Today is Monday, November 6, 2017

GUIDANCE

SCHOLARSHIPS

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship for graduating seniors.Application Deadline February 1st, 2018Application Information is in Guidance.

2018 AXA Achievement Scholarship for Graduating SeniorsDeadline: December 15, 2017Applications are in Guidance

USF Alumni Association Kosove Society ScholarshipApplication closes on December 1st.See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for more information.

The J. Ollie Edmunds Distinguished Scholarship for Seniors planning to attend Stetson University is available in GuidancePlease see Mrs. Croker before Dec 20th for a nomination form.

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.

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

Service Scholar Scholarship Application for seniors planning to attend FSU and have an outstanding community service and leadership record.Application is open on Friday. 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

COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS ACTIVITIES 2018

The deadline to enroll for the Spring Term at Lake Tech College is November15th. Interested juniors and seniors should meet with their Guidance Counselor for an application.

*On-Site College Visits during both Lunches in the Administrative Conference Room in Building 1November 13 - Lake Tech College*State Grant and Scholarship Application /FFAA in the Dog House Mr. Rackley’s Econ Students.. Today

Mr. Hawkins’ Econ Students..Thursday Mr. Witsman’s Econ Students..FridayOff Campus seniors can attend any of these sessions.

Financial Aid Night Thursday, 6 p.m. in the THS AuditoriumRevised 9/21/17 . See Mrs. Croker in Guidance for more information

UF has extended their application deadline to November 15th.

CLUBS

The Tavares High Astronomy Club will meet today during Learning Opportunities in Mr. Moore's room. We will be discussing our upcoming experiment that will sent into space.

ATHLETICS

Your varsity football team won their final game of the season Friday night by defeating the Lecanto Panthers 48-12. Great job boys!

Congratulations to the boys and girls cross country team for advancing to the state championship this Saturday!! Both boys and girls got 3rd place and Gabriel Laboy broke the school record in a 5k! If you see any of our runners please be sure to congratulate them!

Congratulations to Mimi Filkin on her performance at State for swimming on Friday. She placed 6th in the 100 yard butterfly and 2nd in the 100 yard backstroke. Great job Mimi!

Girls’ basketball is in need of managers. Any young ladies interested please see Coach Hawkins.

Letterman jackets are available for purchase online at Neffco Jacket Shop.

https://www.neffjacketshop.com/BrowseCatalogs.asp?VPath=1140|1141|1214

The sample jacket is hanging in the "Guidance Department"

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

The Central Florida Dreamplex is seeking current freshman, sophomore, and junior level high school students for its StarGazers volunteer program. The Dreamplex is a fitness and recreation center for children and adults with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. Only 15-20 volunteers will be chosen to be StarGazers, and the program will span one year (January-December, 2018) and result in at least 100 community service hours for each participant. First aid, CPR, and other training will be provided at no cost. The ideal candidate will be an individual who loves to work with children and is interested in therapeutic services, special education, or other related fields as a career choice. Those

chosen to be StarGazers will assist with Dreamplex sports and recreational programs, and will have the opportunity to shadow physical, speech, and occupational therapists. Completed applications may be submitted by email to cgomes@cfldreamplex.com or dropped off at the Dreamplex, located in the Clermont Hillside Terrace complex (same building as Graffiti Junktion) Applications are due by November 6th.

Word of the Day

tightwadMoney's Tight Word of the Day:This colorful American coinage from the turn of the 20th century encapsulates the idea of a person who keeps his or her wad of money tightly rolled up. Presumably, a tightwad would also be a penny pincher, who is said to pinch every penny before letting go of it, though to what effect is unclear.

On This Day in History

1789 - Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.

1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.

1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.

1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.

1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.

1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.

1903 - Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. The document granted rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses.

1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1917 - During World War I, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.

1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.

1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.

1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1961 - In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil's Cigarette Lighter)

1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa.

1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.

1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.

1973 - NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft began photographing Jupiter.

1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara.

1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.

1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.

1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.

1985 - Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota.

1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.

1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.

1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.

1990 - About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.

1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (Maryland)

1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.

1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.

1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.

1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.

2001 - In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II.

2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.

2001 - Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.

2001 - Disney's "Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed In at the House Of Mouse" was released on video and DVD.