Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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l-llstory Reading Standard Evenlng I-hgh School Prlor to September 1928 cred1ts earned ID our school did not admit one to lugher mstltuons oflearnmg By means ofa questlonnalre Pr1nc1pal Fhomas H Ford learn ed ofthe w1ll1ngness of the students to support a program havlng, a longer school term and more class DQFIOCIS per weeks As the result of fine cooperatlon betw een the Readlng School Dlstrlct the Super1ntendent Land1s Tanger the Prmclpal Mr Ford and the State Department of Publ1c lnstructlon the Readmg Standand Evemng Hlgh School came 1nto belng The backbone of our school IS our adv1ser and pr1n Clpal Mr Warren F Gxsh who IS d1rectly respons1ble for the progress of the school The school started an athletlc program ten years ago durmg wh1ch perlod It has had many excellent basketball teams In 1935 under Coach Fred Hess the squad captured the V3TS1ty League cham p1onsh1p The school has a paper Wh1Ch was started five years ago as a project of the Journahsm class under the dlrectlon of Mr Master The shop courses were added durmg the last decade and although the1r work lb dlffer ent from that ofthe rest ofthe schools there IS warm frlend shlp between the students The eleventh year of the school has shown a marked 1mprovement The attendance was one thousand com pared Wlth that of five hundred the year before The pre sent senlor class numbers forty f1V9 a large galn over the 1n1t1al graduatlng class of five The school author1t1es have worked out a better program by addmg a more com plete l1ne of commerclal subjects and several muslc courses thereby ralsmg the school s scholast1c ratlng 'lhe record shows clearly that the people of Readmg are taklng ad vantage of then' opportun1t1es and that Readmg Standard Evemng Hlgh School IS a valuable asset to the commun1ty u n a Q . A I . . r r. . . . . , J ' - t . Y.. 1 L. ,- ,- L- , . N . .I . . J y 1 i . . . y ' ' a 1 - 1 . 1, 9 '- ' , - , . . 1 ' 1 s .. , .I . , 9

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