Cardington Rotary Club Promotes Education
Since 2005, the Cardington Rotary Club has been donating dictionaries to local schools in Ohio. “The goal of the program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary,” said Gill Ullom, longtime member and participant in the project. The dictionaries were presented by Rotarians to excited 3rd grader... Read More
Rotary Club Of Madison County Donates to Georgia Students
For seven years the Rotary Club Of Madison County has teamed up with The Dictionary Project to provide students in Georgia with the gift of a dictionary. Longtime member Gerald Coutant has kept the project going with the help of generous donations and member participation. Over the years, the Rotary Club Of Madison County has donated dictionaries to over 3,000 students in Madison County.... Read More
Hudson Rotary Club Gives the Gift of Words
Thanks to a donation earlier this month from the Rotary Club of Hudson, every third-grader at McDowell Elementary School had their very own, brand new, soft bound, 524-page dictionary. The club donated the 360 dictionaries, which also contain the entire U.S. Constitution and a variety of other amenities, through the international Dictionary Project.
Rotary, Connexus and AHEF Team Up to Give Students Dictionaries
For the seventh straight year, all third grade students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District received a free dictionary through a national project designed to help students became good writer, active readers and creative thinkers. it is funded locally by the Anoka-Hennepin Educational Foundation(AHEF), Rotaries and Connexus Energy. Tess Degeest, the AHEF executive director, and Phil Knutson, a member of the Anoka Rotary, delivered books... Read More
Rotary Club of Lucaya gives through the Dictionary Project
The idea for The Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, Georgia, gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. Each year she continued to give this gift, raising money to help give more and more books so that in her lifetime she raised enough money to buy 17,000 dictionaries for children in Savannah. The program... Read More