Today is Thursday, March 1, 2018

The THS Theatre Program is proudly presents this year’s musical Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” Come out for a night under the sea with Ariel and her friends as our very own students bring one of Disney’s most beloved movies to life.

Show nights are March 8 and 9 at 6:00 PM in the THS Auditorium. Tickets can be purchased the night of the show starting at 5:00 PM in the THS Auditorium Lobby. Tickets are $5.00 for students and $10.00 for adults ages 19 and up. Due to the popularity of this show, we recommend you show up early to ensure you are able to purchase tickets and get a good seat.

WANT TO WIN A PROM TICKET?Are You Artsy?Create the winning design for this year’s prom tickets and win a ticket to attend the prom free!

Open to: Juniors and SeniorsTheme for Prom: Fire and IceAny medium accepted but it must be photographable for the tickets.Entries must be turned in to Mrs. Newman on or before March 14th to be eligible. Building 2- 105

GUIDANCE

Students, the ASVAB is going to be given on March 28th here at THS. Please sign up in Guidance by the 15th of March. The ASVAB will start after school at 1:45 in the cafeteria. The test is open to Juniors and Seniors.

Sophomores and Juniors interested in enrolling at Lake Tech next year should meet with their grade level counselor to complete the 2018-19 application. The application window is open through April 15.

Lake Sumter State College is offering a free four day summer bridge program for graduating seniors interested in a Bachelor’s program with a STEM Major.Applications can be done on line at LSCC.EDU/STEM . See Mrs. Croker for more information.

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

Students, if you are interested in a Broadcasting Career, there is a management training program in the area looking for candidates. Please see Mrs. Croker for more information.

Any 10th grade student who would like to Dual Enroll next year should see Mr. Stevens in guidance for a PERT test form.

Florida Elks Youth CampSummer Counselor in Training and Counselor Positions AvailableApplications are available in Guidance.

SCHOLARSHIPS

College Covered.Com powered by Discover Student LoansScholarship Amount up to $10,000Applications are in Guidance.

Seniors who are planning to attend LSSC in the Fall, please stop by guidance and pick up the Tavares Lion Club Scholarship application. Also, the LSSC website has scholarship application as well. See Mrs. Croker for any questions.

Men of Principle Scholarship Eligible male students accepted to FSUScholarship amount $500.00Applications are in Guidance.

Historical Society of Central Florida, INC.Scott Harris Memorial ScholarshipAnnual Essay Competition $2,500.00Scholarship Deadline: April 13, 2018

Eustis Elks Lodge #1578Eligible seniors with a 2.5 GPA planning to attend Lake Tech or LSSC with Community Involvement and Work ExperienceScholarship Amount $500.00Scholarship Deadline: April 15th, 2018

Alpha Delta Kappa Scholarship Eligible seniors who intend to major in educationApplication Deadline: April 4, 2018

Scholarships at a GlanceEligible seniors interested in careers in the beauty industryApplication Deadline varies

Lake Sumter State College ScholarshipsEligible seniors planning to attend LSSC in the Fall of 2018-Presidents’s Scholarship of $1.200 for students with a 3.0 GPA-Trustee Scholarship of $2,400 for students with a 3.5 GPA-William/Johnson Scholarship of $1200 for eligible minority students with a 3.0 GPA- LSSC Opportunity Scholarship provides a tuition waiver of up to 12 credit hours for students with a 3.0 GPAAll applications are on line at www.lssc.edu under the news heading and click on High School Scholarship Application.

The Lake County School Food Service Association is pleased to offer a $250.00 scholarship for the senior class of 2018. Please use the following criteria:

Continuing Education in Food IndustryCompletion of ApplicationGPA Minimum of 2.5Financial Need

Mail to: Lake County School BoardFood Service Department Nutrition Assoc.201 W. Burleigh Blvd.Tavares, FL 32778

Applications MUST be received no later than April 14, 2018. Scholarship award will be received after the first semester of secondary education has been completed. The scholarship selectee will be notified by April 30, 2018. See Guidance for application.

Leesburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta SororityEligible seniors who are minoritiesScholarship Amount $1,000.00Deadline: April 2nd, 2018

University of Florida First Year ScholarshipsEligible students planning to attend UNFApplications are in the Guidance Office.

Lake Soil and Water Conservation Scholarship

Seniors interested in attending Post Secondary Schools and majoring in Agricultural FieldSeniors interested in starting a business in an Agricultural fieldScholarship amount $500.00Deadline April 8, 2018

Edmond Amateis FoundationSeniors with Financial NeedScholarship Amount is $1.500.00Deadline March 15, 2018

Supervisors of Elections ScholarshipEligible Seniors who have completed 2 years of state college and qualify as Juniors for 2018-19Political Science, Business Adm or Journalism, Communication Majors.Scholarship amount $1,200.00Deadline: March 29, 2018

USF College Assistance Migrant ProgramEligible Seniors with a family background in migrant and or seasonal farm workScholarship Amount $3,000.00Deadline is March 15, 2018

Jones Brothers Seaplane Aviation Scholarship$5,000.00 scholarship for a senior interested in an Aviation CareerApplication Deadline is March 15, 2018

Alpha Delta Kappa Upsilon College of Education Scholarship ApplicationEligible Seniors interested in majoring in EducationScholarship Deadline : March 28th, 2018

LCAEOP ScholarshipScholarship Amount $1,000.00Application Deadline is March 9, 2018 at 4 p.m.

Harold S. Schwartz Music Scholarship Program Scholarship Amount $10,000.00-$6,000.00Eligible seniors interested in a major or minor in a music (instrumental, performing arts, choral, theatre)Deadline is March 10th, 2018

AaronStrong Perserverance ScholarshipEligible seniors who have faced adversity .

Scholarship Amount is $718.00Application Deadline is March 31st.

Linda Kohlmeyer Memorial ScholarshipScholarship Amount $1,000.00Seniors with a 2.5, active in the community and planning to attend a postsecondary institution.Deadline March 15, 2018

Charles Robert Thurman Scholarship$500.00 scholarship for seniors pursuing a career in finance or accountingDeadline is March 29, 2018

2018 Lehner ScholarshipEligible seniors with financial need and at least a 2.5 GPA Scholarship amount up to $5,000.00Deadline April 6th, 2018

Mount Dora Women’s Committee of Fine ArtsOpen to students in Grade 10-12Auditions are for Visual and Performing ArtsDeadline is Saturday. Applications are in Guidance.

SECO Energy 2018 Youth Scholarship Eligible seniors must be SECO CustomersDeadline March 30, 2018

Johnson Scholarship FoundationEligible Seniors of UPS employees or retirees who live in FloridaDeadline April 1st, 2018

Seminole Chapter of Lake-Sumter Eligible Seniors accepted to FSUDeadline April 1st, 2018

Tavares Lions ClubEligible Seniors planning to attend LSSCDeadline March 15, 2018

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

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.

Florida Credit Union is offering two scholarships for graduating seniors. Parents and or students must be a member of the Florida Credit Union.

CLUBS

The Gay-Straight Alliance meets each Thursday in Building 5, Room 106, during Learning Opportunities.

ATHLETICS

Please congratulate the girls’ tennis team for beating Umatilla 6-1 and moving to 3-0 on the season!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

contrabandUnfair Trade Word of the Day:A somewhat lazy pronunciation of this noun leaves off the terminal -d, and that way of saying contraband is not without etymological sense: the -band part is related to the word ban, and contraband's Italian ancestor literally meant "against the ban." Contraband refers to both goods traded illegally, and those that are banned from trade.

On This Day in History

1498 - Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique on his way to India.

1562 - In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The event started the First War of Religion.

1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.

1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.

1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.

1790 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. census.

1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state.

1810 - Sweden became the first country to appoint an Ombudsman, Lars August Mannerheim.

1811 - Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali massacred the leaders of the Mameluke dynasty.

1815 - Napoleon returned to France from the island of Elba. He had been forced to abdicate in April of 1814.

1845 - U.S. President Tyler signed the congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.

1862 - Prussia formally recognized the Kingdom of Italy.

1864 - Louis Ducos de Hauron patented a machine for taking and projecting motion pictures. The machine was never built.

1867 - Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state.

1869 - Postage stamps with scenes were issued for the first time.

1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.

1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.

1879 - The library of Hawaii was established.

1890 - "Literary Digest" was available for the first time.

1896 - The Battle of Adowa began in Ethiopia between the forces of Emperor Menelik II and Italian troops. The Italians were defeated.

1900 - In South Africa, Ladysmith was relieved by British troops after being under siege by the Boers for more than four months.

1907 - In Odessa, Russia, there were only about 15,000 Jews left due to evacuations.

1907 - In Spain, a royal decree abolished civil marriages.

1907 - In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.

1911 - Industrialist Henry Frick acquired Velasquez's "Portrait of King Philip IV."

1911 - Jose Ordonez was elected President of Uraguay.

1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.

1924 - Disney released the first Alice Comedy entitled "Alice's Day at Sea."

1927 - The Bank of Italy became a National Bank.

1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.

1937 - U.S. Steel raised workers’ wages to $5 a day.

1937 - In Connecticut, the first permanent automobile license plates were issued.

1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.

1941 - Bulgaria joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.

1941 - "Duffy’s Tavern" debuted on CBS Radio.

1947 - The International Monetary Fund began operations.

1947 - Chinese Premier T.V. Soong resigned.

1949 - Joe Louis announced that he was retiring from boxing as world heavyweight boxing champion.

1950 - Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

1954 - The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.

1959 - Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus from exile.

1961 - The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President Kennedy.

1962 - Pakistan announced that it had a new constitution that set up a presidential system of government.

1966 - The Soviet probe, Venera 3 crashed on the planet Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.

1966 - Ghana ordered all Soviet, East German and Chinese technicians to leave the country.

1969 - Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from major league baseball.

1971 - A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the Vietnam War claimed responsibility.

1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in. The charge was conspiring to obstruct justice.

1983 - The New Jersey Transit strike began. It ended on April 2.

1984 - The U.S.S.R. performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R.

1987 - The Boston Celtics defeated Detroit 112-102 to post their 2,235th NBA win.

1987 - S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals. The stamps were introduced 90 years earlier.

1988 - Soviet troops were sent into Azerbaijan after ethnic riots between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.

1990 - In Cairo, 16 people were killed in a fire at the Sheraton Hotel.

1992 - Bosnian Serb snipers fired upon civilians after a majority of the Moslem and Croatian communities voted in favor of Bosnia's independence.

1992 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announced major political reforms that ceded some powers after 10 years of disciplined rule.

1992 - Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia.

1993 - The U.S. government announced that the number of food stamp recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million.

1994 - Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in an effort to placate Palestinians over the Hebron massacre.

1995 - The European Parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed biotechnology companies to patent new life forms.

1995 - Yahoo! was incorporated.

1996 - In Kuala, Lumpur, construction was completed for the Petronas Towers.

1999 - The Angolan Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, exploded. Four other bombs went off in the capital.

1999 - In Uganda, eight tourists were brutally murdered by Hutu rebels.

1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones began their attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon non-stop. They succeeded on March 20, 1999.

2002 - Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.

2003 - In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17, 2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had surrendered and pled innocent in connection to the theft. The mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion.

2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.

2003 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.