Huntley Rotary Distributes Dictionaries to Third Graders

The Huntley Rotary Club recently distributed over 800 dictionaries to Consolidated School District 158 third grade students.

Martin, Conley and Leggee Elementary School students received the dictionaries.

School staff and students eagerly anticipate this annual event. Students dive into the new dictionaries to explore the contents.

Rotary members distributed the dictionaries personally at an assembly at the schools. Thom Palmer, executive director of the Huntley Park District and a Rotary member, addressed the students.  

Students regularly ask, “Do we get to keep these?” Palmer said. He told students, “Yes, you each now have your own dictionary to use throughout your school years.”

The Huntley Rotary Club holds fundraisers each year to raise the money to purchase the dictionaries for students.  Matching funds were also received from Rotary International to make the dictionaries possible for all third graders.  

This is the seventh year the Rotary Club has provided dictionaries to third graders in District 158.  

The Huntley Rotary Club believes in “Service Above Self”, and strives to make a difference in our community as well as around the world through work with Rotary International.  Rotary is the oldest service club in the world, and works to address humanitarian issues such as health care, hunger, poverty, polio eradication, illiteracy and the environment. 

There are more than 33,000 Rotary Clubs in over 180 countries. 

For more information or to get involved with the Huntley Rotary Club, contact its president Jean Hernandez at 847-571-7422.