Geauga West Rotary Club President-Elect Jim Zeitz distributed approx. 150 dictionaries to the 2nd graders at Westwood Elementary school this past Monday. This Literacy Project started over 20 years ago by deceased Past President Jim Kisicki our long-time and beloved actor/Rotarian. He cherished the opportunity of giving the students their first personal dictionary that they could keep and put their name on it. He was a master of charming the kids with his illuminating stories of all the incredible amount of important information and facts contained in the dictionary/encyclopedia to include the world's longest word - over a half a page long that no one can pronounce!
Jim has taken over the responsibility for this special literacy project after Jim Kisicki passed away in 2017. He calculated that our Rotary club has distributed approx. 6,000 dictionaries to 2nd and 3rd graders over the past 20 years! What a wonderful legacy to our children and community!
President-Elect Jim Zeitz
