in school's Hall of Fame in 2001 Lorinne Crawford, actress and dancer Randy Duncan, runner-up for Heisman Trophy, first pick of 1959 NFL Draft Larry Ely, NFL player Ann B. Friedman, founder of Planet Word, a museum of language arts Everett Gendler, (Class of 1946) rabbi known as the "father of Jewish environmentalism" Hoot Gibson, former professional basketball player Nate Green, MVP Missouri Valley Conference (2000), former Professional basketball player John P. Hayes, artist David Anthony Higgins, actor and comedy writer Young Fyre, record producer Steve Higgins, announcer, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Lolo Jones (Class of 2000), Summer and Winter Olympian, track-and-field and bobsled athlete Natasha Kaiser-Brown, sprinter, Olympic silver medalist and relay world champion Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Academy Award-winning actress; 1987 Roosevelt Hall of Fame inductee Jane Skiles O'Dea, naval aviator, flight instructor and commander; TRHS Hall of Fame Paul Schell, architect, commissioner, Dean of University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning, former mayor of Seattle, Washington (1998–2002) Bill Stewart (musician), jazz drummer Ben Silbermann (Class of 1999), co-founder of Pinterest Olan Soule, 1928 graduate, character actor with hundreds of credits in films, radio, TV and commercials Robert D. Ray, Governor of Iowa 1969-83 George W. Webber (1920–2010), President of New York Theological Seminary. Feng Zhang (Class of 2000), Broad Institute and MIT neurobiologist, co-inventor of optogenetics, developer of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method, winner of the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize John Swanda, professional baseball player with the Los Angeles Angels minor league affiliate Inland Empire 66ers. See also Des Moines Independent Community School District for other schools in the same district. List of high schools in Iowa References External links Des Moines Public Schools Homepage Roosevelt High School Homepage TRHS Alumni Homepage Roosevelt Roosevelt School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Educational institutions established in 1923 National Register of Historic Places in Des Moines, Iowa Iowa High School Athletic Association 1923 establishments in Iowa