Welcome students and staff.
Today is Tuesday, October 22, 2013.
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.
Just a reminded that all A/B/E report card grades must be submitted in eSembler no later than 4:00 p.m. today.
· The Drug, Alcohol, Traffic Awareness class (DATA) will be offered at Tavares High School this Wednesday. This is the class that is required prior to taking your Drivers Learner’s Permit test. The class will be held in Coach Semento’s room. Please stop by his room, 6-213 for an application. Early registration is recommended.
GUIDANCE
· The PERT Test will be given on November 6th and 7th. Juniors and Seniors with a 3.0 GPA are able to take the test to qualify for Dual Enrollment . This is the only time the test will be given prior to the November 11th registration window at LSSC FOR Spring Term. See Mr. Stevens or Mrs. Croker to sign up for the test.
· The SunTrust College Scholarship Sweepstakes is now available for seniors. Pick up information in the guidance office.
· The Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsor a Patriotic Audio Essay Competition open to students in grades 9-12. Applications are available in the guidance office. Deadline is November 1.
Senior Scholarships
(Pick up forms on table in Guidance Office)
Scholarship Deadline
Elks “Emergency Educational Grants” (Open to Families of Elk Members) December 31, 2013
Elks “Hope Scholarship” (Open to all Seniors) January 15, 2014
Elks “Legacy Award” (Open to Families of Elk Members) January 31, 2014
Elks “Most Valuable Student” (Open to all Seniors) December 6, 2013
Lions Club Youth Exchange Scholarship November 22, 2013
Naval Reserve Scholarship
Scholarship Experts Various
Student Scholarships Various
The Jan LaBelle Scholarship (For students with disabilities ) November 15, 2013
SENIORS
· We will be taking one more order for senior t-shirts and sweatshirts. Please see Mrs. Glass to place an order. All orders must be in by the end of October.
· A reminder that senior graduation conferences have started. Off base seniors will need to contact Mrs Croker to set up an appointment.
Conferences will last at least until the middle of November.
· Seniors, Most Florida Colleges and Universities will be accepting applications on a rolling basis BUT scholarship offers will be made to applicants that have submitted their applications prior to November 1st. If you need some information on admission criteria for the school (s) of your choice , see Mrs. Croker or check on Florida Virtual Campus for the latest data. Please be sure to complete a short resume if you intend to ask for teacher or counselor recommendation letters. At least 2 weeks notice is best when making a recommendation request.
· Seniors, don't forget to sign your name to the Herff Jones - THS banner - showing everyone that you will work hard this year and be ready for graduation in May. This banner will be displayed throughout the year and again at graduation. We want to see ALL seniors' names on this banner and on the graduation program in May!
CLUBS
· The next meeting of the Tavares High Astronomy Club will be on Tuesday at 2:30. The meeting will be held in Mr. Moore’s room which is Building 2, Room 201.
ATHLETICS
· Both theboys and girls bowled against Mount Dora Bible yesterday. The boys won 3-0. The boys’ top bowler was Daniel Havens with a score of 196. The girls’ top bowler was Kiera Taylor with a score of 168.
Volunteer Opportunities
· Faith World Church of Leesburg is offering 24 community service hours at the Mt. Dora Fall Craft Fair and the Mt. Dora Art Festival selling food and drinks to event patrons. The upcoming Fall Craft Fair is October 26th & 27th. Students can participate both days or 12 hours for one day of service. The group meets at the event, and it is a fun and safe way to earncommunity servicehours. Interested studentsshould contact Jenny Bedgood at 352-408-1230 for more information.
Word of the Day
brisk
Hasty Word of the Day:
Soundwise, brisk and brusque differ only by their internal vowel: a fact that is often completely meaningless in English, but perhaps not in this case, since brisk is probably a modification of brusque, a French import. An alternative etymological theory has brisk derived more locally, from cognates found in Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic. The most frequent sense of brisk today is quick, active, and lively.
On This Day in History
1746 - The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University.
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller.
1879 - Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with a high-resistance carbon filament.
1883 - The New York Horse show opened. The first national horse show was formed by the newly organized National Horse Show Association of America.
1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, the notorious bank robber, was shot and killed by Federal agents in East Liverpool, OH.
1939 - The first televised pro football game was telecast from New York. Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 23-14.
1950 - The Los Angeles Rams set an NFL record by defeating the Baltimore Colts 70-27. It was a record score for a regular season game.
1954 - The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1959 - "Take Me Along" opened on Broadway.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1968 - Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times.
1975 - Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads " "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
1979 - The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment.
1981 - The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1983 - At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1991 - The European Community and the European Free Trade Association agreed to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by the year 1993.
1995 - The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering.
1995 - British writer Sir Kingsley Amis died at the age of 73.
1998 - The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987.
1998 - Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor.
1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.
1999 - The U.N. Security Council voted to send 6,000 troops to Sierra Leone to oversee a peace plan that had been signed in July.
2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 million applications downloaded.
2010 - The Internation Space Station set the record (3641 days) for the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been continously inhabited since November 2, 2000.