letter from the editors

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the 2022 ODYSSEY and iliad endof-the-year banquet. Thank you all for joining us.

The iliad literary-art magazine is the sister publication to the ODYSSEY, and in contrast to our news counterpart, we are dedicated to creative works of the Clarke Central High School community. We strive to publish a diverse range of content to highlight the visual, written, and musical pieces that our talented student body and teachers create.

We want to start off by saying thank you to all the student creators and supporters of our program.

Strengthening our program and community became a goal during this year. So far, we have made many strides in our program, and taken full advantage of our time together, as this is the first full year in person in two years. The start of the year began by establishing a logo, designed by our Design Editor, Eva Orbock. The iliad has not had one in over a decade.

Kaija Luna

We used our rebranding to reach out to our patrons through mailers and our newly relaunched website. Our Leadership Team worked diligently to populate our website with new and existing content. We also worked to reestablish club meetings, something that fell apart during virtual learning. All of these projects and accomplishments contributed to making the iliad the award-winning program it is.

This year also presented many challenges.

We were relatively unfamiliar with how the program functioned in an in-person environment. This was Luna’s first year on the iliad, and Kaija’s first non-virtual year. This year was filled with learning as we went along throughout the production cycle. We are immensely proud of our staff for working hard throughout the year and allowing us to learn with them.

We are very thankful for all of our contributors to this year’s magazine, “astraeus.” After the pandemic, many people, including our student body, experienced repercussions and a lack of inspiration creatively. Soliciting submissions from our student body always presents a challenge, but with many people’s passion being hindered, this year was even more of an obstacle. We went into the year with the goal to create an environment for people to respark their creativity. The iliad has been our outlet for the past few years, and we wanted to ensure we extended that to the many talented students from CCHS.

To our staffers, contributors, and generous patrons, thank you for the endless support of our program. Without all of the gracious support from our community, we would not be able to produce the work that we do. As we close out this year, we are excited and hopeful for what the future of the program, both magazine and club, will hold.

Luna Reichert and Kaija Gilbertson Hall, Co-Editors-in-Chief iliad literary-art magazine