Holly Healey, Twin Cities Rotary Club, Ouachita, Monroe, LA
Dear Dictionary Project, The Rotary Club of the Twin Cities (Ouachita), Monroe, LA, has been providing dictionaries to third grade students in Monroe, LA for four years now. This program has made it possible for us to be able to present dictionaries to the Students and we are as grateful as the 3rd graders that receive these wonderful dictionaries. The teachers are also very... Read More
York Rotarians Donate Dictionaries
Since 2006, members of the York Rotary Club in Nebraska have participated in The Dictionary Project. This year, over 200 dictionaries were distributed to 3rd grader students at York Elementary School, Emmanuel-Faith Lutheran, St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Heartland Community School, Trinity Lutheran, McCool Junction and Cross County. For many of these students, this is the first time they have ever received their own personal... Read More
Challenge Accepted: How Many Letters Are in the Longest Word in the Dictionary?
Members of the Florence Rotary Club, led by Rotarian Ken Gunter, distributed dictionaries to students at Carver Elementary School. As the students anxiously flipped through the pages, Principal Rogers gave the students the task of finding and counting the letters for the longest word in the dictionary. If you are unfamiliar with the longest word in the English language, it consists of 1,909 letters... Read More
Maryland Students at Waldon Woods Elementary Receive Dictionaries
This fall, Rotary Club of Upper Marlboro President Stephen Cumberland and Vice President Jamal Abuswai presented dictionaries to happy and appreciative third grade students at Waldon Woods Elementary School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. For ten years, the Rotary Club has taken the initiative to partner with The Dictionary Project in order to sponsor schools in the Maryland area. Because of the hard work and... Read More
Plattsmouth Rotary Club Gives Students First Book
The Plattsmouth Rotary Club of Plattsmouth, Nebraska is pleased to have participated again in the Dictionary Project. This year we delivered 185 dictionaries to the 3rd Grade Students in the following Schools, Plattsmouth Elementary School in Plattsmouth, NE; Conestoga Elementary School in Murray, NE and St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The Students were very excited to receive the dictionaries, many... Read More
Cardington Rotary Club Promotes Education
Since 2005, the Cardington Rotary Club has been donating dictionaries to local schools in Ohio. “The goal of the program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary,” said Gill Ullom, longtime member and participant in the project. The dictionaries were presented by Rotarians to excited 3rd grader... Read More
Rotary Club Of Madison County Donates to Georgia Students
For seven years the Rotary Club Of Madison County has teamed up with The Dictionary Project to provide students in Georgia with the gift of a dictionary. Longtime member Gerald Coutant has kept the project going with the help of generous donations and member participation. Over the years, the Rotary Club Of Madison County has donated dictionaries to over 3,000 students in Madison County.... Read More
Hudson Rotary Club Gives the Gift of Words
Thanks to a donation earlier this month from the Rotary Club of Hudson, every third-grader at McDowell Elementary School had their very own, brand new, soft bound, 524-page dictionary. The club donated the 360 dictionaries, which also contain the entire U.S. Constitution and a variety of other amenities, through the international Dictionary Project.
Rotary, Connexus and AHEF Team Up to Give Students Dictionaries
For the seventh straight year, all third grade students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District received a free dictionary through a national project designed to help students became good writer, active readers and creative thinkers. it is funded locally by the Anoka-Hennepin Educational Foundation(AHEF), Rotaries and Connexus Energy. Tess Degeest, the AHEF executive director, and Phil Knutson, a member of the Anoka Rotary, delivered books... Read More
Rotary Club of Lucaya gives through the Dictionary Project
The idea for The Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, Georgia, gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. Each year she continued to give this gift, raising money to help give more and more books so that in her lifetime she raised enough money to buy 17,000 dictionaries for children in Savannah. The program... Read More