James Winter, Rotary Club of Silver Creek, Snowflake, AZ
Our Rotary Club is relatively new. This is our 4th year to distribute dictionaries. It’s one of our best projects. We place Rotary Club stickers inside of each dictionary showing community business project sponsors and, after setting up a delivery day and time, Rotary members deliver the dictionaries to one of the 5 schools in our project. We include lively discussions with the students... Read More
Leslie Yeffa, Santa Cruz Elks Lodge # 824, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Elks Lodge has been participating in this project for five years. The teachers really appreciate it and the parents think it is an excellent program.
Diana Dwyer, Riverside Valley Grange # 1047, Tacoma, WA
This will be our 6th year and we have greatly enjoyed seeing the students’ faces when they receive their book with their name in it. The teachers tell the students ahead of time and so they are ready when we get there. I think the page they seem to enjoy the most is the sign language and the longest word in the dictionary and... Read More
George Merges Jr, Rotary Club of Greater Aliquippa, Aliquippa, PA
This is the first year that we will be participating in The Dictionary Project. We are very excited about it at our club. It’s a great project, and we are looking to get it off the ground and running.
John Sloan, Rotary Club of Mt. Juliet Noon, Mount Juliet, TN
This will be our 5th year. We are very excited, and we look forward to this project every year. It’s special because it’s one of the few projects that all four Wilson County Rotary Clubs participate in each year; Rotary Club of Mt. Juliet Noon, Rotary Club of Mt. Juliet Breakfast, Rotary Club of Lebanon Noon, and Rotary Club of Lebanon Breakfast.