Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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THE OWL 93 THE GREATEST ALL-AROUND GENIUS OF HISTORY Lenardo the great sculptor and painter of the Renaissance, stands revealed today as a Colossus among men and an incomparablegenius, a pioneer and forerunner in almost every field of science and invention. In addition to the wheelbarrow and the machine gun, he envisaged and proclaimed such inventions and discoveries as shrapnel, telescope, universal gravity, motion of planets, the submarine, the parachute, the steamshovel, the Weathervane, the diving suit, the plus and minus sign in arithmetic. He foresaw accurately the elevated and the subway, he found a solution to New York's trafiic problems, before Columbus set out on his great voyage of 1492. He designed a helicopter, he drew the first mundial map, he invented theil-ife-saving belt, he built ports, canals, and fortifications, he knew of the circulation of blood, the magnet, diffraction, was a most distinguished naturalist and the father of modern geology. As the inventor of the camera obscura, he can be considered the father of modern photography. He was a most magnificent physical specimen and excelled as swimmer, horseman, fencer, musician and improviser. He laid down the principles of ballistics, hydraulics, aviation, centuries in advance of his timef This anticipator of Bacon, Lap- place, Cuvier, Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, was left handed and withall a most astounding prodigy of versatility. R

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2 THE OWL NEFERTITI In 1912 a German expedition to Egypt succeeded in locating the statue of Queen Nefertiti, through the strange presentiment of a member of the expedition, Dr. Friedrich fFritzl Kampf. On the pedestal of the statue was an inscription which was de- ciphered to the effect that a reincarnation was anticipated. Dr. Kampf revisited Egypt in 1931, met and fell in love with Nepher, the daughter of the foreman of the expedition of 1912. The girl was born within a year after the statue was found and was named after the Queen. Dr. Kampf married Nepher and took her to Berlin, Where they lived at Lietzenseeufer 8. Obscure reference to a single year in the original inscription worried Dr. Kampf that his happiness will be brief. Indeed on the first anniversary of their wedding Mrs. Kampf vanished in the midst of metropolitan Berlin and was never heard from again. BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE MARCHING CHINESE Although there is no definite information on the population of China, as a census has not been taken since 1403, let us take the reasonable estimate of 600,000,000 as the number of Chinese on earth. CThis includes lVIongolia, Nlanchuria, China, Tibet, Mayalsia, South Seas, North and South America, etc.l Following the conduct marches as ordered by the United States Army Field Service Regulations, the Chinese-marching four abreast, or platoon-squads formation, at the rate of three miles an hour for the average fifteen miles per day-will require 22 years, 302 days to pass a given point. A generation l There will be 26,280, 000 passing each year. Assuming that the birth-rate of Chinese is ten per cent. and that half of these children die before they are able to walk, there will be 30,000,000 new Chinese coming on each year to take the place of the 25,280,000 that have passed the given point. And so they could march on forever. BELIEVE IT OR NOT

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up . -l-.-.f--. ,,,, . V.- , , ,, . , , W I Back row left to right: George Falconer, SUUQBDU manager. l au. llal,,..-.., ..-...-- ..--- Krupiewski, Fred Hess, coach and member'of the Faculty. Front row: Robert Hehn, Krupiewski, Anthony Hehn. 'William Ryan, is not pictured here. The Reading Evening High School basketball team en- joyed a successful season, 'finishing in the first division in each half of league competition. Victories by the school quintet were over such formidable opponents as St. Marks, Reading Co. Y.M.C.A. , East Ends,Wharton School, Ensslens, Gaenzle Green Jackets, and other local teams. This year the graduating class established a precedent by awarding - Letters to members of the basketball team.