TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL
DAILY BULLETIN
Welcome students and staff.
Today is Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
Please stand for the pledge to the flag: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you, please be seated.
The student vs faculty basketball game is Thursday, March 26, during school. You need a ticket to attend the game and the price is $3.00. Tickets will be on sale in both lunches or you can see Coach Glass to purchase one. You won’t be able to go without a ticket. So make sure to buy one so you can be there to watch the teachers defeat the students!
GUIDANCE
CLUBS
SENIORS
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There will be a senior meeting in the auditorium during HomeBase on March 24. Grad Bash, senior week, and graduation will be discussed.
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Attention Seniors: Grad Bash is April 17th and sign ups run through Thursday. The price is $70 and you can pay either Mrs. Watkins or Mr. Glass. Thursday is the last day to sign up. More information is also on the school website.
Senior Scholarships
(Pick up forms on table in Guidance Office)
Scholarship Deadline
Academic Boosters Scholarships Apr 15, 2015
Alpha Delta Kappa (for students who plan to become a teacher) Apr 8, 2015
Ayo & Iken Children of Divorce Scholarship May 1, 2015
BASE Scholarship (Engineering Scholarship for FAMU Students)
Bright House Leaders Scholarship Mar 31, 2015
Coach Monty Boyd Memorial Scholarship (Must have attended TES, TMS, THS) April 30, 2015
College Xpress www.collegeXpress.com
Criterion Civic Club Mar. 31, 2015
Edmond Amateis Foundation Mar. 27, 2015
Edwin Budge Mead Scholarship Apr 10, 2015
Ellanora McGinty Scholarship Apr 15, 2015
Florida A&M Alumni Association (Must attend FAMU) Apr 6, 2015
Fastweb Apr 15, 2015
Florida Engineering Foundation (http://www.fleng.org/scholarships.cfm)
Florida Credit Union Mar 20, 2015
Florida School Counselor Association – Essay Contest Apr 3, 2015
Frank Paulhamus Scholarship (agricultural field) Mar 19, 2015
Historical Society of Central Florida Mar 13, 2015
Italian – American Club Scholarship May 1, 2015
James Durden Diversity Scholarship (Open to all seniors) Mar. 13, 2015
Johnson Foundation Scholarship (2 Scholarships)
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For Children of UPS Employees or Retirees April 15, 2015
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Students with Disabilities May 15, 2015
Lake County Education Association (LCEA members’ children & grandchildren) Mar 10, 2015
Lake County Farm Bureau Livestock Exibitor Scholarship Apr 30, 2015
Lake County Gator Club lakecountygatorclub@gmail.com Apr 1, 2015
Lake County School Food Association Apr 10, 2015
Lake Soil & Water Conservation District (major in an agricultural field) Mar. 19, 2015
LSSC Summer Scholarships http://lssc.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com Mar 31, 2015
Martin Charitable Trust Mar. 31, 2015
McKinney Charitable Trust Mar. 31, 2015
Mt. Dora Women’s Committee of Performing Arts Mar. 13, 2015
Mt. Dora Women’s Committee of Visual Arts Mar. 13, 2015
N K Charlie Collette Memorial Scholarship (Must attend Lake Tech) Apr. 17, 2015
NAEHCY Scholarship (for Homeless students) June 19, 2015
Project Weather Scholarship (Students who excel in Science) Mar. 27, 2015
Scott Strong Scholarship Mar. 10, 2015
SECO (Students living in homes who get their electricity from SECO) Apr. 3, 2015
Silhouettes of Criterions Civic Club April 24, 2015
Southern Scholarship (housing opportunities for FSU, FAMU, FGCU, TCC, Santa Fe & UF)
Student Scholarships (StudentScholarships.org ) Various
SunTrust Sweepstakes suntrusteducation.com/scholarshipsweepstates May 15, 2015
Tavares Elementary Scholarship (Must have attended TES) Apr 30, 2015
The Kosove Society Scholarship (Must attend USF)
The Villages Opera Club (For Music Students) Mar 14, 2015
Lake-Sumter State College Foundation Accepting
Applications for Summer Scholarships
Lake-Sumter State College Foundation, Inc. is accepting applications for student scholarships for the Summer 2015 semester. The Foundation will be awarding $92,650 in scholarships for all types of students. Applications are obtainable online at http://lssc.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com. The deadline for submitting applications is March 31, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. Classes begin Monday, May 4, 2015.
These scholarships are made possible through the generous support of donors from the community. Lake-Sumter State College Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation which receives and administers private gifts, bequests and donations to benefit LSSC students and to enhance the quality of education at the College. Gifts may be awarded for specific purposes or given without restrictions to the general scholarship fund. The scholarships may be named for the donor or may be designated in honor or memory of an individual. Rosanne Brandeburg, Executive Director says, "I welcome the opportunity to talk about how charitable giving to the LSSC Foundation can help make a positive difference for our students and community, especially during these tough economic times. Scholarships are vital to the success of our students, and it is our responsibility, to make every effort to help support our students aspirations of higher education."
For more information about receiving a scholarship or scholarship donations please call (352) 365-3539.
ATHLETICS
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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There is a bulletin board in the Guidance Office with current volunteer opportunities. See Mrs. Morgan or Mrs. Hoffman.
Word of the Day
hallelujah
PTL Word of the Day:
The great thing about words in English from languages that don't use the Roman alphabet is that you can spell them more than one way and probably still be right. This one (from Hebrew "praise the Lord") is pretty well settled in English now as spelled above, but still competes in some contexts with alleluia.
On This Day in History
0037 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1123 - The first Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opened in Rome.
1190 - Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England.
1532 - The English parliament banned payments by English church to Rome.
1541 - Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
1583 - Dutch States General & Anjou signed a treaty.
1673 - Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1692 - William Penn was deprived of his governing powers.
1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1813 - David Melville patented the gas streetlight.
1818 - The U.S. Congress approved the first pensions for government service.
1834 - The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The work was in Pennsylvania.
1835 - Charles Darwin left Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass.
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
1865 - The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time.
1874 - Hawaii signed a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the U.S.
1881 - Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
1891 - Britain became linked to the continent of Europe by telephone.
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered.
1900 - Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club) was formed.
1902 - In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail.
1903 - France dissolved the Catholic religious orders.
1906 - In Morocco, it was reported that France and Germany were in a deadlock at the Algeciras Conference.
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator.
1910 - The first opera by a U.S. composer performed at the Met in New York City.
1911 - Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.
1911 - North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.
1913 - Greek King George I was killed by an assassin. Constantine I succeeded him.
1916 - Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000.
1917 - The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any warning.
1919 - The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
1920 - Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1921 - Poland was enlarged with the second Peace of Riga.
1921 - The steamer "Hong Koh" ran aground off of Swatow China. Over 1,000 people were killed.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the sentence.
1922 - Princeton and Yale played the first intercollegiate indoor polo championship.
1931 - Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1937 - More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, TX.
1938 - Mexico took control of all foreign-owned oil properties on its soil.
1938 - New York first required serological blood tests of pregnant women.
1940 - The soap opera "Light of the World" was first heard on NBC radio.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain during the meeting.
1942 - The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World War II.
1943 - The Reich called off its offensive in Caucasus.
1943 - American forces took Gafsa in Tunisia.
1944 - The Russians reached the Rumanian border in the Balkans during World War II.
1945 - 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1948 - France, Great Britain, and Benelux signed the Treaty of Brussels.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.
1950 - Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen.
1952 - In Philadelphia, PA, the first plastic lenses were fitted for a cataract patient.
1953 - An earthquake hit West Turkey killing 250 people.
1954 - RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person was Howard Hughes.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962 - French and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
1963 - "Tovarich" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City for 264 performances.
1963 - France performed an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal council for defendants.
1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
1966 - The government of Indonesia was formed by General Suharto.
1966 - Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.
1968 - The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve.
1969 - U.S. President Nixon authorizes Operation Menue. It was the ‘secret’ bombing of Cambodia.
1970 - The U.S. Postal Service experienced the first postal strike.
1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time.
1971 - U.S. helicopters airlifted 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.
1971 - A landslide in Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru, killed 200.
1974 - Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1975 - Saigon abandoned most of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to Hanoi.
1975 - The Kurds ended their fight against Iraq.
1977 - Vietnam turned over an MIA to a U.S. delegation.
1979 - Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett. The next day she was deported.
1980 - The Vostok rocket exploded on the launch pad killing 50.
1981 - The U.S. disclosed that there were biological weapons tested in Texas in 1966.
1986 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.
1986 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
1987 - The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site.
1990 - Thirteen paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The value was $100 million making it the largest art robbery in history.
1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
1990 - The first free elections took place in East Germany.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended.
1990 - In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being hit with a pitch.
1992 - Leona Hemsly was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion.
1992 - White South Africans voted for constitutional reforms that would give legal equality to blacks.
1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor filed for bankruptcy.
1997 - A Russian AN-24 crashed killing 50 people.
2003 - China's new president, Hu Jintao, announced that his country must deepen reforms and raise living standards of workers and farmers.
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