Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

We meet every month on the first Tuesday of the month. Our April 2025 meeting is April 1st, and we are meeting at Roosevelt. We moved our meetings to 3:30pm so that we can get a report from the school. The district changed Roosevelt's hours to an earlier schedule this year, 7:15a to 2:12p - due to bus issues. 

Just some pics after some new books were delivered and some straightening was done. 

The Rough Rider Reading Nook as of 3-5-2024. Since then, the rug has been replaced and several new/used chairs purchased from Warehouse of Fixtures.   We have posted on this website about the Rough Rider Reading Nook (outside the Roosevelt cafeteria) several times since it was established. We hope to establish a second reading nook in the building this year. Here's more info. about the first reading nook.  The Rough Rider Reading Nook at Roosevelt High School was established in the 2020-2021 school year, as an initiative of Ms. Enna Dancy, Roosevelt Principal. Ms. Dancy wanted books to be freely available to Roosevelt students.  Community members from the Roosevelt Community Council gathered donations of books for the reading nook, and purchased new and used books and furnishings using grant funds from the City of St. Louis.  Books were purchased from the Eye See Me bookstore in University City, Thriftbooks.com, and Amazon.com, along with the donations of books from ...