Local Third Graders Receive Dictionaries

The Park Ridge Rotary Club recently completed distribution of nearly 400 dictionaries to third graders in Park Ridge, Montvale, and Woodcliff Lake Schools. Since 2007, the club has worked in conjunction with The Dictionary Project, a nation-wide 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, that seeks "to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary." With the support of local sponsors and volunteers, the national organization has provided over 18 million students with their own dictionaries since 1992.

Over the last several weeks, members Michelle Albergo, Vlad Zherenovsky, Steve Fox, George Sherman and Stuart Gold delivered dictionaries to appreciative youngsters at Eastbrook, West Ridge, Memorial, Dorchester and Our Lady of Mercy Schools. Explaining Rotary's mission of putting "Service Above Self", the Rotarians urged youngsters to work hard and to commit themselves to doing all that they could to help others in need.