Come on down to Bradenton for the Desoto Parade on Saturday, April 27th! We will be allowing 1 guest to walk with you in the parade so bring your wife or girlfriend, but not both at the same time! All they need to do is wear a Rough Rider T-shirt and smile for the crowd.
Come on down in your Kentucky finest for the Kentucky Derby party.
POC: Will Suarez - 813-564-3721 | will.suarez1338@gmail.com
TRIVIA
A) Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States?
B) Which president worked to save football from being banned in the United States?
C) In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government?
Historical Committee Quarterly Meeting
Mon, April 22, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM @ Clubhouse - Bartley Hall
May 18 - Tampa Bay History Center planning
June 1 - Bay Pines update
June 8 - New Member Tour - Call for speakers and other business to finalize details
POCs: Mike Glazer and Kent Gallamore
Golf Committee Meeting
Tue, April 23, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM @ Clubhouse - Bully Bar
General Meeting for the Golf Tournament.
All members are welcome! New Members are encouraged to attend!
POC: Will Suarez
All Krewe Bead Sale for the DeSoto Grand Parade
Wed, April 24, 2024, 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM @ Rough Riders Clubhouse, 601 N 19th St.
Open to all Krewes!!
Save the date – April 24th - Bead Sale for the DeSoto Grand Parade.
Come one and come all to stock up for the parade season as we have restocked with a full line of beads, trinkets, memorabilia, apparel, and other stuff available for the parade season.
Doors open at 430PM and close at 7PM.
Bradenton Desoto Heritage Parade-Parade Day Load and Unload
NOTE: This shuttle service is for Rough Riders and 1 guest (wives and SO's).
POC: Will Suarez 813-564-3721 | will.suarez1338@gmail.com
Bradenton Desoto Heritage Parade-Unload/Clean Day
Sun, April 28, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM @ Clubhouse
Fishing Committee Meeting
Mon, April 29, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM @ Clubhouse - Bartley Hall
General Meeting for the Fishing Tournament.
All members are welcome! New Members are encouraged to attend!
Please bring any auction items and/or donations that have been collected
If you have any liquor, beer, wine or seltzers you would like to donate to the Booze Boat, please bring them
If you would like to be a volunteer, or know someone who would, please sign-up HERE
POC: Paul Ferrentino
Washington D.C. Memorial Day Weekend Planning Meeting
Tue, April 30, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM @ Clubhouse - Bartley Hall
Planning for the Memorial Day in Washington D.C.
This is for all Rough Riders and their +1 guests
This meeting will cover important topics, including:
Scheduling of events
Sign-up/registrations for tours
Joint meal planning
Parade rules
Dress code for different events during our visit to the nation's capital
POC: Kent Gallamore - alaindishdash@gmail.com
Kentucky Derby Day with the Rough Riders
Sat, May 04, 2024, 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM @ Bartley Hall
TRIVIA
A) Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States?
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President. Nixon served as Vice President to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-1961 and was elected President in both 1968 and 1972.
B) Which president worked to save football from being banned in the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President.
At the turn of the 20th century, America’s gridirons were brutal. Armed with little protective equipment, football players suffered gruesome injuries and even death. In 1904 there were 18 fatalities reported during that one season alone. Reports of all the bloodshed led to an outcry for reform or abolishment of the game. The crisis became such an issue that President Roosevelt got involved. Roosevelt had long been an enthusiastic supporter of football, but acknowledged that reform was needed. His son Theodore Jr. then played on the Harvard freshman team so he had a personal interest in reforming the game as well.
Fresh off the heels of negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt met with head coaches and representatives of premier colleges–Harvard, Yale, Princeton–at the White House on October 9, 1905, urging them to curb excessive violence in football. The schools in return released a statement condemning brutality and pledged to keep the game clean and fair. Yet fatalities mounted throughout the 1905 season in what the Chicago Daily Tribune called a “death harvest.” The following season, major universities–Columbia, Northwestern, Duke–dropped football, and Harvard hinted that it would be next. Roosevelt again invited leading football authorities and school leaders to the White House in the offseason, pushing for radical rule changes in lieu of abolishing the game. An intercollegiate conference (the precursor to the NCAA), approved a set of rules changed for the 1906 season, such as legalizing the forward pass, abolishment of mass formations, and creating a neutral zone between offense and defense. The changes did not eliminate all the dangers, but fatalities and injuries greatly declined. A spike in fatalities in 1909 led to another round of reforms that laid the foundation of modern football.
C) In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government?
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th President. In 1933, the world was in a depression that was characterized by massive deflation. President Franklin Roosevelt issued an Executive Order, telling Americans to surrender their gold to the government because no one was buying anything in cash. Gold hoarding and bartering were also reducing the amount of funds flowing into the government. Because Roosevelt had agreed to bail out the banks during the Great Depression, it was bad news for currency control, so the president proposed the U.S. Treasury take over the Federal Reserve’s gold supplies. The idea was that once the federal government controlled all the gold, it could better enforce its plan to devalue the dollar thus reflating the economy. Federal Chairman Gene Black was sympathetic but wary. He advised the decision be left to Congress. Congress took up the measure in January 1934 and the measure passed on Jan. 31. The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 set a new federal exchange rate for gold at $34, but only for the purposes of foreign exchange. It also allowed the Treasury to print bills for the Federal Reserve’s gold, one of which was $100,000 with Woodrow Wilson’s face on it.
Memorial Day Parade & Activities
Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:00 AM – Tue, May 28, 2024, 8:00 PM @ Washington D.C.
New York Sagamore Hill Trip
Thu, September 12, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, September 15, 2024, 11:00 PM @ New York City
