Roosevelt Community Council, St. Louis, MO

The RCC will meet at the Five Star Senior Center, 2832 Arsenal St., on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 (first Tuesday), at 3:30 pm.   There is parking immediately across the street to the north, on the Kutis lot. We thank Five Star for allow us to use their board room for our meeting. Our July 1st and August 5th RCC meetings will also be at Five Star.  Please put our Football Breakfast Fundraiser on your calendar for Saturday, August 23, noon to 5, at Riley's Pub at the corner of Arsenal and Arkansas.  We need help that day for set up, grilling, sales and with raffle items, so if you can spare an hour or a few to assist, that would be most appreciated. We also need raffle items, gift cards and the like (Bill Gilbert, our biggest fundraiser/organizer is no longer with us). We can provide an official charitable donation acknowledgement letter if needed. Finally, our new caterer for the Football Breakfasts will handle things a little bit differently, and we are going to need a few vol...

Upcoming RCC meeting dates - always the first Tuesday at 3:30pm; June, July and August meetings may be held at the Five Star Senior Center - "contact us" to confirm. May 6, 2025 June 3, 2025 July 1, 2025 August 5, 2025 September 2, 2025 We will be holding our once-a-year fundraiser for the Roosevelt Football Breakfasts on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at Riley's Irish Pub in Tower Grove East, at the corner of Arsenal & Arkansas. We are seeking volunteers and donations of raffle items (gift cards, sports-related items, etc.). We will need extra help this year. "Contact us" if you can assist. Two additional Rough Rider Reading Nooks have been established at Roosevelt. Photos taken April 17, 2025:

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 ...

This will be a fun event - purpose is to raise funds to support Roosevelt's 100th Anniversary and replace the damaged sign on the football field!!   Tickets at:  RHS Alumni Assn