The Honeoye Falls-Mendon and Lima Rotary Clubs coordinated the project of distributing dictionaries and thesauri to students within the Honeoye Falls-Lima school district.
On Friday, October 14th, members of both clubs gathered at the HF-L Middle school to bring a thesaurus to each 6th grade student in 7 classrooms while providing information about the books as well as Rotary, Interact and community service.
Then, the Rotarians joined members of the HF-L Interact Club Board at the Manor School for an assembly to distribute the dictionaries to the 3rd grade students.
Principal Jeanine Lupisella coordinated an engaging PowerPoint presentation while the enthusiastic 3rd grade students unscrambled words such as “literacy”, learned about how Rotarians are helping with literacy in their community as well as across the world and how they could use the dictionaries now and in the future. They were excited to know the connection to the Rotary coins they received as 2nd graders from HF-M Rotarian, Sheldon Boyce.
A dictionary and thesaurus distribution will also take place at Lima Christian School in the near future.
Rotarians and Interact students helping with the distribution were:
Honeoye Falls – Mendon Rotary Club – Drew Ashley, Sheldon Boyce, Barry Kissack, Jeanine Lupisella, Drew Moore, Chris Radi and Joe Rosenshein
Lima Rotary Club – Courtney Larson, Rene Tilly Lyness, Susie Rose, Michael Rose, and Tina Zaludny
HF-L Interact – Sarah Bond, Ally Brunell, Kiera Smith and Kenzie Ward
One Rotarian made poignant observations stating, “All of these kids will come across times in their lives where they want to feel better. Many of them will turn to things that are not healthy or productive.. That doesn’t make them feel better in the long run. While trying to decide “what to do to feel better”, help them to consider “helping others” as not only a “good” but even a “best” option. The lesson – Be Truthful! Fair and Beneficial! And Build Goodwill! It IS the truth, It is fair and beneficial to all concerned, and it does build goodwill and better friendships.”
