The Rotary Club of Cochran
April 19, 2016, Dear Sir or Madam, The Cochran Rotary Club has been giving dictionaries to third graders ever since 2001. We give them to the third graders at Bleckley County Elementary School. One year after the students had had the dictionaries for about 5 months the third grade at this school scored first in the State in the Literary Competition. Thank you... Read More
Ms. Nancy Mascio, Bridgewater Grange #153, CT
The dictionaries are great this year. The children love them. I many go back to the classrooms to do a lesson or two on using the dictionary. They also want to see my unabridged dictionaries and my Braille books. It’s so nice to see children excited about words. I taught 2nd grade for 35 years, and helping children learn to communicate and learn from... Read More
The Rotary Club of Fillmore Kicks Off Another Year of Participation
The Rotary Club of Fillmore, California, participated in a Dictionary Project this week. Several members visited all five elementary schools in our school district and delivered a dictionary to each third grade student. Two classes were made up of 2nd and 3rd graders so we gave to everyone. In total there were 13 classrooms. After presenting the dictionaries we spent a few minutes pointing... Read More
Aileen Ayers, Rotary Club of Caledonia-Mumford, Caledonia, NY
The Third Graders were excited to have their very own dictionary, hugging and clapping. When they saw their names on the books, we received cheers, hugs, and “thank yous.” I look forward to being able to share the dictionaries with next year’s children. Aileen Ayers
District Governor Rod Chisholm, Lions of Texas
PDG Cal and Lion Joyce Lawson of the Converse Lions Club, on behalf of their grand-daughter Isabella Lawson, donated student dictionaries to her class and four other grade classes at Longs Creek Elementary School. Principal, Mr. Ford, and teacher Mrs. Carlin (project coordinator) presented letters of appreciation as well as thank-you notes from all the students involved for the thoughtfulness and generosity of our... Read More
Carla Till, Rotary Club Of Rome, NY
All of the dictionaries have been delivered. The teachers and students are happy!
Frances Applegate, Hays, KS
Dear Good People, I am sending some of the letters that I received as a thank you from the 4th graders at Washington Elementary in Hays – to whom I give dictionaries. The school principals here decided the books would work best with the higher grade when I started 10 years ago. I think these letters were some of the best I have received... Read More
Joe McKay, Lifetime Learning Program, Greenport, NY
Thanks to you all for making the Dictionary Project a big success in this, our tenth year. We now distribute about 325 personalized dictionaries to Third Graders at 9 schools on the North Fork plus East Quogue and Shelter Island. Everyone loves the Dictionary Project! … the teachers, staff and principals who help us here at Peconic Landing make it happen, and most especially... Read More
Richard J. Johnson, Red Wing Lions Club, Red Wing MN
A big thank you for again giving our Lions Club the opportunity to participate in this most enjoyable service project.
Karen Hirrel, Atascadero Elks Lodge # 2733, Atascadero, CA
This as been a great project to work on – a special book label with the name of the school, and a line for each child to put their name. The letters we receive back from the children are always so much fun to read. In a world of computers, iPads, etc., it’s so nice to see the kids really excited about receiving a... Read More