Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

Roosevelt Football Breakfast coffee fundraiser featured on the St. Louis Public Schools website: http://www.slps.org/Page/22025 We thank SLPS for the notice!

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet today at 4:30 pm at the school, 3230 Hartford Street, in Room 007. Enter through the main entrance, up the steps off Hartford. Parking is on the east side of the building off Compton Ave.

We have a new item available for the holidays - Roosevelt Holiday Blend 2013. This coffee is in an 8 ounce (1/2 pound) bag, and is whole bean coffee with a special holiday aroma of Rum, Pecan, and Maple. The bags are $7.00 each ($7.71 with sales tax), and all profits will benefit the Roosevelt High School Football Breakfasts in 2014 (we are getting a head start). Here's a photo of the coffee " in situ" at LaMancha Coffeehouse , 2700 North 14th Street, across the street from Crown Candy Kitchen at North 14th and St. Louis Avenue - the larger bag in the back is the original "Roosevelt Breakfast Blend" 1 lb. package. LaMancha has some other nice gift items also.

Roosevelt will be sponsoring the "Conscious Choice" program at the school again this year. The program is for child-free female students at the school (grades 9-12), and is designed to encourage the participants to delay parenthood, stay in school and succeed academically and professionally. The program offers a scholarship to UMSL to one senior student per year, based upon an essay contest. Mentors would commit to volunteering approximately 2 hours per month, and would need to complete and submit the district's background screening forms and an application (neither is time-consuming to complete). Go to the "Contact Us" page and send an email if you would like to get a copy of the forms.

Link to KSDK video about RHS - nice video - dated 9-20-2013: http://tinyurl.com/ovo2pug cut & paste the link into your browser if link doesn't work!

This book was mentioned at our September meeting. Link to info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Moore

This story was posted on the City of St. Louis' website under News on August 28, 2013. This student was one of the recipients of the Roosevelt Alumni Association's Scholarship in 2013. A Dream Comes Closer For A Girl With A Strong Will A determined Iraqi girl continues working towards her dream with the help of the WIA Youth Program Select Language ​ ▼ Published: 08-28-2013 Noor Ahmed is a 2013 Roosevelt High School graduate. An honor student and Vice-President of her senior class, she held various leadership positions at Roosevelt, but to fully appreciate her accomplishments, one needs to know her beginnings. Noor is from Iraq, where she and her family lived a comfortable life of above modest means, until one day, terrorist factions and political upheaval forced them to leave their country and seek refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Syria. Later, the Ahmed family ...

Admission to all games $4 per person; for games at RHS, enter at the corner of Compton/Wyoming/Gravois.   2013 RHS Football Schedule   August 31, 2013 RHS @ Soldan 1:30pm   Sept 6, 2013 RHS @ Chaminade 7pm   Sep 14, 2013 Vashon @ RHS 1:30pm Home Game   Sep 21, 2013 RHS @ Sumner 1:30pm   Sep 28, 2013 RHS @ Miller 1:30pm   Oct 5, 2013 Gateway@RHS 1:30pm Home Game   Oct 12, 2013 Carnahan@RHS 1:30pm Home Game   Oct 19, 2013 DeSmet High School 1:30 Home Game   Oct 26, 2014 College Prep at Madison HS 1:30 Home Game

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet at the school on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013, at 4:30 pm at the school. Here are some photos from touring the building on August 13, 2013. Photos courtesy of Jim Bennett, Roosevelt Alumni Association. Jim reports as follows about the renovations: Attached  a few pictures of renovated areas. The floors have new vinyl, walls new paint, stairs repaired and the front stone steps repaired with restored banisters, interior stairs and banisters have been repaired. Windows have been replaced. We did not see the library but it saw a major change fifteen years ago. Last renovation to the building was over ten million dollars. Original cost for the building in 1923 was about $250,000. Those were depression dollars when brick layers were paid one cent a brick.

All - A reminder that the Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, August 13th at the school at 4:30 pm. We plan to tour the completed construction at the school and then have a short meeting. Gather in the main hall outside Ms. Gale's office at 4:30 please.   I'm attaching a copy of the district's volunteer background screening forms, which we will be using this year for council members. They only take a few minutes to complete. All of the forms are to be returned to the Volunteer Services office downtown (can be faxed) and there is no fee.   We will distribute an update on the fund-raising for the football breakfasts at the meeting.

Tomorrow's meeting will be at 4:30 pm at the Salvation Army, 2740 Arsenal, about 4 blocks east of Gravois.

Many thanks to everyone who came out for the May 26, 2013 Football Breakfasts Fundraiser, and special thanks to the businesses below   which donated raffle items!! Special thanks are also due to Bill Kapes, owner of Riley’s Pub, and Matt Hathaway, bartender at Riley’s. Many thanks also to Rachel Witt with the So. Grand Community Improvement District for seeking raffle items for us. What great neighbors we have! Stray Dog Theatre Jay International Foods Tower Grove Creamery Gelateria City Diner Café Natasha Bikram Hot Yoga STL Style Riley’s Pub

Stop by Riley's Pub, 3458 Arsenal Street (at Arkansas) Sunday 1-7, support our local high school -- Raffle items so far (thank you donors!!!) : Stray Dog Theatre tickets Jay Asia $50 Tower Grove Creamery $20 Gelateria  $20 City Diner $20 Café Natasha $15 Bikram Hot Yoga $50 Hand-knit lace mohair scarf

Raffle items so far - tickets to Stray Dog Theatre (right here in TGE) and a hand-knit lace scarf. Other items coming! Here's the flyer:

We have a Roosevelt Community Council meeting on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 4:30 pm in Room 007 at the school (lower level, west side of the building). All are welcome to attend.   Graduation this year is Monday evening, May 13, 2013, at 7 pm in the Ferrara Auditorium at the America's Center, downtown. 10 tickets have been made available to the RCC, so please email if you would like to attend. We understand that the graduation speaker will be Michael McMillan, License Collector for the City of St. Louis.   Roosevelt's annual Day of Love event is on Friday, May 17, 2013 . Outdoor activities start at 12:30 pm and the community is invited. Enter from the Compton side of the building.   Bill Gilbert and Don Owens have put together a fund-raising event for the 2013 Football Breakfasts , which will start in August. The event will be on Sunday, May 26th, 2013, time TBD but including afternoon, at Riley's Irish Pub at the corner of Arsena...

Our regular monthly meeting was held on April 9, 2013. We are working on fund-raising for 2013 Football Breakfasts and the afterschool program.  Roosevelt Breakfast Blend Coffee (1 lb. bags) continues to be offered for sale at LaMancha Coffee House, 2815 North 14th Street, near Crown Candy Kitchen in Old North St. Louis. We were happy to hear that Roosevelt is being recommended for full accreditation by the North Central accrediting entity; Roosevelt Community Council members were interviewed by the accreditation review team on March 27, 2013. Next meeting is May 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm in Room 007 at the school, 3230 Hartford Street.

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 4:30 pm in Room 007 at the school, 3230 Hartford (at Compton - Hartford is the next street south of Arsenal). One of our agenda items will be forming a committee to seek out grants to fund a continuation of the student video project that we saw last month. (See prior post with info and some photos.) Roosevelt Football Breakfasts Coffee Fundraiser - Roosevelt Breakfast Blend coffee is still available for purchase at LaMancha Coffeehouse. Stop by and pick up a pound or two (whole bean or ground), and have a muffin and a cup of coffee at the same time. The price is $12.00 per pound plus sales tax, with all profits going to the Roosevelt Football Breakfasts. The coffee is a Brazilian single-origin and we have had favorable feed-back on the quality of the coffee. LaMancha is located at 2815 North 14th Street, one half block north of the historic Crown Candy Kitchen (N. 14th Street and St. Louis Avenue), an...

A student at Roosevelt High School is featured in this Post Dispatch story: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/a-way-back-for-missouri-teens-who-opt-out-of/article_d247c232-4e89-5ba8-983e-45339b0581e4.html#.USYqa7gTdX0.email

Special Report from Jim Bennett, Roosevelt Alumni Association Students at Roosevelt High School presented student-created videos at a program on Tuesday, February 11, 2013. Three videos were presented, followed by Q & A sessions with the student creators. The videos are:    "Stray Rescue" directed by Nicole Morris and Ciara Morrow   "One Step at a Time" directed by Jasma Steed, edited by Leondre Hill and Manal Hamed  "What's That Smell?" directed and edited by Quinsonta Boyd The project facilitators were from the Pentimento Project , and the program was made part of the afterschool program at Roosevelt. Mr. Charles Murphy, the school's AV teacher, also provided support for the program, and the presentation was made in the school's TV studio in rooms 036-042. More info about the Pentimento Project here: http://pentimento.tv/ I looked up the name "Pentimento". A pentimento (plural pentimenti ) is an a...

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at 4:30 pm in Room 007 at the school, 3230 Hartford. The school is having a School Community Service Project on Saturday, February 16, from 10 am to 1 pm, at the school. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to the school at 314-776-6040. The Conscious Choice program, a program for young women who are students at RHS, continues to provide education and mentoring at the school. The program is designed to support young women in delaying motherhood, in order to allow them to complete high school. The program includes a writing competition for seniors with a grand prize of a college scholarship. Contact Ms. Gwendolyn Myers at the school (314-776-6040) for more information.

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm in Room 007, on the ground floor of the RHS building. The school is located at 3230 Hartford. Parking is on the Compton side of the building -- enter through the main entrance off Hartford (if the entrance off Compton is locked). We are re-ordering the Roosevelt Breakfast Blend coffee, and there should be a fresh batch ready for purchase at LaMancha Coffeehouse on Wednesday of this week. Stop by and pick up a pound or two (whole bean or ground), and have a muffin and a cup of coffee at the same time. The price is $12.00 per pound plus sales tax, with all profits going to the Roosevelt Football Breakfasts. The coffee is a Brazilian single-origin and we have had favorable feed-back on the quality of the coffee. LaMancha is located at 2815 North 14th Street, one half block north of the historic Crown Candy Kitchen (N. 14th Street and St. Louis Avenue), and offered to sponsor this fund-raiser...