Deborah Koehnen, Mayer-Watertown DandyLions Lions Club, Watertown, MN
This is our 4th year. The children and teachers look forward to using the dictionaries. The principal at one of the largest school gathers all of the children, introduces our club members, and tells them about our project. You’re providing a reasonable product with exceptional quality.
Pamela Ford, Rotary Club of Beckley, Shady Spring, WV
This is the third year the Beckley Rotary Club has provided dictionaries to all third grade students in the county school district. Wonderful project. The students are always very excited and appreciative.
Ramona Ketterling, American Legion Aux. No. 24, Aberdeen, SD
This will be our 6th year of donating dictionarys to the 3rd graders in the city of Aberdeen. Both the students and the teachers wait for us each year.
Fredrick Borger, Rotary Club of Jerseyville, Jerseyville, IL
This will be Jerseyville Rotary Club’s eighth year of participation in the Dictionary Project. It is a wonderful program in and of itself. It only gets better when the children find out that these dictionaries belong to THEM and not to the teacher or the school or the district.
Gerald Dixson, Kiwanis Club of Houghton Lake, Prudenville, MI
The children seem to look forward to the project and the gift of a dictionary. We have been asking them to find the longest word in the dictionary and that seems be a good motivation for using the book.. The project is here to stay in our community. Members of our club have heard of students still holding on to the book we delivered... Read More
Marc Kelly, Rotary Club of Vandalia, Vandalia, IL
This is the Vandalia Rotary Club’s 5th year participating with the Dictionary Project. The first three years we distributed dictionaries only to 3rd grade students in Fayette County. Last year we increased our contribution to include all 3rd grade students in Bond County. We will be distributing more than 400 dictionaries to the 3rd grades for the 2010-2011 school year. Literacy is a high... Read More
Emily James, Rotary Club of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, AR
I have been a part of the Harrisburg Rotary for three years and I have helped with this project each of these years. The club has been sponsoring this project for many years. The children are so excited to have their very own dictionary, and the teachers are so appreciative for the dictionaries. This year we are expanding our project to provide thesauruses for... Read More
Barbara Hall, Mason, TN
Met someone who does this in a club. I live close to a small public elementary school that is not affluent, so decided to ask school if they would like the dictionaries & they said “yes”. I may make this a yearly personal project. Great idea. Books are very affordable.
Vickie Wilt, Rotary Club of Weslaco, Weslaco, TX
We find the dictionary a valuable educational tool as we are committed to the concept that reading is the basis of learning. Weslaco Rotary has been participating in this program for the last 4 years.
Margaret Victoria, Stonington Free Library, Stonington, CT
This is the 7th year we have offered this program that we have named “Look It Up”. The third graders are thrilled to receive their own dictionary, and through brief presentations, they learn about Rotary, the Library and the local education fund. The Rotary of the Stoningtons and the Mystic Rotary purchase the dictionaries. The Leslie Buck Memorial Fund provides the school buses. The... Read More