In 1999 Rotarian Aubrey Horres began the club’s Dictionary Project, in which dictionaries are presented to every third grader in Hampton, Allendale, and Bamberg counties. The project was Horres’ passion, and after his recent passing the club named it the Aubrey Horres Dictionary Project in his honor..

We have been participating for several years. We think it is a great program.

This has been a great project to provide dictionaries to all 3rd grade students in the public schools, private schools, and to home schooled students. Literacy is one of the greatest skills to acquire. By providing the dictionaries, we are helping all 3rd graders. I believe that we have delivered more than 14,000 dictionaries since 2004. We partner with the Terre Haute Rotary Club,... Read More

This will be our 3rd distribution to the school system. It allows our Rotary Club to do a very worthwhile service project and help boys & girls to read more easily.

Our wonderful Soledad Rotarians each personally help pay for the dictionaries. We have a can labeled ‘Dictionary Project.’ At each meeting once a week we pass the can around, and each Rotarian puts what they can afford into the can. Sometimes even guests want to donate. It is usually $1, sometimes $5, sometimes more, whatever they feel comfortable with. By one year, we have... Read More

This is a great Rotary Project. We are excited to do it, as our neighboring Rotary Clubs all do the project! The funds were given in Memory of J. Don and Delores Miller of Seward, longtime business and civic leaders in the Seward Rotary and the GFWC Seward Woman’s Club.

This will be the 6th year we have been active in distributing Student Dictionaries to 10 area third grade school students. It has become one of the members’ favorite projects! Fantastic! Even with the internet, the kids are totally excited to receive the book.

Our Delhi Rotary Club has been participating in this project for about 5 years. As a teacher in the Delhi School District, I can tell you that the 3rd graders now look forward to receiving their dictionaries. I make labels to place in the dictionary that tell that our Rotary Club sponsored the project. This is a wonderful project. It gets kids excited about... Read More

We have been doing this for about 5 years. We think this is a wonderful project!! Our little 3rd graders are just thrilled to get their book. Some of these kids won’t ever get another book like this. Thank you so much.

This is the sixth year that the Orangevale Grange # 354 has been giving a dictionary to every 3rd grade student in the Orangevale and Fair Oaks communities. It is just great. All the students and teachers rave about how complete the dictionary is and that it fits perfectly in their backpacks.