Dictionary Project

Last year, for example, seven teams of Rotarians distributed more than 1,100 dictionaries to  students and teachers in 18 public, private, and charter schools in Henderson County.  

The project is named in memory of Sky Polega, the great-granddaughter of poet Carl Sandburg, an honor graduate of Hendersonville High and Hendersonville Rotary member, who exemplified our motto of "Service above self." Her Rotary mentor, former educator Jim Finch, spearheaded the project some twenty years ago and it remains one of many the club participates in each year to enhance education programs in Henderson County.

Since 2003, the Rotary Club of  Hendersonville has provided a dictionary for every third  grader in Henderson County as part of its annual "Sky  Polega Gift of Knowledge" project.