Announcements for Thursday, June 16, 2011
- Attention 8th graders…The Memories DVD's are being distributed in homerooms this morning. If you did not order a video, they can still be purchased in the main office.
- Track Team: If you were to receive a medal or ribbon at the League Meet, please stop by Ms. Hill’s room 175 before the end of today.
- Yearbooks may still be purchased while supply last in room 122, price $29.00 cash or check, checks made payable to T/E Middle School.
- On this day in 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. Known as a switchback railway, it was the brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson, traveled approximately six miles per hour and cost a nickel to ride. The new entertainment was an instant success and by the turn of the century there were hundreds of roller coasters around the country.
