Augusta West Rotarians share school lunches, dictionaries with Merry Elementary students

By: Pamela Lightsey e-mail
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Augusta West

The Rotary Club of Augusta West handed out dictionaries to the children at A. Brian Merry Elementary School in Augusta. They held their Rotary meeting during lunch with the children of the school.

Martinez Evans Rotary Club gives Columbia County students dictionaries

By: Pam Lightsey e-mail
Friday, May 14, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Martinez Evans

The Rotary Club of Martinez Evans made some students very happy when they visited their school to give each child a book. The kindergarten through 2nd grades received Rotary coloring books, and the 3rd through 5th graders received dictionaries.

Augusta South Rotary Club, former athletes give dictionaries to 550 pupils

By: Charmain Z. Brackett The Augusta Chronicle
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Donor: Augusta South Rotary Club

Joretta Akpo-Sanni is for anything that will promote learning in her students.

`This shows that the community is working together and partnering with education,` said Akpo-Sanni, Barton Chapel Elementary School`s principal, about a special presentation at her school Monday.

Members of the Augusta South Rotary Club and former Augusta State University basketball players Garrett Siler and Ben Madgen presented about 550 Barton Chapel pupils with child-friendly paperback dictionaries and coloring books about Rotary International.

The Four-Way Test Coloring Book teaches children the four questions that are the hallmark of R...

Henry County schools receive dictionaries from Republican Women

By: Alisande Gelineau e-mail
Monday, May 10, 2010
Donor: Henry County Republican Women

The Henry County Republican Women have organized dictionary projects for all of the public elementary schools in Henry County.

Mom adds to Henry County Republican Women's gift to school

By: Alisande Gelineau e-mail
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Donor: Henry County Republican Women & Yasna Grainger

For many years, the Henry County Republican Women have been organizing a variety of donors to purchase dictionaries for the elementary schools in Henry County. One of their members added to the gift at Flippen Elementary School this year. In addition to the copies of A Student`s Dictionary, thesauruses were given to Alexander`s class thanks to his mom. 

Rotarians nearing completion of dictionary project

By: Curt Yeomans
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Donor: Clayton County Rotary Club

Third-graders at Lake City and Fountain elementary schools raced through their new dictionaries at
their respective schools on Wednesday morning, in a race to see who
could be the first person to find the definitions of `service,`
`determination,` and `appreciation.` The
dictionaries were gifts from the Clayton County Rotary Club, which is
undertaking a county-wide service project to put new dictionaries in
the hands of third-graders in the county. The club is going through all
36 elementary school...

A different kind of experience at the Cobb County Adult Education Center

By: Alexander Jahn e-mail
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Smyrna

The Rotary Club of Smyrna gave 100 dictionaries to adult students enrolled in Adult Education classes and English as Second Language classes.

We presented to 5 classrooms, filled with adults of all kinds of nationalities. The gratitude of those women and men was most touching!

There are adults who have gone through school when they were little, but then life carried them to a different country and they are now faced with very different conditions.

And so, at ages ranging from 30 through 50, they are sitting yet again in classrooms to obtain the basics, the ability to communicate effectively, necessary for addi...

Dictionary Project attends Rotary PETS in Atlanta

By: Alexander Jahn The Dictionary Project
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Donor: Georgia Rotary Clubs, The Dictionary Project

The Dictionary Project will be represented at the Rotary Club`s Georgia President Elect Training Session in March. We hope more Rotary Clubs will join us in the effort to give a dictionary to every third grader in the state, so that all of Georgia`s children can begin to enjoy the benefits of having their own dictionaries.

Savannah Rotarians donate dictionaries to schoolchildren

By: - Savannah Morning News
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Savannah South & Pilot International Club of Chatham County

Members of the Rotary Club of Savannah South recently participated in an effort with the Pilot International Club of Chatham County and Pilot Club International to donate dictionaries to third-graders at all Savannah-Chatham public schools.

The efforts were part of the national Dictionary Project, a program that in 2009 donated more 2.4 million dictionaries to students throughout America.

The effort in Chatham County included the labeling of 3,300 dictionaries and the delivery of the dictionaries to the schools by volunteers.

Rotary Literacy Chair Bob Irvine said of the effort, `I am very proud of my fellow Rotarians ...

Rotary Club of Madison County supports literacy

By: Jerry Coutant letter
Friday, December 18, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Madison County

The Rotary Club of Madison County has an extensive Literacy Program. Members volunteer to help students who are struggling with reading. The Club received a grant from the Jackson EMC Foundation which they use to fund a program which sends an age-appropriate book each month to every Madison County child registered for the program from birth to age five. They have also used the grant money to fund The Dictionary Project in their county.

Ila Elementary School, one of the schools in the county, sent the Rotary Club some booklets of thank-you notes. A few examples:

`Dear Rotary Club,

Thank you for these awesome dictionari...

AT&T TelecomPioneers' Northwest Metro Council gives dictionaries to Dallas students

By: Nancy Stoeppelwerth letter
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Donor: AT&T TelecomPioneers / Northwest Metro Council

The Northwest Metro Council of AT&T Pioneers in Georgia presented dictionaries to all the third grade classes at Nebo Elementary in Dallas, Georgia, on October 9, 2009. We presented a total of 192 of the AT&T Edition of `A Student`s Dictionary` to the school. The teachers and students were thrilled with their new dictionaries.

The members in our Council feel that your company provides a quality product and we appreciate you making them available to us for such a reasonable price.

Sincerely,

Nancy Stoeppelwerth, Treasurer

NorthWest Metro Council

AT&T TelecomPioneers Georgia

Atlanta Airport Rotary Club and Chick-Fil-A give Dictionaries to Students in Clayton County

By: Alexander Jahn e-mail communication
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Donor: Atlanta Airport Rotary Club, Chick-Fil-A

On December 15, 2009, Mr. Dennis Martino and Dr. Hershel Robinson from the Atlanta-Airport Rotary Club, in cooperation with a local Chick-Fil-A store, represented by Mr. Chris Smith, distributed dictionaries to two schools in Clayton County – West Clayton Elementary and Northcutt Elementary.

Together they visited various classrooms to give the third-graders the book `A Student`s Dictionary and Animal Gazetteer`. These dictionaries are specifically authored for young readers and contain not only the standard dictionary, but also supplemental information about the USA, countries of the world, and environmental facts about countries and...

Atlanta-Northlake Elks Lodge continues dictionary project

By: Alexander Jahn e-mail communication
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Donor: Atlanta-Northlake Elks Lodge # 78

The Atlanta-Northlake Elks Lodge # 78 visited yet another elementary school to distribute dictionaries to third-graders.

Harriet Sager, the Project Coordinator for the Elks Lodge # 78, visited Dresden Elementary School in Chamblee, GA, situated on the northeast side of metro Atlanta. There she presented dictionaries to all six classes with about 100 students in attendance. During the three sessions, Mrs. Sager distributed the books to the children, and led the students through the table of contents of `The Best Dictionary For Students,` while explaining the significance of the various aspects of a dictionary to the kids, and by that,...

Banks County Elementary students receive dictionaries from AT&T Pioneers

By: Evelyn Brown e-mail communication
Monday, November 23, 2009
Donor: AT&T TelecomPioneers / NE Georgia Mountaineers

On Tuesday, November 17, 2009, Northeast Georgia Mountaineers, Georgia AT&T Telecom Pioneers, presented the entire 3rd grade of Banks County Elementary School (238 students) with dictionaries.
Pictured are: l to r: Mrs. Bertrang, Principal, Evelyn Brown, LM Rep., Tina Russell, LM, Gary Wells, Council President, and Betty Gillespie, LM Rep, with some of the Banks County students. ...

Dictionary Week arrives in Barrow County

By: LeAnne Akin Barrow County News
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Donor: Barrow County Dictionary Project

Shelia Hawthorne, a retired educator and member of the local Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, is awaiting delivery of the dictionaries that will be delivered to every third grader in the Barrow County School System.

Thanks to the sponsorship of local organizations – with some support still needed – Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, comprised of working and retired educators, coordinates what is likely the first Georgia effort to put a new dictionary in the hand of every third grader. The project is in its eighth year.

`I have received great pleasure being referred to as `The Dictionary Lady,`` said Hawthorne. `...

Seven Hundred Dictionaries + Seven Schools + Four Years + Dedicated Rotarians

By: Linda Randolph Sandy Springs Rotary Club e-newsletter
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Donor: Sandy Springs Rotary Club

This is the equation for another successful dictionary project for our Sandy Springs Public School third graders and our club. Not only do the children benefit in writing well, reading actively and thinking creatively, but we now are hearing of so many of their parents using and benefiting from the dictionaries. So many residents of our community are learning English as a second language. This is the gift that continues to benefit all of us. As this part of the Sandy Springs community learn and use English, they can find better jobs and provide for their families. Literacy is the most beneficial tool we can promote.

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Definition of a mission

By: Barbara Moushon Northland Neighbors
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Donor: The Literacy Alliance
Category: Article

More than 50 volunteers of all ages gathered together at the Columbus Public Library on July 31 with one mission in mind: getting The Literacy Alliance`s Dictionary Project packed and ready to go mobile.

In less than three hours, volunteers labeled, packed and moved 2,300 dictionaries to be handed out to area third graders this fall by The Literacy Alliance. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Columbus, The Dictionary Project`s goal is to give all area third-graders their very own dictionary in an effort to show that with the power of words, all things are possible.

To learn more about The Literacy Alliance, visit www.thelitera...

Dictionaries help raise test scores?

By: Annette Townsend, Principal e-mail communication
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Cochran

For the past eight years, the Rotary Club of Cochran has provided dictionaries to all third grade students at Bleckley County Elementary.

Members of the Rotary Club come and visit in each third grade classroom distributing a personal dictionary to each student. They spend a few minutes talking about the dictionary and how it can be used followed by a short, fun activity allowing students to use their own personal dictionary.

Our test scores in English/language arts have steadily increased over the past years. We attribute part of this academic gain to the involvement and encouragement of our community in the education ...

AT&T TelecomPioneers give dictionaries to Dougherty County third graders

By: Freda Dudley e-mail communication
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Donor: AT&T TelecomPioneers / Albany Council

The Albany Council, Albany Georgia, of the AT&T Pioneers presented over 1600 dictionaries to the 3rd graders of the Dougherty County School System in November 2008.



This is a wonderful project!!!!


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Kiwanis $1,000 Winner

By: - BainbridgeGa.com community news
Monday, December 22, 2008
Donor: Bainbridge Kiwanis Club

The Bainbridge Kiwanis Club is involved in several area projects throughout the year: the Dictionary Project, Camp Joy and Student/Teacher recognitions for area schools. To help financially support these, they recently sold chances for a $1,000 Visa gift card. Last Thursday the lucky name was drawn.

Thelma Nalls, on right, of Bainbridge was the lucky winner, and on Friday she was presented with the card by Bainbridge Kiwanis President Andrea Markham. Mrs. Nalls stated that she would use a little of the money for herself but also has plans to give some of it back.

She said that when she received the phone call stating that sh...

VFL continues to aid school children

By: - The Northeast Georgian
Friday, November 28, 2008
Donor: Volunteers for Literacy of Habersham County

Volunteers for Literacy is a non-profit organization devoted to establishing and maintaining programs that promote and foster literacy in Habersham County.

The organization is funded through United Way, grants, donations and fundraising events. Some of the programs and services currently provided by VFL include: GED test preparation, English as a second language, ESL proficiency, and EL Civics, which involves preparation for the citizenship test.

The agency`s mission includes countywide literacy campaigns such as `Stay in School` presentations for elementary students and the `Dictionary Project,` which provides dictionaries ...

Delta Kappa Gamma joins local service clubs and organizations to give dictionaries to Winder and Barrow County students

By: Jan Masengill Barrow County School website
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Donor: Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma

Dictionary Fun Facts


Dictionary Project started in 1995 in Charleston, S.C.

Over 7.5 million dictionaries have been distributed

Third grade is usually when dictionary skills are introduced

Every 3rd grader in Barrow County Schools receives a dictionary

The Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma started the program in Barrow County. Civic, business and school groups sponsor this activity

One week is designated as Dictionary Week in Winder and Barrow County for the dictionaries to be presented to the schools by their respective sponsors. A proclamation was sig...

Thomas County 3rd Graders Receive Dictionaries

By: Sandi Olson email communication
Monday, September 22, 2008
Donor: Thomas County Certified Literate Community Program

Nearly 700 third grade students in Thomasville and Thomas County recently defined `appreciation` as their eyes lit up and their enthusiasm grew after receiving a free personal dictionary courtesy of the Thomas County Certified Literate Community Program and sponsored by Wal-Mart Supercenter.

`This is not just a dictionary,` Lester Prickett, assistant manager of Thomasville Wal-Mart Supercenter and CLCP committee member, told the students as several committee members delivered the dictionaries. `In this book you will find the year you graduate in the front, and all the presidents, states, multiplication tables…it`s an education...

AT&T Pioneers in Georgia donate dictionaries

Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Donor: Columbus Council of Georgia AT&T TelecomPioneers

Columbus Council of Georgia AT&T Pioneers handed out dictionaries to third graders at Fox Elementary School on Friday, August 29 and at Allen Elementary School on Monday, September 8. Four classes at each school, totaling 145 students, received dictionaries.  Each teacher also received a dictionary plus two extra for new students coming in.

Bainbridge Kiwanis Dictionary Project

By: - BainbridgeGa.com community news
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Donor: Bainbridge Kiwanis Club/Decatur County Family Connection

The Bainbridge Kiwanis Club and Decatur County Family Connection Collaborative Youth Development Strategy Team have again joined forces to provide and distribute over 400 dictionaries to county third graders. All third graders in public school and Grace Academy can keep their new dictionaries and use them for years to come.

One Wednesday morning the Grace Christian Academy third grade class of Heidi Butler were given their dictionaries. On hand to present them were Kiwanis President Brian Donalson and Dr. Stan Webb, Kiwanis member. Debbie McIntyre, LIFE Director, and members of the Bainbridge High School Key Club also helped with th...

Three Columbus Rotary Clubs help Columbus Literacy Alliance donate dictionaries

By: - Rotary District 6900 newsletter
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Donor: Rotary Clubs of Columbus, North Columbus, and Muscogee

Three Columbus Rotary Clubs--Columbus Rotary, Muscogee Rotary, and North Columbus Rotary--joined forces to purchase dictionaries for the Columbus Literacy Alliance to deliver to all 2,808 third graders in Muscogee County and at Fort Benning schools.

`This is what giving is. This is the kind of thing that can impact not only the children, but those of us who have the privilege of delivering the presentations. You uplift us, and we are honored to have your trust and time,` said Barbara Moushon, executive director of the Columbus Literacy Alliance.

Republican Women of Henry County celebrate donations

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Donor: Republican Women of Henry County

The Republican Women of Henry County hosted a reception to celebrate the great success of their project.

Eatonton Elks have many wonderful experiences with Dictionary Project

By: Diane Stevens
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Donor: Eatonton Elks Lodge #2549 and Elkettes

(Please see the article `Elks fulfill promise` below for more information about Ravi and the Braille dictionary.)

There are so many people in our area and outside who are taken by the dictionary program and by Ravi`s story.

I wish you could have been here when we gave her dictionaries to her. It was wonderful! She could hardly smile for a picture because she was so excited. It has been so rewarding, as it has each time we give to the third-grade students in our county. Thanks so much for coming up with this wonderful program!

Ravi`s dictionary was 14 volumes. Her teacher, Mrs. Strictland, told her that she was go...

Dictionary Project at Imagine Academy

Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Donor: Vinings Rotary Club, Fort Peachtree Chapter of the DAR, Cobb EMC and the Cobb Literacy Council

Rotary Club of Vinings President Ken Honeyman presented a Webster`s Thesaurus to each and every third grader at Imagine Academy, a new charter school in Smyrna.

A nation-wide program called The Dictionary Project has a goal of assisting students to complete the third grade as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing them with personal reference material. It is funded by service clubs like Rotary International, Kiwanis, and organizations like the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Cobb EMC, through the Cobb Literacy Council, funds the program for many of the Cobb County elementary schools. The Fort P...

Elks fulfill promise

Saturday, March 01, 2008
Donor: Eatonton Elks Lodge #2549 and Elkettes

A major project of the Elks throughout the United States is to give each child in the third grade their own personal dictionary. This goal has been reached by the Eatonton Elks Lodge #2549 each of the past four years--until this year. Ravi H., a third grader at Putnam Elementary, did not receive one in November when her other classmates did. Ravi is a mainstreamed, bright little girl who is blind.

She was promised her very own dictionary by the Elks and Elkettes who were distributing the dictionaries. Finally, in February, they were able to present Ravi with her very own Braille dictionary, which consists of fourteen volumes.
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Dictionary mania

By: Heidi Watts
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Donor: Atlanta Elks Lodge # 78

This school year the Watts Family sponsored and delivered 512 dictionaries to all the third graders of two Gwinnett Elementary schools. Lilburn Elementary School was one (for the third year) and the other was Buford Academy in Buford; both have a large number of needy children. The sincere joy of the students at receiving and being able to keep the dictionaries, as well as the delight of the teachers was most gratifying.


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Cartersville Elks project

By: - Elks Magazine
Friday, February 01, 2008
Donor: Cartersville Elks Lodge

Lodge members donated 1,500 dictionaries to the Bartow County school system, one for every third-grade student in the county.

Delta Kappa Gamma Society presents dictionaries to 3rd graders

By: - The Echols County Echo
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Donor: Beta Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society

Recently, the Echols Group of Beta Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma carried out a Dictionary Project with the third graders of Echols County Elementary School. Each third-grade student and each third-grade teacher was presented a dictionary designed especially for use in their classrooms. In addition to the words and definitions usually included in the dictionary, the dictionaries have lots of extra information such as states and capitals, continents and oceans, and much more.

Beta Alpha members helping with the distribution of dictionaries and serving refreshments were Dorothy Corbett, Mamie Pipkins, Madeline Sanders, Rosalyn Su...

Helen Rotary gives dictionaries to county`s third graders

By: - White County News
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Helen

Several Helen Rotarians made time Friday to hand out dictionaries to third-graders at Mt. Yonah Elementary School and at White County Intermediate School.  Phil Irish, a director for the club, said the Dictionary Project supplied more than 300 third graders at the schools with Webster`s Dictionaries.

Elks in Union City deliver to five schools

Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Donor: Union City Elks Lodge #1617

Union City Elks Lodge #1617 sponsored 700 dictionaries for delivery to five schools located near the Lodge.  Dictionaries were delivered to C.H. Gullatt Elementary School, S.L. Lewis Elementary School, Campbell Elementary School, Liberty Point Elementary School and Love T Nolan Elementary School.

Kiwanis defines learning with new dictionaries

By: Stephen Milligan, staff writer The Walton Tribune
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Clubs of Loganville and Monroe

If you can`t S-P-E-L-L, or have trouble reading a B-O-O-K, then perhaps you should consult third graders from Walton County and Social Circle schools, all of whom just received, via the Monroe and Loganville Kiwanis Clubs, brand new D-I-C-T-I-O-N-A-R-I-E-S.

The Kiwanis Clubs sponsored enough dictionaries for each third grader in the county`s elementary schools as part of the Dictionary Project, a group dedicated to improving student`s spelling, reading and writing by ensuring that each student has his or her own dictionary.

`It`s a real wonderful project,` said Amy Greenway, president of the Kiwanis Club of Loganville. `We a...

Giving the gift of knowledge

By: Johnny Jackson Henry Daily Herald
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Donor: Republican Women of Henry County

Nine-year-olds Stephanie Eckert and Jonathan Schuitema excitedly flipped through the pages of their small paperback dictionaries Tuesday.

Schuitema, after finding a sign language entry, attempted to spell his name to his classmate, signing the letter `J.`

Eckert, who loves social studies and wants to be a jockey, wanted to learn more about her interests and looked up those subjects.

She and Schuitema are third-graders at Dutchtown Elementary School — the sixth third-grade class in Henry County to receive these multi-purpose student dictionaries from the Republican Women of Henry County, a political and civic organi...

The Literacy Alliance brings more than dictionaries to Chattahoochee Valley children

By: Barbara Moushon
Monday, January 01, 2007
Donor: The Literacy Alliance of Columbus

Text of The Literacy Alliance newsletter (accompanying image):

The Dictionary Project in the Chattahoochee Valley, Georgia and nearby Alabama

Five Point Program:

1. Get an education 2. Get a job you LOVE. 3. You are `The Class of 2015.` 4. PRIDE is a feeling you create for yourself. No one can take that away. 5. You earn RESPECT by the choices you make.

The Literacy Alliance visited 47 area schools, delivering more than 3500 dictionaries to third graders, and their teachers during the school year 2005-2006. This project was designed to reach children on several personal levels.

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Elks present dictionaries

By: Wilton Baker, Lodge Secretary
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Donor: Calhoun Elks Lodge #1883

On November 13, 2006, Calhoun Elks Lodge #1883 presented 268 dictionaries to Calhoun Elementary third grade students.

Cartersville Elks Lodge donates dictionaries

By: Alan Weimer, Lodge Secretary
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Donor: Cartersville Elks Lodge #1969

The accompanying photos were taken on November 1st when members of our Lodge distributed dictionaries to the third grade students at Kingston Elementary School in Kingston, Georgia.  Exalted Ruler Greg Taylor represented the Lodge.

The Lodge received local press attention from this undertaking.  We have also sent articles on to the Georgia Elks News and the national Elks Magazine.   

Their word`s worth

Monday, December 11, 2006
Donor: Business, civic and school groups

Every third-grade student in the Barrow County School System received a free dictionary last week.
Volunteers began distributing the 1,057 English and 85 Spanish — English dictionaries Monday at Bramlett Elementary School in Auburn. Business, civic and school groups raised funds to buy the dictionaries, which cost $1.25 to $2 apiece, depending on the amount purchased.
In Barrow County schools, dictionary skills are introduced in the third grade, and delivery was timed to coincide with the curriculum. Bramlett Elementary third-grade teacher Amy Harrell, Bramlett`s Teacher of the Year 2007-2008, was glad to see the dictionaries roll in. ...

DUNWOODY ROTARY CLUB FOCUSES ON LITERACY BY GIVING DICTIONARIES TO 3RD GRADERS

Friday, November 10, 2006
Donor: DUNWOODY ROTARY CLUB

On November 3 rd , 96 unsuspecting 3rd graders at Dresden Elementary School in Chamblee , Georgia , had their recess period interrupted. Instead they received the most powerful reference tool a child can own.



Members of the Dunwoody Rotary presented individual dictionaries to five classes of 3 rd grade students to use throughout their entire school career. The effort was part of the DICTIONARY PROJECT, a global initiative that has resulted in over 4,622,986 children receiving dictionaries, thanks to the generosity of community sponsors. Sponsors provide a dictionary for children so they can ...

Cochran Masonic Lodge #217 Donates Thesauruses

By: Harry A. Bruno, PM
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Donor: Cochran Masonic Lodge #217

On the 23r d of October, 2006, Worshipful Brother Eric Witherington, Worshipful Master of Cochran Masonic Lodge #217 F&AM, Cochran, GA, along with 4 other members, presented each student and teacher of Bleckley County Middle School with their own personal copy of `Webster`s Thesaurus for Students`. More then 180 students in 8 classrooms with their teachers received this helpful tool to aid them in their writing and understanding the English language. The students in each classroom looked up two or three words to help understand how their new Thesaurus was laid out and the best way to use it. This was the first year that the Lodge h...

Volunteers for Literacy completes `dictionary project`

Friday, November 03, 2006
Donor: Volunteers for Literacy of Habersham County

The second annual `Third Grade Dictionary Project` was completed recently. The goal of the 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 student to use at school and at home for years to come.

This year, the Habersham Rotary sponsored the project and was an active participant as well. More than 560 dictionaries were distributed to the third graders and their teachers.

The following organizations/individuals donated items for the bags: Old Clarkesville Mil...

Literacy Council Awards Dictionaries To Students
Organizers Help Students Spell `Success`
By: Jessica Fleming Summerville News
Friday, October 20, 2006
Donor: Chattooga County Literacy Council

Literacy Council Awards Dictionaries To Students



Organizers Help Students Spell `Success`



A dictionary for every third-grader -- that`s the motto of the Chattooga County Literacy Council these days, as they have given out hundreds of dictionaries throughout the county as part of the `Dictionary Project.`

Third-graders at each school in the county -- Lyerly, Menlo, Trion, Leroy Massey and Summerville Elementary -- have been or will be visited by representatives of the Literacy Council this month and presented with their very own...

The Cochran Rotary Club of Cochran, Georgia

By: Brandy Perry The Cochran Journal
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Donor: Cochran, Georgia Rotary Club`s Dictionary Project

The Cochran Rotary Club of Cochran, Georgia, Dist. 6920, had been a longstanding participant of The Dictionary Project. Every third grader in the Bleckley County School System received a dictionary on Monday, Sept. 25, 2006, as has each third grader for the past several years. The project is definitely having an effect according to Bleckley School Superintendent and Cochran Rotarian Dr. L.C. `Buster` Evans. Last year, Evans said, the Bleckley County third graders were top in the state in language arts scores. The Cochran Rotarians enjoy taking the dictionaries to the third graders and are proud to support such a good cause.

Photos from Columbus, GA The Literacy Alliance

Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Donor: Columbus Literacy Alliance

`Bee` determined to `bee` a better reader

By: Sharonda West The Citizen Georgian
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Donor: The Literacy Council of Macon Georgia, Inc.

Staff and volunteers from Literacy Council of County visited all of Macon County visited all of the 137 sixth grade students at Macon County Middle School on Dec. 8 to hand out literacy packets as Christmas presents. Each packet includes a thesaurus to help them develop an interesting vocabulary of synonyms and antonyms to become a master of creative writing, a tablet to encourage him/her to w rite his/her thoughts, and a pcn.

This is just one of the various projects of the LCMC to support the school system in trying to accomplish their goal of improving family literacy. Phyllis Solomon, director of LCMC, Sheila Clark, a...

Mableton: Dictionaries please kids beyond words

By: Chandler Brown The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Donor: Cobb Literacy Council

It`s the term for the complicated formula for an enzyme with 267 amino acids.

With 1,909 letters, it`s the longest word in the English language, according to `A Student`s Dictionary`.

Although it takes up a whole page in the dictionary (and it`s way too long to print here), it happens to be Zach`s favorite word.

`It`s good learning all these words, especially the longest one,` Zach, 8, a third-grader at Mableton Elementary School, said recently as he checked out the word in a new, donated dictionary.

In November, the Cobb Literacy Council gave Zach and about 1,200 other south Cobb third-graders free dictiona...

Third graders receive dictionaries and supplies

By: Sherri Martin
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Donor: The Literacy Council of Macon Georgia, Inc.

Third graders at Macon County Elementary School received a treat last week, when ladies from the Macon County Literacy Center presented them with dictionaries, tablets, bookmarks, and pens to use in the classroom.

The supplies were provided by a donation by the Flint Energies Foundation through Operation Roundup.

Literacy Director Phyllis Solomon spoke to each class, encouraging them to read to succeed. Each bookmark had a pledge for each child to sign saying that they planned to graduate from high school in nine years.

The students` eyes lit up as they received their gifts presented by Solomon, Edythe Brown, Barbra ...

Civic group gives gift of vocabulary

By: Roger Barnes
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Donor: Conyers Civic League

Last month, the Conyers Civic League wrapped up its second year of participation in the Dictionary Project and put a brand new dictionary in the hands of every public school third-grader in Rockdale County.

`We don`t just hand them a dictionary, we give them a little presentation to show the students how to use the dictionary,` said Cecelia Costley, a former Rockdale County teacher and a member of the Conyers Civic league. `We give them a 30-minute presentation and then we ask them to look up words for us.`

The league planned on delivering more than 1,000 dictionaries to the third-graders registered in Rockdale`s public ...

Students receive `cordless spell checkers`

Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Donor: Pelham Rotary Club

Mitchell County students in third, fourth and fifth grades have recently received an important tool to help them build their education.

Thanks to a coordinated effort led by the Mitchell County Children and Youth (MCCY) Collaborative, every student and teacher in these elementary grades has received a personal copy of the latest `student dictionary.`

Businesses and individuals from the community contributed funds to the project.

The dictionaries are called `cordless spell checkers,` by The Dictionary Project, a national organization with the goal of every student having his or her own personal issue to...

Dictionary project helps crack the book on learning for area students

By: Alisa DeMao
Saturday, February 01, 2003
Donor: Rotary Club of Athens

Articulate. Eloquent. Loquacious. Multiloquent. Vocative.

About 900 Clarke County third-graders will have those words - and more - at the tips of their fingers and on the tips of their tongues when members of the Rotary Club of Athens finish delivering dictionaries to each of them today.

This is the second year some Clarke County students will benefit from the Dictionary Project, an attempt to place dictionaries in the hands of third grade students around the country. The project has been publicized by a South Carolina woman, Mary French, who has been spearheading the movement and arranging for students...

Rotarians Deliver Dictionaries to Peachtree City Elementary Third Graders

By: Virginia Gibbs
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Rotary Club of Peachtree City
Category: Service Club

In celebration of International Literacy Day in September,

Peachtree City, Georgia Rotarians delivered dictionaries to each of the third graders at their adopted `Partner in Education` school, Peachtree City Elementary School. Volunteers visited the five classrooms at that grade level on September 28 th and presented each student with their own dictionary to keep. Each book had a Rotary sticker in the inside cover printed with the Four Way Test and a line for the student to write his/her name to personalize the book. A letter was also sent home to the third grade parents explaining the literacy project, the source of the books,...