I believe this is our 5th year. The reception we receive from the students is fantastic. We added a new school this year and the Principal cannot believe we give these books free to the children. Our Club is totally committed to this program. We try and serve the schools in our service area. We started with two schools, and this year we have... Read More

Elks across the nation are very committed to youth activities and Arcadia Valley Missouri Lodge is very proud of our many youth programs. This will be our first time to participate in the dictionary project. This is just one more way we can show our young people that we are there for them.

Love it! Love it! Love it! A great way to make a positive difference in our community!!!

We have donated to the third grade in the schools for the last three years. Last year we also donated to all grades in the school from the third grade up so we could be sure all elementary students in our area had a dictionary. This has been the best project we have ever done for the amount of money it cost us. I... Read More

This will be our third year. We love the project and we enjoy seeing the kids be proud of having their very own dictionary.

Today’s world is highly technical. Sometimes we forget how things were done before the internet and hand-held technical devices. The dictionaries that Rotary gave to our students grounded them in a return to a tactile information source. I think the gift of the dictionaries served two (2) purposes: to give them a great information source and to ground them in an example of a... Read More

This is our 9th year of giving out dictionaries to 3rd graders. The most popular project as club members all want to visit the kids and give them their very own dictionary. We’re hooked. Have a small school district and with this year will give out over 1,800 dictionaries.

This is the 11th year that I personally have been delivering the books. It is a great program! We like watching the students and they smile and hug their dictionaries.

We have been donating to Alta Vista Elementary School for years now and have established a wonderful working relationship with them. We also support them in many other ways. It’s a very fulfilling project. Thanks! As an ex-English teacher, I find it to be one of the most worthwhile projects our club is involved in!

We have been giving books to students for what will be 8 years. Both students and teachers are very pleased each year with the books.