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Seniors, Your

Prom Has been

scheduled!!!!!!

Mark the calendar:

Thursday MAY 24th

7pm—11pm

SENIOR PACKAGES

ARE DUE ASAP.

These dues pay for

your cap and gown

for graduation. You

can buy a yearbook,

Senior class T-Shirt,

and other swag for

graduation.

Please see Mr.

Phillips/Ms. Tunstell

to get forms, ask

questions or to make

any payments!

Club & Groups 2

Sporting News 3

Staff News 3

Just For Fun 4

Important Dates 5

Letters to Editor 5

Sponsors 6

Principal’s Vision 6

Inside this issue:

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February 2018 Volume 1 Issue 5

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Do You Need A Maryland State ID?

More than likely the

answer is YES.

The cost for the ID is $24.

You will also need proof of

residence/address. It can be

a cell phone bill, a letter from

court, etc.

Permission slips will be given

out Friday March 9th During

4th period.

You must be 18 years old.

Thursday March 29th

Mr. Stephenson is taking a field

trip to the MVA for State ID

cards.

You MUST bring in an

Original birth certificate and

your Social Security card by

FRIDAY MARCH 9TH.

No Permission slip without

Original Documents.

Featured Story

Croom Student Accomplishments

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Clubs and Organizations are a

great way to share your hobbies

and interests with others.

The options for clubs are limited

to your imagination.

Give it try, you will enjoy it!

How about a Guitar Club? Or even

a Music Club, a Chess Club a Book

Club, even a Sign Language club!

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Club, Group & Organization News

First Quarter Perfect Attendance

The 1st Quarter Perfect Attendance was held December 8 to honor students with perfect attendance and out-standing attendance ( over 90%), and most improved.

The Students who were honored enjoyed a fantastic meal cooked by Croom High School’s one and only Mr. Farmer!

YOUNG VISIONARIES & MY SISTERS KEEPER

Croom High School student Theresa Bowman, as a part of the My Sisters Keeper Program, pictured with Ms. Dianne Cox, made a Vision Board

as part of a stu-dent goal setting exercise for

Young Visionaries. The Vision Boards were featured on the Young Visionary Insta-gram site.

Featured Story: Croom School Student Accomplishments—Ms. Cox

We would like to wish Happy

Februry Birthday to:

Dr. Simmons (22),

Congratulations go out to

Dr. Ruth Williams for being

selected as the Employee of

the Month for December

2017!

Staff News

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1/16/18 Croom vs. CMIT South

CMIT South 58 Croom 45

Keonte Dennis- 22 points

Tyreese Washington- 9 points

Davon Snowden- 7 points

Timmondra Wildes- 4 points

Delron Norris- 3 points

1/30/18 Croom vs. Internation-

al School at Largo

Int. Sch. @ Largo 7 Croom 85


Gary Russell- 20 points



Please come on out and sup-

port the team!

Croom Basketball Update:

We are very proud of our

student athletes here at

Croom!

We encourage you to come out

and support the team!

1/12/18 Croom vs. College

Park Academy

C. P. Academy 66 Croom 62


Gary Russell- 9 points



Ronald Thornton- 8 points

The Croom Cougar Chronicle Sports Beat— by Ms. Farmer

T- Feb. 6 5:30 - Forestville

TH- Feb. 8 5:30 - Forestville

T- Feb. 16 5:30 - CMIT North Gym

Remaining Schedule

Just for Fun! - St. Valentines Day

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About 1 billion Valentine’s Day

cards are exchanged each year.

This makes it the second largest

seasonal card sending time of the

year

If you’re single don’t despair. You

can celebrate Singles Awareness

Day (SAD) instead. Meant as an

alternative to Valentine’s Day, the

holiday is for single people to

celebrate or to commiserate in

their single status.

You could pop over to Finland

where Valentine’s Day is called

Ystävänpäivä, which translates

into “Friend’s day”. It's more about

remembering your buddies than

your loved ones.

In 1537, England's

King Henry VII offi-

cially declared

Feb. 14 the holiday

of St. Valentine's

Day.

Physicians of the 1800s commonly

advised their patients to eat

chocolate to calm their pining for

lost love. Richard Cadbury pro-

duced the first box of chocolates

for this holiday in the late 1800s.

More than 35 million heart-shaped

boxes of chocolate will be sold.

Over $1 billion worth of chocolate

is purchased on this romantic day

in the U.S.

73 percent of people who buy flow-

ers on this day are men, while only

27 percent are women. 15 per-

cent of U.S. women send them-

selves

flowers on

Valen-

tine's Day.

The red

rose was

the favorite flower of Venus, the

Roman goddess of love. 189 mil-

lion stems of roses are sold in the

U.S. on this day.

Teachers will receive the most

Valentine's Day

cards, followed by

children, mothers,

wives, sweethearts

and pets. Women

purchase approxi-

mately 85 percent

of all gifts on this holiday.

Valentine’s day is celebrated

every year. But do you know

where Valentine’s day came from?

How it became so popular? Was it

always about love and good feel-

ings? From its bloody origins to its

sweet, chocolaty modern day

traditions, here are interesting

facts you didn’t know about St.

Valentine’s Day.

The most

popular

theory

about

Valen-

tine's Day's origin is that Emperor

Claudius II didn't want Roman men

to marry during wartime. Bishop

Valentine went against his wishes

and performed secret weddings.

For this, Valentine was jailed and

executed. While in jail he wrote a

note to the jailor's daughter

signing it "from your Valentine".

In Victorian

times it was

considered

bad luck to

sign a Valentine’s Day card.

Based on re-

tail statistics,

about 3 per

cent of pet

owners will

give gifts to

their pets on this day.

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Croom High School 9400 Surratts Road

Cheltenham, MD 20623 301-372-8846

burgh. Many companies are test-

ing these cars on the road.

Ford, plans to release a fully

autonomous vehicle by 2021.

BMW says the same thing. Audi

wants to debut one by 2020;

Volkswagen, by 2019. Like ob-

jects in your passenger-side mir-

ror, the future may in fact be

closer than it appears.

Will they soon become availa-

ble to buy? Well, that’s what

could take a little longer. Some

roadblocks between here and

widespread adoption:

Regulatory; Fifty different states

with little or no regulations as of

yet.

Insurance; 2 driverless cars

crash; who is at fault?

Dear Editor,

I hear self-driving cars may be availa-ble soon. This

seems nuts to me. My Galaxy smartphone can't even do voice recognition properly, and we're banking that a car by Google or Uber will be able to drive itself safely in the complexity of city traffic??

- Fear of No Driver

Dear Fear,

They’re here now. As of

March, 27 developers were oper-

ating a total of 180 autonomous

cars on California highways. Will

we see them in cities? Uber’s

been testing its cars in Pitts-

Fear; recent survey: 78% are

afraid of driverless cars.

Turnover; We hold on to our cars

for more than 10 years.

‘For there to be consumer ac-ceptance of these vehicles, they have to be virtually perfect,” -

David Strickland, Former Direc-

tor of the National Highway Traf-

fic Safety Administration

(NHTSA), In other words, we’re

not dealing with technological

problems as much as problems

with human behavior; suggesting

we may yet have a while to wait.

-Editor

Letters to the Editor

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

February 8 TH 2nd Qtr Report Cards Released

February 9 F MAKE UP DAY—School will be

OPEN for Teachers and Students

Februry 13 T Faculty Meeting 8:30 am

February 14 W Valentines Day

February 15 TH Back to School Night 6:30pm

February 19 M Presidents Day—No School

February 22 TH 2nd Qtr. Awards Program

March 8 TH 3rd Qtr Progress Report Cards

Released

Cougar Chronicle Staff Editor Gary Puzzella

Asst. Editor Maybe You? Sports Jessica Farmer Photographer Maybe You? Editorials Maybe You?

Important Dates To Remember

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What Mr. Henderson “C’s”

What do you C?

This is what we want everybody to C;

A Caring and Committed Campus Community where a

Challenging Curriculum produces Citizens that are College

and or Career ready.

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