1. Today’s lunch is French Bread Pizza, assorted fruits and vegetables, and low-fat white or chocolate milk.
2. Congratulations to the 8th grade boys’ basketball team as they defeated Stewart 42 to 37. The entire team played an outstanding game!
3. Mr. Hardy’s 8th grade Advisory Support class, please bring your Program of Studies Book and a pencil to class today
4. On January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for "the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge."
5. On this day in 1967, a launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, kills astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module was the probable cause of the fire. The astronauts, the first Americans to die in a spacecraft, had been participating in a simulation of the Apollo 1 launch scheduled for the next month.
6. Congratulations to Mr. Ferris’ homeroom for winning song of the week. The song was Heroes by David Bowie.
