Bonham --  Approximately 10 years ago when Ray Clark was president of the Bonham Rotary Club, he began what the local Rotary Club refers to as one of their most exciting and beneficial projects. Every year the local Rotarians buy and distribute dictionaries to every third grade student in Fannin County.

Honey Grove third grade students reading their new dictionaries.

They also put inside the cover the Rotary Four Way Test: Of the things that we think, say and do: (1) Is it the TRUTH? (2) Is it FAIR to All Concerned? (3) Will it Build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? and (4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to All Concerned?

All the schools in Fannin County permit the Rotarians to go into each class and tell about the dictionaries and meet with the students.

Fannindel third grade students with their new dictionaries.

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society. THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarians’ personal, business, and community life; FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.