Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Baccalaureate Program Orchestral Prelude- The Priest's Marchi' .... . Mendelssohn St. Mary's Episcopal Church School Orchestra Processional Hymn- God of Our Fathers Prayer of Invocation The Rev. Father John J. Judycki Assistant Rector, St. Maryls Roman Catholic Church Anthem- The Lord Is Exaltedl' ..... . .......... . . . . West The Choir of St. Marys Episcopal Church Scripture Lesson-I Peter 4: 7-11 , . . . . . . .Father J udycki Congregational Hymn- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken Sermon- All Things Come of Thee, O Lord, and of Thine Own Have We Given Thee. -QI Chronicles 29 : 145 The Rev. Thomas B. Smythe, St. Mary's Episcopal Church Prayer ..... .... F ather J udycki Anthem- I Heard the Voice of Jesusl' ..... arr. by Schnecker The Choir Benediction .. . . . .Father Judycki Recessional Hymn-- All Glory, Land, and Honor Postlude-- March Militaire .... .... .... . S hubert The Orchestra Tl-IE OWL 53 CLASS OF I935 o o

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CLASS OF i935 KS 00 W- 0 And quick to hate a coward or a shirk: These constitute a school,- But let not wisdom scorn The hours of pleasure in the playing fields I There also strength is born, And every well-shaved game a pleasure yields, Fairness and self-control, Good-humor, pluck, and patience in the race, Will make a person heart-whole To win with honor, lose Without disgrace, Ah, well for them who gain In such a school apprenticeship to life :f With them the joy of youth remains In later lessons and in larger' strife. -Henry Van Dyke. May we as a class and as individuals resolve that the prestige and real Worth of our school will be in direct proportion to our contribution in the form of service We render to our community and society at large. --Wayne F. Reber A LAST THOUGHT Qnward, onward through deep channels Ever bold and true, Waving from the highest panels Qur Gold and our Blueg' May We ever keep them floating On each breeze so high, True ideals and hopes denoting As We say Goodbye . -Agnes Kramer '35 June' -W - V L-,, ...V THE OWL

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515 OO CLASS OF l935 Sermon for Baccalaureate Service Rev. Thomas B. Smythe, Rector St. Mary's and St. Luke's Episcopal Churches. Text: All things come of Thee, O Lord, and of Thine own have we given Thee. -L Chronicles 29 : 14. UR text is a portion of King David's thanksgiving to God. It is his ac- knowledgement that without God, man is helpless, that his own great achievements were due primarily to God's blessing and goodness to him, and not to any inherent excellency which David himself might possess. It is rather typical of the world's truly great, that they are the first to admit their obligations to othersg the last to claim credit for themselves. It is equally typical of the little man to be self assertive and boastful. You who are soon to receive diplomas from the Reading Evening High School have also achieved victory. You have made many sacrifices. I suppose that in all those hundreds of nights when you have taken your way to the school for serious study, you could easily have found other en- gagements more pleasant perhaps, if not more profitable. Most of you have had some other employment during the day, and you have added to your self-denial the responsibilities of study and close application to work, when others were resting and recuperating from the toil of the day. This is an achievement of which you may well be proud. I do not belittle any, of your success when I call to your attention exactly what David recalled that there is no victory but what God participates in, no worthy deed done, but that we see the hand of God guiding and directing. Your impending graduation evokes from us nothing but praise and commendation for you, it should also awaken in each of us a feeling ofgratitude to those who have made it possible. This very School you have attended is not duplicated in many towns, most towns our size make no effort to carry education fur- ther than the ordinary day school. Our citizens have therefore shown an unusual interest in the young adult, who thirsts for more educationg our School Board has met this demand, our Principals and faculty have given of their best. They have put you in their debt. You owe them your thanks. Iwant you to turn back with me the hands of the clock, to go far back to the Middle Ages, and see the civilization of that day. Not a public school in Europe, no idea of sanitation, ninety percent of the people illiter- ate, men, women and children held in the grip of superstition, little travel, no adequate means of communication, cruelty and ignorance the order of the day, warfare on every hand. There was but one civilizing influence at work and that the Church. This whole age owes a debt to the Church of the past, a debt for hospitals, and schools, and colleges. There is not any- where in the world a school of any age which was founded by any other agency but the Church. Every work of mercy, every beginning of art, every origin of drarnatics, every seed of education, in the first place was an ex- pression of religion, a faith in the worthwhileness of man, a dedication of THE OWL