Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

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.