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A dictionary in hand
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”—Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
Literacy is a key to the door of the future. It is a vehicle to escaping poverty, increasing your potential, and bringing light into dark places. As history has taught, words can begin wars or end them. Written words capture your ideas and intent. They also help history through records and archives.
As humanity has proven, throughout our history, we have tried to share our knowledge with one another. We learned that by sharing, we help build trust, relationships, and cooperation. This in turn has led to the creation of organized groups, clans, villages, then communities, towns, city states, and eventually nations all around the world. We here in the CNMI are no different, so we must keep this trend going by pushing for literacy.
It has been my pleasure to be part of the efforts by the Saipan Rotary Club to distribute into every public school’s third grader’s hand a dictionary which will serve as a tool for them to brighten their minds, understand the world around them, and of course add to this community’s betterment.
Thomas M. Thornburgh
Saipan Rotary Club member
