2009 Dictionary Project

Our club recently gave personalized dictionaries to the third-graders at the Newbury Elementary School.

Rotary views literacy as a basic human right and encourages each club to find service projects to support literacy. Many Rotary clubs work with The Dictionary Project to provide dictionaries to students.

Our club's dictionary project was organized by Dennis Jowell who personalized each dictionary and presented them to the students at NES. After presenting the dictionaries, Dennis coached the students to look up new words. One highlight was when Dennis asked if anyone knew what polio was - none of the third-graders had heard of it!