Friday, Jan 17 Half Day for Inservice * Lunch will be served and busses will depart at 12 noon.
This Friday is Tie-Dye Day at OVS. Spend the day dazzling your peers with your multi-colored coolness! Anything and everything tie-dyed is needed for this day packed with swirls of rainbow-colored wonder.
Middle School Winter Sports Beat * 7/8 Boys AWAY vs. CKS 500pm game start
The bus will pick up the OVS athletes at 345pm (PARENTS could you please wait with your athletes at 340pm till they get on the bus -- Thank you) then to BVS where the coach and BVS athletes will get on bus at 4pm. The game at CKS (Christ the King School - South Main Street Rutland) will start at 5pm. * 5/6 Girls HOME vs. Poultney 430pm game start * Athletes please meet your coach at BVS at 4pm for pre-game warm up.
OVS Quote of the Day
January 16, 1938 * Benny Goodman brings jazz to Carnegie Hall * Jazz has been called “America’s classical music,” a label that does more than just recognize its American origins. The label also makes the case that jazz is worthy of aesthetic consideration alongside music usually thought of as “classical.” In the current era, when programs of Duke Ellington and J.S. Bach often draw the same highbrow crowds, that argument hardly seems controversial. In the 1930s, however, the notion was almost laughable, which is what made Benny Goodman’s January 16, 1938, concert at New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall so revolutionary. Goodman and his supporting cast claimed a new place for jazz on the American cultural scene that night, in what has come to be seen as the most important jazz concert in history.
January Spotlight Value * Our spotlight value for January is Caring. Caring is giving love and attention to people and things that matter to you. When you care about people, you help them. When you do a careful job, you give it your very best effort. You treat people and things gently and respectfully.
Middle School Winter Sports Beat * No games or practices are scheduled for today.
OVS Quote of the Day
January 14, 1943 * FDR becomes first president to travel by airplane on U.S. official business * On January 14, 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first president to travel on official business by airplane. Crossing the Atlantic by air, Roosevelt flew in a Boeing 314 Flying Boat dubbed the Dixie Clipper to a World War II strategy meeting with Winston Churchill at Casablanca in North Africa. With German U-boats taking a heavy toll on American marine traffic in the Atlantic, Roosevelt’s advisors reluctantly agreed to send him via airplane. Roosevelt, at a frail 60 years old, gamely made the arduous 17,000-mile round trip.
Middle School Winter Sports Beat * Monday, Jan 13 * 7/8 Boys Practice 530 - 700pm at BVS *
Game: 5/6 Girls HOME vs. Wells 430pm game start *
Athletes please meet your coach at BVS at 4pm for pre-game warm up.
OVS Quote of the Day
January 13, 1941 * James Joyce dies * James Joyce, widely regarded as Ireland’s greatest author, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 58. One of the most brilliant and daring writers of the 20th century, Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses is ranked among the greatest works in the English language.
Reminder! Join us Wednesday night (January 15) from 6-8 PM as we explore real-time data from the youth in Slate Valley. Working together, we can break through barriers to help our youth thrive. Please bring a cell phone for audience participation. *Refreshments provided. *Childcare available at Castleton Village School. Castleton University (The Casella Theater, Fine Arts Building).
Chess Academy * The OVS Chess Academy rings in the new year with an active afternoon on the 64 squares.
Students of the Month * Congratulations to the following students of the month of December for exhibiting exceptionally noticeable values of safety during the school day and therefore being a tremendous role-model to your fellow students.
Middle School Winter Sports Beat * 5/6 Girls Bball Practice 400-530pm at BVS
OVS Quote of the Day
Gusher signals start of U.S. oil industry * On January 10, 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signaling the advent of the American oil industry. The geyser was discovered at a depth of over 1,000 feet, flowed at an initial rate of approximately 100,000 barrels a day and took nine days to cap. Following the discovery, petroleum, which until that time had been used in the U.S. primarily as a lubricant and in kerosene for lamps, would become the main fuel source for new inventions such as cars and airplanes; coal-powered forms of transportation including ships and trains would also convert to the liquid fuel.
Middle School Winter Sports Beat * Thursday, Jan 9 * No practices, No games today.
OVS Quote of the Day
