One of Rotary's global objective is to Increase Literacy. Improving knowledge of word definitions and use improves reading skills. Each year Northlake Mandeville Rotary presents a dictionary to each third grader in Mandeville and Madisonville elementary schools. Under the leadership of Dictionary Project Chair Matt Greene (shown on right in first picture) Rotarians go into each 3rd grade class and teach the children how to use their dictionary. Teachers then incorporate the dictionaries in their lesson plans. One of the Rotary dictionaries was given to La. State Superintendent Cade Brumley when he was recently the speaker at a regular Thursday meeting. Pictured above in addition to Matt Greene are Bob Mathews, Tom Quinn, and Courtney Gulledge