O&R, South Orangetown Rotary Share the Power of Words; Donate Dictionaries to Over 200 Cottage Lane 3rd Graders
Pictured here during the South Orangetown Rotary Club’s dictionary distribution event last week at the Cottage Lane Elementary School third grade in Blauvelt are, from left: South Orangetown Central School District Interim Superintendent Ileana Eckert (a North Rockland Rotary member), Cottage Lane Elementary School Principal Dr. Karen Scarth, Justin, Estrella, O&R’s Regional and Community Affairs Manager Trish Austin, Ifran, and South Orangetown Rotary Club Dictionary Project Coordinator Bruce Woolley. In the front row are Jack, Quinn, Emerson, and South Orangetown Rotary Club’s Beth Palermo.
The presentation was part of the Rotary’s ongoing effort to support educational projects in the community. O&R donated $400 to help make the project a success.
“Every third grader in the district gets his or her own dictionary as part of the South Orangetown Rotary Club’s Literacy Project,” said the Club’s Dictionary Project Coordinator Bruce Woolley.
O&R’s Regional and Community Affairs Manager Trish Austin said, “Words are the keys to everyday life, happiness, and success. Those keys can help open up the whole new world for these students.”
She added, “Mark Twain once said, ’The difference between the right word and almost the right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.’ These dictionaries are packed with all the words. It will be one of your lives’ great pleasures to find just the right ones.”
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