North Little Rock Women's Club and GFWC groups extend The Dictionary Project in Arkansas

By: - mail
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Donor: North Little Rock Woman's Club, GFWC, S. C. Dictionary Project

The North Little Rock Women`s Club has given dictionaries to children in the N. Little Rock School District for four years. Recently, they have been extending their project into the Pulaski County Schools as well. Corene Mitchell, president of the club, agreed to help The Dictionary Project reach the children in schools in Arkansas which have never received dictionaries before, so The Dictionary Project provided additional dictionaries, and the North Little Rock Women`s Club provided volunteers and recruited other GFWC groups to help deliver them to children. They have received photos and thank-you letters from schools all over the state tha...

North Little Rock group helps young students

By: Betsy Bailey The Daily Citizen
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Donor: North Little Rock Women's Club, S. C. Dictionary Project

Recently, Ms. Corene Mitchell, a representative of the North Little Rock Woman`s Club, contacted the Searcy Public Schools about providing our students with an opportunity to receive the benefits of one of their projects, `The Dictionary Project.`

The Dictionary Project is a non-profit organization which provides personal dictionaries to elementary students across the nation.
According to The Dictionary Project`s website, `the goal of this program is to assist all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by using a dictionary at school and at home for years to come.`
Sponsors...

North Little Rock Woman's Club extends project to county schools

By: Corene Mitchell letter
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Donor: North Little Rock Woman's Club

Dear Mary,

The North Little Rock Woman`s Club completed their 4th year`s distribution of approximately 800 dictionaries to the 3rd grade elementary schools in the NLR School District. Each year the students seem to be more excited.

The thank you notes and pictures show their excitement. The Scott School is one of the schools my son and I have made donations to in memory of family members and friends who are now deceased.

The new order from the club will be donated in memory of two club members who recently passed away. We have selected four schools in the rural county for this donation. What a challenge to pass on to ...

Spreading the word

By: Zac Lehr The Morning News
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Donor: Springdale Rotary Club

Gene Anderson, a member of the Springdale Rotary Club and chairman of the club`s dictionary program, hands out dictionaries Monday to third-grade students during the club`s seventh annual Springdale Rotary dictionary program at Bayyari Elementary School in Springdale. Anderson said the club delivered 1,554 dictionaries to third graders in the Springdale School District, Shiloh Christian School, and Salem Lutheran School.

Note from The Dictionary Project:

The Springdale Rotary Club received many thank-you letters from the students at Bayyari Elementary School. Here is one:

`Dear Rotary Club,

Thank you for the d...

NLR Woman's Club members spread the word

By: Corene Mitchell
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Donor: North Little Rock Woman's Club

Dear Mary,

The North Little Rock Woman`s Club had a great year. With the Dictionary Project, we distributed over 800 books to the North Little Rock Elementary School District. Thanks to you for all you do to make this possible for us to reach out to others.

Although this is a club project, I have myself continued to spread the news regarding the dictionaries. In lieu of flowers when family members and friends die, I choose a school and give dictionaries to the third graders in their memory.

I have two county schools. The first, the Bayou Meto Elementary in Jacksonville, AR, received about 80 dictionaries. ...

The Power of the Word

By: Bill Shrum Stuttgart Daily Leader
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Donor: Stuttgart Women's Club, Stuttgart Junior Women's Club, and Arkansas County Bank

The Dictionary Project, a non-profit national organization, provides public and private school students their own personal dictionary for use at their home or at school.
Last week, the Stuttgart Women`s Club, Stuttgart Junior Women`s Club and Arkansas County Bank were the local sponsors of the Dictionary Project in Stuttgart and provided the dictionaries to third grade students in the Stuttgart Schools.

`We have participated in this project since 2002,` Phillip Edwards, vice president of Arkansas County Bank, said. `This is a national project, and we enjoy doing it each year.`

Edwards said reading is the most important skill ...

Altrusa dedicated to community service

By: Tonya McKlever Benton County Daily Record
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Donor: Altrusa International of Bentonville/Bella Visa

At each noon meeting, the members of the Bentonville-Bella Vista Altrusa club recite this prayer before beginning the meeting:

`For this food before us spread
For our steps in safety led,
For thy favor on our way,
Lord, accept our thanks today.`

This is the sixth year that Altrusa Bentonville-Bella Vista has provided dictionaires to every third-grader in the Bentonville, Pea Ridge and Gravette school districts, along with the Literacy Council of Benton County. That adds up to 1,600 dictionaries.

In 1977, Altrusa became the first volunteer service group to adopt literacy as one of its primary focuses. `Act...

Ozark Rotary Club donates dictionaries to Elementary

By: - The Spectator
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Donor: Ozark Rotary Club

Ozark Rotary Club donated over 200 new dictioaries to third graders at Ozark Elementary. The goal of this annual program is to assist all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing them with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come.

Word power

By: - Daily Record
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Donor: Altrusa International of Bentonville/Bella Vista

Members of Altrusa International distributed dictionaries to third graders at Elm Tree Elementary School and other Bentonville Public Schools.

A good book for learning

By: - The Weekly Vista
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Donor: Altrua International of Bentonville/Bella Vista

Members of Altrusa International distributed dictionaries to third graders at Copper Elementary School September 5.  Altrusa is a volunteer organization dedicated to literacy and community betterment.  More than 1,200 dictionaries will be given out in Bentonville Public Schools this year, one to each third grader.      

Education (Literacy) Committee Report

By: Jane Adair, Chair
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Donor: Twentieth Century Club GFWC

In keeping with Mrs. Clydine Davis` choice of `The Dictionary Project` as the literacy project during her tenure in office as Arkasas president of GFWC, the Twentieth Century Club of Harrison Education Committee coordinated a county-wide dictionary project. The first step involved raising the funds for the project. The committee chairperson contacted groups interested in supporting literacy projects. The Twentieth Century Club allocated money in their budget for this project. Also contributing were Chi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma Society International; Ozark Mountain Chapter, Phi Delta Kappa; and the Boone County Retired Teachers Associat...

Skyline students receive dictionaries

By: - The Sunday Times
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Donor: Twentieth Century Club and others

Joan Reid`s third-grade students at Skyline Heights Elementary School in Harrison proudly display personal student dictionaries. Five hundred and four personal student dictionaries were requested, labeled, and delivered to third-grade students in Boone County. This was a cooperative project involving four organizations and one business.

The project idea originated with Clydine Davis, Arkansas State president of General Federated Women`s Clubs. The local Twentieth Century Club Education Committee coordinated the project.

Individuals present representing the various contributing organizations were Jane Adair, chairman of the...

AKANSA DELIVERS DICTIONARIES

Friday, November 02, 2007
Donor: Akansa Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Akansa Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) delivered 40 student dictionaries to third grade students at Mountain Pine Elementary School in participation of The Dictionary Project. Reading is the most important skill and is the starting point for all economic and social opportunities this world has to offer to an individual. The goal of this project is to assist all students in increasing their vocabulary to become good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers. As a commitment to improve literacy and the quality of life in the Hot Springs Area, Akansa has presented dictionaries for the past five years a...

Area third graders benefit from Hot Springs Village Altrusa Club

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Donor: Hot Springs Village Altrusa Club

As part of the annual nationwide celebration of `Make a Difference` through volunteerism, Hot Springs Village Altrusa Club sponsored its `Dictionary Project` Oct. 15-17 by presenting dictionaries to all third graders at Jessieville, Cutter Morning Star and Fountain Lake schools
The presentations included instructions in using the dictionary, learning the parts of speech, punctuation and pronunciation.

Also included in the presentation was an in-class drill on looking up `courtesy,` `respect` and `altruistic,` which led to the origins of the club`s name - Altrusa (serving others in the U.S.A.). This is the first time most of the ...

NLR students get truly defining gift

By: Jake Sandlin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Donor: North Little Rock Woman`s Club

One by one, smiling third graders at North Little Rock`s Seventh Street Elementary School on Monday began to excitedly thumb through new dictionaries that are theirs to keep.

The pupils, along with third graders at North Little Rock School District`s 12 other elementary schools, are receiving personal copies of `A Student`s Dictionary` through the North Little Rock Woman`s Club and The Dictionary Project, a nationwide reading-assistance program.

Members of the Woman`s Club, a nonprofit volunteer civic organization, handed out the paperback dictionaries to 24 pupils of Erin Dees and 23 pupils in Amanda Howard`s class during a ...

Fort Smith Junior Civic League donates dictionaries

By: Mary Ann Arnold
Monday, April 16, 2007
Donor: GFWC Junior Civic League, Fort Smith

This is the first time for our club to participate in this project. Our GFWC Arkansas State President has chosen this as her Special Project. As more funds become available to our club, we will sponsor more dictionaries in other schools.

Our club members think this is a very worthwhile project. The Trusty School Principal was very excited to learn that we chose his school to receive these dictionaries.

GFWC Literacy Program

By: Corene Mitchell
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Donor: North Little Rock Woman`s Club

The North Little Rock Woman`s Club members began their dictionary project in early January 2007, with a target date to deliver the dictionaries during the month of February.

After the decision was made to join this project, club members gave personal donations to obtain dictionaries for all third grade students in the North Little Rock school district. We then contacted each school to tell them of our plan and ask for their endorsement.

The school district provided the information we needed to contact the school administrator and the teachers in each of the thirteen schools. The teachers provided the club with the names ...

The gift of learning
Woman`s Club distributes dictionaries to third graders
By: Carol Haynes The Times
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Donor: North Little Rock Woman`s Club

Third graders in North Little Rock elementary schools know the meaning of the word `generosity,` both heartfelt and definitively. But even if they hadn`t seen generosity in action, they could now look it up—in their very own dictionary.



That`s thanks to the North Little Rock Woman`s Club, which recently donated nearly 750 dictionaries to all third grade students in the district`s 13 elementary schools, as well as dictionaries for their teachers and principals.



Over the last two weeks, club members have gone to every elementary school and personally handed dictionaries labeled with each student`s na...

Rotary Club of Polk County gives dictionaries

By: P.H. Slinkerd
Monday, February 05, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Polk County

Members of the Rotary Club of Polk County distributed dictionaries to third grade students in Polk County, Arkansas, on January 30, 2007.

Local Woman`s Club distributes dictionaries to RES third graders

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Donor: Rector Woman`s Club

December activities of the Rector Woman`s Club included the distribution of dictionaries to all Rector Elementary third grade classes.

The three third grade classes of Bonnie Manning, Rita Dortch and Dereta Palmer have a total of 43 students. This project is done each year as a community service of the GFWC Rector Woman`s Club.

Club president Virginia Reid noted, `The students were excited to receive their own dictionary. You could see it in their smiling faces. We discussed how to use the dictionary and looked up some words with the students.`

This is the third year that the Rector Woman`s Club has implemented the...

Clubs work together to make project a success

By: Jane Adair, 20th Century Club
Friday, January 05, 2007
Donor: 20th Century Club, Delta Kappa Gamma, and Phi Delta Kappa

Three organizations joined together the week of Noah Webster`s birthday, October 16, to participate in `The Dictionary Project.` Clydine Davis, Arkansas President of General Federation of Women`s Clubs (GFWC), chose `The Dictionary Project` to be the literacy project during her tenure in office. She states, `Hopefully, all 40 clubs will participate by giving a personal dictionary to every third grader in their city or county. A dictionary is the first and most powerful reference tool a student should own. The dictionaries chosen for this project go beyond spelling, pronunciations, and definitions.` The dictionaries included weights and measu...

Looking it up
GFWC dictionary project making impact in county
By: Zack Plair The Eagle Denocrat
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Donor: GFWC Women`s Club

Give a man a fish, he`ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he`ll eat as much as he catches.

The GFWC Warren Woman`s Club has tried to apply that principal with literacy over the last 5 years, inspiring third graders in Bradley County to `Look it up` with the club`s dictionary project.

Since 2002, the club has given a dictionary to each third grade student in Bradley County, including an English dictionary and Spanish-toEnglish dictionary for each Hispanic third grade student.

`The idea is that we are giving them their own personal dictionary,` said Warren Woman`s Club member and GFWC of Arkansas president Clydi...

Women`s Community League makes donation to Boys and Girls Club

By: Lou Anne Cagle
Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Women`s Community League of Alma

The Alma Boys and Girls Club has approximately 20,000 square feet and services approximately two hundred to two hundred fifty children per day.  The facility was completed in the summer of 2006.  During 2005-2006 the Alma Boys and Girls Club was voted as our CIC, and our club donated $1,000 to this facility. 

Our members felt that the placement of these dictionaries in this facility would benefit numerous children in our area.

Dictionaries for Mountain Pine, Arkansas, Third Graders

Monday, November 20, 2006
Donor: Akansa Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

For the fourth consecutive year, Akansa Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) from Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, presented each third grade student at Mountain Pine Elementary School in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, their very own student dictionary in participation of The Dictionary Project. As a commitment to improve literacy and the quality of life in the Hot Springs Area, Akansa presented these 62 dictionaries as a gift to the students to use at home or at school for years to come. Presenting the dictionaries, along with Pledge of Allegiance Book Markers, and U.S. Flag Pins, were Susan Veal-Project Chair, S...

Rotary Contributes to Elementary School

Friday, October 27, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Hamburg, Arkansas

Projects Highlight a Busy Summer for Marshall Rotarians

By: W.F. Henning Rotary Report
Monday, October 23, 2006
Donor: Marshall Rotary Club

Earlier in the month, on September 1, members of the club put bookplates into 300 dictionaries, and then club members presented them to each 3rd and 4th grade classroom in the Marshall Elementary School. Later the same was done in Leslie and St. Joe. Pictured below, outgoing club president Ronnie Houseley is shown speaking to one of the classes, accompanied by their teacher and the school`s principal.

Women`s Club Funds Book Project

By: Martha Brock
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Donor: Prairie Grove Women`s Club

LINCOLN- `This is great. Each of my students are thrilled to have this book,` Lincoln Schools Third Grade teacher Anita Winingham said.

Winingham with the other third grade teacher gathered her children in the school library Friday to welcome representatives from the Prairie Grove Women`s Club, a chapter of the General Federation of Women`s Clubs.

Winingham, Megan Page, Amy Hood, Jacque Allen and Cindy Bryson`s five rooms of about 100 students were presented with `Webster`s dictionary for Students` that contained words, maps, weights and measures, the Declaration of Independence of the U....

Rotary Club Provides Dictionaries to Students

By: Carla Vaught
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Polk County

Rotary Club Provides Dictionaries to Students



The Rotary Club of Polk County/Mena has donated dictionaries to each of the 3 rd grade students in Polk County public schools. The club took on the `Dictionary Project` after hearing about another club in Rotary District 6170 conducting the program in their schools. With literacy highlighted as one of its major programs of focus, the club thought the gift of a personal dictionary would be a small step in the battle for literacy. A dictionary is perhaps the first and most powerful reference tool that a child should own. At the national level,...

Dictionaries Donated

Monday, February 06, 2006
Donor: Blytheville Federated Women`s Club

Juliette Rossie gives a dictionary to Brittany Wells, a student in Shannon

Perkins` classroom at Central Elementary School, while Martha Nowlin looks on during their Oct. 13 visit to the school. Rossie and Nowlin of the Blytheville Federated Woman`s Club gave dictionaries to each of the school`s third-` graders. The club provided the dictionaries to Blytheville third-graders for the

second consecutive year, using proceeds from its springtime geranium sales to purchase the dictionaries.

Harrisburg Rotary Club

By: Donna Bell, President of harrisburg Rotary Club
Monday, February 06, 2006
Donor: Harrisburg Rotary Club

On Thursday, September 8, 2005, the Harrisburg Rotary Club presented 82 dictionaries to third grade students at Harrisburg Elementary School. Seven members of the club personally distributed the dictionaries to the students. The club also sent home letters to the parents describing the project and urging the them to encourage their children to use their dictionaries every day.

Daughters of the American Revolution Distributed Fifty-Five Dictionaries

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Donor: Daughters of the American Revolution

The Akansa Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution distributed fifty-five dictionaries to the three third grades classes at Mountain Pine Elementary School in Mountain Pine, Arkansas on March 4, 2004.

Rotary donates dictionaries to Tri-City third graders

By: SAMANTHA MARTIN
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Donor: Marked Tree Rotary Club

`Service above self` is the motto of the Rotary Club, something the Marked Tree chapter takes very seriously. Under the leadership of presidents such as Bill Stanley and Jerry Rushing, the club has begun to get serious about ways it can serve the Tri-City area.

Last week the club reached out to children in Lepanto, Marked Tree and Tyronza by donating a student dictionary to every third grader in the three towns. In addition to definitions, the book featured facts such as commonly misspelled words, a list of presidents, information about the branches of government and a variety of other useful learning tools.
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BFWC Gives Dictionaries to Third-Graders

Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Donor: Blytheville Federated Woman`s Club

Two members of the Blytheville Federated Woman`s Club on Nov. 5 visited Central Elementary School to give dictionaries to each of the school`s approximately 245 third-graders. Club president Martha Nowlin and education chairperson Juliette Rossie delivered the dictionaries.

The club was organized in 1922 and has 50 members. It is part of the General Federation of Women`s Clubs of Arkansas, and its members work to address such needs as promoting edu¬cation, preserving natural resources, stressing good citizenship, encouraging healthy lifestyles and supporting participation in the arts.

Some of the local organizations supp...

Warren Woman`s Club Give Away Dictionaries to Eastside Elementary School

Thursday, October 23, 2003
Donor: GFWC Warren Woman`s Club

Mary Lee from the GFWC Warren Woman`s Club gave these pictures to The Dictionary Project. They are of the third-graders at the Eastside Elementary School in Warren, Arkansas. As you can tell the children loved the books!
 
Next, Bradley County received the dictionaries, and these next two photos are taken at Westside Elementary Scholl in Hermitage, Arkansas.

Warren Woman`s Club of Warren, Arkansas

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Donor: Warren Woman`s Club of Warren

The Warren Woman`s Club

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Donor: The Warren Woman`s Club

The Warren Woman`s Club recently donated dictionaries to every third-grader in the Warren and Hermitage School districts. The dictionaries were donated as part of The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization designed to raise money to provide a dictionary for public school third graders.

The objective of the program is to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. Over 500,000 children have received their own personal dictionary to keep, thanks to this program.

English language dictionaries were presente...

Warren Woman`s Club of Warren Arkansas Presents Dictionaries to Bradley County Students

By: Mary Lee
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Warren Woman`s Club

Warren Woman`s Club presented an excited classroom at Eastside School in Warren Arkansas their new dictionaries! Hilda Thornton, Member Minutes Approval Committee of G.F.W.C. of Arkansas, Mary Lee, State Chairman of Dictionary Project of G.F.W.C. of Arkansas, Clydine Davis, State President of G.F.W.C. of Arkansas, and Diane Parnell, Press Secretary and Editor of Federation Speakes newsletter of G.F.W.C. of Arkansas were the official presenters to the third grade classrooms at Warren Eastside Elementary School and Hermitage Elementary School. The club presented 192 Student dictionaries and 60 Spanish-English dictionaries. The Hispanic stud...