Reading High School - Arxalma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE For more than ninety years, Reading boys and girls have been nurtured, trained, and developed in Reading l'ligh School. Time has witnessed many changes in the nature of the student body. 'At iirst, only relatively few continued their education beyond the elementary gradesvall with the purpose of preparing tor college. As the years passed, more and more youths enrolled in high school with more and more diversified purposes in mind. Today, the high school population is as cosmopolitan as the community population, and individual objectives are as varied as the students themselves. Now only a comparatively lew prepare tor college. Many wish vocational training ol ditterent lcinds, some wish to develop special talents or abilities, others hope to discover interests and aptitudes which they may later develop. Reading l-ligh School, as other high schools have done, has attempted to meet these new demands by increasing its subject otterings, its departments and facilities, and its personnel. Few people realize that more than one hundred different subiects and courses are otlered here in eleven departments. When one considers the myriad individuals oi different races, creeds, economic levels, religious tenets, political dogmas, cultural baclcgrounds, and social philosophies, when he recognizes the diversity of purposes and the variety oi subject otterings, he perhaps wonders if there is any core to the program. The answer must be aitirmative for the high school is charged with the responsibility of producing American citizens who, though essentially ditierent in personalities, abilities, and potentialities, are substantially the same in those fundamental aspects which go to produce dynamic democratic citizenship. Among the qualities which the high school attempts to engender are a respect for worlc, respect for property, respect for others, a realization of personal responsibilities, and a consciousness of the divinity ol the individual. It these pages portray, even in part, the accomplishment oi these purposes, then they are indeed a worthy record ol the Class of '47. at miwww. 'Firma my A W -als, 86.4.5 ha. :s44,c.L,,, VICE-PRINCIPAL cZ,.WJi'7,z,,a7s,Z.,., VICE-PRINCIPAL

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PRINCIPAL QUT OF THE PAST: Education is intended not zo make men book-'wise but to extend the com- prehension of their minds. The Berks-Schuylkill Journall, 1816

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'L P i X X These young theatre aspirants learn the fundamentals oi acting as Weil as the art oi make-up, stage-setting, lighting, and other features oi stage production. In the late. 90 s and early 1900's, there was a revival of the K N 1 QUT OF Ti-iE PAST: X v A i , such poems as Poes 'The Raven by weird Delsartian attitudes, to express fear, grief, holiness, and purity, sup- posedly a help in acquiring grace. Ni ancient art of pantornine. Schools taught the declaniation of lil As the originators of our school commencements,thecreativewriting ciass Finds a theme, writes the pageant, and works out the stage ehfects, 'IO