Announcements for Tuesday, April 26, 2011

1. Lunch Today’s is soft turkey taco with cheese, diced tomatoes, lettuce and taco sauce, assorted fruits and vegetables with low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2. Just a reminder to all 7th graders going on the Williamsburg Trip that your medical form and roommate forms are due to Ms. Wilson by Thursday April 28th.  The medical form can be turned in any time through the 28th.  The roommate form must be turned in to Ms. Wilson in person with all four people from the room in attendance.  Please see Ms. Wilson with any questions.

 

3. Yearbook staff please be reminded of a very brief meeting today. Also permission slips are due for our seminar next week.

 

4. All 8th graders planning on participating in the 8th grade Variety Show on Thursday, May 26th need to pick up an audition form from Mr. Schweitzer this week.  The audition forms are due back to Mr. Schweitzer by Friday, May 6th.  Auditions will be held on Thursday, May 12th after school in the auditorium.  Any questions please see Mr. Schweitzer or Mrs. Rickel.

 

5. Attention all Model United Nations Club members - Our next meeting is Tuesday 26 April after school, to begin write the resolution from your country's point of view.

 

6. On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere.