O&R Supports Dictionary Day

PEARL RIVER, NY Oct.20, 2010 --- The South Orangetown Rotary Club and O&R presented dictionaries to nearly 300 third graders at the Tappan Zee Elementary School on Wednesday, October 27 at the school.

The presentation was part of the Rotary's ongoing effort to support educational projects in the community. O&R donated $500 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.

He added, "This is the fifth year we have distributed dictionaries here, and we are pleased to partner with O&R on this project."

O&R's Public Affairs Director Tom Brizzolara, a member of the South Orangetown Rotary, said, "We hope that these books will help impart a strong sense of, and appreciation for, words: their meaning, their importance and their power. Words are the keys to every day life, knowledge and success. Those keys can help open up the whole world for these students."

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• Dictionary Day
• Rotary International
• Orange and Rockland
• O&R
• Dictinary
• corporate giving
• Tappan Zee Elementary School