TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL
DAILY BULLETIN
Welcome students and staff.
Today is Monday, March 9, 2015.
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.
GUIDANCE
CLUBS
SENIORS
 Attention Seniors: Grad Bash is April 17th and sign ups start today and run through Thursday
March 19th. The price is $70 and you can pay either Mrs. Watkins or Mr. Glass. The 19th is
the last day to sign up. More information is also on the school website.
 ASVAB Testing is Wednesday. This is open to all juniors and seniors. Sign up in the Guidance
Office.
Senior Scholarships
(Pick up forms on table in Guidance Office)
Scholarship
Academic Boosters Scholarships
Alpha Delta Kappa (for students who plan to become a teacher)
Ayo & Iken Children of Divorce Scholarship
BASE Scholarship (Engineering Scholarship for FAMU Students)
Bright House Leaders Scholarship
Coach Monty Boyd Memorial Scholarship (Must have attended TES, TMS, THS)
College Xpress www.collegeXpress.com
Criterion Civic Club
Edmond Amateis Foundation
Edwin Budge Mead Scholarship
Ellanora McGinty Scholarship
Florida A&M Alumni Association (Must attend FAMU)
Fastweb
Florida Engineering Foundation (http://www.fleng.org/scholarships.cfm)
Florida Credit Union
Florida School Counselor Association – Essay Contest
Historical Society of Central Florida
Italian – American Club Scholarship
James Durden Diversity Scholarship (Open to all seniors)
Johnson Foundation Scholarship (2 Scholarships)
1. For Children of UPS Employees or Retirees
2. Students with Disabilities
Lake County Education Association (LCEA members’ children & grandchildren)
Lake County Gator Club lakecountygatorclub@gmail.com
Lake County School Food Association
LSSC Summer Scholarships http://lssc.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com
Martin Charitable Trust
McKinney Charitable Trust
Mt. Dora Women’s Committee of Performing Arts
Mt. Dora Women’s Committee of Visual Arts
N K Charlie Collette Memorial Scholarship (Must attend Lake Tech)
NAEHCY Scholarship (for Homeless students)
Project Weather Scholarship (Students who excel in Science)
Scott Strong Scholarship
SECO (Students living in homes who get their electricity from SECO)
Silhouettes of Criterions Civic Club
Student Scholarships (StudentScholarships.org )
SunTrust Sweepstakes suntrusteducation.com/scholarshipsweepstates
Tavares Elementary Scholarship (Must have attended TES)
The Kosove Society Scholarship (Must attend USF)
The Villages Opera Club (For Music Students)
Deadline
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 8, 2015
May 1, 2015
Mar 31, 2015
April 30, 2015
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 27, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 6, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
May 1, 2015
Mar. 13, 2015
April 15, 2015
May 15, 2015
Mar 10, 2015
Apr 1, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Mar 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 13, 2015
Mar. 13, 2015
Apr. 17, 2015
June 19, 2015
Mar. 27, 2015
Mar. 10, 2015
Apr. 3, 2015
April 24, 2015
Various
May 15, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
Mar 14, 2015
Lake-Sumter State College Foundation Accepting
Applications for Summer Scholarships
Lake-Sumter State College Foundation, Inc. is accepting applications for student scholarships for the
Summer 2015 semester. The Foundation will be awarding $92,650 in scholarships for all types of
students. Applications are obtainable online at http://lssc.scholarships.ngwebsolutions.com. The
deadline for submitting applications is March 31, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. Classes begin Monday, May 4,
2015.
These scholarships are made possible through the generous support of donors from the community.
Lake-Sumter State College Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation which receives and
administers private gifts, bequests and donations to benefit LSSC students and to enhance the
quality of education at the College. Gifts may be awarded for specific purposes or given without
restrictions to the general scholarship fund. The scholarships may be named for the donor or may be
designated in honor or memory of an individual. Rosanne Brandeburg, Executive Director says, "I
welcome the opportunity to talk about how charitable giving to the LSSC Foundation can help make
a positive difference for our students and community, especially during these tough economic times.
Scholarships are vital to the success of our students, and it is our responsibility, to make every effort
to help support our students aspirations of higher education."
For more information about receiving a scholarship or scholarship donations please call (352) 3653539.
ATHLETICS
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
 There is a bulletin board in the Guidance Office with current volunteer opportunities. See Mrs.
Morgan or Mrs. Hoffman.
Word of the Day
smidgen
Small is Beautiful Word of the Day:
Some words are fated forever to informality, and this is one: a noun denoting a small amount of
something. Judging by the number of synonyms (see wordmap), lots of things come in small
quantities! Smidgen is a descendant of smidge, a Scots word.
On This Day in History
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American
continent in his honor.
1617 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.
1734 - The Russians took Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.
1745 - The first carillon was shipped from England to Boston, MA.
1788 - Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States.
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America. The event was witnessed by U.S.
President George Washington.
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais were married. They were divorced in 1809.
1799 - The U.S. Congress contracted with Simeon North, of Berlin, CT, for 500 horse pistols at the price of $6.50 each.
1812 - Swedish Pomerania was seized by Napoleon.
1820 - The U.S. Congress passed the Land Act that paved the way for westward expansion of North America.
1822 - Charles M. Graham received the first patent for artificial teeth.
1832 - Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in
his run for a seat in the Illinois state legislature.
1839 - The French Academy of Science announced the Daguerreotype photo process.
1858 - Albert Potts was awarded a patent for the letter box.
1859 - The National Association of Baseball Players adopted the rule that limited the size of bats to no more than 2-1/2
inches in diameter.
1860 - The first Japanese ambassador to the U.S. was appointed.
1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton
Roads, Virginia.
1863 - General Ulysses Grant was appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces.
1897 - A patent was issued to William Spinks and William Hoskins for cue chalk.
1900 - In Germany, women petition Reichstag for the right to take university entrance exams.
1905 - In Egypt, U.S. archeologist Davies discovered the royal tombs of Tua and Yua.
1905 - In Manchuria, Japanese troops surrounded 200,000 Russian troops that were retreating from Mudken.
1905 - In Congo, Belgian Vice Gov. Costermans committed suicide following an investigation of colonial policy.
1906 - In the Philippines, fifteen Americans and 600 Moros were killed in the last two days of fighting.
1909 - The French National Assembly passed an income tax bill.
1910 - Union men urged for a national sympathy strike for miners in Pennsylvania.
1911 - The funding for five new battleships was added to the British military defense budget.
1916 - Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico. 17 people were killed by the 1,500
horsemen.
1929 - Eric Krenz became the first athlete to toss the discus over 160 feet.
1932 - Eamon De Valera was elected president of the Irish Free State and pledged to abolish all loyalty to the British
Crown.
1933 - The U.S. Congress began its 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.
1945 - "Those Websters" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers launched incendiary bomb attacks against Japan.
1946 - The A.F.L. accused Juan Peron of using the army to establish a dictatorship over Argentine labor.
1949 - The first all-electric dining car was placed in service on the Illinois Central Railroad.
1954 - WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials. The ad was
Castro Decorators of New York City. (New York)
1956 - British authorities arrested and deported Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He was accused of supporting
terrorists.
1957 - Egyptian leader Nasser barred U.N. plans to share the tolls for the use of the Suez Canal.
1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
1964 - Production began on the first Ford Mustang.
1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam.
1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin's daughter defected to the United States.
1969 - "The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour" was canceled by CBS-TV.
1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1975 - Iraq launched an offensive against the rebel Kurds.
1977 - About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington, DC. They killed one person and
took more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.
1983 - The official Soviet news agency TASS says that U.S. President Reagan is full of "bellicose lunatic anticommunism."
1985 - "Gone With The Wind" went on sale in video stores across the U.S. for the first time.
1986 - U.S. Navy divers found the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the
astronauts.
1987 - Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation.
1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected John Tower as a choice for a cabinet member. It was the first rejection in 30 years.
1989 - In Maylasia, 30 Asian nations conferred on the issue of "boat people".
1989 - In the U.S., a strike forced Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.
1989 - In the U.S., President George H.W. Bush urged for a mandatory death penalty in drug-related killings.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as the first female and Hispanic surgeon general.
1993 - Rodney King testified at the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating his civil rights.
(California)
1995 - The Canadian Navy arrested a Spanish trawler for illegally fishing off of Newfoundland.
2000 - In Norway, the coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned as a result of an environmental dispute.