David Wimmer, Rotary Club of Oregon City, Oregon City, OR

This is our third year the Rotary Club of Oregon City has given dictionaries to each third grade student in the Oregon City School District. The district does the count and prepares the labels by school and classroom. Labels with each student’s name are applied to the books at a Rotary meeting and then Rotarians deliver the books to each of the schools. The Rotarian takes the books to the respective classrooms and hands them out by reading each student’s name and then gives the book to the student. Copies of the Spanish/English Dictionaries are also given to the bi-lingual students and teachers. Approximately 600 English and 50 Spanish/English dictionaries are given out each year. We think it is a FANTASTIC project and the students really seem to enjoy it and are VERY appreciative. We usually receive many cute and thoughtful Thank You letters from the students and teachers.