Today is Wednesday, April 26, 2017.
· Any student wanting to run for a student government office next year needs to pick up the application in the guidance office this week. Dead line for turning in the application is this Friday.
GUIDANCE
· Students, Skyward access to course selections for next week will remain open until 2 p.m. on Friday. After that, you cannot make any changes to choices. Also, remember that there is a Course Override Form in Guidance that must be completed before any changes can be made to teacher recommendations for courses you were not recommended for. Course overrides must be approved by the teacher, department head and guidance before any changes are made.
College Tour June 5th-9th to 8 colleges including UF, FAMU, Spelman, UNF AND Bethune Cookman. Juniors and Seniors Are eligible. See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for application information.
Central Florida Mechanical Joint Apprenticeship Training Program at Walt Disney World is looking for qualified applicants.
Applications are in Guidance for students who are 18 years of age and have a HS Diploma.
Senior checklists will go out on Monday in 1st period classes. If you are an off campus student, absent or tardy on that date please see Mrs. Paulling in Guidance. Students who are being recognized at the Award Night Ceremony on May 3rd will receive their invitation as well on Monday. Checklists must be given directly to Mrs. Paulling. Seniors who have been flagged to meet with Mrs. Croker concerning their graduation status can make an appointment to meet the week of the 8th. All checklists must be finalized and completed prior to May 12th. See Mrs. Croker for any questions.
Greetings from LSSC!
FAFSA Friday’s are back in full swing for the month of April! Our financial aid professionals will be on hand to help students and their families complete the FAFSA. This service will be available at the Leesburg and South Lake campus locations. Please direct students to the link below to sign up for a time slot (information also available on the LSSC homepage):
https://lakesumterstatecollege.wufoo.com/forms/zer3zqd0i91dmf/
Any help you can provide in spreading the word would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and let me know if you have any questions!
· Seniors interested in going through the Fire Academy after graduation need to get started now on the enrollment process. Class starts June 6, 2017. Deadline to apply is Friday.
See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for more information.
SCHOLARSHIPS
· Eleanor McGinty Scholarship
$2,000.00 scholarship renewable for 4 years.
Students must be available for an interview .
See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance. Deadline has been extended to Friday.
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.
· Scholarship resources:
www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/training/find-scholarships
http://baucemag.com/list-of-undergraduate-scholarships-for women-of-color
· James Durden Diversity Scholarship
$1,000.00 Scholarship
Deadline: Friday
· Florida A&M University Alumni Association
$500.00 scholarships for seniors planning to attend FAMU
Deadline is Monday. See Mrs Paulling in Guidance
· Coast to Coast College Tour is hosting an information session for students and parents on May 15th at 7 p.m. at the Renaissance Orlando at Sea World in Orlando. See Mrs Croker for more details.
· The Village Angels Autism Support Group Scholarship.
Criteria is for students with Autism or siblings of students with Autism.
Deadline for this $1,000.00 Scholarship is Monday. See Mrs. Paulling In Guidance.
· Southern Scholarship Foundation offers rent-free scholarship housing for eligible seniors attending FSU, FAMU, UF, FGCU, TCC, Flagler and Sante Fe College.
Applications are in Guidance Office or visit http://www.southernscholarship.org
· The Italian American Club of the Plantation at Leesburg Scholarship
$1,000 scholarships for students of Italian-American Heritage.
Deadline: Monday
· Scholarships for students with Disabilities who plan to attend one of the 12 state universities.
Application deadline is Monday.
Website information is www.jsf.bz
• The Criterion Civic Club awards a $1000 scholarship to FIVE Lake County deserving minority students every year. Please see Team Guidance for details.
• Seniors, Please let Mrs. Croker know about your college acceptances and any scholarships you may have been awarded.
CLUBS
ATHLETICS
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
· Seussvillle: Any student needing volunteer hours
May 12, 5:30 -7 p.m. (Friday)
Tavares Elementary needs volunteers to help out and assist.
· Lake Sumter State College has an excellent opportunity for students who need Community Service Hours. Volunteer at KIDS COLLEGE’17 this summer. There are two sessions on the Leesburg and Clermont Campus.
Contact DeAnna at 352-323-3610 or the Guidance Office for more information.
Word of the Day
ameliorate
Getting Better Word of the Day:
Improve is such a handy all-purpose verb that we don't often resort to this more formal synonym. It carries a slight nuance that suggests the thing being improved is bad to begin with. Speakers of French may see an echo of meilleur, "better," which lurks in this verb's ancestry.
On This Day in History
1478 - Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed Giuliano de'Medici.
1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.
1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
1819 - The first Odd Fellows lodge in the U.S. was established in Baltimore, MD.
1865 - Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Sherman during the American Civil War.
1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
1906 - In Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time.
1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO.
1929 - First non-stop flight from England to India was completed.
1931 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner.
1931 - NBC premiered "Lum and Abner." It was on the air for 24 years.
1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
1937 - "LIFE" magazine was printed without the word "LIFE" on the cover.
1937 - "Lorenzo Jones" premiered on NBC radio.
1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.
1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.
1952 - Patty Berg set a new record for major women’s golf competition when she shot a 64 over 18 holes in a tournament in Richmond, CA.
1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1964 - The Boston Celtics won their sixth consecutive NBA title. They won two more before the streak came to an end.
1968 - Students seized the administration building at Ohio State University.
1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.
1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time.
1985 - In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79 people and injured 247.
1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
1998 - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death two days after a report he'd compiled on atrocities during Guatemala's 36-year civil war was made public.
2000 - Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the NHL's New York Islanders.
2002 - In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17 people at his former school. The student then killed himself.