Rotary To Distribute Dictionaries

Rotary Club of Morgan Hill will once again provide hardcover dictionaries to approximately 800 third graders in public and private schools in the Morgan Hill area. This is the 6th year of the project. The club is targeting the evening of January 24 for assembling the dictionaries and the week of February 27 – March 3 to distribute the dictionaries.

 

Students will get to keep these books which come with a bookplate where the student can enter his or her name. For many kids, the gift of the dictionary may be their first book that they own. The book will also come with a letter in both English and Spanish from Rotary which may be the first exposure to Rotary for the kids as well as the parents. The letters will be in English and Spanish.

 

Morgan Hill Police Chief and dictionary project co-chair, David Swing, along with the Rotarian volunteers will once again deliver the books to the third graders.  The reaction of the kids when they receive their dictionary is priceless. Each year the Rotary Club of Morgan Hill receives letters every year from the kids and teachers thanking us for their dictionaries. This year’s dictionary committee is being led by Carol Carr and David Swing along with Rotarians Katie Hardt-Mason, Janene Towner-Chernoff, Janie Knopf and Dave Allen and Lisa Cardenas, a member of Morgan Hill’s police department. More information, including how you can volunteer, will be provided in January.