Today is Tuesday, September 25, 2018

GUIDANCE

F.A.F.S.A Workshop is scheduled for October 10th in the Media Center at THS from 6-8 p.m. Parents are welcome to attend with their students and get assistance on completing this application. The event is sponsored by Take Stock in Children and is open to all THS Seniors as well.

LSSC's Annual 2018 College Night.

o DATE: Mon. Oct. 8, 2018o TIME: 6 to 8 p.m.o PLACE: Convocation Center (Gym), LSSC's Leesburg Campus

College Visits

UCF ..October 8th during both lunches in the Administrative Conference Room in Guidance

New College ..October 16th during both lunches in the Administrative Conference Room In Guidance.

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year, Governor Rick Scott and First Lady Ann Scott invite Florida students to participate in the Hispanic Heritage Month Essay and Art contests. This year’s theme is “A Celebration of Innovative Hispanic-American Leaders.”

The contests are open to all students attending a Florida school in grades 4-12. Three students in grades 4-12 will earn a 4-Year Florida Prepaid College Scholarship, which will cover tuition and other specified fees for 120 credit hours at a Florida College — the amount required to earn a bachelor’s degree, and two K-3 students will earn cash prizes.In addition, full-time Florida educators in elementary, middle and high schools are eligible for the Excellence in Education Award. Three winners will be selected: one elementary teacher (grades K-5), one middle school teacher (grades 6-8), and one high school teacher (grades 9-12). Nominations may be submitted by a principal, teacher, parent/guardian, or student.The deadline to submit entries for the Hispanic Heritage Month Essay, Art and Educator contests is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, October 15, 2018. Please go to the following link for contest rules and where to send entries: http://www.floridahispanicheritage.com/student-contests/.

Scholarship Opportunity for Students : Martin Luther King Essay ScholarshipScholarship awards up to $2,000.00Deadline is November 1st.Application information is in Guidance and at www.MLK.Committee.org

Brooks Law Scholarship. Deadline November 2nd. Applications in Guidance

QUEST BRIDGE NATIONAL COLLEGE MATCH SCHOLARSHIP Deadline is September 27thApplication information is in guidancewww.questbridge.org

CLUBS

ATHLETICS

Tuesday 9/25/18:  Swimming vs. Eustis: at the Golden Triangle YMCA starting at 4:00

                              Bowling @ The Villages: at Spanish Springs Lane starting at 3:30

                              Football:  Parent meeting @ 6:00 in the THS Gym

                              National Honor Society Induction @ 6:30  in the Auditorium

Thursday 9/27/18:  Volleyball vs. Leesburg: 5:30 and 6:30 Home

                               JV Football vs Eustis:  6:30 Home

                               Bowling vs Mount Dora:  3:30 Break Point Alley

Saturday 9/29/18:  Cross Country @ Holloway Park in Lakeland at 8:00am

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the school and ask for Mr. Glass.  Thanks!

Coach Dopico is looking for volunteers for boys’ soccer this season. If interested, please see Coach Dopico in Room 6-113.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

emblazonBeen There, Got the T-shirt Word of the Day:A blazon is a coat of arms, and by extension, any ostentatious display. To emblazon something is to display it prominently. These days, the verb appears most often in participial form followed by with, e.g., a banner emblazoned with a logo. The hands-down winner of modern emblazoning efforts is the T-shirt: it outnumbers other companions of emblazoned by about 4 to 1.

On This Day in History

1492 - The crew of the Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus' ships, mistakenly thought that they had spotted land.

1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.

1690 - One of America's earliest newspapers published its first and last edition. The "Publik Occurences Both Foreign and Domestik" was published at the London Coffee House in Boston, MA, by Benjamin Harris.

1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.

1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.

1847 - During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.

1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.

1890 - The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.

1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.

1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

1933 - Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. His show ran until June of 1950.

1956 - A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.

1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.

1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.

1973 - The three crewmen of Skylab II landed in the Pacific Ocean after being on the U.S. space laboratory for 59 days.

1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.

1986 - An 1894-S Barber Head dime was bought for $83,000 at a coin auction in California. It is one of a dozen that exist.

1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off. The worth was around $400 million.

1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba was the only dissenting vote.

1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all of its warring factions.

1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.

1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.

1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.

1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert pled guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.

1997 - Mark & Brian received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.

2002 - U.S. forces landed in Ivory Coast to aid in the rescue foreigners trapped in a school by fighting between government troops and rebel troops. Rebels had attempted to take over the government on September 19.

2012 - China launched its first aircraft carrier into service.