Rotary means many things to many people and one of the beauties of Rotary is the fact that each club does something unique to address needs in their community.

Jerry Kallman of the Rotary Club of Ridgewood met Elizabeth Huey of the Dictionary Project at the Rotary District Conference in Philadelphia in May of 2011.

Every October, Rotarians are encouraged to focus their attention on vocational service.

The Rotary Club of Manchester, CT, has distributed dictionaries to Manchester's third graders for six years now.

The Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotary Club recently gave 157 dictionaries to third graders in North Fork, O'Neals, Coarsegold, Yosemite Lakes Park and Raymond.

The Rotary Club of Greater Anderson received many thank-you letters from children at the 15 elementary schools that were included in their dictionary project.

Here are a few of them:

The Rotary Club of Windward Oahu has adopted 19 schools and donates one dictionary to each third grader in each class in support of Rotary International's goal of universal literacy for all.