Photo: Rotarian/MHPS Superintendent Dr. Jake Long, Dictionary Chairman Jay Chafin with his son Alex and Rotarian David Matty at Hackler Elementary School. Photo: Courtesy Brenda Nelson, MH Rotary PR Chair
The Rotary Club of Mountain Home delivered 435 student dictionaries to area third graders in Mountain Home, Cotter, Norfork, Flippin, Calico Rock and the MH Christian Academy again this year.
The dictionaries have been one of the club’s priority and signature projects for several decades, provided in part by a Rotary District 6110 matching grant.
According to project chairman Jay Chafin, the large books contain not only a dictionary of every known word in the English language, but also exhaustive information about every state; a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence; facts about the countries of the world; geographical maps; sign language; the monetary system; and much more.