Announcements for Friday December 10, 2010
- Lunch today is Boscos pizza, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.
- Those 8th grade students attending the Wharton Esherick field trip next week are reminded to submit their permission forms ASAP.
- Today in 1901, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be "annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.
- Knitting Club will meet today in the large group room.
- Today in 1898, in France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire
