Today is Friday, January 12, 2018

GUIDANCE

GET $$$$ FOR COLLEGEUNCF Lake County Community ForumSaturday, Jan 27th at 10 a.m. at LHSFlyers are in Guidance.

LSSC will be here on February 23rd at 8:30 a.m. to sign up any Seniors interested in attending in the Fall. Interested seniors will need to see Mrs. Croker for a pass.

Fifth Judicial Circuit Professional Committee Essay ContestOpen to Juniors and SeniorsDeadline February 28, 2018

Florida Elks Youth CampSummer Counselor in Training and Counselor Positions AvailableApplications are available in Guidance.

Summer Internship Opportunities

2018 FSU Young Scholars ProgramJune 10-July 21Deadline : February 15, 2018

Bank of America Student Leaders ProgramSummer Internship with the Boys and Girls Club of Central FloridaApplication Closes on February 2nd, 2018

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

SCHOLARSHIPS

Rotary Club of Lake County Golden Triangle ScholarshipScholarships awarded on basis of financial need, academic merit, character and community activities.Deadline is February 28, 2018

SECO Energy 2018 Youth Scholarship Eligible seniors must be SECO CustomersDeadline March 30, 2018

Johnson Scholarship FoundationEligible Seniors with DisabilitiesDeadline March 1st, 2018

Johnson Scholarship FoundationEligible Seniors of UPS employees or retirees who live in FloridaDeadline April 1st, 2018

Jackie Robinson Foundation ScholarshipEligible Minority SeniorsDeadline February 1st, 2018

Seminole Chapter of Lake-Sumter Eligible Seniors accepted to FSUDeadline April 1 st, 2018

Rapier Educational ScholarshipMinimum GPA 2.5Deadline is February 15, 2018

Tavares Lions ClubEligible Seniors planning to attend LSSCDeadline March 15, 2018

Criterion Civic Club Scholarship for Graduating Seniors who are African American.Application Deadline is March 31, 2018.Application is in Guidance.

Florida Southern College Orchestra and String Scholarship Audition Information is available in Guidance.

The University of Florida and Florida State University have partnered with the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success.

This is a new on line platform to assist with the college application process. You may access these tools at www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org.

Service Scholar Scholarship Application for seniors planning to attend FSU and have an outstanding community service and leadership record.Application is open. Deadline is 5 p.m. on January 18th, 2018.Applications are in Guidance.

Florida Credit Union is offering two scholarships for graduating seniors. Parents and or students must be a member of the Florida Credit Union.

Servin-Ellis Scholarship Fund - Deadline is 2/9/18

Dr. John C.Rawls Scholarship Fund - Deadline is 2/9/18

CLUBS

The Junior Class officers will be meeting in Mrs. Newman’s room on Friday during Learning Opportunities. SGA officers are welcome as well as we will be talking about prom.

ATHLETICS

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

carnivoreWhere's the Beef? Word of the Day:Coinages ending in -vore are all the rage now, as foodie-ism gains new converts, but carnivore can rest on secure laurels as the original noun characterizing those whose diet includes or focuses on a particular thing. In this case, the thing is meat, that part of the word being from Latin carn-, "meat, flesh." The noun dates only to the 19th century, though the adjective carnivorous appears much earlier.

On This Day in History

1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

1773 - The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.

1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London.

1875 - Kwang-su was made emperor of China.

1879 - The British-Zulu War began when the British invaded Zululand.

1882 - Thomas Edison's central station on Holborn Viaduct in London began operation.

1895 - The first performance of King Arthur took place at the Lyceum Theatre.

1896 - At Davidson College, several students took x-ray photographs. They created the first X-ray photographs to be made in America.

1904 - Henry Ford set a new land speed record when he reached 91.37 miles per hour.

1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

1915 - The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park.

1926 - "Sam ‘n’ Henry" debuted on WGN Radio in Chicago, IL.

1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

1938 - Austria recognized the Franco government in Spain.

1940 - Soviet bombers raided cities in Finland.

1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board.

1943 - The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by 'Victory Sausages.'

1945 - During World War II, Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.

1949 - "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" was debuted on CBS-TV. The show stayed on the network for seven years.

1949 - "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV.

1955 - Rod Serling’s career began with the TV production of "Patterns."

1960 - Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals became the first pro basketball player in the NBA to score more than 15,000 points in his career.

1964 - Leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt against the government and a republic was proclaimed.

1966 - U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.

1966 - "Batman" debuted on ABC-TV.

1967 - "Dragnet" returned to NBC-TV after being off the network schedule for eight years.

1970 - The breakaway state of Biafra capitulated and the Nigerian civil war came to an end.

1970 - Nigeria's civil war ended.

1971 - "All In the Family" debuted on CBS-TV.

1973 - Yassar Arafat was re-elected as head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

1986 - Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.

1991 - The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.

1995 - Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.

1998 - Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.

1998 - 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.

1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

1999 - Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

2000 - Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills was killed in a crash during a drag race.

2005 - NASA launched "Deep Impact". The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey.

2006 - The U.S. Mint began shipping new 5-cent coins to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. The coin has an image of Thomas Jefferson taken from a 1800 Rembrandt Peale portrait in which the president is looking forward. Since 1909, when presidents were first depicted on circulating coins, all presidents had been shown in profile.