The Paramus Rotary Club Prepares Students to Achieve Academic Success

The Paramus Rotary Club Dictionary Project is designed to aid the third grade teachers with the goal of preparing their students as good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers. The purpose of the project is to assist the teachers by providing all third grade students in the Paramus Community with their own personal dictionary for their continued use. As Rotarians we feel a child...
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Paradise Valley Rotarians Provide Learning Tool to Third Graders

This is the 12th year the Paradise Valley Rotary Club has participated in The Dictionary Project by delivering dictionaries to students in the Paradise Valley Unified School District. It is one of the Rotary Club’s most enjoyable and rewarding community service activities. Since the Club began participating, members have delivered over 36,000 dictionaries to third grade students in the Paradise Valley Unified School District....
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Indiana Lions Clubs Set 2015 Project Goal

The Lakeville and Lapaz Lions Clubs continue an annual tradition this year by visiting LaVille Elementary School and presenting dictionaries to appreciative third grade students. In District 25-G, more than 50 Lions Clubs across seven counties have given over 6,000 books within the past four years. District Dictionary Project Chairman, Lion Howard Heines is working diligently to make 2015 the fifth year in a...
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Civic Partnership Brings Dictionaries to Students

The Kiwanis Club of Arlington Washington partnered with the Friends of the Library this fall to deliver 650 dictionaries to 3rd grade students in local communities. Deliveries were made in 5 different school districts in our area. Arlington Kiwanis Club is proud to have partnered with the Friends of the Library for over 10 years to provide dictionaries to students in our community. Sue...
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Word of the Month: Diligence

dil·i·gence /ˈdiləjəns/ noun: careful and persistent work or effort What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784 The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius, 551 BCE – 479 BCE Learning is not attained by chance, it must be...
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