Today is Friday, March 24, 2017.

GUIDANCE

SCHOLARSHIPS

Seniors, a reminder that all applications are in the Guidance Office . Each application has instructions on how to complete the applications, where to send the application, deadlines and what type of recommendations you will need. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DUE DATE TO REQUEST LETTERS, TRANSCRIPTS, ETC.

Scholarship resources:

www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/training/find-scholarshipshttp://baucemag.com/list-of-undergraduate-scholarships-for women-of-color

Tavares Elementary School Scholarship $500.00 scholarship for students that attended TESDeadline April 14th, 2017

Coach Monty Boyd Memorial ScholarshipStudents must have attended TES,TMS and enrolled at THSDeadline April 14th, 2017

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

Leesburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.Scholarship Amount $1,000.00Deadline is Monday April 17th, 2017

2017 Lehner Scholarship$5,000 SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY for up to 5 THS StudentsDeadline is April 7th. Applications are in Guidance.

The Italian American Club of the Plantation at Leesburg Scholarship $1,000 scholarships for students of Italian-American Heritage.Deadline: May 1, 2017

Caribbean-American Association of Lake County$1,000.00 scholarshipDeadline April 7th, 2017

Alpha Delta KappaScholarship for students interested in teaching.Deadline: April 6th, 2017

Edwin Budge Mead Scholarship for students pursuing a degree or certification in a health related fieldDeadline April 7th, 2017

Linda Kohlmeyer Memorial Scholarship . $1,000.00 scholarship for students interested in a community college, university or trade school.Deadline March 30th , 2017

Charles Robert Furnas Scholarship. $500.00 scholarship for students planning to major in finance/accounting or business.Deadline March 30, 2017

Lake Soil and Water Conservation District Scholarship.$500.00 scholarship for students majoring in an agricultural field.Deadline April 11, 2017

Scott Strong Scholarship. $2,000.00 scholarship for students with a 2.5 GPA Deadline March 30, 2017

Edmond Amateis Foundation Scholarship. $1,500.00 scholarship per academic year.Deadline March 30, 2017

Vivint Smart Home$5,000 scholarship for seniors enrolling in a post- secondary institution .Deadline is April 1st, 2017 website www.vivint.com/scholarship

• Johnson Scholarship Foundation has 2 scholarship programsScholarships for children of UPS employees or retirees who live in FloridaDeadline April 15th.

Scholarships for students with Disabilities who plan to attend one of the 12 state universities.Application deadline is May 1stWebsite information is www.jsf.bz

• Sun Trust/ Edgar P. and Nona B. McKinney Charitable Trust ScholarshipScholarship award amounts vary from $1,000 to $5,000 per year. Students will be notified if selected for an interview before April 28th.Deadline is March 31, 2017.

• Sun Trust/G.Roxy & Elizabeth C. Martin Charitable Trust ScholarshipScholarship award amounts vary from $1,000 to $5,000 per years. This is a separate application and seniors can apply and qualify for both of the Sun Trust Scholarships. If selected, interviews will be before April 28th.Deadline is March 31, 2017.

• The Criterion Civic Club awards a $1000 scholarship to FIVE Lake County deserving minority students every year. Please see Team Guidance for details.

• Seniors, Please let Mrs. Croker know about your college acceptances and any scholarships you may have been awarded.

CLUBS

ATHLETICS

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Lake Sumter State College has an excellent opportunity for students who need Community Service Hours. Volunteer at KIDS COLLEGE’17 this summer. There are two sessions on the Leesburg and Clermont Campus.Contact DeAnna at 352-323-3610 or the Guidance Office for more information.

The Early Learning Coalition of Lake County is hosting a Uniting For Children Early Childhood Conference at LSSC on April 1, 2017. The annual workshop is for early childhood professionals and leaders in the community. Last year, we had over 200 attendees and expect to meet or exceed that this year. We have a need for volunteers to assist our staff with the conference on that day and thought that perhaps that Tavares High School had students who needed community service hours and could assist us on April 1st.

Joanne BrinckQuality Operations Support SpecialistEarly Learning Coalition of Lake County1300 Citizens Blvd. Suite 206Leesburg, Florida 34748ph 352-315-6695

Word of the Day

banefulBad News Word of the Day:When you need an old-fashioned spin on pernicious, deadly, or pestilent, you could hardly do better than this 16th-century adjective, easily derived from bane (a source of harm of ruin). Its most common companion today is "influence."

On This Day in History

1379 - The Gelderse war ended.

1545 - German Parliament opened in Worms.

1550 - France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne.

1629 - In Virginia, the first game law was passed in the American colonies.

1664 - A charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams in London.

1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.

1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.

1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.

1828 - The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway was authorized as the first state owned railway.

1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.

1837 - Canada gave blacks the right to vote

1848 - A state of siege was proclaimed in Amsterdam.

1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed.

1878 - The British frigate Eurydice sank killing 300.

1880 - The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company.

1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).

1883 - The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took place.

1900 - Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1900 - In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed.

1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.

1905 - In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed independence from Turkey.

1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.

1906 - The "Census of the British Empire" revealed that England ruled 1/5 of the world.

1911 - In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.

1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.

1924 - Greece became a republic.

1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.

1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train. It was the first radio broadcast from a train.

1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

1938 - The U.S. asked that all countries help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.

1944 - In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.

1946 - The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran.

1947 - The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

1954 - Britain opened trade talks with Hungary.

1955 - Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway.

1955 - The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.

1960 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel "Lady Chatterly’s Lover" was not obscene and could be sent through the mail.

1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1976 - The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country's military.

1980 - In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.

1980 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.

1982 - Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev stated that Russia was willing to resume border talks with China.

1985 - Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain.

1988 - Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pled innocent to Iran-Contra charges.

1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.

1989 - The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.

1990 - Indian troops left Sri Lanka.

1991 - The African nation of Benin held its first presidential elections in about 30 years.

1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.

1995 - Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.

1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.

1997 - The Australian parliament overturned the world's first and only euthanasia law.

1998 - In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old cousins.

1998 - A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray's car supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured.

1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

1999 - The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France became an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire. At least 30 people were killed.

2001 - Apple Computer Inc's operating system MAC OS X went on sale.

2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.

2005 - The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential compound and government offices.

2005 - Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire.

2014 - It was announced that the U.S. and its allies would exclude Russia from the G8 meeting and boycott a planned summit in Sochi in response to Russia's takeover of Crimea.