Rotary Club of Stone Mountain, GA
Members of the Rotary Club of Stone Mountain, Georgia, recently presented 1,200 refugees in nearby Clarkston with dictionaries. Rotarians were able to make this generous gift thanks to a Rotary District grant. Third graders received copies of A Student’s Dictionary in the hopes that their transition to the English language will be a smooth and easy one. Rotary Club President, Gillian Leggett, had this... Read More
Struthers Rotary Club
Struthers Rotary Club recently continued its tradition of presenting dictionaries to third graders in their community. They visited two schools and gifted over 300 students with word power. The Rotarians have taken part in the Dictionary Project since 2004, and have presented 4,872 students with dictionaries and thesauruses in that time.
Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS)
Joann Frasier Dasent, founder of Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS), recently visited Anna B. Day School in Philadelphia, PA. While at the school, she visited two third grade classrooms, where she presented students with copies of ‘The Best Dictionary for Students’ and told them about the history behind the Dictionary Project. ROOTS first participated in the Dictionary Project in 2005. Since then,... Read More
Gulf Breeze Key Club
The Gulf Breeze Key Club in Florida recently sent us an update on their annual dictionary project. “During the months of October and November 2017, the Gulf Breeze High School Key Club from Gulf Breeze, Florida, delivered 840 dictionaries to 11 local Elementary Schools. At each school our Key Club members went to every 3rd grade and handed each student their very own dictionary.... Read More
New Brighton Lions Club, MN
Every year the New Brighton Lions Club and the Mounds View Lions Club give dictionaries to 3rd graders in all 6 public and 2 parochial elementary schools in the Mounds View School District. The students always look forward to the Lions’ visit and ask questions about what what the Lions do and why they do what they do. Since partnering with The Dictionary Project... Read More
Republican Women of Kerr County, Texas
The Republican Women of Kerr County presented dictionaries to over 450 third grade students in 7 schools in Kerr County this year. Since partnering with The Dictionary Project in 2006, the club has given a dictionary to nearly 2,000 excited third graders.
CHS Rotary distributes dictionaries
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
Rotary Club of Bethel Park donates dictionaries to students
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
Rotary carries on Dictionary Project
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
Wordy Wednesday
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