Photos from the Football Breakfast fundraiser at Riley's Pub

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

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Change in Homecoming Game, Sept. 20, 2025 - vs. St. Pius X (Festus)

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First Football Breakfast of 2015

"Football Breakfasts" means providing breakfast for the Roosevelt High School football team before its Saturday home JV and Varsity games. About 85% of the students at Roosevelt are eligible for the school's free or reduced price meal program during the school week, but there are no such meals on Saturdays. The RCC began supporting the breakfasts about 8 years ago , when Mr. Terry Houston, then principal, asked us to provide volunteers for the breakfasts. The breakfasts were his idea: they are a way to both support the team and connect the community to the school. The volunteers help set up, help serve, and clean up after the breakfasts. Currently, the RCC raises the funds for the breakfasts, hires the caterer to provide the food, and recruits the volunteers. We held a fundraiser in May at Riley's Irish Pub in Tower Grove East to raise funds for the breakfasts. The balance of the funds comes from donations. The caterer is Euylan Welch of WelchOne Catering. We al...

Fundraiser at Riley's Irish Pub - Saturday, August 23rd, 1-5pm - UPDATE

Reminder that our once-a-year fundraiser for the Roosevelt Football Breakfasts is this Saturday, 1-5 pm at Riley's Irish Pub at the SE corner of Arsenal & Arkansas. It turns out that we have a number of very nice raffle items as well as brats, hotdogs, potato salad, fruit, and drinks for purchase. (We miss Bill Gilbert but many of the items have been donated with him in mind.) If you plan to come and help, we will be setting up starting at noon, and will be wrapping up, pulling raffle item winning tickets, and cleaning up starting at about 5 or so. Let us know if you can help if you haven't already let us know. The cell # for questions is 314-241-9994.

Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

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