Dear Members of the Dictionary Project Committee, On behalf of the third graders at the Wollaston School, thank you for your recent dictionary donation. Each day, we strive to give our students the skills necessary to become successful and contributing members of society. A dictionary is an essential resource for all students. It is also an important tool to obtaining academic success. Our third... Read More

Dear NLR Women’s Club, On behalf of our 3rd-grade students and teachers, I want to thank you for the generous gift of dictionaries. What a wonderful service you provide our eager learners! The students were so excited about the features you pointed out to them. I am confident that their dictionaries will be used extensively. Thanks again for coming to Park Hill each year... Read More

Dear Mrs. Collier, Mr. Bathrick, and the members of the Lakewood Elks # 1777, On behalf of the third grade students and their teachers here at Governor’s Ranch Elementary School, I want to thank you for your generous gift of dictionaries for each of our third grade students. We appreciate your participation in the Dictionary Project and are grateful to have our students be... Read More

Dear Club members, On behalf of the third grade teachers and students, I want to thank you for visiting our school and distributing dictionaries. The students are using them daily in their classes. Teachers, as well, are incorporating the use of dictionaries in their lessons in addition to students using them at will. It is a great asset to our instructional materials especially in... Read More

Dear Mr. Urena, On behalf of our Silas Staff, third graders, and parents, I would like to thank you and the Elks for your generous donation of dictionaries yet again this year. We are certainly appreciative of your concern for the well-being of our city’s children. Thanks again for keeping our students’ needs in mind! Sincerely, John Shelly

Today’s world is highly technical. Sometimes we forget how things were done before the internet and hand-held technical devices. The dictionaries that Rotary gave to our students grounded them in a return to a tactile information source. I think the gift of the dictionaries served two (2) purposes: to give them a great information source and to ground them in an example of a... Read More

Dear Ms. French, Thank you for sending us our dictionaries. They have helped us with our writing. Now we can look up the meaning of our favorite words. We like how much our dictionaries will help us get ready for fourth grade! We know we will keep using them until we get to college. We really appreciate you giving these dictionaries to us. Sincerely,... Read More

We love our new dictionaries! We promise to use them to learn new words and to insert more descriptive words into our writing. We are so excited that we get to take them home! Thank you, Mary French, and thanks to the Optimist Club!

 Dear Major Dave & the Eastwood Rotary Club Members, We would like to thank you for coming to Fremont and your gift of dictionaries. We were so excited to receive them and we know that we will put them to good use for many years to come! In fact, our teachers told us we should be able to use them right through middle school... Read More