Woodridge Rotary Club Distributes Dictionaries to St. Scholastica 3rd Graders

Students in the 3rd grade at St. Scholastica School received free dictionaries recently from the Woodridge Rotary Club. Mayor and Rotarian Gina Cunningham-Picek and other Club members passed the books out to students in Mrs. Wagner’s class. Students were excited to receive their “own” dictionary and enjoyed looking up such things as a sign-language chart and the longest word in the English language in their books.

Woodridge Rotary is especially committed to providing needed resources for children in Woodridge. The dictionaries have been given annually to Woodridge 3rd graders over many years. The books are purchased from The Dictionary Project in South Carolina, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by a couple responding to a need for dictionaries for disadvantaged youth in their state. For many students nationally, the dictionary may be one of the only books they might own.

Rotary is an international, humanitarian service organization whose motto is “Service Above Self.” Locally the Woodridge Club is in its 25th year of giving back to the Woodridge community.

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