Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Twenty BON VOYAGE!

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his-213 ZSHNT H571 singing. Scylla, the six-headed monster, the lower part of whose body consisted of barking dogs and serpents, was another terror to the ancient seafarers. Scylla was eventually changed into a treacherous reef and was thus still a menace to the mariners. Today the indomitable sea-as it has been since the beginning of the world-is still a magnificent representative of power--power now harmful, now helpful. Modern sailors know the dangers of Scyllas, and all fear the lashing of Neptune's uncontrollable wrath. His challenge is yet unanswered, and so till the end of time, Old lnclefatigablen will exert his potent influence over mankind. ARLEEN THYSON INVINCIBLE SEA Oh sea, indomitable sea, Wz'll' thou ever mock at our Attempts at thy mastery? Wilt thou ever roll on, Drowning the highest hopes Of our conquest of thee in Those briny depths? Truly thou art a most Deceitful sea. Didst not let our great Explorers pass over thy broad Expanse only to turn and take A tenfolcl toll for this favor? And yet for all thy greedy habits, Thou arl deserving of our praise And admiration. For the worlds Great kingdoms and empires Have risen and tumbled to ruin 5 All the great men were born To reach success, die, and eventually Be forgotten. But thou ever hast And always will alone remain--invincible, -ffRobert Hickey Term 6 Nineteen

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ki'Ci5:l3 W MYHQ7 TRAVEL ON THE SEA VAST pageant of progress is the story of man's ventures and struggles on the sea. The great seas as we know them today were utterly unknown in the earliest times and were feared greatly by man. Boys loitering about the wharves of Sidon and Tyre caught snatches of song and story from the seamen of old Phoenicia. How brave these men were, we, today, can hardly realize. They were the first true sons of Neptune, traders who spread colonization and the alphabet. The Phoenicians, however, were extremely jealous of their knowledge of the sea and of navigation. If a strange sail hove in sight, the captain of a ship would try to outsail her, or failing in this, would await the night and silently change course. These first seafaring people were proud of their rather unseaworthy ships with their practically useless mast and square sail. Rather than surrender a ship, they would run it aground and burn it. The Greeks, in their mythology and in the writings of Homer, have left us vivid pictures of the sea. The realm of myth with the voyages of jason and Ulysses is better known than is the progress made by the Greek sailors. A Greek vessel was a handsome crafty a projecting prow, armoured with brass, taking the outlines of a beak, was used in rammingg half decks and a high poop sheltered the warriorsg while a huge rudder, or steering oar, guided the ship. It was about 260 B. C. that Rome became a great sea power. The Romans had kept to the inland sea and plied the blue waters of Mediterranean for centuries. It was at this time that the first great lighthouse was built, the Pharos of Alexandria, six hundred feet above the sea, lit by a bonfire kept burning on its top. I ln the meantime the Carthaginians flourished, and in the voyage of l-lanno made one of the great expeditions of the fifth century before our era. Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, and Genoa, were founded by these people. The cold, blue waters of the northern shore of Europe, of the Baltic and the North Sea, had their seamen. The Norsemen inhabited these bleak, craggy shores. They were a turbulent and piratical people who spent their lives in their long ships. These Norsemen spread out, settled in England and France, while others of their number, Lief Ericson and his crew, pushed across the sea to a new world. It was these hardy Vikings who led the way to the discovery of America. A few centuries later navigation began to grow and flourish still more. Marco Polo told his tales of the East and paved the way for the compass, which was first used by the Chinese. The astrolabe, an instrument for studying the stars, was invented: and studious geographers, piecing together the knowledge which came to them, made charts and maps of the known seas. Twenty-one