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

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THE ANNUAL R1-:FLEc'roR Lxomwnlom aAsKE1'aAu. TEAM Basket Ball The Central Junior heavyweights played a long, hard schedule this past sea- son taking on some of the bestjunior high teams in the state and winning the ma- jority of their games. In the city they easily won the championship by winning all of their games. At Bay City they lost two hard-fought games but traveled to Port Huron and won a tight game from Garfield Junior. At the first of the season Central won its games by reason of an exceptionally strong defense. However a late season shift that changed Speer from guard to forward uncovered a strong offensive combination without weakening the defense and the team then ran away from its opponents. Potts, Spence and Speer divided the scor- ing honors. Armstrong proved to be a driving type of guard who improved every game. Others who played strong games were Wrege, Thompson, Brown, and Loney. HEAVYWEIGH1' BAsKa1'aAu. 'rnml ' PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT

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THE ANNUAL REFLECTOR The Odyssey for Boys and Girls Retolcl from Homer by A. J. Church CHARACTERS ULYSSES-King of Ithaca. TELEMACHUS--His son. LAERTES -His father. PENELOPE-His wife. CIRCE-An enchantress who turned men into beasts. NAUSICAA-Daughter of the king of Phaeacia. ATHENE-Goddess who guided Ulysses. MENTOR-One of the disguises of Athene. CALYPSO-Who held Ulysses prisoner for seven AN'l?ltl3gUS-On: of the suitors for the hand of Penelope. Ti-is STORY The story begins at the close of the Tro- jan War. Ulysses, King of Ithaca, with twelve ships, each carrying fifty men, set sail for home. The journey lasted twenty years and during that time he had many strange adventures. The first place they reached was the city of Ismarus which they plundered, but in the ensuing battle they lost six men from each ship. A storm then drove them to the island of the Cyclops or the round eyed people, as they were called because of their having only one round eye in the middle of their forehead. Imprisoned in there cave, Ulysses escaped by blinding his captor but only after the Cyclops had eat- en several of his men. Next they visited the Cave ofthe Winds and were given a bag Containing all the adverse winds so that the fair wind would carry them home. But the men became curious when they were nearly home and opened the bag. The winds escaped and carried them back to the island of Circe. Circe was an enchantress who changed peo- ple into swine. Ulysses was able to resist her charms and forced her to free her en- chanted captives. By stopping the men's ears with wax and having his men to bind him to the mast, Ulysses was able to pass the Island ofthe Sirens. The ships had to pass be- tween the cave of many-headed Scylla and the whirlpool, Charybdis. If he ventured too near to Scylla, she would devour six of hismeng whileif he went too near Chary- bdis, his ships would be swallowed up bythe whirlpool. He chose the cave of Scylla and sacrificed six of his strongest men. They landed on a beautiful island where the Sun God kept his cattle. Circe had warned them not to kill any of the bea ts but while Ulysses slept, his men killed one and angered the Sun God. As a result the last ship was destroyed and everyone on board except Ulysses was drowned. A - He clung to a mast and drifted to the Island of Calypso. Here he stayed for seven yearsg then he escaped on a raft and reached Phaeacia, where he met Nausicaa, daughter of the King of the island. Hnally the Phaeacians furnished him a ship to take him to Ithaca. When he arrived in Ithaca. Athene dis- guised him as a beggar and he went to the palace where only his old nurse recognized him. During his absence princes from his own and other lands had wasted his money and destroyed his flocks and were even try- ing to force Penelope to choose one of them to marry. His son, Telemachus, had spent many years searching for Ulysses but could find no trace of him and everyone believed Ulysses dead. Penelope had agreed to accept whichever one of the suitors could bend Ulysses's bow. Athene then changed him to his own form and helped him to kill all the suitors. Ulysses then went to see his father, Laertes, who was overjoyed to see his son again. The people whose princes had been killed, rose against Ulysses who met their attack aided by Telemachus, Laertes and a few old servants. Athens ask- ed Zeus to aid Ulysses, which he did by hurling a thunder bolt into the enemy's forces. After that Ulysses and the people of Ithaca were at peace. CRITICISM I like this book because it has many stories of adventure in it. Although we know these adventures could not be true, they are told in such a realistic way that you almost believe them while you are reading them. James A. Oswald PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

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T1-in ANNUAL REFLECTOR axm.s 'nutcx SQUAD The boys' home room basketball tourna- ment had eight teams entered in the 7th grade, six in the 8th and eight in the 9th. The 7th grade divison was won by home room 314. The Sth by 202 and the 9th by 309A. Some good material for Central's basketball teams was uncovered and will be heard from next year. Qualman, Leah, Tenny, Hales, Kusonski-all showed prom- ise of development in the 9th grade. Brewer Grant was the mainstay on the winning team. I ll K Wife: Now that I've had my hair bobbed fdiorft think I look so much like an old a y. Husband: No, my dear. Now you look like an old man. I-ions noon BASKET BALL cmmrs PAGE TWENTY-NINE