students and the dials are turned almost without thought. Many close their boxes with disappointment after peering into them to find air mail. For others, the disillusionment is delayed as they shuffle through a deceiving stack of letters only to discover that it is all for their box- mates. Accepting his fate, one student removes last week's College Church Bulletin and stuffs his competitor's mail back into the box. On days like today, even a job offer from the Financial Aids Office or a bill from the Business Office is welcomed. Campus mail saves the hopes of some, however: a scripture card from a secret club brother or sister, cookies from a friend, or perhaps a romantic note from a sweetheart. The ones who do receive letters find seats and read them and the ones without have quick conversations. Whatever the outcome, the 12:25 bell rings and the crowd dissipates into various activities. Midday moves into afternoon, having been established through routines of classes, chapels, lunch, and mail checks, the everyday grooves. Taking it easy qs I lair' 1 1 tl. .i .As I, I ff, Q Here are some of the students who are taking it easy this afternoonz' 1. KENT IOHNSON BROWSES through the card selection in the bookstore. 2. IANE DAVIS AND CATHIE BINNS FIND time for conversation and some refreshments from the snack bar. 3. RON DICKER AIMS for a direct shot in his leisure pool game. as ... al l f O .... S 4 ii vw 9 X.. The 12:30 bell signals the beginning of class for Analytical Chemistry, Russia and the Soviet Union, Principles of Christian Living, and 44 other afternoon classes. Many students, however, remain in the Student Center. The activities here are diverse: some can be found in the snack bar sipping soft drinks with friends, others attempt to study amid the clamor of music and conversation, the television in the lobby is relating a broken love affair of a soap opera, and in the Bison Lanes, challengers compete in foosball, pool, and bowling. One Day '