The Rotary Club of Canonsburg Houston Southpointe recently completed its annual distribution of dictionaries to third-graders in the Canon-McMillan and Chartiers-Houston school districts. Third-graders in the following elementary schools each received a copy of “A Student’s Dictionary,” published by The Dictionary Project Inc.: Borland Manor, Cecil, First Street, Hills-Hendersonville, Muse, South Central, Wylandville and Allison Park. For some of the schoolchildren, the dictionary from... Read More

Each year, the Rotary Club of Bethel Park generously donates a copy of “A Student’s Dictionary” to every third-grader in Bethel Park for their personal use and to keep forever. On a recent delivery of the dictionaries to Memorial Elementary School, Rotarians (back row, from left) Bob Bauer and John Nave had the opportunity to personally present dictionaries to Memorial third-graders, from left: (front... Read More

The Douglas Rotary Club, in partnership with Freeport-McMoRan, gifted more than 400 personal dictionaries to third grade students throughout the city. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, the Dictionary Project has distributed more than 28 million dictionaries around the world. In 1995, founder, Mary French sought importance in providing personal copies of a dictionary to third grade students in the South Carolina public school system.... Read More

FRONTENAC – Third graders at Frank Layden Elementary received the gift of knowledge Wednesday. The Frontenac Rotary Club delivered a dictionary to every student in three different third grade classes. The event is organized by Rotary Service Committee Chair Lori Lavery. She has been delivering dictionaries to Frank Layden since 2008, but said the yearly project started years before she was a rotary member.... Read More

Third-graders in Allen Park received an extra gift during the holiday season, thanks to the Allen Park Kiwanis Club. Members of the Kiwanis Club presented 330 copies of Webster’s Dictionary for Students to the third-graders of Allen Park Public Schools, St. Frances Cabrini Catholic School and Inter-City Baptist School. The books were provided through the Dictionary Project, which provides students with dictionaries to keep... Read More

It wasn’t Santa, but third grade students in Richfield, Monroe, Koosharem, Circleville and Marysvale all received an early Christmas present thanks to the Richfield Rotary Club. Rather than give toys, club members delivered a vital education tool — dictionaries — to each third grade student as part of The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by Mary and Arno French, a couple... Read More

The Rotary Club of Orangeburg-Morning has again this year donated a dictionary to every third-grader in Orangeburg Consolidated School Districts Four and Five, Orangeburg Christian Academy, Felton Laboratory and Orangeburg Preparatory Schools. Club President Dr. David Staten, who is also the program director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program at South Carolina State University, said this year Rotarians delivered more than 1,000 dictionaries in the... Read More

Ted Utchen began his crusade against bad grammar roughly 14 years ago, and since then his quest really hasn’t changed. “The Dictionary Man” brings little shtick to the vocabulary lesson he repeats every year for students in schools across DuPage County. Just the usual corny jokes and some worn-out index cards — all with an eye toward selling kids on the virtues of proper... Read More

Third-grade students on the North Fork have become “crazy about words” thanks to a collaborative program between Peconic Landing residents and local citizens that gifts children with a personalized dictionary. More than 420 third-grade students at 10 schools from Aquebogue to Shelter Island will get a copy of A Student’s Dictionary and Gazetteer this year thanks to Peconic Landing resident Joe McKay, who coordinated... Read More

Members of the North Platte Elks Lodge spent Thursday morning giving books to third-graders in 18 schools in Lincoln, Logan and McPherson counties. In all, members said they handed out 522 books. Each student received a dictionary and gazetteer containing thousand of words, maps and information on U.S. presidents, the states and other countries. The dictionary gains new words every year “because the world... Read More