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How Rotary spells ‘labor of love’

Feb 22 2011
Mary

Students and teachers alike love the free dictionaries that club members give away.

Delta buys dictionaries for distribution to 3rd grade students in public schools

Feb 22 2011
Mary

Delta Air Lines has expressed its support for the Rotary Club of Saipan's dictionary project, which involves the distribution of over 1,000 dictionaries to third grade students of public schools on

Rotary Club donation a tradition

Feb 22 2011
Mary

Members present dictionaries to Jackson third graders


Paris Civitan Club members hand out dictionaries to Henry County third graders

Feb 21 2011
Mary

 Jan Doall of the Paris Civitan Club hands out dictionaries to the third grade class of Mendi Lassiter this morning at Lakewood School.

The Atlanta Airport Rotary Club dictionary project

Feb 15 2011
Mary

This video is about the Atlanta Airport Rotary Club's efforts to improve literacy in Georgia.

Seven years running, Hemingway Johnsonville Lions distribute dictionaries

Feb 15 2011
Mary

 When children receive one of their first books, it is not often that the third word on the first page is “abalone.” Thanks to the Johnsonville Hemingway Lions Club and The Diction

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