Amy Wensel, Hayfield Grange # 800, Cambridge Springs Elementary School, Cambridge Springs, PA

Dear Mr. Merritt, I wanted to thank you, and the Community Service Committee, for the dictionaries that you handed out to the third graders at Cambridge Springs Elementary School, especially to my daughter, Kylie. She came home very excited about her new dictionary and that she can keep it as she progresses through school. As a parent, I was so pleased to see such...
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Jnorty, Rotary Club of Norwich, Norwich, CT

My daughter received a dictionary and was so happy. She already had a children’s dictionary but she said she feels ‘smarter’ now that she has a grown-up dictionary filled with thousands of words she can look up. I know her vocabulary will benefit greatly from this gift. Thank You Norwich Rotary and The Dictionary Project! Comment on online article: 3rd-graders receive dictionaries from Norwich...
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Julie Pickel, Rock Hill Elks Lodge # 1318, York Road Elementary School, Rock Hill, SC

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fields, I wanted to thank the Rock Hill Elks Lodge # 1318 for my daughter’s new dictionary. She attends York Road Elementary in Mrs. Anderson’s 3rd-grade class. She came home very excited to have received this what she calls "a prized possession." Katie is an avid reader and right now is reading Moby Dick. She said now instead of asking...
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Stapleton Elementary parents, Charles River Rotary Club, Stapleton Elementary School, Framingham, MA

 The following comments were posted on a MetroWest Daily News online story about the Charles River Rotary Club’s dictionary project. THANK YOU to the Charles River Rotary Club. My son has been reading it (cool facts and statistics) for days now. He cannot put it down. And, he loved seeing his name in the front of the book – made it even more special...
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Elaine Kam, Rotary District 5000, Hawaii

Dear Hawaii Rotarians, In October, my third-grade granddaughter came home from school saying excitedly, "Mom! Guess what? My classmates and I each got a neat dictionary today!" (from the Rotary Club of Kahala Sunrise). Upon further inquiry, I discovered that the Rotary District Chairperson, Gloria King, from the Rotary Clubs of Honolulu and most recently of the Rotary Club of Kahala Sunrise, learned about...
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