Central Junior High School - Reflector Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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4 I Q V1 Y ii A sfymsljp T4 5139, ...qggpgli fr H ii P 1 C T O R 1 A 1- R eil L E Q sg llifvciit- Grade 9A. The Library Hour NCE a week our 7A reading class had what we call the Library Hour. The purpose of this hour has been to get ac- quainted with many of our living American poets and others who have done great work in poetry. Here you will find a list of poets and a comment on each one. It has all been very enjoyable and interesting. Nathalia Crane. Known by her ability to write poems at such a young age. Many of her poems have much mirth, such as the Janitor's Boyf' Roger Jones, and What Every Girl Knows. Hilda Conklingf' Her poems do not rhyme, but always express a beautiful idea which is stated in a beautiful way and which are fanciful and fantastic. L. A. Daly. His poems are Written in dialect, which makes them very interesting. They are usually based on human nature and are humorous. p Oliver' Herford. His poems attract atten- tion because of the way he transforms and puts life into fiowers, trees, and hills, and other things in nature. Many beautiful cartoons are found in Ladies, Home Journal which are made by him. Joyce Kilmer. His poems are mostly imag- inative. One of his best beloved peoms is'iTrees. Robert Louis Stevenson. He is famous for his book of poems, A Child's Garden of Verses. His peoms tell about both little folks and big folks. James W. Riley. Most of his peoms are about the farm children and their experiences. Edna St. Vincent Millay is called the woman of the hour because of her many famous poems and her recent opera. The Pear Tree and God's World are some very beauti- ful poems which we have learned. Elizabeth M. Roberts has recently pub- lished her first book called The Time of Manf' it is a great success and a great book so the critics sav. We learned two short poems of hers, Mumps and Mr. Wells. Sidney Lanier. A famous southern Ameri- can poet, the author of The Tournament which we committed to memory. Florence Terwilliger and Betty Qualman Grade 9A. 0 i it O 45. K9 1 I I Y Q 1: il 5 l l K r I I 4 i 1 I. 1 L P I M 1 t U E ix E 5 L E Q ii . - mr as ...em e g A-ei 10 as at - ef asses .1

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, 5. f , 3 'J xc Q. bitch-A------Alfa TEV '1 wi-.s........-- wvi- :fgpftl 'er ll Ii 1' L C 'I' uw R l A u xi I I n 1 L ' O '2 Reflector Club and Staff The Reflector Reporters' Club HIS organization is practically the only one in which the members work entirely for the benefit of the school and no one who does not care to or is not capable of writ- ing is eligible. x Every one who has been at Central long enough recollectsthe search which used to be made and the coaxing of students by teachers to obtain sufficient material to make a decent sized Reflector. As a result of all this the Reflector Reportors' Club was organized. It assembles once each week in room 201 at clearing hour and is sponsored by Miss Flanders, an English teacher who naturally is very capable of carrying on such work. Although meeting only once each week, its members write and submit articles for publication every day, Occasionally the same topic is given to more than one pupil and as each tries to have the best article, essays of a very high quality are consequently obtained. VVhen miscellaneous write-ups are given to reporters, an endeavor is made to give one in which they are well versed. An article on the Band would of course not be given to one who knew nothing about music, any more than a person would be given Dr, Zola's Magic who had not visited the Fun Festival. The Club's motto is: A bigger and better Reflector, and with this end in mind. the club has prospered. There is a different reporter for every activity and topicg one for jokes, chapel, band, clubs-all activities are covered. The club not only lives up to its motto Cwe at one time had so much material that it all could not be printed in one issuel but gives its mem- bers good practical experience in writing which may prove beneficial in later years, makes them better known and in many instances has raised English marks. If there is ever any doubt in your mind as to which club to join and you are a good Writer, don't hesitate a second but join our good old Re- flector Reporters' Club! It'll do us all good and pep up the school spirit which seems to be slack- ing a bit of late. John R. Banister Girls' Business Club HE meeting of the Girls' Business Club on April 12,was very interesting. The speaker was Mr. Monday, superintendent of the Tanner Store. His speech was on Success There isn't anything in life that succeeds like success. You are your own success. The brain is a wonderful mechanism which makes up your success. I Things that make you what you are, are the brains. ' Right thinking is important. We should have a purpose and an aim in life and also a will to do things. There isn't anything that will take the place of work. In order to reach success you must wait and not get tired of waiting. We may be looking forward to success, but do not look at it now in that way but am I successful now? This is your opportunity. Our will is just as important to us as the compass is to the boat. We steer for ourselves our own course in life and we can arrive at our destination as we will. Life is full of impulses and power and it will never be greater than it is this very day. The brain is a power of suggestion Where one thought is interlinked with another as in a chain. Henry Ford said: If anybody wants to work hard he can duplicate my success. The talk was enjoyed by all .and we hope to hear him again. Ruth Hofmeister L? G' PJ 'lf f 'K Q 4 ng----M --e - - -H-.-e-W------,Q--- 9 v ----- W -Yee 36',.,QX

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- -'- ---- Y 4- -.K N 'lf ' - ,,,.,, .,,v+...... i 1 .ts Lick-ill yw. -AL ' Grade 9B Arabian Life RS. Berluti's history class had the pleas- ure of listening to Verdia Negim tell about Arabian life. First she told us about the different kinds of Arabs. There are the desert Arabs, and those east of Damascus City. The former wear long robes and the latter wear something like our gym bloomers only they are longer. Their homes are solid masses of stone and it is a mystery how some came to be built so. They have, what seems to us, queer customs in their churches, one of which is, if an Arab marries out of his family, he or she can never enter the main part of the church. Their fam- ilies are quite large, there are nine hundred or more in every family, whose family name is not the same surname. - Verdia's name in Arabia would be: Verda Messeh Negim, Hamood Nagim, Algosayine. Algosayine is the one big family name. These families raise their own food, they have large gardens, their grapes are twice the size of our ordinary grapes, the olives are never picked from the tree because picking them would make them bitter to the taste they are just shaken from the tree, then the ripe olives fall. Their big dish is made of grape leaves roll- ed like cigars. Their method of preparing their food is entirely different from ours and rather difficult to explain. They have the most beautiful horses in the world. If they are full blooded Arabian horses they can never be taken out of the country, be- cause there would soon be so many in the dif- ferent parts of the world that Arabian horse fiesh would lose its value. If anyone sells one of these horses out of his country he is punished. Mary Nichols Reflector Covers We are indebted to Howard Winter for the attractive covers on the February and March issues of the Reiiectorg to John Morrell for his April Rain cover, to Mr. M. Mussato of the Mechanical Drawing department for the very effective letter design, combining school, schol- arship, citizenship, music and athletics which graces our Pictorial Review number. Prisoner, did you steal that rug? No, yer Honor, the lady gave it to me and told me to beat it and I did? ,gf - Grade SB ,,m,,i,, , Nm 1, -':5,,..41 11 -,Hs ---A --V ----- -14