By: Perry Jenkins e-mail
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Emmett
The response we get every year from the students always makes this a very worthwhile project. We thought it was such a great idea, and we were trying to help get Idaho to 100%, so we added 3 schools in Boise County also. Keep up the great work. Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Bob Myers E-mail communication
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Donor: Pocatello, Gate City, Centennial, and Portneuf Rotary Clubs
The four Pocatello, Idaho Rotary clubs: Pocatello Rotary Club, Gate City Rotary Club, Centennial Rotary Club and Portneuf Rotary Club combined efforts to do the `Dictionary Project.` The project entailed personally handing and giving a dictionary to every public and private third grade student in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area. All new third grade teachers received a dictionary as well. In total over 70 Rotarians distributed and personally gave 1,125 students their own dictionary. The project required a great deal of coordination with schools, principals, teachers and Rotarians. We as Rotarians were pleased to participate in this fine project su... Click to read full story ...
By: Mickie Park Star Independent
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Donor: Eagle-Garden City Rotary Club
The Eagle-Garden City Rotary Club distributed a dictionary to every third grader in Star, Eagle, and Garden City during the month of November.
This program was made possible by grants from Mountain West Bank and Rotary District 5400 that covers southern Idaho. In all, the Rotarians distributed over 700 dictionaries to students in the eleven tri-cities area public, charter, and private schools.
The program began last year with the Rotary Club adding a community youth program. The club is one of the largest organizations in the valley, and encouraging literacy is one of three primary emphases of the Rotary International. The ot... Click to read full story ... |  | | Each student received the dictionary from Rotary Club President Gene de Laveaga and Rotarian Troy Knutson |
By: Scott McIntosh Kuna Melba News
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Donor: Kuna Grange #59, Kuna Kiwanis Club, the Kuna Melba News, Brenda Blitman, Kuna Mayor Scott Dowdy, Kun
Now in its fifth year in Kuna, The Dictionary Project is distributing over 400 student dictionaries to every third-grader in Kuna.
Sponsors were distributing the dictionaries at Kuna school district schools on Tuesday, Dec. 15, and will present them to students at Falcon Ridge Charter School soon.
The sponsors who made possible the donation of the free dictionaries to every third-grader in Kuna are: Kuna Grange #59, Kuna Kiwanis Club, the Kuna Melba News, Brenda Blitman, Kuna Mayor Scott Dowdy, Kuna City Council member and local insurance agent Rich Cardoza, Highland-Star Grange and Rob Morris #63 Order of the Eastern Star.
Click to read full story ... |  | | Don and Mary Johnson, above, of the Kuna Grange again organized the local effort to provide student dictionaries to every third-grader in Kuna. |
By: Christian Utley press release
Friday, October 16, 2009
Donor: Blackfoot Rotary Club
Blackfoot Rotary members have been visiting local schools this week distributing personal dictionaries to third graders. It is all part of The Dictionary Project, which encourages the nation`s youth to practice good reading and spelling habits and gives them the tools to do it. Third grade is a critical point in a student`s learning. The vocabulary of the students at this age is becoming quite advanced. Teachers are encouraging the use of proper spelling, and the good, old fashioned dictionary is the perfect tool. Rotary members in the Blackfoot Club have embraced the idea. Nearly 700 dictionaries will be distributed this week in Shelley, Bl... Click to read full story ...
By: - Boise Schools Community Update
Friday, March 20, 2009
Donor: Boise Southwest Rotary Club
Three hundred students at local schools are proud owners of new dictionaries thanks to the Boise Southwest Rotary Club. Recently, members of the Rotary Club gave away more than 300 dictionaries to third grade students at Hawthorne, Grace Jordan and Morley Nelson, Lowell and Sacred Heart elementary schools and special education students at West Junior High School. The books were specifically produced for students at the third grade level, when dictionary skills are typically introduced. Students are encouraged to use the books at school or take them home.
During this school year, Rotarians, other service groups and individuals donate... Click to read full story ...
By: George Weissbeck email communication
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Donor: Boise Southwest Rotary Club
This is the second year for the Boise Southwest Rotary Club to bring dictionaries to third graders in both public and private schools in the Boise area. They also went to the special education classes of the local junior high in their distribution, which included 300 dictionaries.
Rotary president George Weissbeck writes, `This is a great project, enjoyed foremost by the students, teachers, administrators and club members.` Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Jay Hinterlong email communication
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Donor: Grangeville Elks Lodge #1825
The Grangeville Elks Lodge #1825 has been participating in the Dictionary Project the last three years. We are located in north central Idaho, consisting of agricultural and rural areas. Our dictionary program covers eleven schools in three counties and five school districts. For the school year 2008-2009, we were able to complete this task before the end of October, thereby ensuring our students the use of their books for the entire school year. We look forward to doing this activity for many years to come. ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Some of the students receiving dictionaries from the Grangeville Elks |
By: Perry Jenkins
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Emmett
I think this is a great project and I greatly enjoyed being a part of it on a local basis. I am an avid reader myself and a firm believer that your dictionaries will be benefit to the kids. In Emmett we thought it was such a good idea we actually gave them to the 3rd and 4th grade students this year. Click to read full story ... |  | | Rotarian Perry Jenkins with a student at Sweet-Montour Elementary School in Sweet. |
By: Nancy Mjelde letter
Friday, March 14, 2008
Donor: Coeur d`Alene Elks Lodge #1254
Our Elks Lodge #1254 has participated in the Dictionary Project for three years. There are three school districts in Coeur d`Alene: Lakeland with about 370 third graders, Coeur d`Alene School District with 775 third graders, and Post Falls School District with 425 third graders. Schools in these districts have received dictionaries all three years. All dictionaries have presentation labels with the students` names which indicate that the books were a gift from Coeur d`Alene Lodge 1254. We stressed to the teachers and the students that the dictionaries would go with the students through grade school, high school, and hopefully college. T... Click to read full story ...
By: Dr. Gerald Conger
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Caldwell
Enclosed is a report on the recent Dictionary Project undertaken by the Caldwell, Idaho Rotary Club. We distributed 452 dictionaries and 20 thesauruses to five schools.
We feel that the effort and expense was more than worth it. I was expecting a quiet, benign and polite response to our gifts. I was very pleasantly surprised in each of the schools by the excited and vocal response we received as the dictionaries were being passed out. Their response was genuine and the teachers were excited as well. I expect the dictionaries will be put to good use.
Some of the schools are planning to have weekly competitions using the d... Click to read full story ...
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By: BRAD ANDERSON The Latah Eagle
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Donor: Moscow Elks Lodge
Elks Dictionary Project
Chairman
The Moscow Elks Lodge completed its second annual Dictionary Project in December by distributing dictionaries to third graders in Latah and Whitman counties.
Monday, December 10 volunteers from the lodge distributed dictionaries to every third grade class in Latah country. Wednesday, December 12, the volunteers visited classes in Whitman County.
In all 716 dictionaries were distributed in 33 public and private classrooms throughout the two counties.
The Elks Lodge would like to thank and recognize the Scout Troop from Colfax and the Grange Halls in Steptoe, Rosalia and... Click to read full story ... | |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Donor: Arco Rotary Club
On Tuesday of this week, the Arco Rotary Club embarked on its newest community program by donating 104 dictionaries to elementary students in Butte County School District 111.
The idea for the program origi nated recently when John Hatch, a member of the Sparks , Nevada Ro tary Club, was `making up` a meet ing by attending the Arco Rotary Club`s morning meeting. He ex plained that his home Rotary Club presented 6,000 dictionaries to stu dents of the third grade in their area each year. Hatch and his club do nated 48 dictionaries to the... Click to read full story ... | | Pictured, standing (L-R) are Rotarian Jon Stedfeld, Principal Karen Pyron, Superintendent and Rotarian Amy Pancheri, and Rotarians Doug Neighbor and Chas. Steuart. R... |
By: Virginia (Gini) Donnelly Clearwater Tribune (Orofino, Idaho)
Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Fraser Grange
The Fraser Grange continues to donate dictionaries to all the third graders in both Pierce and Weippe Elementary schools through `The Dictionary Project.` This is the Grange`s third year participating in this worthwhile cause. The Dictionary Project is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization with the goal of encouraging children to use a dictionary so that they will be able to use the English language effectively. Over 3,820,517 children have received dictionaries thanks to the generosity of sponsors like the Fraser Grange. In the District of Columbia, Hawaii, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia all third grade students... Click to read full story ... |  | | Mrs. Dobson`s class at Weippe Elementary receives dictionaries |
By: - The Elks Magazine
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Donor: Elks Lodge of Coeur d`Alene
Coeur d`Alene, ID, Lodge donated a total of 1,650 dictionaries, one for every third-grade student in the county, to local schools and also to home-schooled students. This was the first year that the lodge has participated in the national Dictionary Project. Click to read full story ...
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