TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL
DAILY BULLETIN
Welcome students and staff.
Today is Tuesday, January 12, 2015.
1) The class required for student’s to take prior to testing for their learner’s driving permit is being offered three times this school year. The Traffic Law Substance Abuse Education class
( formally the DATA class) is on the following dates: November 18 (must preregister by Nov.
11), February 17 (preregister by Feb. 10) and April 13 (preregister by April 6). Applications are available upstairs in building 6 (room 6-213) or in the Guidance Office.
2) The Behind-the-Wheel class, where students with a learner’s permit or driver’s license actually get in the car and drive, is being offered throughout the school year. Students gain valuable driving experience with a qualified driving instructor. Applications are available upstairs in building 6 (room 6-213) or in the Guidance Office. This is a FREE class.
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FAFSA Workshop – 6 p.m. Thursday, January 28, at the Mount Dora High School Media Center at 700 N. Highland Street in Mt. Dora. Parents and students, please bring your W-2 forms.
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Senior Awards Night will be on Tuesday, May 24, at 7 p.m.
Scholarship Recognition
Graduation Honors Recognition
NHS Recognition
Institutional Scholarship Recognition
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Lake Tech College is having a Career Night Expo on Wed, February 17th from 5-7 p.m. at their
Eustis Campus, 2001 Kurt Street.
It is open to all grade levels and the community. The evening will include program tours, and opportunity to meet with admission counselors.
See Mrs. Croker in Guidance for more details.

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Seniors, Be sure to let Mrs. Croker know when you’ve received an acceptance letter or notification for colleges/universities or technical colleges so we can post on our main office board.
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Scholarships applications are coming in and are available in the guidance office. They are also listed on the announcements. See Mrs. Morgan for more information.
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Seniors: Scholarship/Applications/Letters of Recommendations
The Guidance Office will do everything possible to assist you in meeting the deadlines for college applications, scholarship applications and transcript requests. Please note that all requests are handled in a timely fashion. It is imperative that our office is notified well in advance in order to help meet your deadlines. Best practice is to give your counselor and/ or teachers at least a 2 weeks notice for a recommendation letter or scholarship application request. A brief resume should be submitted for a recommendation letter. Scheduling an appointment will ensure that all the necessary paperwork is completed in time. Last minute transcript requests may require that the student and or parent overnight an official transcript.
(Parent or Grandparent must be an Elk member)
(Parent or Grandparent must be an Elk mem.)
( https://www.fleng.org/donate.ofm
)
(Parent or Student must be member)
( www.flcu.org/about-us/scholarships/
(Students who want to be teachers) ( www.frea.org
)
(Students going to USF) ( www.usfkosovesociety.org
)
(suntrusteducation.com/scholarshipsweepstakes)

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There will be a meeting for anyone interested in trying out for baseball today in Coach Light’s room, 2-204, during the first half of Power Hour. Please plan to attend this meeting if you are going to try out as important information will be discussed.
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Baseball tryouts will be held on Monday at 9 a.m. at the Fred Stover Sports Complex.
Registration will begin at 8:30. Please make sure to come fully equipped with a hat, glove, cleats and baseball pants. This will be a one-day only tryout.
The following dates are available for volunteering with the Special Olympics:
State Special Olympics/Basketball
January 29th and February 5th: Tavares Middle School from 5:30-9:00 or so. The opening ceremonies dance will be at the Big House that night. The students will love this!!
January 30th and February 6th: The Big House in Tavares from 7:30-noon and they may need or want some to stay longer as games go all day.
County Track and Field
February 27th: Tavares High School from 8:00-1:00 or so.
cotillion
Shall We Dance? Word of the Day:
This sort of dance is rare in our current post-disco era, but there was a time when the cotillion — a formal dance with fixed steps and figures — was pretty high on the list of fun things to do. The word is from an Old French word for petticoat, in turn a diminutive of coat.

49 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River signaling a war between Rome and Gaul.
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.