Williams Rotarians donate dictionaries to spelling bee participants

By: Ryan Williams
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Donor: Williams Rotary Club

Members of the Williams Rotary Club donate dictionaries to Williams Elementary-Middle School students who took part in this year`s elementary and middle school spelling bees. The dictionaries were donated as part of Rotary`s Dictionary Project.

Theirs to keep...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Donor: Kearny Elks Lodge No. 2478
Category: Newpaper Photo

Dear Mary,

Yesterday three of us went out to the new Chief Hill Learning Academy which was established for `At Risk` students in our Chandler Unified Schools. It is an excellent school with the latest in the way of equipment and facilities.

We met with about 160 students....40 on the junior high level and 120 or so on the senior high level. All of these students are there because they are falling behind in their academic performance, so this program is designed to bring them up to grade level. Nearly everything is done utilizing computers which I am not certain is a good way to do it. Our Rotary Club is partne...

Holbrook Elks give dictionaries to local third graders

By: Beverly Goodnight e-mail communication
Monday, January 18, 2010
Donor: Holbrook Elks Lodge # 2450

Holbrook Elks Exalted Ruler Paul Ortega and Elks spouse, Penny Howell, present dictionaries to the Holbrook ninety-six 3rd grade students. Pictured also are principal Tim Newton-Pender and teacher Esther Stant.

Gila County School District Gets Dictionaries

By: Kevin M. Kenney e-mail communication
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Donor: Pinal Mountain Elks # 2809, Copper Cities Rotary Club, Globe Rotary Club and The Emblem Club # 554

A consortium of local service organizations: The Pinal Mountain Elks # 2809, Copper Cities Rotary Club, Globe Rotary Club and The Emblem Club # 554 recently met with Gila County School Superintendent Dr. Linda O`Dell to deliver copies of `A Students Dictionary` . Mrs. Dorothy Konczak (Emblem Club) is presenting Dr. O`Dell with her own copy of the dictionary.

The consortium purchased and distributed nearly 500 dictionaries to third grade students throughout Southern Gila County. These volumes are being delivered at no cost to students or parents. Schools that participated in the program were as follows: John F. Kennedy (Su...

Basha Bobcats receive dictionaries from Sun Lakes Rotary Club

By: Hal Wochholz e-mail communication
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Donor: Sun Lakes Rotary Club

I just completed a dictionary distribution at Basha Elementary School, Chandler, AZ, this Thursday, October 22.

Sun Lakes Rotary Club holds sticker party!

By: Dwight Grotewold e-mail
Friday, October 16, 2009
Donor: Sun Lakes Rotary Club

This is a yearly event that our Sun Lakes Rotary Club looks forward to.  About 45 of our members and spouses, total, came to Hamilton High School where we prepared the books for delivery, and then gave them out to our members to take and make presentations to the schools in our area.  Always easy to get volunteers for this outstanding program....thanks to Mary French for making it possible.

Yuma County Rotary Clubs to distribute dictionaries to students

By: - YumaSun.com
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Donor: Rotary Clubs of Yuma County

Fulton Elementary Fourth-Graders Hold Panel Discussion About The Dictionary Project

By: - Rotary District 5510 newsletter
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Donor: Sun Lakes Rotary Club

Four years ago the Sun Lakes Rotary Club initiated a program known as `The Dictionary Project.` This outstanding program furnishes each third-grade student his or her own personal dictionary as a gift from the local Rotary Club. It contains over 30,000 words with definitions, as well as a reference section that contains the United States Constitution, biographical information on all United States Presidents, multiplication table, information about 170 countries around the world, a description of the solar planets, and on, and on.

Recently a panel of two girls and two boys from the fourth grade at Fulton Elementary School, who had rec...

Sierra Vista Rotary Clubs and The Dictionary Project Create “Learning” Smiles.

By: Tim Quinn email communication
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Donor: Sierra Vista Noon Rotary Club

On Friday, 12 December 2008, Sierra Vista Noon Rotary Club President John Spengler along with President-Elect Jim Evans, and fellow Rotarians Lou Kuttner, Marilyn Culpepper, Pete Huisking and Tim Quinn created excitement and smiles on the faces of 125 third graders at the General Myers Elementary School on Fort Huachuca, Arizona when they personally handed each child their own dictionary. Each child quickly signed their name in their new book and set about flipping through the pages learning about the longest word in the English language (1,909 letters long), information about the state or country in which they were born, and even trying...

Dictionaries for Salome High

By: - The Wickenburg Sun
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Donor: Wickenburg Elks Lodge; Tri Point Retired School Employees

The Wickenburg Elks Youth Committee Chair Carolyn McDonald and her husband PER Walter recently took 144 dictionaries and 24 thesauruses to Salome High School as a gift to the 140 students and staff.
The donation was funded primarily through the Tri Point Retired School Employees Association of Wickenburg under the auspices of the Wickenburg Elks. McDonald is a member of both organizations. McDonald was alerted to the need for dictionaries at Salome High School last August. She was calling area elementary schools on behalf of the Dictionary Project - the nationwide effort to supply all third graders with their own dictionary. McDonald spok...

Sun Lakes Rotary gift helps kids climb to new heights

By: Dwight Grotewold email communication
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Donor: Sun Lakes Rotary Club

Hal Wochholz does such a fantastic job for us in delivering the dictionaries, which he records with his camera skills. (Interestingly, he is confined to a wheelchair as a result of polio that he picked up while in the service.....he goes faster and does more than anyone in our Rotary Club). In the one set of pictures you will see that he has several kids hanging from a `climbing wall` holding their dictionaries. (All of those doing this had to be cleared by the teacher as it is an actual course at the school.) Anyway, that is about as unique a photo distribution of your fine dictionaries as you can get.
...

Rotary gives dictionaries to Yuma 3rd graders

By: William Roller YumaSun.com
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Donor: Rotary Literacy Program

The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit aimed at providing dictionaries to 3rd grade students across the U.S., is a mission adopted by two local Rotarians to help improve reading comprehension and use English more effectively.

`The original feeling was to get 3rd graders to learn new words, build their vocabularies, and this is a very special book because it`s geared to them,` Richard Geyer, Rotarian from the Somerton Rotary Club, said.

At the 2000 Rotary International Convention in San Antonio, Geyer, a retired dentist, learned of Mary French, who launched the project in 1995 to distribute dictionaries to all South Carolina 3...

Kiwanians give HUSD third-graders their own dictionary

By: je herrmann The Daily Courier
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Donor: Bradshaw Mountain Kiwanis Club

`This dictionary has more words than our others,` said Jacquelyn, Coyote Springs Elementary School third grader, after receiving her own copy of `A Student`s Dictionary` from members of the Bradshaw Mountain Kiwanis Club Wednesday.

Fellow classmate Anthony said, `I don`t have any dictionary. I`m excited. It`s really special. I will keep it up on a shelf at home (out of reach of my siblings) and use it when I do my homework.`

Jacquelyn and Anthony were two of CSES`s 104 third graders to get their own dictionary. By Friday, the Kiwanians will present dictionaries to all of the Humboldt Unified School District`s third-graders. Ea...

More dictionaries for Wickenburg students

By: - The Wickenburg Sun
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Donor: Wickenburg Elks Lodge; Tri Point Retired School Employees

The Dictionary Project was started in 1995 with the primary goal of providing every third grade student in the United States with their own personal dictionary. Third graders are targeted as the earliest age when children are academically ready to get maximum benefit from the introduction to the use of a dictionary.

The Elks are not the originators of The Dictionary Project, and other service organizations actively participate in dictionary distribution. However, Elks lodges nationwide wholeheartedly support this project, which exemplifies the Elks motto, `Elks care, Elks share.`

In the 2007-2008 school year, 2.3 million dict...

Talk of the Town

By: Regina Ford Green Valley News and Sun
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Donor: Green Valley Elks Lodge #2592

The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, Green Valley Lodge #2592, sponsored a Dictionary/Thesaurus Project this month to coincide with the start of the new school year.

The Elks traditionally give dictionaries to local second graders in order to assist them in school. Accordingly, 216 dictionaries were recently distributed to the nine second-grade classes of Sahuarita Primary School by Exalted Ruler Phyllis Curran, Public Relations Chair Carol Sturdevant, and Project Chair Tamara Kahrimanis.

Kahrimanis also designed a thesaurus program for fourth graders, introducing the thesaurus to nearly 60 students who comprise the ...

Queen Creek Kiwanian enjoys classroom visits

Monday, June 30, 2008
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Queen Creek

Richard Turman of the Kiwanis Club of Queen Creek visited elementary schools in three local school districts to give dictionaries to the third graders there.

Youth project truly definitive
> Cienega rotary club gives dictionaries to third-graders <
By: Danielle Sottosanti Arizona Daily Star
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Cienga

The Cienega Rotary Club is giving about 650 dictionaries to Vail third-graders this school year — part of the club`s efforts to help local students.

`I like it. I`ve never had one of my own,` said Kyle, 9, after the club gave him a dictionary last week.

He`s a third-grader at Desert Willow Elementary School, where the club donated dictionaries to the school`s 131 third-graders.

Since the Cienega Rotary Club started two years ago, the 16-member group of financial advisers, accountants, school district administrators, real estate agents and other community members has made its mission to help local school...

Floral Designers helps folks bloom

By: Fran Milford of the Floral Designers of Sun Cities submitted this information about club activities. AZcentral.com
Friday, March 07, 2008
Donor: Floral Designers of Sun Cities

Our name is Floral Designers of Sun Cities. Do not let the title intimidate you.

Everyone is welcome, young or old, experienced or not. We meet once a month on the fourth Monday at 1 p.m., October through May, in different homes. We share horticulture and designs and always look for ways to conserve energy and water. It is a wonderful way to meet with others and share ideas.

We had 16 designs at the Bell Library for December.

In January, three of our garden club members participated in the Ikebana Flower Show at the West Valley Art Museum, and one did a series of demonstrations.

Today, Saturday and Sunday, thr...

Librarian grateful for gifts from Rotary

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Donor: Richard Geyer and Rotary Clubs of Yuma County

The Rotary Clubs in Yuma have received the following letters of thanks, among many others.

From Jennie Galindo, librarian at Gwyneth Ham Elementary School:
Dear Dr. Geyer,

I want to thank you once again for your generosity. The students have been putting your gifts to use as they prepare for the upcoming AIMS test. I have told every class about your work and your tireless efforts to increase the literacy in our area.

Over the next few months I will be focusing a considerable amount of time to teaching the 3rd-5th graders how to use the resources your project has provided. We have already started making synonym c...

Students in Apache Junction District receive dictionaries from Rotary Club

By: Bob Homann, Rotary Club
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Donor: Superstition Mountain Rotary Club of Apache Junction and Gold Canyon

All of the books went to schools in the Apache Junction (AZ) Unified School District which includes Gold Canyon (AZ).  We also gave books to one private charter school in Apache Junction.

We had great fun as always getting them out and enjoyed interacting with the kids. 

Dictionary Project again a success in Yuma County

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Donor: Yuma County Rotary Clubs

The Rotary Clubs of Yuma County had another outstanding year with the Dictionary Project, distributing over 3,000 dictionaries to the children of the county`s elementary schools.

Word up! Club gives kids dictionaries

By: Cindy Skalsky Herald/Review
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Sierra Vista

SIERRA VISTA — `As professional men and women who care about mankind, one of our projects is literacy. We also like to have fun, and this is one of the most fun things we do,` said Charlie LeClair, president of the Rotary Club of Sierra Vista.

LeClair and his fellow Rotarians presented dictionaries on Friday morning to 96 third-graders at Huachuca Mountain Elementary School, going from classroom to classroom with boxes of the reference books the kids can keep for their own.

`It`s a national program,` said LeClair, `and Rotary interviewed teachers and superintendents who believed that third grade was the right level.`

F...

Elks donate dictionaries to third-graders

By: Tim Gallen Daily News-Sun
Monday, October 29, 2007
Donor: Sun City Elks Lodge #2559

For anyone who doesn`t know what `benevolent` means, ask a Dysart Elementary School third-grader to look it up.

Thanks to the generosity of the Sun City Lodge 2559, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, every third-grader at Dysart received a dictionary as part of the Dictionary Project, a nationwide program that promotes the use of dictionaries in third-grade classrooms.

Members of Elks distributed more than 190 dictionaries and gave presentations to each classroom on features of the dictionaries.

`We`re old,` Elks youth activities chairman Tom Woods said to the third-graders in Nichole Drysdale`s class. `We`ve a...

Wordsmiths

By: - Mohave Valley Daily News
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Donor: Bullhead City Elks Lodge #2408

Bullhead City Elks gave 47 student dictionaries to the 4th-grade class at Mohave Accelerated Learning Elementary School, then traveled to Topock Elementary School and handed out 24 dictionaries to third grade, then on to Golden Valley`s Black Mountain Elementary School to give 75 dictionaries to their third-grade students, all for them to keep for their very own. 

Dictionary Project highlighted at Rotary District 5510 conference

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Sun Lakes/Rotary District 5510

A highlight at the recent 5510 District Conference was the `Dictionary` Project hosted by Dwight Grotewold and Gary Whiting with Wood Elementary School.

Yuma County Rotarian takes Dictionary Project to Costa Rica

By: Sarah Reynolds The Yuma Sun
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Donor: Dr. Richard Geyer, Rotary Club of Yuma

Dr. Richard Geyer`s last visit to Costa Rica meant more to him than just another great fishing trip. The retired Somerton dentist and his fellow Dictionary Project volunteers donated 48 dictionaries to fourth- and fifth-graders at Escuela Brasilito in Direccion Regional de Santa Cruz.

Geyer said he travels to Costa Rica to fish on occasion. Once while there, he met the school`s principal, Nidia Guadamuz.

She said her students were in need of English dictionaries for their classes. Geyer had worked with area Rotary during the past year to put 3,000 dictionaries into the hands of public, private and charter school students in Yu...

Tempe Elks challenge children to learn new words

By: Patricia Davis
Monday, June 11, 2007
Donor: Tempe Elks Lodge #2251

During Youth Week, Tempe, Arizona Lodge #2251 Exalted Ruler Kevin Reynolds, Chaplain and Youth Activities Chairman Barbara Wistrom, Lodge Secretary Patricia Davis and PDDGER and Lodge Activities Chairman Jimmy S. Davis delivered dictionaries to four elementary schools in the community. The schools visited were Pomeroy Elementary, Frank School, Fuller Elementary and Learning Crossroads Basic Academy.

The children and the teachers were very appreciative and responsive to the dictionaries. For the students at a couple of the schools that were visited, this was the only book that was their very own and that they could keep. The chil...

FH Rotary brings dictionaries to Peach Springs

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Donor: Fountain Hills Rotary Club

The Fountain Hills Rotary Club made a special delivery on May 18 to Peach Springs, Ariz.

Members extended the reach of their dictionary project when they traveled 250 miles north to distribute dictionaries to the children of the Hualapai Tribe. The Hualapai Tribe has about 1400 members and is located about 10 miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The all-day affair started with Rotary members departing Fountain Hills very early.

`We car pooled up to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and met at the Peach Springs Boys and Girls Club,` said Sandie Sickels, club president.

`Laurie Crozier, the center dire...

Rotary Club of Ahwatukee Foothills Dictionary Project

By: Polly Schumacher
Monday, May 21, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Ahwatukee Foothills

The 14 members of the Rotary Club of Ahwatukee Foothills, Phoenix, Arizona, adopted the Dictionary Project in 2006. We requested and delivered to each individual classroom a total of 1,920 dictionaries to the third grade classes at 19 schools in the Kyrene School District. We received great support from the District Superintendent, principals and teachers. Upon presenting the books at the schools a letter was given to each principal and teacher explaining this project and information on Rotary. We then followed up with a thank you letter to the District Superintendent and letters of thanks to each principal. When speaking to the classes...

Wickenburg Elks donate dictionaries

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Donor: Wickenburg Elks Lodge #2160

The members of Wickenburg Elks Lodge #2160 in Wickenburg, Arizona donated dictionaries to children at Wickenburg Christian Academy, Congress Elementary School, and Wenden Elementary School.

Delta Kappa Gamma chapter brings dictionaries to Children`s Home

By: Nadine Elson
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Donor: Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma

Our Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma received the four boxes of dictionaries for our project to Sunshine Acres Children`s Home, Mesa, AZ, and they were delivered to the home.

The home was very happy to receive the books to be given to each child for his very own. 

Somerton Rotary Club and other Yuma-area clubs work for literacy

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Donor: Somerton Rotary Club and other Yuma-area clubs

A thank-you letter from a Principal:

Dear Dr. Geyer and the Somerton Rotary Club,

Thank you so much for your generous donation of dictionaries to be used for the students at San Pasqual Valley Elementary School. Your thoughtfulness in thinking of our students here in Winterhaven, California was greatly appreciated by all. Your gift serves as an excellent example of how the community and the school can work together for the good of the students.

Although some of the third grade students already mailed their thank you letters to you, I am enclosing more letters from Mrs. Hamm`s Class. I hope you enjoy reading them as...

Elks include dictionaries in Drug Awareness Program

By: Edna K. Jacoby
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Donor: Surprise Elks Lodge #2833

Governor Napolitano praises Rotary Dictionary Project

By: Dwight Grotewold
Friday, February 23, 2007
Donor: Rotary Clubs of Arizona

Thanks to Joe O`Reilley, a Rotarian who works in the administration of the Mesa School system, Governor Janet Napolitano was invited to come to one of the elementary schools in Mesa recently. As you can see, she was impressed with The Dictionary Project and talked with a group of third grade students about it and how it parallels her gift of a book for the students throughout Arizona. There were newspaper reporters, television reporters and photographers invited for the event. It`s great to have this outstanding Community Service project receive this kind of recognition. We grew from 4,500 dictionaries that we distributed last year to...

Daughters of the American Revolution continue project

By: Jacqueline Ross
Monday, February 19, 2007
Donor: Havasu Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

We have donated Student Dictionaries to the third graders of the Parker Dam, CA school for the past two years, and donated to the third graders at two private schools, Bethany Christian and Our Saviour Lutheran Schools. For the past two years we also donated to the towns of Parker and Poston, AZ, but they have already been gifted this year by the Parker Rotary Club.

This is such a fantastic program that we are delighted that the program is expanding in our area. So many of our children have never had an opportunity to own a book of their very own. They are so excited to receive these books and begin exploring the contents immediat...

Jerome Elks Program puts 336 new dictionaries in the hands of third-grade students

Thursday, February 01, 2007
Donor: Jerome Elks Lodge #1361

Thanks to the Jerome Elks Lodge, every third grader at American Heritage Academy, Clarkdale/Jerome School, and Cottonwood Elementary now has a personal dictionary for his or her homework. The Jerome Elks also gave a dictionary to every third grade teacher so they have the same books as the students.

Thursday, January 11, with the help of Phi Beta Lambda of Yavapai College, Elks members distributed 130 dictionaries at AHA. Each dictionary was personalized with the name of the student receiving it. The children were very excited to be receiving their own dictionaries and the teachers were elated.

Ms. Cheri Grau, third-grade ...

Dictionary Day

Monday, January 01, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Somerton

Dr. Richard Geyer of the Somerton Rotary Club handed out free dictionaries to third graders at Harvest Preparatory Academy on Wednesday.  The Rotary Club donated 83 dictionaries to children at Harvest Preparatory, Geyer said.  He added that the Rotary Clubs in Yuma have delivered 3,075 dictionaries, free of charge, to third-grade students throughout Yuma County this year.  Sarah, a student at Harvest Preparatory, said the part of the book she liked the best were the maps of the seven continents that were included.  `It`s really cool,` she said.

Dictionaries `fire the imagination`

By: Patrick Stivers
Monday, December 18, 2006
Donor: Paradise Valley Rotary Club

The Paradise Valley Rotary Club, as part of its ongoing commitment to community service, has donated a Student Dictionary and Gazetteer to each third grade student in the Paradise Valley Unified School District, as well as the Thomas Pappas School for the Homeless in Phoenix. For the second year, almost 4000 of these books were given to the students and their teachers during October and November. With financial support from Rotary International, individual and corporate sponsors, the gift of these versatile reference books brings a valuable resource to our classrooms.



These books, printed by The Dictionary Pr...

Silver Creek Rotary Club `delighted to participate` in Dictionary Project

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Donor: Silver Creek Rotary Club

Silver Creek Rotary Club members Lee Hunter, Jason Brubaker, Fred Peterson, Kip Peterson, Sam Roser and Tom DeWitt spread the fun of learning by handing out free dictionaries to third graders and teachers at the Snowflake and Taylor Elementary Schools November 16.  The dictionaries are gifts the Rotary members know will by used for many years to come.  The group is so pleased with the response from Snowflake-Taylor elementary schools they are planning to visit other communities and give out more dictionaries at the Concho and Holbrook elementary schools.

SUN LAKES` ROTARY CLUBS TAKE ACTION ON AN IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL PROJECT

By: Dwight Grotewold
Monday, November 06, 2006
Donor: SUN LAKES` ROTARY CLUBS

There has been much written over the past few years about the decreasing level of proficiency in several academic areas by students in the United States . Most writers maintain that much of the problem lies in the fact that students are lacking in the fundamental area of reading. Children, as well as adults, turn nearly exclusively to television, computers, and electronic games for entertainment. These offer instant gratification. Technology has, for many students, replaced the task and the thrill of reading. Homes are increasingly found to be devoid of books and printed materials. One cannot develop solid writing skills without first ...

Bullhead City Elks Lodge Dictionary Project

By: Terr Frear
Friday, October 27, 2006
Donor: Bullhead City Elks Lodge

As recalled, Bullhead City Elks` Esquire, Terri Frear, was the winner of a raffle conducted by the Youth Activities State Chairman, Lee Fry at AEA`s May convention in Phoenix for $800. The money was to purchase dictionaries for our third graders.

During a three-day period in September 2006 the Bullhead City Elks distributed 528 `Student Dictionaries` to the Tri-state area`s third grade students. There were six schools that benefitted are:

Bennett Elementary 45

Mountain View Elementary 55

Diamondback Elementary 96

Desert Valley Elementary 240

Topock Elementary 31

On behalf of...

Rotary Club donating dictionaries
Program to benefit 1,920 3rd-graders in Kyrene Elementary district
By: Weldon B. Johnson The Arizona Republic
Friday, October 13, 2006
Donor: Ahwatukee Foothills Rotary Club

Children who are reading at grade level by the time they leave third grade are far more likely to graduate from high school, according to the U.S Department of Education.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Rotary Club is trying to help local kids achieve that goal with its dictionary project for third-graders in Kyrene Elementary School District.

So far, the club has made donations at nine schools with 10 remaining. The club plans to distribute dictionaries to 1,920 students.

`It`s a great program, they each get their own dictionary,` Ahwatukee Foothills Rotary Club President Polly Schumacher said. `The kids are excited about hav...

How do you define generosity?; Service clubs provide dictionaries to DUSD third-graders

By: Rusty Bradshaw Newszap Arizona
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Donor: Surprise Elks Lodge

The longest word in the English language, the name for an enzyme that has 267 amino acids, contains 1,909 letters.

Third-grade students at Sunset Hills Elementary School, 17825 W. Sierra Montana Loop, reacted with oohs and aahs of amazement when they learned that from Surprise Elks member Edna Jacobi.

Students were first stunned, then amused, when Jim Dean, Sunset Hills principal, jokingly told them the word would be on their next spelling test.

The longest word is described on the last page of A Student`s Dictionary, one of which was given to each third-grader at Sunset Hills Elementary School Jan. 25.

The do...

Rotarians Contribute

Sunday, October 01, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Yuma

Joann Linville, vice president for student services at Arizona Western College, and Dr. Richard J. Geyer, a Somerton Rotary member, received checks of $350 and $500, respectively, from Kevin Burge, Yuma Rotary Club president, on behalf of the club. The check presented to Linville, which will be matched by $350 from AEA Federal Credit Union, will go to the college`s VICA program to help pay for food served at the biannual Welders Without Borders Build the Dream event on Oct. 20. The check to Geyer will go to the Rotary International Dictionary Project to pay for 350 dictionaries that will be handed out to area third graders. ...

How do you spell ...?
Route 66 Rotary delivers dictionaries to students
By: Terry Organ The Kingman Daily Miner
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Donor: Route 66 Rotary Club

Third-graders at Hualapai Elementary School assembled Friday in the school`s gymnasium to receive a gift that could immeasurably enhance their educations.

About 150 students were presented with copies of `A Student`s Dictionary,` which is published by The Dictionary Project based in Charleston, S.C. Three members of the Route 66 Rotary Club, which participated in the project for International Literacy Day, distributed the dictionaries.

Local Rotarians present included club President Larry Thornton, Alan Rush, chairman of the youth committee, and Jerry Ambrose, program chairman.

The woman who started the project felt thir...

How do you define generosity?; Service clubs provide dictionaries to DUSD third-graders

By: Rusty Bradshaw Surprise Independent
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Donor: Surprise Rotary Club, Surprise Elks Lodge and Sun City West Rotary Club.

The longest word in the English language, the name for an enzyme that has 267 amino acids, contains 1,909 letters.

Third-grade students at Sunset Hills Elementary School, 17825 W. Sierra Montana Loop, reacted with oohs and aahs of amazement when they learned that from Surprise Elks member Edna Jacobi.

Students were first stunned, then amused, when Jim Dean, Sunset Hills principal, jokingly told them the word would be on their next spelling test.

The longest word is described on the last page of A Student`s Dictionary, one of which was given to each third-grader at Sunset Hills Elementary School Jan. 25.

...

The Dictionary Poject Takes Off In Arizona

Sunday, January 01, 2006
Donor: The Arizona Elks Lodges

Thanks to the generosity of many Elks Lodges across the state of Arizona hundreds of Arizona third graders have a dictionary to call their own. The Arizona Elks Association hopes that every third-grader in Arizona will receive a dictionary as part of the Dictionary Project, a nationwide program that promotes the use of dictionaries in third-grade classrooms.

Many Elks Lodges across Arizona have distributed dictionaries and given presentations to to each classroom on features that can be found in the dictionaries.`We`re old,` Sun Cities Elks Youth Activities Chairman Tom Woods said to the third graders in Nichole Drysdale`s cl...

Rotary Club Sun Lakes, AZ 3rd Grade Dictionary Project

By: Hal Wochholz letter
Monday, November 07, 2005
Donor: Sun Lakes Rotary Club, AZ

Dear Mary:

I am writing this note and sending the attachments in response to Dwight Grotewold`s request. Dwight has repeatedly informed our Rotary Club of his communications with you and the assistance you have provided in getting us `up to speed` with respect to our dictionary project. What a thrill it has been for the past two years to distribute dictionaries to the local 3 rd graders. Of all of the excellent Rotary experiences I have conducted this rate right near the top!

My wife, another Rotarian and I just finished Basha and Tarwater Elementary Schools here in Chandler, AZ - about 270 3` d grader...

Rotary International District 5510 donates dictionaries to local students

By: Al Mabry
Friday, October 28, 2005
Donor: Rotary International District 5510

Five hundred dictionaries have been presented to four elementary schools in Mesa, Arizona

Roatry International District 5510 donates dictionaries to local students

By: Al Mabry letter
Friday, October 28, 2005
Donor: Rotary International District 5510

Five hundred dictionaries have been presented to four elementary schools in Mesa, Arizona

Somerton kids get the word
Program puts dictionaries in hands of third graders
By: Paige Lauren Deiner, Yuma Sun
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Donor: Rotary and Optimist Clubs of Yuma County

SOMERTON—Area Rotarians and Optimist Club members had to be giving away something good in order to get 3,000 third graders to wait in line patiently on Wednesday.



No, it wasn`t free tickets to ` Madagascar ` or `Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.`



Not a new computer game.



Not even free candy.



Would you believe dictionaries?



Across Yuma County , area Rotary Clubs and the Yuma Optimist Club gave dictionaries to third graders. The dictionary program previously took place in the Somerton Elementary School District but this year...

Donation provides Somerton students dictionaries
Rotarian`s efforts mean one for everybody, not five for whole class to share
By: Jackie Leatherman Dr & Mrs. Richard J Geyer
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Donor: Somerton Rotary Club

BY JACKIE LEATHERMAM

Desert Sonora Elementary School third-grader Cristian knows that `tender` is an adjective defined as `kind and gentle.`

`How many syllables?` asked his teacher, Laura Bohon.

`Two,` he s aid, matter-of-factly.

`The accent goes in the first part or the second part?` she asked.

`Second?` he responded, not so sure.

`Is he right?` she asked the class.


...

Rotary Club Gives 720 Dictionaries to Students

Sunday, December 15, 2002
Donor: The Bullhead City Rotary Club

ARIZONA -The Bullhead City Rotary Club gave 720 dictionaries to third graders in the Mohave Valley/Bullhead City area Thursday. `We got them at a discount rate,` said Scott Merrill, club president. To hand the dictionaries out, the club visited nine elementary schools Thursday. Those included were: Fort Mojave Elementary, Mohave Valley Elementary, Young Scholars Academy ; Montessori, Desert Valley Elementary Diamondback Elementary Mountain View Elementary, and Sunrise .

Rotary`s idea to pay for the dictionaries came from the nonprofit Dictionary Project, a nationwide organization. `The objective of this program is to ...