Message from Paul Minton, Noblesville, Indiana

I gave a dictionary to my 3rd grade great granddaughter and she was very excited to receive it and when she showed it to her classmates, they wanted one. They attend Hamilton Heights Elementary in Cicero, Indiana. Thank you for letting me purchase books because they are very exciting for the students to read. Thanks to Paul’s generous gift to each of the student’s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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