Wednesday night, Hayward Rotary Club President Kim Huggett and literacy project chairman Tom Ferreira were asked to relay the thanks of the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education to the organization's members for distributing nearly 7,000 books to 1,750 third grade students at 19 schools. In the last 25 years, more than 50,000 HUSD third grade students have received free dictionaries or reading books from the club. The club also distributed 102 dictionaries at four Catholic elementary schools.