Today is Monday, May 1, 2017.
GUIDANCE
College Tour June 5th-9th to 8 colleges including UF, FAMU, Spelman, UNF AND Bethune Cookman. Juniors and Seniors Are eligible. See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for application information.
Central Florida Mechanical Joint Apprenticeship Training Program at Walt Disney World is looking for qualified applicants.
Applications are in Guidance for students who are 18 years of age and have a HS Diploma.
· Seniors interested in going through the Fire Academy after graduation need to get started now on the enrollment process. Class starts June 6, 2017. Deadline to apply is today.
See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for more information.
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-scholarships
http://baucemag.com/list-of-undergraduate-scholarships-for women-of-color
· Florida A&M University Alumni Association
$500.00 scholarships for seniors planning to attend FAMU
Deadline is today. See Mrs Paulling in Guidance
· Coast to Coast College Tour is hosting an information session for students and parents on May 15th at 7 p.m. at the Renaissance Orlando at Sea World in Orlando. See Mrs Croker for more details.
· The Village Angels Autism Support Group Scholarship.
Criteria is for students with Autism or siblings of students with Autism.
Deadline for this $1,000.00 Scholarship is today. See Mrs. Paulling In Guidance.
· Southern Scholarship Foundation offers rent-free scholarship housing for eligible seniors attending FSU, FAMU, UF, FGCU, TCC, Flagler and Sante Fe College.
Applications are in Guidance Office or visit http://www.southernscholarship.org
· The Italian American Club of the Plantation at Leesburg Scholarship
$1,000 scholarships for students of Italian-American Heritage.
Deadline: today
· Scholarships for students with Disabilities who plan to attend one of the 12 state universities.
Application deadline is today.
Website information is www.jsf.bz
• 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
· Seussvillle: Any student needing volunteer hours
May 12, 5:30 -7 p.m. (Friday)
Tavares Elementary needs volunteers to help out and assist.
· 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.
Word of the Day
schmegegge
Stuff & Nonsense Word of the Day:
It's a pity that this noun from Yiddish doesn't enjoy wider circulation — it has wonderful sound sense, meaning as it does either "nonsense" or "a fool." No one has ventured a reliable etymology for the word, though perhaps Leo Rosten comes closest in his book The Joys of Yiddish, where he suggests it's "a dazzling onomatopoetic child of the Lower East Side."
On This Day in History
0408 - Theodosius II succeeded to the throne of Constantinople.
1308 - King Albert was murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands.
1486 - Christopher Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund an expedition to the West Indies.
1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
1751 - America’s first cricket tournament was held in New York City.
1805 - The state of Virginia passed a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation.
1863 - In Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville began. General Robert E. Lee's forces began fighting with Union troops under General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own soldiers in this battle. (May 1-4)
1867 - Reconstruction in the South began with black voter registration.
1877 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
1883 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) had his first Wild West Show.
1884 - The construction of the first American 10-story building began in Chicago, IL.
1889 - Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca-Cola ... Delicious. Refreshing. Exhilarating. Invigorating." Mr. Candler did not actually achieve sole ownership until 1891 at a cost of $2,300.
1898 - The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
1905 - In New York, radium was tested as a cure for cancer.
1912 - In London's Kensington Gardens, a statue of Peter Pan was erected.
1915 - A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Gulflight.
1922 - Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect no-hit, no-run game against the Detroit Tigers. The Sox won 3-0. Another perfect game did not come along until 46 years later.
1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.
1934 - The Philippine legislature accepted a U.S. proposal for independence.
1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
1941 - "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premiered in New York.
1944 - The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, made its first flight.
1945 - Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escaped from the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advanced on Berlin.
1945 - Admiral Karl Doenitz succeeded Hitler as leader of the Third Reich. This was one day after Hitler committed suicide.
1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen.
1952 - Production of Mr. Potato Head began.
1958 - James Van Allen reported that two radiation belts encircled Earth.
1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.
1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle became president of Nicaragua.
1968 - In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.
1969 - Leonard Tose bought the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000.
1970 - Students at Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, OH, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia.
1971 - The National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) went into service. It was established by the U.S. Congress to run the nation's intercity railroads.
1981 - The Japanese government announced that it would limit passenger car exports to the United States over the next three years.
1986 - The Tass News Agency reported the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
1986 - Bill Elliott set a stock car speed record with his Ford Thunderbird in Talladega, AL. Elliott reached a speed of 212.229 mph.
1989 - Disney-MGM Studios opened.
Disney movies, music and books
1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
1998 - Arrow Air was fined $5 million for using spare parts that lacked federal approval in the U.S.
1999 - On Mount Everest, a group of U.S. mountain climbers discovered the body of George Mallory. Mallory had died in June of 1924 while trying to become the first person to reach the summit of Everest. At the time of the discovery it was unclear whether or not Mallory had actually reached the summit.
2000 - ABC aired the first celebrity "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
2000 - The "Barbie for President" doll was released in stores.
2001 - Chandra Levy was last seen in Washington, DC. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park on May 22, 2002. California Congressman Gary Condit was questioned in the case due to his relationship with Levy.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.