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What's Up?

Unbelievably, more than a year has passed since our 50ish Reunion.  Time flies right?  I guess it's time to  say "hello" and provide you with a few recent updates. 

2023 Roosevelt Hall of Fame Inductees

Congratulations to classmate Mollie Smith Cooney who was inducted into the TRHS Hall of Fame.  Below is the article shown on the Roosevelt Foundation's website. 

The TRHS Foundation's Alumni Relations Committee is pleased to announce the 2023 inductees into the Roosevelt Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a special awards presentation on Wednesday, April 12th.

MOLLIE COONEY For more than 40 years, Mollie Cooney covered news and special assignments in both Iowa and California before retiring in 2017. A graduate of Iowa State University in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science, she has covered local elections and countless presidential caucuses since 1976; co-hosted numerous telethons including the Children’s Miracle Network for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the long-time Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. And, for more than 30 years, she anchored the annual KCCI Blood Donor Day community blood drive.

Mollie has won several journalism awards, including first place for Public Affairs at the IBNA awards for "Organ Donor Special." She also received the 1994 James Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism from Iowa State University; won first place in the Television Division of the 1997 Iowa Health Care Media Awards and received the 1998-99 Communications Award from the American Heart Association. In 2014, Mollie and her husband, retired KCCI anchor Kevin Cooney, each received the Silver Circle Award from the National Television Academy. It is the highest honor the Academy bestows to those who have contributed to their field and their community for more than 25 years.

Cooney has served as a board member with Iowa State University's Greenlee School of Journalism; the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum; IRIS (Iowa Radio Reading Information Services); Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute, Hospice of Central Iowa, the Roosevelt High School Foundation and the Salisbury House Foundation as well as emceeing numerous community fundraisers throughout the years.

Capital Campaign: Library Update

Another article currently appearing on the TRHS Foundation's website includes and update on the Capital Campaigns library renovation.  A portion of our 50th Reunion Class Gift was donated to this campaign. 

Greetings from the TRHS Foundation. We are writing to provide an update on the second phase of our “Roosevelt for Generations” campaign. As you may know, we successfully raised nearly $1.2 million dollars to transform the existing library into a new Learning & Innovation Center.

Our campaign committee partnered with Neumann Monson Architecture and DMPS Operations to professionally estimate the scale and scope of this project. Bid requests went out at the end of 2022. When we reviewed the responses on January 24th of this year, we were disappointed to find that only two contractors submitted bids. Both were significantly over budget.

Unfortunately, our local construction community is experiencing what we are seeing across the country: labor shortages, supply chain issues, and a backlog of work that is inflating project prices. DMPS has confirmed this has become common at various schools across the district.

We remain committed to the Learning and Innovation Center. However, it was necessary to make the difficult decision to reject all of the current bids and reimagine the scope of the project. We will spend the next few months doing this evaluation. Our goal is to put an updated design out to bid in the third quarter of 2023. Construction would take place in 2024.

While the layout and materials may change, we are still confident that we can deliver a facility that includes:

  • · Flexible spaces to foster small group projects, collaboration, and critical thinking
  • · Full range of essential connectivity, technologies, and presentation tools
  • · A vibrant hub with infrastructure and resources to support 21st-century learning

It will take a little longer than we’d hoped, but the completed Innovation and Learning Center will be a hub for students, faculty, parents, and alumni. A space that everyone in the extended Roosevelt family can be proud of.

Have a wonderful remainder of the summer and a fabulous fall. 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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