{"id":6451,"date":"2025-12-04T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:55:48","slug":"dictionaries-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionaries Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6452\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/dictionaries-2025-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6452\" class=\"wp-image-6452 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-01.jpg 1623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This happy group of third graders at St. Mary \/ St. Michael School were thrilled with their new dictionaries.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Derby-Shelton Rotarians have made it an annual habit to assist in the education of all third graders in Derby and Shelton since 2003. Each year members of the club take time to visit each of the public and private grammar schools in the two towns and present each of the third graders with their own dictionary! Kim Ryan-Caro who coordinates the program each year reports that 424 dictionaries were given out this year by the following volunteers:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Shelton<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Booth Hill School &#8211; Liza Gambino<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Shelton School &#8211; Joe &amp; JoAnn Shapiro and Gary Scarpa<\/p>\n<p>Long Hill School &#8211; Lucy Andrade and Sharon Herman<\/p>\n<p>Mohegan School &#8211; Carolyn Dow<\/p>\n<p>Sunnyside &#8211; Gayle Kreho<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Derby<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bradley School &#8211; Linda Homes-Hannon<\/p>\n<p>St. Mary\/St. Michael &#8211; Jack Walsh<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A few pictures of Linda in action at Bradley School:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/dictionaries-2025-06\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6454\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6454\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-06.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/dictionaries-2025-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6455\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/dictionaries-2025-03\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6456\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-03-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-03-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-03.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dictionaries-delivered\/dictionaries-2025-04\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6457\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-04-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-04-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dictionaries-2025-04.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derby-Shelton Rotarians have made it an annual habit to assist in the education of all third graders in Derby and Shelton since 2003. Each year members of the club take time to visit each of the public and private grammar schools in the two towns and present each of the third graders with their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dictionaries","category-program","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}