It’s one more year that the Ripon Rotary Club has provided all the third graders in the Ripon Unified School District with fully illustrated McMillan Children’s Dictionaries.
A group of four members of the club visited all the schools: Ripon Elementary, Weston, Colony Oak, Ripona and Park View in addition to the third grades at Ripon Christian Elementary School.
The last classroom to open their door to Rotary President Chad DeGraff and his team was that of Dennis Walker in his second-third combination at Ripona School. As the Rotarians had done earlier, they opened one book at a time reading the name of the student who would receive it — then presenting it to them personally.
The second graders in Walker’s room seemed just as excited to see their third grade counterparts get their new dictionaries as if the books were being given to them.
A seal inside the front cover bore the name of the student as well as Rotary’s Four Way Test — a guide for living a good life.
“Is it the TRUTH?
“Is it FAIR to all concerned?
“Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
`“Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
District Superintendent Louise Nan talked briefly with the students telling them how important the new dictionaries would be to them — assuring them Mr. Walker probably had some homework in mind that would involve their new books.
The Rotarians were then invited to the Ripon teachers’ lounge where they were hosted to lunch with some of the staff members.
A group of four members of the club visited all the schools: Ripon Elementary, Weston, Colony Oak, Ripona and Park View in addition to the third grades at Ripon Christian Elementary School.
The last classroom to open their door to Rotary President Chad DeGraff and his team was that of Dennis Walker in his second-third combination at Ripona School. As the Rotarians had done earlier, they opened one book at a time reading the name of the student who would receive it — then presenting it to them personally.
The second graders in Walker’s room seemed just as excited to see their third grade counterparts get their new dictionaries as if the books were being given to them.
A seal inside the front cover bore the name of the student as well as Rotary’s Four Way Test — a guide for living a good life.
“Is it the TRUTH?
“Is it FAIR to all concerned?
“Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
`“Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
District Superintendent Louise Nan talked briefly with the students telling them how important the new dictionaries would be to them — assuring them Mr. Walker probably had some homework in mind that would involve their new books.
The Rotarians were then invited to the Ripon teachers’ lounge where they were hosted to lunch with some of the staff members.
