The Wakefield Rotary Club recently completed its annual donation of dictionaries to every third grader in Wakefield. 275 copies were hand-delivered to all Wakefield public schools as well as Odyssey and St. Joseph’s School. Wakefield Rotarian Barbara Worley noted, “This is one of the club’s favorite projects. It allows us to get into the classrooms and we love the questions the kids ask. The gift of education is something that our club believes in strongly.” The club would like to thank the following Rotarians for their diligence in delivering the books: Suzanne Bowering, Joe Buscaino, Frank Fiorentino, Jim Fitzgerald, Bob Kimball, Mario Portillo, Lisa Roderick, Tom Stapleton, James Taylor and Barbara Worley.
About Rotary International & Wakefield Rotary Club
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 160 countries worldwide. The first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 by an attorney named Paul Harris and several of his colleagues. The name “Rotary” was derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among each of the members’ offices. The Rotary motto is, “Service above self”. The Wakefield Rotary Club meets each Tuesday at 12:15pm at Harringtons on Water Street. For more information or to join Rotary, visit www.wakefieldrotaryclub.org
