Valdosta’s Elks Celebrate National Dictionary Day
VALDOSTA — The Valdosta Elks Lodge # 728 celebrates National Dictionary Day by providing every third grade student in the Lowndes and Valdosta School Systems with their very own dictionary. The Valdosta Elks Lodge provided 1,440 dictionaries to all third grade elementary students in Lowndes County. In keeping with this annual tradition, the Valdosta Elk’s Lodge once again demonstrated that Elks Care and Elks... Read More
Butts County Students Receive Dictionaries for the First Time
Project Coordinator Charles Budd, along with fellow Lion Club members Danny Queen, Linda Goddin and Tommy Boykin, worked with faculty and teachers of Daughtry Elementary School to provide the gift of a dictionary. Until now, Daughty Elementary students had yet to be sponsored. With the support of The Dictionary Project, the Lions Club of Greater Butts County will donate nearly 300 dictionaries this fall... 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
Members of Hawk Point Lions Club Visit Local Schools
Lions Harold Davis and Jim Kuda of the Hawk Point Lions Club delivered dictionaries to three Missouri schools this fall. 2014 marks the third year the Hawk Point Lions Club have participated in The Dictionary Project. We appreciate all the hard work that goes into making distribution day successful!
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
Gordon Third Grade Students Receive Dictionaries from Lions
This fall, the Gordon Lions Club presented dictionaries to 3rd grade students at Rushville, Gordon, and Hay Springs Elementary Schools as well as Merriman and Extension Public Schools. Lion Club member Nancy Russell has spearheaded the project for over seven years. All together, the Gordon Lions have impacted the lives of 696 students in Nebraska, proving that education is a top priority for the... Read More
The Logan Grange #109 Persoanlly Presents Dictionaries
Our goal here at The Dictionary Project is to assist all students in completing the school year as better writers, active readers, and creative thinkers by providing them with their very own personal dictionary. This goal could not be accomplished without the hard work of organizations like the Grange. The Grange is a family fraternal organization that was organized in 1867 after the Civil... 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
Third Graders Receive Free Dictionaries from Lakewood Elks
What a huge success again this year. Seems like every year it grows more and more. This year was our 6th year that Lakewood Elks gave to the 3rd graders in Jeffco County Area, the Student Dictionary (a total of 1944 books to 40 schools). The books are given to public and parochial schools. Each book has a label that we put in it... Read More