Tavares high school daily bulletin

Events scheduled are as follows.

                            Powder-puff Football Game @ 6pm at the stadium

                      JV Football game @ home vs. The Villages

                Homecoming Parade at 12:30 (pep rally and end of parade/day)

                Football Game against The First Academy of Orlando (Lions) at 7pm   (Crown King and Queen at halftime)

Saturday:  Homecoming Dance @ 8:30 till 12:30 in the Gym.

Voting for homecoming royalty and class reps. Will be during homebase on September 26^th.

Make sure students listen to announcements concerning ticket sales.

Homecoming tickets will be sold through Friday.  The price is $20.  If you have your class dues paid then the price is $15.  Be prepared to show proof that you have paid your dues.  See Mr. Glass if you have any questions.
GUIDANCE

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  Yale University Information Session on Oct. 10^th at 7 p.m. at Trinity Prep in Winter Park. See Mrs. Croker for more details.
  

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  Seniors, if you are dual enrolled or in DCT, please remember to make an appointment with Mrs. Croker to review graduation status.
  

FINANCIAL AID PARENT

NIGHT

NOV. 7^TH AT 6:30 P.M

DEPT OF EDUCATION

All grade level parents

are welcome to attend.

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  Deadline for the Merit Based Scholarship Applications at FSU is November 16, 2012
  
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  Deadline for need-based scholarships is March 1, 2013. For more information, see Mrs. Morgan is Guidance or go to www.unf.edu/admissions/scholarships/Freshman Scholarship.Home.aspx
  

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  Ringling College of Art and Design…..Saturday, 8:30 am-12:30 p.m.  for more info go to www.ringling.edu/admissionsevents.
  

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  University of Florida’s Rinker School of Building Construction is having an open house for High School Students on Saturday from 11 am-12:30 p.m. To register, please go to the UF website or see Mrs. Croker for more information.
  

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  The Coca-Cola Scholarship is now available for seniors in the guidance office.  Deadline is October 31, 2012.
  

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  Seniors who wish to participate in a work detail in place of paying senior dues should sign up with Mrs. Drees or Mrs. Glass. The work is scheduled for Wednesday after school.
  

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  There will be Senior Council and Senior Float meetings held after school today in Mrs. Glass’s room.
  

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  The Art/Photography Club will meet today at 2:30 in the Art Room.
  

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  If you are still interesting in joining Bulldog Buddies, please stop by Ms. Vineyard’s room 5-101 to pick up an application.  All applications to join must be returned to Ms. Vineyard by this Friday.
  

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  HOSA's next meeting is Tuesday after school. Also, we will be having a bracelet-making meeting today Wednesday.
  

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  Class 2015 – Mandatory - Sophomore Float meeting today after school Mrs. Elwart’s room.  Please bring all of your supplies.  We will be assigning work committees. 
  

apophasis

Denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated, as “I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.”

1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.

1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.

1935 - "The O’Neills" debuted on CBS radio.

1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.

1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.

1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.

1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.

1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.

1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.

1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

1966 - The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.

1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.

1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.

1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.

1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.

1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.

1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.

1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.

1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.

1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.

2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.

2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.

2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.

2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.

2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.

2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.