Daily Bulletin
October 5, 2011
CURRICULUM NIGHT – THURSDAY, OCT. 6th
Picture Retakes/PSAT Schedule – Oct. 12th
MISCELLANEOUS
Want to be a Academic Tutor? Want to get community Service Hours? Want to add your tutoring to your resume? Come to our Academic Coaches meeting on Monday, Oct. 3rd in the Career Center after school. Mrs. Bailey
Parking Permits Stay tuned for Parking Pass info. Forms will be ready in the next 2 weeks. In the meantime, please do not park in visitor or fire lanes. You will be ticketed and/or towed! JR
ASB/CLUBS/GROUP
RHS Girls Basketball Pre-season Meeting: Important meeting on Friday October 7 at 3:00 PM, in room 247, for all girls interested in playing basketball for the Lady Riders this year. We will provide paperwork and other info necessary for the 2011-2012 season. RJ
Black Student Union Meeting Thursday Oct 6th 2:45 in room 107. Don’t hear about it, be a part of it! LJ
CAREER CENTER
Upward Bound Join Upward Bound! Now accepting applications from eligible 9th, 10th and 11th graders. Priority goes to all applicants who submit paperwork by Thursday, Oct. 13th. Homework help, college preparation, and lots of fun. Earn cash for participating. See the Counseling Office for more info.
The Scholarship Season has begins today: Scholarship Bulletin Number 1 now online. This issue features scholarship and financial aid information contact information and websites for the schools in WA state. The Scholarship Bulletin will customarily come out every two weeks until April/May, depending on if there are scholarships coming to the building then. In addition the Scholarship website suggests a systematic method to handle financial aid and scholarships. Students can go to www.rhsseattle.org Two ways you can go: Go to Academics, then go to Scholarships for scholarship information and scholarship Bulletin or Go to the Counseling Center website to see the Scholarship Bulletin (Dr. Beaston)
Sand Point Family Housing located in Magnuson Park is looking for volunteers to help with tutoring for formerly homeless children. High School volunteers are needed weekdays from 3:30 -5:30. Dates are flexible to your schedule. This is a great and rewarding way to earn your Roosevelt service hours. If interested please email sandpointtutoring@yahoo.com
Students of Color in the Class of 2012: If you haven’t already, don’t forget to look at the Counseling Website for the College Fly-In Opportunities (RHS website: www.rhsseattle.org Go to Services Go to Counseling Center to to “Visit the Counseling Center Website”)
There will be a combined visit and information session for students and parents by Emory University, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, and University of Notre Dame:
Sunday, October 9, 2011, 730pm
Renaissance Hotel
515 Madison St.
Seattle, WA
Go online to register:
http://www.virginia.edu/uvaemoryunc//index.html
Wed 10/5
Univ. of Rochester – 10:00 – 11:00
Thurs 10/6
Perry Technical Institute – 3:30-7:00
Fri 10/7
Tufts – 10:00 – 11:00
Reed College – 2:00 – 3:00
LIBRARY
Wednesday, October 5th
IT’S NEW AND IT’S ON THE SHELF – Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith. When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
YOU DON’T NEED TO TAKE AN AP LITERATURE CLASS TO TAKE THE AP LITERATURE TEST – But it might help if you read this book. A Bend in the River by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. A young Indian flees his country to escape the war that has claimed his family and settles in a small town in a newly independent African nation.
A STRENUOUS LIFE 1939 – The Roosevelt News began using a new format and printing a weekly edition of the paper this year. Additionally The Quill and Scroll, an honorary society for students who contributed “outstandingly” to journalistic activity, created the “squeal” and “crawl”.
LUNCH TODAY? – Whole Grain Chicken Egg Roll w/Vegetable Fried Rice