Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

The RCC will meet on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 4:30 pm, rescheduled from our usual first Tuesday of the month meeting date. Room 023 at the school. The district has announced that there will be additional public meetings about upcoming changes at Roosevelt and other schools. Roosevelt has been removed from the list of schools that might close due to low enrollment. Link to the St. Louis Post Dispatch article is below. facing-continued-enrollment-declines two st-louis-public-schools-will-close/article Link to St. Louis Public Radio article is here:   2-st-louis-schools-closing-june-third-gets-reprieve

From Coach Corrigan, Athletic Director at Roosevelt: Good afternoon, Attached are the winter sports schedules for boys and girls basketball as well as wrestling. We love any support you can provide in the form of cheering for our Roughrider athletes.

We normally meet on the first Tuesday of the month, but in January 2017 will meet on January 10th at 4:30 in Room 023 at the school. The change in date is because of the holiday. Photo is of neighbors and RCC members who served breakfast to the football team on Sept. 10th, 2016. Chef Euylan Welch of WelchOne Catering is in the white jacket.

The next RCC meeting will be Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at the school. The school is located at 3230 Hartford Street. Park on the lot on the Compton side of the building, and walk around to the main front doors, go up the steps and enter through security. The meeting room is on the ground floor on the west side of the building. One big agenda item will be an update on plans for the school. RCC members will be visiting neighborhood meetings in the next month or two, seeking new folks to join us in supporting Roosevelt. We will be speaking very briefly about the RCC and Roosevelt. The image below is from Roosevelt's 2013 graduation event, which was held at the Ferrara Theater at the America's Center downtown.

Our next Roosevelt Community Council meeting will be on Tuesday, November 1st (1st Tuesday) at 4:30 pm at the school in Room 023. Photos discovered on an old thumb drive - RHS students, staff & community volunteers from the RCC, cleaning up the front of the school & repairing steps, October 13, 2007, nine years ago:

Reminder that we have a Roosevelt Community Council meeting on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016, at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at the school. Enter through the main front doors, up the steps off Hartford Street. Parking is on the east side of the building in a lot off Compton. One of our agenda items will be how to attract new members to the RCC. Bring your calendar if you can!! A former Assistant Principal at Roosevelt High School has received an award from the St. Louis American. Here is a profile: stlamerican.com salute-kacy-seals-it-all-boils-down-to-our-kids Ms. Seals is one of several excellent Roosevelt Assistant Principals in recent years who worked with the RCC and went on to serve as principal at another school.

We had our first Roosevelt HS Football Breakfast on Saturday, August 27, 2016. Here's a snapshot from the breakfast (actually, it was a lunch that was held after the game because the game was an early one at 11 am): Chef Euylan Welch of WelchOne Catering is in the white jacket serving, and one of our community volunteers is to his left, with a student volunteer to her left. The student volunteers for the day were students in the Marine Corps Junior ROTC at the school, who did a very nice job helping out, as always!! The next home football game is Saturday, Sept. 10th, 2016, a regular 1:30 pm afternoon game, with our second Football Breakfast of the year in the morning. The volunteers for the day will be members of the August Gate Church, which is located in Tower Grove East, along with a few members of the Roosevelt Community Council. The 2016 Football game schedule is in a earlier post on this website. Our next RCC meeting will be Tuesday, September 6th, at 4:30 pm, in

The next Roosevelt Community Council meeting will be Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at the school, 3230 Hartford Street. Parking is on the Compton side of the building, and you enter through the main front door up the steps, off Hartford St., through security. Agenda items will include the 1960s Rough Rider Alumni Scholar-Athlete Scholarship, the Roosevelt afterschool program, and our Football Breakfasts. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 4:30 pm. During the school year, the meetings are at the school. To be added to the email list to get meeting notices, go to the "Contact Us" page and email us with the request.

This may not be the "final final" schedule, but we wanted to go ahead and post it. We have been made aware of one change - the Sept. 3rd game with Sumner had to be cancelled. Note that admission to games is $4 per person, cash, and you enter the field at the corner of Compton and Wyoming (and Gravois). There is a concession stand that is open during the games. Here is a link to some info about the new football coach, Shawn Pollard .

As discussed at the July meeting, we are moving the August meeting to Thursday, August 4th, at 4:30 pm. The change in the meeting date is due to election day and National Night Out.   We will meet in the board room at Five Star Senior Center, 2832 Arsenal St. Five Star is about 2 blocks east of Gravois on Arsenal, in Benton Park West. Dr. Crystal Gale, Principal, plans to attend the meeting.  Please feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in joining us!! 

The Roosevelt Community Council will meet today at 4:30 pm at the Five Star Senior Center, 2832 Arsenal St.  Apologies for the short notice!! 

We want to sincerely thank the many businesses that donated items and funds to support our May 29th fundraiser for the 2016 Football Breakfasts. We raised just under $1,400.00 at the event, which has been forwarded to the SLPS Foundation, our fiscal sponsor. We received checks, raffle items and gift certificates from Kitchen House Coffee ,  Commerce Bank ,  Stray Dog Theatre ,  STL-Style House ,  Tower Grove Creamery ,  The Vine Restaurant ,  Guerilla Street Food ,  Tick Tock Tavern, Grove East Provisions, Shaved Duck Restaurant, Millennium Restoration & Development Corp., DeSmet Jesuit High School, Rooster Restaurant South Grand, Commerce Bank South Grand, STL-Style House, Guerrilla Street Food, and Civil Life Brewing. Also many thanks to Riley’s Irish Pub for sponsoring the event and donating a portion of the day’s bar proceeds. If you have the opportunity to thank one of these generous businesses for their support of the fundraiser, please do so!!  

The RCC meets today, Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 (1st Tuesday) at 4:30 pm, at the Five Star Senior Center, 2832 Arsenal St. Here are some photos from the school's big end-of-year event, the Day of Love, which was held on May 20, 2016. The Day of Love event started in 2007, the same year that the RCC began. Photos courtesy of Jim Bennett, RHS alumnus.

Here's more info about Coach Pollard from the St. Louis Public Schools website:

Some photos from the fundraiser on Sunday, May 29th - many thanks to all who came out and donated or purchased food & drinks! And a special thank you to Riley's Pub and Bill Gilbert for organizing the event! The first photo was taken by Catherine Gilbert, all the others are courtesy of Jim Bennett, 1944 RHS Alumnus. The scene at the corner of Arsenal & Arkansas on Sunday afternoon Craig Schmid, who did all the grilling on Sunday, taking a break to blow his horn; Patrick Moore on the left, Bill Gilbert in the background RHS Athletic Director and official Roughrider tweeter, Ben Corrigan RHS Yearbooks from the 1920s to the 1940s, being donated to the school by Don Owens, alumnus  Craug Schmid, Patrick Moore and Norah Ryan Shaun Pollard, new Roosevelt Football Coach, will be starting practices soon; he comes from Gateway HS, was an assistant coach there

Here's more information about the football breakfasts and why they are important - this was posted after the first breakfast in 2015: first-football-breakfast-of-2015

New raffle items for the May 29th fundraiser: items and gift certificates donated by Tick Tock Tavern, Grove East Provisions, Shaved Duck Restaurant, Millennium Restoration, and Civil Life. This is in addition to items already donated by:   Kitchen House Coffee ,  Commerce Bank ,  Stray Dog Theatre ,  STL-Style House ,  Tower Grove Creamery ,  The Vine Restaurant ,  Guerilla Street Food . Also a basket of "swag" from De Smet High School.  Thanks very much to all of our raffle donors!!! See you Sunday, May 29, 2016 at Riley's Pub, corner of Arsenal & Arkansas, noon to 7 pm!!

Also - If you cannot attend but want to support the fundraiser - checks can be sent to SLPS Foundation, Attn.: Jane Donahue, 801 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor, St. Louis, MO 63101. Make the check payable to SLPS Foundation and put "Fund 935 - Roosevelt" in the memo area.  The SLPS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity and is the fiscal agent for the Roosevelt Community Council.

Please share & spread the word!! Raffle item donors so far are listed below the flyer!!  Raffle donors so far:   Kitchen House Coffee , Commerce Bank , Stray Dog Theatre , STL-Style House , Tower Grove Creamery , The Vine Restaurant , Guerilla Street Food . Also a basket of "swag" from De Smet High School. Thanks very much to all of our raffle donors!!!

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. 

The RCC's next meeting is Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 4:30 pm, in Room 023 at the school, 3230 Hartford St.  Planning for our May 29th fundraiser for the 2016 Roosevelt Football Breakfasts will be on the agenda. The fundraiser will be at Riley's Pub at the corner of Arsenal & Arkansas, starting about 12:00 noon to about 7 pm. The photo below is from the SLPS Foundation "Ed Talk" at Roosevelt on January 12, 2016. Dr. Crystal Gale is the principal at Roosevelt.

A reminder that the RCC meets tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 pm in Room 023 at the school. Planning for the May 2016 fundraiser for 2016 Football Breakfasts will be on the agenda, as well as the Roosevelt 1960s Rough-Rider Scholar-Athlete Scholarship and other matters. Please feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in getting involved. 

The RCC will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, at 4:30 pm at the school, in Room 023. Parking is available on the east side of the building off Compton. Enter through the main front doors up the steps off Hartford. Our meeting room is on the ground floor of the building.

The  St. Louis Public Schools Foundation  held one of its "Ed Talk" programs at Roosevelt High School yesterday. The program was about the alignment between Roosevelt and district transformation strategies and the recommendations of the Ferguson Commission. Excellent program and presentations. Link to Post Dispatch story on the program:   ferguson-commission-and-st-louis-public-schools-share-common-reform/article Here are some photos from the program, courtesy of St. Louis Public Schools: Panel of speakers L to R:  Dr. Kelvin Adams, Superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools; Mr. Aaron Jennings, Washington U. Brown School of Social Work Urban Education Initiative; Mr. Rich McClure, Co-Chair of the Ferguson Commission. Not pictured (see below) - Dr. Crystal Gale, Principal of Roosevelt High School.  Senior Tiana Preston, Student participant and part of the Audio-Visual team working with Mr. Murphy to record the program.  Students in the Marine Corps Junior Rese

A reminder that the RCC will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, January 5th, at 4:30 pm at the school, 3230 Hartford St. We hope to see everyone there. Parking is on the east side of the building (off Compton Ave.), then walk around and enter through the main front doors, up the steps off Hartford, and enter through security. Our meeting is on the ground floor level on the west side of the building in Room 023.