Today is Tuesday, December 12, 2017

FBLA will be hosting a Student/Teacher Volleyball game on Tuesday, December 19th. Tickets will be on sale this Wed, Thurs, and Friday during lunches. Tickets are $2.00 for seniors and $3.00 for all other students. Students interested in playing against the teachers must be an athlete at THS and have a completed athletics packet on file – sign-ups to play will be during lunch on Wednesday and Thursday – and a final approved roster will be posted on Monday. Come out and support our teachers and students in this fun event.

Tavares Varsity Boys Basketball will be participating in the 2 day Florida State Elks Association Holiday Basketball Classic in Umatilla. Tickets are $10 and good for both nights. If you are interested in purchasing a ticket please see Coach Campbell in Room 5-101. Go Dawgs!

GUIDANCE

SCHOLARSHIPS

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

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

Florida Retired Educators Foundation for graduating seniors interested in a degree in Education.Scholarship Amount is $4,000.00Deadline: January 1, 2018Application is in Guidance

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

2018 AXA Achievement Scholarship for Graduating SeniorsDeadline: FridayApplications are in Guidance

The J. Ollie Edmunds Distinguished Scholarship for Seniors planning to attend Stetson University is available in GuidancePlease see Mrs. Croker before December 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.

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

Attention All “Help Our Planet Earth” or HOPE Club members: Good News!!! Our HOPE Club T-shirts have arrived! If you have paid your dues, please feel free to come to Mrs. Farner’s room, last five (5) minutes of Learning Opportunity. Also, we will have our “Winter Festival” meeting during Learning Opportunity on Thursday in Mrs. Farner’s room. Only HOPE Club members are allowed to attend. Those interested in volunteering for the Lake and Park clean-up, please check your HOPE Club Remind this week.

ATHLETICS

Anyone interested in playing football at Tavares High School… there is a mandatory meeting today during Learning Opportunities in the weight room. You must attend this meeting if you want to participate in football at THS. Again, that is today during Learning Opportunities in the weight room.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

conscriptSign Me Up Word of the Day:Where you put the stress on this word will tell your listeners all they need to know about whether you mean the noun or the verb: following a pattern that is widespread in English, the noun stresses the first syllable, the verb the second. In either case, the meaning of the word is compulsory military service. The Latin root, conscribere, meant "enlist" or "enroll."

On This Day in History

1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1791 - The Bank of the United States, also known as the First Bank, opened for business in Philadelphia, PA.

1792 - In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.

1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.

1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker to be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.

1897 - The comic strip"The Katzenjammer Kids" (Hans and Fritz), by Rudolph Dirks, appeared in the New York Journal for the first time.

1899 - George Grant patented the wooden golf tee.

1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation.

1901 - The first radio signal to cross the Atlantic was picked up near St. John's Newfoundland, by inventor Guglielmo Marconi.

1912 - The Mother's Day International Association was incorporated with the purpose of furthering meaningful observations of Mother's Day.

1915 - The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight.

1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls.

1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.

1937 - Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2 million in reparations.

1946 - A United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate to be the site of the UN's headquarters. The land was offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1947 - The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor.

1951 - The U.S. Navy Department announced that the world's first nuclear powered submarine would become the sixth ship to bear the name Nautilus.

1955 - It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.

1955 - British engineer Christopher Cockerell patented the first hovercraft.

1963 - Kenya gained its independence from Britain.

1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.

1982 - 20,000 women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain in protest against proposed cite of U.S. Cruise missiles there.

1983 - Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S. embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in different locations.

1984 - In a telephone conversation with U.S. President Reagan, William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day.

1985 - 248 American soldiers and eight crewmembers were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed in Gander, Newfoundland after takeoff.

1989 - Britain forcibly removed 51 Vietnamese from Hong Kong and returned them to their homeland.

1989 - Leona Helmsley was fined $7 million and sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion.

1991 - At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed.

1994 - The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.

1994 - IBM stopped shipments of personal computers with Intel's flawed Pentium chip.

1995 - The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.

1995 - Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs.

1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

1997 - The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.

1997 - Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998 - The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.

2000 - Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.

2000 - The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records.

2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.

2001 - Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.

2001 - In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.

2002 - North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.