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By: GFWC duMidi The Huntsville Times, The Dictionary Project
Monday, February 15, 2010
Donor: GFWC duMidi Women's Club
The GFWC duMidi Woman`s Club has given dictionaries to third graders in all of the Title I schools in Huntsville, just as they did last school year, and this year added the Title I schools in Madison County as well. They have given over 1,200 dictionaries to third graders this year. Click to read full story ... | | Ridgecrest Elementary third graders show off the dictionaries they received from the duMidi Women's Club./Special to The Times |
Monday, December 07, 2009
Donor: Cullman Elks Lodge
CULLMAN — More than 1,000 children in Cullman will receive a dictionary thanks to the generosity of the Cullman Elks Lodge, which participates in the Dictionary Project annually.
This is the fourth year the Cullman Elks Lodge has purchased student dictionaries for every third-grade student in the Cullman County School System, the Cullman City School System, as well as each local private school.
The goal of this program is to assist all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each stude... Click to read full story ...
By: Judy Gattis e-mail communication
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Donor: GFWC duMidi Woman's Club
Here are some of many letters I have received from teachers and students since our club, GFWC duMidi Woman`s Club of Huntsville, began distributing dictionaries to our third graders last year.
Dear Mrs. Gattis,
What an outstanding project you sponsor! The boys and girls were thrilled with their dictionaries. Your explanation of everything that was in them got them `hooked`. It`s like each child received a new computer game! It`s very exciting for us as teachers to see so much enthusiasm. Thank you so much for your precious gifts to our students.
Sincerely,
Amy Chew and Michelle McLain
Owens Cr... Click to read full story ...
Bessemer City Schools - Abrams Elementary
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Donor: Elks Lodge #721
Category: Article
Harold Johnson and Sharon Ferguson of the Elks Lodge #721 presented third-grade students at Abrams Elementary with new dictionaries on Sept. 9. The third-grade teachers were also provided with educators` guides on using the dictionaries. Click to read full story ... |  | |
Club's gift of dictionaries brings happiness to city third-graders
By: Pat Newcomb The Huntsville Times
Monday, January 26, 2009
Donor: GFWC duMidi Woman's Club of Huntsville
By their excitement, you would have thought somebody had put a bowl of candy in front of a room full of West Mastin Lake Elementary third-graders.
Who would have thought the gift of a dictionary could create such enthusiasm?
`It`s like this everywhere I go,` said Judy Gattis, the education chair of the GFWC duMidi Woman`s Club of Huntsville, as the kids filed out of the room, each clutching his or her very own new dictionary.
The club provided personal dictionaries to all 750 third-grade students in Huntsville City`s Title 1 schools this school year. The club raised almost $1,500 to buy the dictionaries, and Gattis ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Ardaidra, 9, a third-grader,
peeks out from behind her new dictionary
at West Mastin Lake Elementary. Staff photo by Eric Schultz. |
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By: Lizz Lynch letter
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Donor: Pell City Elks Lodge # 2818
A total of 8 Lodge members traveled 1020 miles to present 976 dictionaries to third graders at 15 schools in St. Clair County and Talledega County, with the number of hours involved totaling 134.
This project has been so much fun!! Click to read full story ... | | Steve Lynch at Odenville Elementary School. His shirt reads--Capture a word forever: See the word, Say the word, Spell the word, Use the word |
By: Bob Rudder email communication
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Donor: Rotary District 6880 and the Malone Family Foundation of Alabama
Rotary District 6880 has begun delivering dictionaries to all of the 3rd graders in the 31 counties of southern Alabama which are within the district`s boundaries. The Rotary Clubs were able to purchase the dictionaries with a grant from the Malone Family Foundation of Alabama, whose mission is to improve access to quality education — particularly at the secondary school level — for gifted students who lack the financial resources to best develop their talents. Click to read full story ... |  | |
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By: Roger Hayward, Area Coordinator Rotary International North American Region Literacy newsletter
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Dothan and Malone Family Foundation
The Rotary Club of Dothan, Alabama, District 6880, received an education grant from The Malone Family Foundation of Alabama. This grant will enable all third-grade students in the public school systems of Rotary District 6880 to have their own personal copy of a Webster`s dictionary. Rotary District 6880 covers 31 counties in the southern part of the state and includes approximately 23,000 third graders attending approximately 400 elementary schools. Rotary Club members from across the district will distribute the dictionaries beginning in September of 2008.
Research indicates that third grade is the appropriate time for beginning... Click to read full story ... | | Dothan Rotary Club members and others with the dictionary that approximately 23,000 Alabama children will receive in the fall of 2008. These are the players in the gr... |
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Rotary Clubs give to each third-grader
By: Don Fletcher, Progress staff writer Prattville Progress
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Donor: Prattville Rotary Club and Prattville-Millbrook Sunrise Rotary Club
During her 13 years at Daniel Pratt Elementary School, Tracye Strichik has often had to deal with a shortage of materials when teaching her students, especially when the class was learning how to use a dictionary.
Now, thanks to the combined generosity of two area civic clubs, Strichik and other third-grade teachers across the county--and across the county line--shouldn`t have to worry about such a shortage.
Daniel Pratt Elementary was the first stop for members of the Prattville Rotary Club and the Prattville-Millbrook Sunrise Rotary Club, who began Wednesday morning the day-long process of donating dictionaries to third-gra... Click to read full story ... | | Mike Renegar of the Prattville/Millbrook Sunshine Rotary Club looks over the shoulder of third-grader Alexis as she flips through her new dictionary provided by the c... |
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Donor: Brundidge Rotary Club
Members of the Brundidge Rotary Club have this week been making the rounds of area third-grade classrooms, giving the gift of knowledge in the form of brand-new dictionaries for each student. Brundidge Mayor Jimmy Ramage joined other Rotary members in passing out dictionaries at Goshen Elementary School. Other schools visited this week include Banks Primary School and Pike Liberal Arts School. Click to read full story ... | | Brundidge Mayor Jimmy Ramage joined other Rotary members in passing out dictionaries at Goshen Elementary School. photo by Misty Bell |
By: Terry Clem
Friday, May 25, 2007
Donor: Birmingham Elks Lodge #79
Just a note to bring you up to date on the presentation my co-chairman and I use when we make our presentation of your dictionaries to our students. A quick thought...the teachers find it informative also.
When we sat down at the beginning to work on our presentation, we began by using your suggestions for interacting with the children: having them look up words, asking questions, etc. This is when I remembered what my father, Kenneth S. Clem, used to tell me as a child: `dot your i`s and cross your t`s and say your ing`s.` We began to use this with the children, and they found it funny and interesting. So it was that during one ... Click to read full story ...
By: Wayne Martin The Birmingham News
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Donor: Birmingham Elks Lodge #79
Third graders are seldom at a loss for words.
But if Fultondale Elementary School third graders ever do find themselves searching for just the right word, all they have to do is look it up.
Looking it up was made much easier last week when Ray Gailbreath and Terry Clem of Birmingham Elks Lodge 79 passed out dictionaries to every third grader at the school.
The gifts are part of The Dictionary Project, a nationwide effort to make dictionaries available at the point in a student`s life at which they become a meaningful tool in the learning process. `This is the year when th... Click to read full story ... |  | | Fultondale third graders show off new dictionaries given by the Elks Lodge as part of a nationwide project. photo by Jerry Ayres of the News staff |
Political group donates dictionaries to schools
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Donor: Tuscaloosa County Republican Women
A local political group, the Tuscaloosa County Republican Women (TCRW), recently donated dictionaries to several local area ele mentary school third grade students as part of` its annual dictionary project.
For the third straight year, the TCRW distributed personal dictionaries this fall to third grade students in Tuscaloosa `s city, county and private schools. Nameplates were included in the front of each dictionary for each child to print his or her name.
According to Jo Lawley, TCRW`s dictionary project chair, the purpose of the project was to encourag... Click to read full story ... |  | | Flatwoods Elementary School third graders hold up dictionaries that the Tuscaloosa County Republican Women donated to them. The donation was part of the TCRW`s annual... |
By: Tammy Leytham The Selma Times
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Donor: Elks Lodge No. 167
VALLEY GRANDE - Students should be good writers, active readers and creative thinkers.
In an effort to help make that happen, a nationwide Dictionary Project has been launched to get personal dictionaries in the hands of students.
As part of a new project, members of the Elks Lodge No. 167 distributed dictionaries to third grade students at Valley Grande Elementary School Wednesday morning.
`It`s theirs to keep,` said Paul Duke of the Elks Lodge. `It`s something they can take with them all the way through high school.`
The students thanked Duke and Thomas King, an Elks Lodge member who helped... Click to read full story ...
Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Gulf Coast Elks Lodge #2782
Gulf Shores Elementary School was recently the recipient of a gift from the Gulf Coast Elks Lodge #2782. The group donated student dictionaries to every third-grade student in the school.
The Elks also donated dictionaries at Foley, Bay Minnette, Delta, Elberta, Elsanor, Loxley, Orange Beach, Perdido, Pine Grove, Rosington, Stapleton, Summerdale, Vaughn and Swift Schools, a total of 1017 books. Click to read full story ... |  | | Some of the thankful Gulf Shores third-graders show off their new dictionaries as two of the Elks members watch, from left, front row: Kori, Dylan, Mallory, Robbie an... |
Dawn and Ed Helms donate a dictionary to every third-grader at Harlan Elementary
By: Kelly Humphrey Northwest Florida Daily News
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Donor: Dawn and Ed Helms/Crestview Rotary Club
How do you spell `goodwill?`
The third-grade students and teachers at W.S. Harlan Elementary School in Lockhart, Ala., spell it d-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-i-e-s.
And if they had to define the word, they`d probably point to two Lockhart residents who recently gave each third-grader at the small school a dictionary for their very own.
Dawn and Ed Helms made the donation on behalf of the Crestview Rotary Club, which Dawn serves as president. And while the Helmses, who live just a block away from the school, paid for the dictionaries themselves, their generosity has inspired the club to make a similar donation on an even larger s... Click to read full story ... |  | | The third-graders at W.S. Harlan Elementary School in Lockhart, Ala., show off the dictionaries donated to them by Dawn and Ed Helms. Dawn is the president of the Cr... |
Friday, November 03, 2006
Donor: Rotary Clubs in Dothan, Alabama
September 28, 2006. The two Rotary Clubs in Dothan , Alabama embarked on their fourth year of dictionary distributions to all third grade students in Henry and Houston counties. The Rotarian`s first stop was at the Headland Elementary School . The volunteers then concluded the Henry county portion of the service project at the Abbeville Elementary School . This year the `dictionary project` will give about 1,400 dictionaries to local students so that they will always have a reference when they come upon a word that they do not understand.
Headland Elementary School Principal Faye Shipes and Abbevill... Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Jason Cannon Tha Clanton Advertiser
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Chilton County
The Rotary Club of Chilton County is going back to school.
The group will complete their third annual dictionary project Sept. 21 by handing out almost 700 dictionaries to the each of the county`s third grade students for them to keep throughout their academic careers.
`This is our biggest community project,` said the club`s president, Roger Yeargan. `We really enjoy it.`
Each year, the club doles out English dictionaries to all the third grade students and Spanish dictionaries to students and teachers who may need them.
`With the way our population has grown, we`ve see the need for some students to have a Spa... Click to read full story ... |  | | The Union photo/Soumitro Sen The Nevada County Republican Women Federated is facing opposition in distributing dictionaries to third graders in schools around the cou... |
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Chilton County
In less than two weeks, the Rotary Club of Chilton County will complete their third annual Dictionary Project.
This year, the club will hand out almost 700 dictionaries to the each of the county`s third grade students for them to keep while they work their way through school.
Each year, the club doles out English dictionaries to all the third grade students and Spanish dictionaries to students and teachers who may need them.
Each year, the local Lions Club provides vision and hearing screenings at various school around the county.
It`s part of the Alabama Sight Program, which is a Lions initiative.
The... Click to read full story ...
By: Jason Cannon
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Chilton County
Club giving dictionaries to 3rd grade
By Jason Cannon
Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:08 PM CDT
The Rotary Club of Chilton County is going back to school.
The group will complete their third annual dictionary project Sept. 21 by handing out almost 700 dictionaries to the each of the county`s third grade students for them to keep throughout their academic careers.
`This is our biggest community project,` said the club`s president, Roger Yeargan. `We really enjoy it.`
Each year, the club doles out English dictionaries to all the third grade students and Spa... Click to read full story ...
By: Ken Rogers
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Donor: Brundidge Rotary
Brundidge Rotarians Johnny Garrett and his son, Stanley Garrett, had a few words for third graders at Pike Liberal Arts School on Monday.
Actually, they had a few thousand words. For the second year in a row, the club is providing student dictionaries for all third graders at Pike Liberal and those in Pike County Schools.
Monday, the Garretts presented Carol Goff`s students and Linda Scott`s students their dictionaries on behalf of the club.
`I hope you are able to use this as much as I have used mine,` Johnny Garrett said. `I got my dictionary when I was in third or fourth grade. I`ve still got it - and I still use i... Click to read full story ...
Friday, January 28, 2005
Donor: The Rotary Club of Chilton County
Chilton, Prattville Rotary celebrating
By Jason Cannon
With their centennial anniversary less than one month away, The Rotary Club of Chilton County is joining forces with the Prattville Sunrise and Noon Rotary Clubs along with the Montgomery Sunrise Rotary.
The celebration will take place March 8, most likely in Prattville .
`We are thrilled to be part of such a hi... Click to read full story ...
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Donor: Etowah County Republican Women
Following President Bush`s admonition to `leave no child behind,` Etowah County Republican Women decided to make a difference in the lives of the children in their community. Pat Walker, President of the Etowah County Republican Women, announced that they will provide dictionaries to third grade students, teachers, and school librarians. The dictionary chosen; `A Student`s Dictionary,` includes geographical and presidential information, maps of the world regions, and state and county information. It also contains complete copies of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
The Dictionary Project was started by Annie ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Striplin School Third Grade teachers are from left to right: Ms. Elizabeth Jones, Ms Brandy Tarrance, Ms. Lisa May and Principal Dr. Donna Smoots. |
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Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Linden Rotary Club
Following President Bush`s admonition to `leave no child behind,` Etowah County Republican Women decided to make a difference in the lives of the children in their community. Pat Walker, President of the Etowah County Republican Women, announced that they will provide dictionaries to third grade students, teachers, and school librarians. The dictionary chosen; `A Student`s Dictionary,` includes geographical and presidential information, maps of the world regions, and state and county information. It also contains complete copies of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
The Dictionary Project was started by Annie ... Click to read full story ... | | Students listen to a speech regarding the Dictionary Project |
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Dictionary Project, Post Office Box 1845, Charleston, SC 29402 . Articles and
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