Today is Wednesday, November 29, 2017

This Thursday and Friday at 6:00 p.m., the THS Drama Club will be presenting “Peter Pan” in the THS Auditorium. Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the window starting at 4:30 on the night of the performances. Come out for a great evening of flight and fantasy!

The THS Chorus Department will be presenting its annual Holiday Concert on December 5 at 6:00 PM in the THS Auditorium. There is no admission required to attend this performance. Come out for an evening of great holiday music and good cheer put on by our very own THS Chorus Students!

GUIDANCE

SCHOLARSHIPS

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

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.

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

2018 AXA Achievement Scholarship for Graduating SeniorsDeadline: December 15, 2017Applications are in Guidance

USF Alumni Association Kosove Society ScholarshipApplication closes on December 1st.See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for more information.

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

ATHLETICS

Attention all varsity and junior varsity football players. Please see Coach Armatti as soon as possible for information on this year’s football banquet. The Banquet is next Wednesday night, December 6th.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

baroqueWay Bach When Word of the Day:Without context it's not clear whether baroque is going to steer you towards architecture, music, or furniture, but you know it's going to steer you towards the 17th century, which was the heyday of all things baroque. Its earliest meaning was "Irregularly shaped; whimsical, grotesque, odd." All of those adjectives apply pretty well to the etymology of baroque, which remains largely a mystery.

On This Day in History

1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.

1864 - The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp.

1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.

1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial.

1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.

1939 - The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a Soviet attack.

1945 - The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed.

1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.

1963 - A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport. All aboard were killed. The crash was the worst in Canada's history.

1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.

1971 - The Professional Golf Championship was held at Walt Disney World for the first time. Disney movies, music and books

1974 - In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective.

1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.

1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.

1982 - The U.N. General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

1986- Actor Cary Grant died at the age of 82.

1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.

1987 - Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they'd been holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, LA.

1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve potentially vital evidence.

1989 - In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.

1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

1991 - 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle wreck during a dust storm near Coalinga, CA, on Interstate 5.

1992 - Dennis Byrd (New York Jets) was paralyzed after a neck injury in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

1994 - The U.S. House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

1994 - Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport only hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war.

1996 - A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.

1998 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics.

2004 - The French government announced plans to build the Louvre II in northern France. The 236,808 square foot museum was the planned home for 500-600 works from the Louvre's reserves.

2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2008 - In China, construction on the Shanghai Tower began.