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TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL DAILY BULLETIN 
Today is Thursday, January 19, 2017. GUIDANCE Lake Tech Career Expo will be on February 23rd fro 5-7 p.m at the Eustis Campus. Bank of America is looking for tomorrow’s neighborhood leaders today! We are delighted to inform you about a great opportunity for 2016-2017 Juniors and Seniors: the Bank of America Student Leaders Program. This program recognizes outstanding young people who lead and serve in their school, community and beyond. Bank of America will connect Student Leaders to tools and resources that will help them make communities better. Interested students can find more details and can self-nominate on-line: • Program Details and On-line application: www.bankofamerica.com/studentleaders SCHOLARSHIPS Vivint Smart Home $5,000 scholarship for seniors enrolling in a post- secondary institution . Deadline is April 1st, 2017 website www.vivint.com/scholarship SRRC is a non-profit organization that brings together corporations and relocation service providers in and around Florida for the primary purpose of providing educational information and current industry updates to its members. As part of our commitment to Relocation, SRRC looks to assist other entities in the area involved in the process of relocating families. As I am sure you would agree, schools can be a very important part of the relocation process for children moving into Florida. SRRC sponsors a scholarship program for current high school seniors who have relocated into the area sometime between grades 9 (after 8th grade graduation) and 12. We would like to encourage your students to apply. The one-time award of $1,000 will be presented to a high school senior this year. The award will be sent to the college that the student will be attending to assist with tuition, etc. SRRC will select the scholarship winner based on the strength of their total package. The student will be evaluated on academic performance, extra-curricular activities, and on their response to an essay addressing the way they handled the challenges associated with relocating to a new area and a new high school. We seek your assistance with the following items: Identify eligible seniors based on the criteria that they have: • Relocated more than 50 miles and changed schools due to their family's relocation A minimum grade point average of 2.5 on a scale of 4.0 (or equivalent achievement on a different scale) Seniors, a reminder that all applications are in the Guidance Office . Each application has instructions on how to complete the applications, where to send the application, deadlines and what type of recommendations you will need. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DUE DATE TO REQUEST LETTERS, TRANSCRIPTS ETC. • Johnson Scholarship Foundation has 2 scholarship programs Scholarships for children of UPS employees or retirees who live in Florida Deadline April 15th, Scholarships for students with Disabilities who plan to attend one of the 12 state universities. Application deadline is May 1st Website information is www.jsf.bz Women’s Committee of Fine Arts/ Mt. Dora Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 for visual and performing arts students. Auditions are in April and an award luncheon is in May. Application Deadline is March 4th Arts for Life $1,000 scholarships are available for students demonstrating excellence in creative writing, dance, drama, music or visual arts. Deadline is February 1, 2017 • Rotary Club of Lake County Golden Triangle $500- $2,000 scholarships are available for seniors planning to attend a post- secondary institution and have applied to at least one college/university and taken the ACT or SAT. Criteria includes financial need, academic merit, character and extra-curricular activity. Deadline is February 28, 2017 • Sun Trust/ Edgar P. and Nona B. McKinney Charitable Trust Scholarship Scholarship award amounts vary from $1,000 to $5,000 per year. Students will be notified if selected for an interview before April 28th. Deadline is March 31, 2017
Scholarship award amounts vary from $1,000 to $5,000 per years. This is a separate application and seniors can apply and qualify for both of the Sun Trust Scholarships. If selected, interviews will be before April 28th. Deadline is March 31, 2017
Key Club: On February 11th from 6-9 p.m., the Key Club is hosting a "glow in the dark" Dance Marathon to raise money for the UF Shands Children's Miracle Network. Tickets will be on sale for $15 in February, and if you want to help fundraise, see Mr. Cerney. ATHLETICS Attention Bulldogs! Anyone interested in playing football this spring, please meet in the weight room during the first half of power hour Friday. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIESRegency Park Assisted Living, Eustis Looking for weekend volunteers to assist Resident’s playing games, writing letters, etc. Please contact Gladys Rosario 352-217-6696 Word of the Daythermotropism Feel the Heat Word of the Day: There are all kinds of tropisms (involuntary responses to stimuli), and with that knowledge in mind, you can probably easily guess that thermotropism is a tendency to respond to (and usually grow toward) heat. It's mostly a habit of plants, though it might also explain the popularity of saunas on very cold days. On This Day in History 1419 - Rouen surrendered to Henry V, completing his conquest of Normandy. 1764 - John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine. 1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters. 1861 - Georgia seceded from the Union. 1883 - Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ. 1907 - The first film reviews appeared in "Variety" magazine. 1915 - George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs. 1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn. 1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He flew from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. 1942 - The Japanese invaded Burma (later Myanmar). 1944 - The U.S. federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads after the settlement of a wage dispute. 1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office. 1952 - The National Football League (NFL) bought the franchise of the New York Yankees from Ted Collins. The franchise was then awarded to a group in Dallas on January 24. 1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby boy. 1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time. 1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour TV show without saying a single word of dialogue. 1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India. 1969 - In protest against the Russian invasion of 1968, Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square. 1971 - At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written on a mirror. 1971 - "No, No Nanette" opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. 1977 - U.S. President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino (the "Tokyo Rose"). 1979 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama. 1981 - The U.S. and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months and for arrangements to unfreeze Iranian assets and to resolve all claims against Iran. 1983 - China announced that it was bannning 1983 purchases of cotton, soybeans and chemical fibers from the United States. 1993 - IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992. It was the largest single-year loss in U.S. corporate history. 1995 - Russian forces overwhelmed the resistance forces in Chechnya. 1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was concerning the discovery of billing records related to the Whitewater real estate investment venture. 1997 - Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in more than 30 years. He joined 60,000 Palestinians in celebration over the handover of the last West Bank city in Israeli control. 2000 - In New York's Time Square, the first WWF restaurant opened. 2001 - Texas officials demoted a warden and suspended three other prison workers in the wake of the escape of the "Texas 7." 2006 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched. The mission was the first to investigate Pluto. 2013 - In Scottsdale, AZ, the original Batmobile for the TV series "Batman" sold at auction for $4.6 million. 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