Carolyn Ettlinger, Rotary Club of Jacksonville Oceanside, Jacksonville Beach, FL
We have been doing this for four years- serving the seven elementary schools in the Jacksonville Beach area. The schools love it and look forward to it every year. We LOVE it! The schools look forward to it and the children are very excited – individual visits are made to each classroom and Rotarians give each child his/her own book. The club receives great... Read More
Linda Bennett, Rotary Club of Grove City, Grove City, PA
We have been donating the Thesaurus books to the 7th grade for at least six years. This is an excellent program and the prices are reasonable enough for anyone to purchase and donate the books.
Beth Tevlin, Wabash Valley Community Foundation, Terre Haute, IN
This s a great and quick community service project. It requires coordination on the front end. There are lots of great pictures for newsletters, etc. I would encourage service clubs to get involved. You make it very easy to do this project.
Dictionaries for third graders
For the Lions Clubs involved in the Dictionary Project, it's not too early to be thinking about this fall and the new third graders in your school (this year's second graders).
Happy students receive books from Grange
One hundred forty third graders at Rock River Intermediate School received new dictionaries from Rising Sun Grange # 718, of Waupun, WI.
Rotary project helps students & teachers
The Rotary Club of Manchester, CT, has distributed dictionaries to Manchester's third graders for six years now.
Ken Brumbaugh, Bedford Lions Club, Bedford, IN
This will be our fifth year. At first I had trouble getting people to help pass out the dictionaries. Now they line up to help pass them out because they love to see the smiles on the kids’ faces.