Announcements for Monday, April 11, 2011

1. Just a reminder that we are raising money for blood cancer research.  Don’t forget to bring in any extra coins to raise money for cancer.  All you have to do is collect coins and put them in your homeroom’s collection box by Friday April 15^th.  The top fundraising homeroom will win a pizza party!!! Every cent counts, so start collecting today.

 

2. On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.

 

3. Attention all Model United Nations Club members on the field trip today: meet at the office area to leave at 8:30 am.

 

4.      On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive.