By: Howard Heines e-mail
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Donor: Lions District 25G
At a recent district Lions meeting (Indiana 25G), it was reported by Lion Carol Huffer, President of the Atwood Lions Club, that all public school 3rd graders in Kosciusko County, Indiana, will be receiving dictionaries this year sponsored by the 13 Lions Clubs of that county. (100% participation of Lions Clubs in the county.)
Some Clubs had previously been participating in The Dictionary Project, but Lion Carol held a meeting, and, showing the need for educating the young people of the county, invited the remaining Lions Clubs to get involved.
As a result, approximately 673 new students will be added to the 256 already receivi... Click to read full story ...
By: Frank Phillips The Paper of Montgomery County Online
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Donor: Crawfordsville Rotary
Ask Megan Grant what she does in her spare time and the 18-year-old says, `I volunteer.`
Grant is the Crawfordsville Rotary Club`s youngest member. In October, she
first attended Rotary as one of the top 18 students in the senior class
at Southmont High School. During one of the four weekly meetings she
attended at the Crawfordsville Quality Inn, she heard a discussion
about the Rotary Club`s annual dictionary project and it grabbed her
attention.
`Ian (another student) and I put stickers on all the dictionaries,` Grant said.
She also helped deliver the 600 dictionaries to all the third-graders in the... Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Edward C. Dernulc
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Merrilliville
Merrillville Kiwanis clubs were recently honored at the
Merrillville School Board meeting for their ongoing Dictionary
Project in the schools. This is the fifth year the clubs have held
fundraisers and gathered donations to sponsor the program, which
involves presenting a personalized dictionary to every third-grader
in the Merrillville Community School Corp. and a local parochial
school.
More than 800 students enjoy receiving the books to learn of
planetary systems, sign language, the history of the U.S.
presidents, etc. in addition to the dictionary spellings. Click to read full story ...
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By: Alfred E. Fabian mail
Friday, February 19, 2010
Donor: Ivy Tech Community College, Kappa Beta Delta
Ivy Tech Community College is the largest state supported college in Indiana. It is divided into 14 regions with a total enrollment this semester of approximately 119,000 students. Our region is identified as the Northwest Region. We have four campuses: Michigan City, East Chicago, Valparaiso, and Gary. At the beginning of the Fall Semester in August, all employees including faculty, staff and administration gather for an In-Service Day. Three years ago our School of Business Honor Society became intereested in The Dictionary Project. Ours is the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Kappa Beta Delta Internataional. KBD collected donations at the In-Serv... Click to read full story ... | |
By: Melissa Baker e-mail communication
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Donor: Milan Lions Club
Our first year - last year - for the Milan Lions Club was a big hit! We donated dictionaries to the Elementary school library, middle school 5th graders, and the High School Spanish classes. This year we are continuing in our pledge to do a yearly donation for each 5th grader entering Middle School - already, this is becoming something both the the parents and the kids look forward to! Click to read full story ... |  | | These are our 5th graders who are are in their first year of Middle School at Milan Community Schools in Milan, Indiana. |
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By: Calvin Schultz letter
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Donor: Southside Optimist Club
The Southside Optimist Club of Fort Wayne gave dictionaries to students at 12 Fort Wayne elementary schools this fall. Click to read full story ... | |
By: - The Mail-Journal
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Donor: Milford Lions Club
Members of the Milford Lions Club presented dictionaries to the Milford third graders Thursday. President Lavone Miller is shown handing a dictionary to Andrea. Teacher Mrs. Carrie Johnson is shown in the background. Click to read full story ... |  | | Photo by D. G. Seely |
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By: - Times-Union
Friday, October 02, 2009
Donor: Pierceton Lions Club
On Sept. 16 all third-grade students in the classes of Mrs. Drudge, Mrs. Garber, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Underwood at Pierceton Elementary School were given their own copy of A Student`s Dictionary from the Pierceton Lions Club.
Lion Donna Nordstrom writes:
Dear Mary French,
This dictionary project has turned out to be one of the most popular of our club. We plan to continue on an annual basis. This is only our second year, but the approbation has been tremendous. Click to read full story ... | | Front row: Trevor, Sarah, and Renae of Mrs. Hall's class. Presenting Lions are, back row, Ed Nordstrom, Jim Sparks, Bob Tenney, Betty Rose Stahl, Joan Napier, Donna N... |
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By: - The Mail-Journal
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Donor: Syracuse Lions Club
Jason Wells, president of the Syracuse Lions Club, chats with, from left, Tia, Michael, Zach, and Caitlin, third-graders at Syracuse Elementary School, after presenting them with dictionaries.
Members of the Syracuse Lions Club visited the school September 4 to pass out dictionaries to third-graders. This was the first time the Lions Club has passed out dictionaries to third-graders; they plan to do so every year.
Assisting Wells were Earl Bales, Judy Jarrett and Sam Fryback. Click to read full story ... | | Photo by Lauren Zeugner |
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Donor: Community Foundation of Randolph County
We received this letter from the Community Foundation of Randolph County in Indiana, and we want to share it with all of our sponsors! We would not have distributed all these dictionaries if it wasn`t for you! Help us cover the schools that still need dictionaries! Call or email us if you want to donate or sponsor a project but do not have a school already planned for your project, or if you feel you can help us cover non-sponsored schools in your area. We always welcome any help!
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By: Donna Nordstrom press release
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Donor: Pierceton Lions Club
On August 26, 2008, 61 students from the third grade classes of Ms. Garber, Nye, and Underhill at the Pierceton Elementary School were presented with Student Dictionaries by the Pierceton Lions Club. This was the first year for the program, which was organized and implemented by Immediate Past President Donna Nordstrom of Warsaw. It is anticipated that this will become an annual event for the benefit of future third graders. Click to read full story ... | | Pictured are Pierceton Lions Club members Beverly Reid, Joan Napier, Ed Napier, Lana Wilson, Betty Rose Stahl, Jack Phillips, and Bob Tenney. |
By: Phil Cordes e-mail communication
Monday, January 19, 2009
Donor: Seymour Elks Lodge
Our Lodge gave out 631 English dictionaries, one for every 3rd grade student in Jackson County, in September 2008. We also gave out 24 Spanish-to-English dictionaries for the Spanish-speaking students whose teachers felt needed they additional help as they learned English. We found in the past that the teachers liked to use the dictionaries to formulate some teaching plans for their classes, so we gave out 31 English and 4 Spanish dictionaries to the 3rd grade teachers of Jackson County.
We did receive letters from each child from two classrooms this year. The notes from the kids were precious... Click to read full story ...
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By: Tara Hettinger NewsAndTribune.com
Friday, January 09, 2009
Donor: Community Foundation of Southern Indiana
Trey excitedly examined his new dictionary Friday morning.
`There`s over 32,000 definitions in here!` the 8-year-old announced.
`I found Pluto,` 9-year-old Nathan interrupted, pointing to the word and definition in his copy of Webster`s Dictionary for Kids, Special Encyclopedia Edition.
They weren`t the only ones at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School, in New Albany, to receive a free dictionary. Every third-grade student got a copy to keep, thanks to the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, or CFSI.
The foundation is partnering with The Dictionary Project, initiative to give a dictionary to every thi... Click to read full story ... | | Don Day delivers a new dictionary to a third-grade student at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School on Friday morning in New Albany. The dictionaries were provid... |
By: Robyn Davis Sekula press release
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Donor: Community Foundation of Southern Indiana
Every third grade student in Clark and Floyd counties will receive a free dictionary this winter, thanks to a program sponsored by the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana.
CFSI will be distributing about 3,200 dictionaries to third graders in 40 public and private schools in Clark and Floyd counties during the next month. The Dictionary Project, a non-profit organization based in South Carolina, made the dictionaries available at a discounted cost to the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, which paid for the dictionaries. CFSI hopes to make the distribution an annual event.
The Dictionary Project is part of a natio... Click to read full story ...
By: Anna Rochelle Greene County Daily World
Monday, October 13, 2008
Donor: Indiana Chapter of AT&T Pioneers
Every third-grade student in the public schools of Greene County was treated to a special present Monday -- their very own, brand-new dictionary, compliments of the Indiana Chapter of AT&T Pioneers in cooperation with `The Dictionary Project.`
AT&T Pioneers is a volunteer organization composed of both retirees and active employees of AT&T who donate their time, energy and skills to give something back to the communities where they live and work.
The Dictionary Project is a nationwide nonprofit organization with a goal of providing every third grade student in the country with a dictionary.
AT&T Pioneers Linda Wa... Click to read full story ... |  | | By Timberly Ferree:
Pictured here Mary Ann Jacobs, an AT&T Pioneer, hands Linton-Stockton third grader Brandon King a dictionary. On Monday, AT&T Pioneers visited a... |
By: - The Commercial Review
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Donor: The Portland Foundation
Doug Inman, executive director of The Portland Foundation, passed out dictionaries to third graders at East Elementary School Friday morning. For the sixth year, The Commercial Review--working through the Foundation--is providing all third graders in Jay County with their own student copies of Webster`s. The local distribution was the first of its kind in the state of Indiana. The Dictionary Project works nationally to make affordable dictionaries available for distribution to third graders. Click to read full story ... |  | | Doug Inman, executive director of The Portland Foundation, passes out dictionaries to third graders at East Elementary School. photo for The Commercial Review by Jac... |
By: Sue Ellen Ross Gary Post-Tribune
Friday, August 22, 2008
Donor: Merrillville Breakfast and Noon Kiwanis Clubs
MERRILLVILLE -- As a high school teacher, Barbara Koby`s focus was always on her students.
Although Koby, a Crown Point resident, is retired now from the Merrillville school system, her focus has not changed.
Her work with the Merrillville Noon Kiwanis Club attests to this.
`My favorite project is our Dictionary Project,` Koby said. `We work with the Merrillville Breakfast Kiwanis Club to give every third-grade student in the town of Merrillville a dictionary. Each book has a nameplate in it with the student`s name, our Kiwanis logo and our Kiwanis name.`
A former English teacher, she knows the importance of a good diction... Click to read full story ...
By: Bettina Puckett The Shelbyville News
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Donor: Shelby County Life Long Learning
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved an annual EDIT allocation of $25,000 Monday night to help support Shelby County Life Long Learning.
According to Tony Collier, executive director of SCLLL, the organization has been receiving more grant money each year to fund its programs and does not have to depend as much on economic development income tax dollars.
`You are taking up that slack with grant funds,` Tony Newton, president of the commissioners, told Collier. `I think you guys do a really good job.`
EDIT is funded by a quarter percent of the 1.25 percent local tax on income collected from everyone who work... Click to read full story ...
By: - The Times-Mail
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Donor: Bedford Lions Club
BEDFORD — New committee chairmen for two of the long-time projects of the Bedford Lions Club are among those announced by president Bill Super for the coming year.
Five Lions will serve as co-chairmen of the Fall Flapjack Fest, scheduled for Oct. 4, as well as the Pancake Festival to be held on May 2. They are Mike Anderson, Butch Fish, Jim Fisher, Jon Heichelbech and Phil Mitchell. They will succeed chairman Billy Don Baker and co-chairmen Charles Wellman and Bill Super, who have headed the committee for a number of years.
The committee in charge of building ramps for the handicapped, headed the past few years by Charles Wellman a... Click to read full story ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Donor: Lakeville Lions Club
Howard Heines of the Lakeville Lions Club gave Dictionary Project t-shirts to the assistant principal at LaVille Elementary School. He asked the school to conduct a contest for the third-grade students involving the use of the dictionaries that the Lions Club gives each year. The winning students received the t-shirts as prizes. Click to read full story ... | | These third-grade students in Lakeville won a dictionary contest and received the Dictionary Project t-shirts they are wearing as prizes. |
By: - newspaper
Monday, May 12, 2008
Donor: Milford Lions Club
The Milford Lions presented each Milford School third grader with a new dictionary last week. The gift was from the local club and The Dictionary Project.
`There is a list of big words in the dictionary, including one of my favorites: superclaifragilisticexpialidocious,` said Jeri Seely in her remarks to the students. `It`s a word to say when you don`t know what to say.`
The dictionaries also have information on the American flag, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and every U.S. president. It also has pages on sign language and Braille.
We hope you get a lot of use out of your own personal dictiona... Click to read full story ... |  | | Milford Lions president Wayne Sholtey, right, is handing out dictionaries to (from left) Kayla, Abigail, Esmeralda, Logan, Gabriella, Brandon and Dakota. |
By: - AvilLaOtto Nooz
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Donor: Avila Lions Club
Avilla Lions Club this week passed out dictionaries to all third graders in the area, at Avilla, LaOtto and St. Mary`s Schools, plus Oak Farm Montessori School. Lions helping were president Barb Wolf, Jack Bartholomew, Pat Teders, Connie Nasca and Russell Carteaux. The club hopes to continue the program next year. Click to read full story ... |  | | Lions club president Barb Wolf gives a dictionary to an excited student. Jack Bartholomew (left) helps. (AvilLaOtto NooZ photo) |
By: Julie Ault, Post-Tribune correspondent Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Portage
Portage Kiwanians helped give local children the gift of reading by presenting a personalized dictionary to third-graders in the Portage Township Schools.
Kiwanians chose the dictionary project as their way to participate in Kiwanis International`s monthlong Read Around the World initiative.
`Our Kiwanis group in Portage is always looking for ways to enhance the lives of our Portage children,` said Shannon Burhans, club vice president. `Giving monetary funds is great and necessary, but this project is different for us. You really feel like you`re handing them a great to start to their futures.`
The dictionary project began in 1... Click to read full story ...
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By: Rick Richards, City Editor The News-Dispatch
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Donor: AT&T TelecomPioneers Indiana Chapter 16
MICHIGAN CITY--A world of reading was opened to third graders at four Michigan City schools Wednesday.
Each third grader at Joy, Mullen, Pine and St. Paul schools received a dictionary from the TelecomPioneers. In addition, the group gave each classroom and the school library a dictionary.
`This is something we`ve done for years,` said Jack Povlock, one of the telephone company retirees who make up the group`s members. `In the fall, we put together backpacks with school supplies.`
At Pine School, after students in Brock Vinson`s class received their dictionaries, they thanked Margaret Hindle for the gift. Hindle, o... Click to read full story ... | | TelecomPioneers Margaret Hindle, Jack Povlock, and Anne Howard with Mullen third graders. |
By: Mary Meikel, Chairman of Youth Services
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Donor: Connersville Kiwanis Club
The Connersville Kiwanis Club delivered a dictionary to every third-grade student in the Fayette County School system. They gave 350 books to students and teachers in ten schools. Click to read full story ... |  | | Teacher Ms. Branson and Kiwanian Mary Meikel with students at Alquina Elementary. |
By: Chrissy Alspaugh The Repulic - Indiana
Monday, October 01, 2007
Donor: Heritage Fund / Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Association / Center for Teaching and Learning
More than 1,400 Bartholomew County students will receive free dictionaries during the first two weeks of October thanks to The Dictionary Project.
In its fourth year, the project sends retired teachers to all of the county`s 21 public and private schools to present dictionaries to every third-grader.
Each year the books are purchased by Heritage Fund and distributed by Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Association with help from Center for Teaching and Learning.
The project targets third-grade students because Indiana Academic Standards require them to learn essential dictionary skills. The donated dictionaries allow ... Click to read full story ...
By: Staff report, The Tribune Star
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Donor: Wabash Valley Community Foundation
TERRE HAUTE — The Wabash Valley Community Foundation is establishing the Wabash Valley Dictionary Project Endowment Fund with the hope that it will provide more for more than 2,000 dictionaries annually.
Since 2004, the foundation, working with local Rotary clubs, has delivered more than 6,000 dictionaries, including 2,000 in 2006, to third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students in Clay, Sullivan and Vigo counties.
Through the dictionary project, each student is provided with a dictionary of their own. Research indicates that education is more likely to be pursued because of improved writing skills and reading comprehension.Click to read full story ...
By: Principal LaVille Elementary Newsletter
Friday, April 13, 2007
Donor: Lakeville and LaPaz Lions Clubs
We sure had a busy and productive week this week at LaVille. One of the very special events this week was the gift of dictionaries to all our third and sixth grade students by our local Lions. In the technology-driven world it is important to get back to the basics when it comes to teaching our students and children how to use the invaluable learning tool, the dictionary. Howard Heines of the Lakeville Lions spearheaded the event. The dictionaries were Howard`s brainchild, and we sure appreciate his thoughtfulness and generosity. The Lakeville and LaPaz Lions teamed up to sponsor this event. Representatives from both clubs were present... Click to read full story ...
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Lions donate dictionaries to LaVille students
By: Dee Grenert Plymouth Pilot News
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Donor: Lakeville Lions Club
LAKEVILLE -- LaVille Elementary School students marveled at the last page of their new dictionaries. There, the English language`s longest word--all 1,909 letters of it--covered better than half a page and evoked exclamations of `Awesome!` and `Wow!`
That word, a form of chemical protein, also offered a potential source of punishment. `Now when you get in trouble, instead of writing sentences, maybe you should be writing this word,` Principal John Farthing joked.
In addition to that word and the usual alphabetical entries, the dictionaries contain information on weights and measures, the periodic table of elements, multipli... Click to read full story ... | | Howard Heines, of the Lakeville Lions Club, presents a dictionary to Jimmy Johnson, a LaVille Elementary School student. photo by Deanna L. Grenert for the Pilot |
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Donor: Columbia City Optimist Club
Coesse third graders anxiously welcomed representatives from the Optimist Club this past November. Jim Nolan and Roger Wait talked with the students, pointing out many of the interesting `extras` in the brand-new dictionaries they were presenting to the students. The third graders are very thankful for this generous gift from the Optimist Club.
The Columbia City Optimist Club presented dictionaries to every third grade student in the Whitley County consolidated school system on November 15, 2006. This was during Education Week. Click to read full story ... | | Coesse third graders curiously check out the `extras` in the new dictionaries donated by the Optimist Club. |
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Small grant organized through strong partnership makes significant impact
By: Lyn Morgan
Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Heritage Fund – the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County
During the first two weeks of October 2006 over1,400 Bartholomew County students received dictionaries thanks to The Dictionary Project . The dictionaries were purchased by Heritage Fund –the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County and distributed by the Bartholomew County Retired Teachers Association (BARTA), with the support of the Center for Teaching and Learning.
BARTA volunteers visited all 21 public and private elementary schools in the county and presented dictionaries to every third grade student. Spanish-speaking English as a Second Language (ESL) students received a Spanish/English di... Click to read full story ... | | Taking a close look in the dictionary! |
By: Jack Ronald
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Donor: The Portland Foundation and the Commercial Review
It was a Tuesday, just a couple of weeks ago.
Doug Inman and Kent McClung of The Portland Foundation and I were distributing dictionaries.
For five years now, The Commercial Review has sponsored the local Dictionary Project, partnering with the foundation. I`d read an article about it in The Wall Street Journal, reading how a woman named Annie Plummer in Savannah, Georgia, had launched the idea at her kitchen table.
Her thought - both simple and profound - was that third graders will perform better as students if they have their own dictionary. Not the big clunky thing on the teacher`s desk or in the library, but... Click to read full story ...
By: Darin Patrick Griesey United North West Area Inc.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Donor: UNWA & YAAM
Dear literacy Supporter,
On the request of the United North West Area Incorporated, UNWA Ministers Alliance, and the Youth American Arts Movement (YAAM), I am sending this letter to yourself and your Business associates.
Since 1971, the United North West Area has been building for a better tomorrow by providing support services to Indianapolis low-income populations. Now 35 years later, UNWA Inc has partnered with YAAM in support of youth literacy.
The National Institute for Literacy estimates that currently 50 million adults over the age of 16 in America are reading at a 3rd grade level or belo... Click to read full story ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Donor: Kiwanis Club of South Bend
Every third grader in the South Bend school system will soon have a new learning tool thanks to the Kiwanis Club.
Members handed out free dictionaries Tuesday at Studebaker Primary Center.
From now throughout December 22nd, Kiwanis will visit each elementary school in South Bend. Kids we talked to say they can`t wait to use their new dictionaries.
`Dictionaries are really fun and you can learn words,` said Katie, 3 rd grader. `You can find the meaning of the word and try to spell it.`
`This is fantastic project. We`re having a lot of fun and we hope to continue this for the years to come,` said Dr. Patrick Case... Click to read full story ... |  | | The Kiwanis Club handed out free dictionaries Tuesday, at Studebaker Primary Center |
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Donor: Community Foundation of Randolph County
Outside the third-grade classrooms at Union Elementary School, student stories cover the bulletin board. The subject of choice - Hurricane Katrina.
One student wrote, `Durring the hurricane there was flooding, looting and lots of death.`
Another story noted that `A hurricane is capebul of flooding.`
On Tuesday, the spelling worlds of these Union`s third-graders got a boost with a free paperback dictionary, `Webster`s Dictionary for Students,` courtesy of the Community Foundation of Randolph County. In three years, when these now 8- and 9-year-olds enter the sixth grade, it will be time for anot... Click to read full story ... | |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Portland Foundation`s Literacy Project
The Portland Foundation`s Literacy Project got off to a nice start Monday with the help of community donations and a Ball Brothers Foundation grant. As part of the project, all Jay Schools third through eighth grade students will receive a new dictionary this year. The program has already purchased books for kindergarten, first and second graders, and will continue to buy books for the entire school corporation. Here, General Shanks Elementary School third graders look up words for their teacher, Denise Swingley. Click to read full story ... |  | |
Program that gives free dictionaries to all 3rd-graders in county meets with excitement
By: Jon Murray jon.murray@indystar.com
Friday, September 17, 2004
Donor: Shelby County Life Long Learning Corp.
For third-graders in Shelby County this month, the definition of generosity is a new book in their hands.
The gift comes from Shelby County Life Long Learning Corp., which is handing out a new dictionary to every third-grader -- nearly 900 -- as part of a national project.
Leroy Whitcher, the organization`s executive director, visited about half the classrooms on his list in the past two weeks and intends to finish next week. Today, he`ll visit Hendricks Elementary in Shelbyville.
Last week, he gave dictionaries to 115 third-graders at Triton Elementary in Fairland.
`They put their own names in... Click to read full story ...
840 books donated to aid students in their writing skills
By: Pam Tharp Correspondent
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Donor: Multiple Organizations
Union County High School students, from left, Tanya Bowling, Megan Drudy and Emily Reece paste labels on thesauruses Friday morning. The books will be distributed to sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Union County schools, and third-, fourth- and fifth-graders all will receive dictionaries.
About the project
Union County sponsors of The Dictionary Project: Heritage Bank, West End Savings Bank, Bath State Bank, Union County National Bank, Liberty Optimist Club, Liberty Lions Club, J`s Dairy Inn, Union County Foundation.
Other area communities participating in The Dictionary Project:
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Thursday, January 01, 2004
Donor: Community Foundation of Bartholomew County
Every third grade student in Bartholomew County is receiving his or her own dictionary from the Heritage Fund – the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County. More than 1,350 books will be distributed in classrooms thanks to the help of volunteers from the Bartholomew Retired Teachers Association (BARTA). Distributions are planned for September in the county`s 21 elementary schools. Spanish-speaking students will receive Spanish/English dictionaries to enhance their English proficiency.
The Dictionary Project is designed to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Two young students proudly show off their brand new dictionaries. |
Monday, August 18, 2003
Donor: The Brookville Kiwanis Club of Brookville
The Brookville Kiwanis Club of Brookville, IN has distributed 270 dictionaries to the third graders of Franklin County, Indiana. We have named it `explore the Power of Words.` On August 18, 2003, 270 third graders received the gift of their own dictionary. Cheryl Rader, Claudine Rader and Larry Polk, all members of the Brookville Kiwanis, were blessed to see the smiles and gratitude from the students and their teachers. This is one of those projects in which you receive a return. That return is helping children learn the power words have in their lives. It helps them with their reading skills and how to better communicate with others. The Br... Click to read full story ... |  | | Cheryl Rader, Larry Polk and Claudine Rader with the 3rd Graders at St. Michael`s School |
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copies of the newspaper coverage or pictures that they want to share to: The
Dictionary Project, Post Office Box 1845, Charleston, SC 29402 . Articles and
photos will be added to the website to share with other clubs.
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