Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

Just a reminder that the Roosevelt Community Council will meet on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at Roosevelt High School, 3230 Hartford Street. Parking is on the Compton side of the building; enter through the main front doors up the steps off Hartford Street. Building security can direct you to the meeting. Fundraiser Alert:  Please put Sunday, May 29th 2016 on your calendar for our 4th Annual Football Breakfast Fundraiser. This is to raise funds for our football breakfast program for the RHS football team (see entries on our blog/website for more info). The event will be held at Riley's Irish Pub, at the corner of Arsenal and Arkansas, from noon to about 7 pm. We will have brats, hot dogs and sides for sale as well as raffle items, and Riley's will be open for drinks. Set up will start at 11 am. If you would like to volunteer to help (please!), contact William Gilbert, PhD, at turkgobble@aol.com or 314-283-5288. Businesses, we would welcome the donation of

Photo of the three young women (center in photo) who won scholarships from UMSL yesterday afternoon through their participation in the Conscious Choice program at Roosevelt High School. Each won a scholarship for $1,500 from the university. They read their essays yesterday at a program at St. Louis University, which was held in conjunction with SLU's Trio program. Ms. Laura Craig, RHS Library Media Specialist and Coordinator of the Roosevelt afterschool program, is in a white jacket on the right side of the frame, taking a photo. The Conscious Choice program is a program for young women students at the high school to encourage postponing motherhood until after high school. Two of our regular Roosevelt Community Council members are mentors in the program, Rev. Paula Cooper of Curby Memorial Presbyterian Church in BPW and Norah Ryan. Students from Vashon High School and Sumner High School also attending the program. Each school has a program similar to Conscious Choice, and Sum

Karessa Morrow, now principal at Oak Hill Elementary School, was an Assistant Principal at Roosevelt and worked with the Roosevelt Community Council. The Op-Ed is written by Jane Donahue, Executive Director of the SLPS Foundation, a separate entity from the school district. The SLPS Foundation is the RCC's fiscal agent. St. Louis Post Dispatch article has Ms. Morrow's photo.