Jean Heinemann, Ashaway Grange # 50, Carolina, RI
We donate to the entire school district which encompasses three towns, Charlestown, Richmond and Hopkinton. There are four schools in the district: two in Hopkinton and one each in Richmond and Charlestown. We always present the books to the children at a special program for each of the four schools we serve. We have been participating in this program for four years. Each year... Read More
Brian Roberts, Rotary Club of Fernley, Fernley, NV
The project is to provide dictionaries to all the third grade children in Fernley, NV. We have been doing this for several years and this year added the school in Silver Springs, NV, 13 miles south of Fernley. We were able to do this after we found that the Lyon County Republican Woman’s group had already provided dictionaries to one of our three schools... Read More
Freda Dudley, AT&T TelecomPioneers / Albany Council, Leesburg, GA
This is the fourth year the AT&T Pioneers Albany Council has given the dictionaries; the looks on the students’ faces when you tell them this is their book tells it all!! It is so very important to help the students in any small way. I, at 63, realize how much I depend on spell check and don’t think about the correct spelling of a... Read More
Sharron Miles, Rotary Club of Cleburne, Cleburne, TX
Rotarians will place bookplates in each dictionary, deliver them to the schools and present them to the students in a special assembly. We have been participating for 5 years. We love it. It is a hit with the schools as well as the Rotarians.
Sharron Miles, Rotary Club of Cleburne, Cleburne, TX
Rotarians will place bookplates in each dictionary, deliver them to the schools, and present them to the students in a special assembly. We have been participating for 5 years. We love it. It is a hit with the schools as well as the Rotarians.
Allen Zick, Rotary Club of Goshen, Goshen, NY
This will be our third year. The children, teachers and parents are very happy with the project.
Nancy Pettus, Rotary Club of Jackson Hole Breakfast, Jackson, WY
Rotary District 5440 has been trying for three years to have all 3rd graders in the state receive books. Last year one person ordered most of the books which were then delivered around the state for delivery to the various schools. Bill & Nancy Pettus, as Rotarians, took on LaBarge and Big Piney since there was no other sponsor for those schools. This year... Read More
Marilyn Perry, Rotary Club of Marlborough, Marlborough, MA
This project is part of our Literacy program. The children get very excited when we arrive at their schools and distribute the dictionaries. We attach a book plate to each dictionary explaining our project for parent awareness.
Anson Godfrey, Rotary Club of Texarkana International, Texarkana, TX
This will be the fourth year that The Dictionary Project has been the signature project for the Texarkana International Rotary Club. We provide dictionaries for all third grade classes in four school districts in the Texarkana area. Texarkana is a “state line city” in that there is a Texarkana, Texas, and a Texarkana, Arkansas; therefore this project serves both states involved. We provide approximately... Read More
Chris Peterson, Rotary Club of Bowman, Bowman, ND
This is the second year we have done this project. It was so much fun last year that we increased the number of schools.