Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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CLASS OF l935 Qlnmmvnrvmrni lgrngram Processional - Marche Rom aine Gounod Orchestra Invocation - Rev. Thomas B. Smythe Hector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church Salutatory Oration-'6What Constitutes A School Wayne F. Reber Overture- Light Cavalryn - - Von Suppe Orchestra Essay-'6Society's Debt to Louis Pasteur Frances N. Dechant Oration- The Motion Picture of Tomorrow Henry F. Gallman Selections-1. Sunset - Van de Walter 2. Mother lVIachree '- Ball 3. G1'ete1ein, Wach Auf' - Christian Senior High Male Quartette Q Richard Kutz--First Tenor Ralph Josey--Baritone alternating with Elmer Piper Wm, Schollenberger, Second Tenor Wm. Piper--Bass Kathryn Hassler-Director Address- Adult Education in a Changing Social 56 Order - Dr. Q. A. W. Rohrbach President State Teachers' College, Kutztown, Pa. Selection- Who is Sylvia? - Schubert Orchestra THE OWL

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CLASS OF 1935 self to do the will of God. The spirit of God has guided us, has blessed us, has given us opportunities. Perhaps some other agency might have even- tually given us schools and hospitals, but the fact remains that it did not. Today with the State assuming very properly these functions, we are likely to lose sight of their origin. But the abundant life for which men strive, and which the State would like to provide for its citizens, has had its begin- ning in religion and cannot be fully realized without religious motivation. Jesus said I am come, that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly. This abundant life is life abounding in worthy interests, rich in var- iety, satisfying to soul, and mind, and body. More and more, the schools of our day are pointing in this direction. Physical health, muscular devel- opment, knowledge of games are being taught today for their recreational value as much as for their hearing upon our health. Music, and painting. and the arts are stressed not that we may become artists, but that we may appreciate the best and seek to possess it for ourselves. And yet all of this cultural development is lost, or worse, unless accompanying it there is found development of man's spiritual capacity. The School has its part to play here, so has the Home, so has the Church. A nation of clever people With- out good motives is a nation to terrify the world. A man or woman ever so cultured, conversant with the best in art, making a good living, but lack- ing a desire to be of use to someone else is a person immersed in self, yet cheating himself of the best in life. You know the story of the Prodigal Son, how he returned to his father, and was joyfully received, and how the fatted calf was killed. I heard an addition to that story lately, which has some value. The speaker went on to say: They killed the calf that day, and maybe they had some veal to last for the next day or two. But along about the third day the father went to his son about 6.00 a m. and said 'Now son, it's time to get up. We've got a lot of plowing to get done by noon.' This is for you a time of celebration, a day of rejoicing, a day for killing the fatted calf if you please, but the day of work is at hand, when each of us shall be expected to show forth what we have attained to. You may express your thanks by your words, and be most sincere. You may as some classes do, erect a t1blet,or donate a picture to bnr a brass plate reading, Gift of the Class of 1935 These things are done, but there is a better way, the way of life itself. What finer sensibilities you have devel- oped must be carried out into lite to make life cleaner and sweeter. What worthier social attitudes you have gained must be reflected in your contact with your family, your fellow-workers, your civic authorities. What higher standards of thought and conduct you have established must bear fruit in intellectual honesty, in economic self-support. When you do these things you justify your own efforts to gain learning, you justify the authorities who gave you the opportunity, you justify the faith that others have had in you, you justify the confidence that God has showed in man in leading him forth from ignorance and selfishness and barbarism to increasing know- ledge, to the service of his fellow man, to works of love and mercy. THE OWL f5 A V -V i iii' O o

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CLASS OF 1935 KR 0 O Qlnmmrnrrmvnt Hrngranl Essay- The Slum: A National Menace Ethel V. Groff V Oration- The Advancement of Music through the Radio Elmer A. Wolfe Selection- Country Gardens - Old English Tune Orchestra Essay- The Necessity of Relief in a Democracy Mary E. Hannahoe Valedictory- The Great Laboratory Agnes A. Kramer Presentation of Diplomas - Edwin L. Hettinger President of the Board of Education Class Song - The Blue and Gold Words by Agnes A. Kramer Music by Wayne F. Reber Report of the Judges Miss S. Helen Ahrens, 1517 Hampden Blvd, President College Woman's Club Mrs. Carl L, Cassel, l4l6 Girard Ave., Wyomissing, Pa. First Vice President, Wyomissing Woman's Club Prof. Stanley F. Fink, 1050 Washington Street Principal Tyson-Schoener School, Reading, Pa. Award of the Dr. James T. Souders' Prize Recessional March- The Black Mask Hayes Orchestra EEEABFQQCWPPP mi 'W 'C PP C