Jeffrey Kelly, Rotary Club of Vandalia, Vandalia, IL

The Vandalia Rotary Club has been participating with The Dictionary Project for the last three years. During that time we have distributed dictionaries to every third grade student and teacher in the Fayette County, Illinois. Our members enjoy the interaction we have with the students and teachers and the endless thank you letters from both students and parents. This has become one of our most important community projects and we now intend to expand our project for the 2009-2010 school year to include all third graders in both Bond and Fayette Counties which total about 450. Your cooperation in providing inexpensive dictionaries will allow our small club of 40+ members to distribute over 450 dictionaries this year to area students. We hope to with your assistance we will be able to maintain if not expand our commitment in the future.