Kenton County Republican Women's Club Dictionary Project

By: Karen Y. Smith e-mail
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Donor: Kenton County Republican Women's Club

Henderson County schools get dictionaries from Rotary Club

By: Ron Faupel e-mail communication
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Henderson

All Henderson, Kentucky, dictionaries have been delivered!  Here are some pictures from the last school we went to - Cairo Elementary.

Great Program!  Thanks.

12-letter word for helping students

By: Brad Mathis Courier Press
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Donor: Warrick County Rotary Club

At a Warrick County Rotary Club meeting in early 2007, Rotarian Jack Baker proposed that the club get involved with The Dictionary Project, a concept that started in the 1990s with the sole mission of improving reading ability and comprehension of children everywhere.

Since the inception of The Dictionary Project, more than 7.8 million children nationally have received dictionaries thanks to the generosity of sponsors who value the importance of improving literacy of America`s youth.

The goal of The Dictionary Project is to encourage children to use dictionaries so that they will be able to use the English language more eff...

Rotarians Support Education

By: Joe Jackson WKYX
Friday, November 14, 2008
Donor: Mayfield Rotary Club

Members of the Mayfield Rotary Club this week completed their donation of dictionaries to each of more than 350 Graves County third graders. The club also gave dictionaries to Mayfield third graders. In a letter to parents, Dictionary Project chairman Sharon Green and President Fred Biggs wrote that the project is designed to help the students become `good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers.` The students can continue to use the Rotarians` gifts in coming school years since each student received a personal copy. Teachers and students thanked Rotarians who visited their schools to distribute the dictionaries that also includ...

London Rotary Club helps third-graders look it up with dictionary donations

By: Tara Kaprowy The Sentinel-Echo
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Donor: London Rotary Club

With her pigtails bouncing, Page opened her shiny, new Webster`s dictionary Friday and creased the front page. Practically pressing her nose inside the book, she started looking up the word `beneficial,` as instructed.

Lewis was pleased with her new acquisition.

`It`s cool how it helps me learn,` she said.

Over in the next London Elementary classroom, Peyton was likewise flipping through his new book.

`I like it cause it will help me do my homework,` he said.

When asked what kind of homework he expects to use the dictionary for, Peyton shrugged and then thoughtfully answered.

`Probably math,` he sa...

The gift of words

By: Brad Hicks Times-Tribune
Friday, October 10, 2008
Donor: London Rotary Club

London Rotary Club Treasurer Jamie Harrison entered a third-grade classroom at Hunter Hills Elementary School Thursday morning with several boxes of brand new Webster`s Dictionaries in tow.
Inside the front cover of the dictionaries was a place for students to sign their names and the Rotary Club`s Four-Way Test, a list of questions members ask themselves before acting on a situation.
The fourth question on that list is `Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?`
`Who knows what beneficial means?` Harrison asked the classroom of third graders.
After a few moments of searching, each student found the word in their new dictionary.
...

Martin Co. Rotary Club distributes dictionaries at all elementary schools

By: - Martin County Citizen
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Donor: Martin County Rotary Club

MARTIN COUNTY--The Martin County Rotary Club sponsored the Dictionary Project at all three elementary schools (Eden, Inez and Warfield).

The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization that raises money to provide dictionaries for third-grade students. November is Rotary International`s Literacy Month.

Students in third grade are the chosen focus of the project because, according to educators, third grade is the crucial time to capture and focus excitement and curiosity about words and language. Children at this age have the reading maturity to use a tool such as a dictionary, but have not become `set in a pattern` from ...

Club sponsors dictionary project

By: Lilly Adkins Big Sandy News
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Donor: Martin County Rotary Club

INEZ--The Martin County Rotary Club sponsored a Dictionary Project at each elementary school in the Martin County School District last month as part of the club`s International Literacy Month.

As part of their participation in the project, Rotary Club members, including President Janice Runyons, Treasurer Estella Horn and past president Nita Collier distributed dictionaries to all third graders in the district, including Warfield, Inez and Eden Elementary students.

Runyons explained how to use the dictionary and had students look up several words as a practice activity. She also explained the Rotarian 4-Way Test of the thing...

Rotarians put personal dictionaries into hands of third graders

By: Forrest Martin, staff writer The Fulton Leader
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Donor: Fulton/South Fulton Rotary Club

Bailey, 8, now holds the world of words in his hands.

So do some 110 other third graders in the Twin Cities` public schools who received free dictionaries Sept. 7, thanks to the Fulton/South Fulton Rotary Club.

The club, known throughout the community for its senior high school scholarship program, voted in August to begin another service project to increase literacy by giving personal dictionaries to all third-grade students in the Twin Cities, said Bill and Anne Robertson, the local project coordinators.

The Dictionary Project, a non-profit effort begun in South Carolina in 1995, has assisted in the delivery of more...

Rotarians `Empower young minds` with dictionaries

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Elkton

We gave our dictionaries to our third graders in October 2006. We tried this year to give the dictionaries to the children not long after school began so they could have it to use all year.

I attach some of the pictures that we took at this year`s handout. Each year more of our club gets involved. We are a small rural town, with only about 200 third graders on our entire county. Our small rotary club of about 30 members loves to do community projects. I must say that this has been one of our favorite community service projects. Thank you for all you do. We look forward to handing dictionaries out again in October of 2007 to...

The meaning of civic-mindedness
Danville Rotarians present dictionaries to students
By: Liz Maples Advocate Messenger
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Danville

The Danville Rotary Club defines a good deed with dictionaries, more than 300 of them. For the third year in a row, more than 300 third graders will receive a dictionary of their very own from the Rotarians.



On Friday, which was International Literacy Day, Rotarians carried dictionaries to every public school in Boyle County .



The club has given out 1,000 dictionaries at a cost of less than $2,000 since the program`s inception, according to Richard Gross, who heads the project. The books are purchased from The Dictionary Project, a not-for-profit organization in Charleston , SC.
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Rotary Club of Bon Air Dictionary Project

Sunday, August 20, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Bon Air Dictionary Project

Dear Mary, you asked me for a couple of photos from our presentation of dictionaries to Chalkley School third graders this past June. I am attaching the official presentation photo - left to right Second Row, Chair Jane Preston, Club President Lee Sauvain, Committee Member Dot Sheats and School Principal Ed Walent, First Row, third grade representatives. We chose this school (which is in our service area) because a majority of the children come from single head of household families where the parent is often a female holding down 2 jobs to survive. A dictionary in their household would be a luxury. The children were thrilled to receive these...

Defining moment

Monday, April 17, 2006
Donor: Georgetown Rotary Club, KY

KATY PRATHER, a member of the Georgetown Rotary Club, presented Garth Elementary third-grader Kendra Southworth with `A Student`s Dictionary` Tuesday. The Rotary Club distributed individually labeled dictionaries to every third-grader at seven Scott County elementary schools as part of the International Dictionary Project.

Third-graders clamor for dictionaries

By: Liz Maples The Advocate-Messenger
Monday, November 07, 2005
Donor: Danville Rotary Club

Responsibility: trustworthiness, dependability. Influenza: the flu, an epidemic characterized by fever, headaches and fatigue.

These were the biggest words third-grade students at Toliver Elementary School said they knew before they received dictionaries Friday from the Danville Rotary Club.

Now, the students at Toliver and every other third-grader in the public school systems of Danville and

Boyle County can look up the meaning of the bulk of the English language, everything from abdication to zygote.

This is the second year the club has donated dictionaries to students. Rotarians already provide scholar...

Local Rotary program supports Hispanic Youth

By: Brad Porter The Sentinel-News
Friday, October 14, 2005
Donor: Shelbyville Rotary Club

Food, friends and help with your homework. This was the appeal for several young Latino students Monday night as they came to First Christian Church of Shelbyville to attend Arriba

Ninos (Upward Children).

Before students began their tutoring session, they munched on their meals and listened to guest speaker Gary Walls, who came ` bearing gifts on behalf of the Shelbyville Rotary Club. Walls said the Rotary Club would provide students with Spanish-English Webster Dictionaries.

`It is our hope that students` entire family will educationally benefit from this gift .of learning,` Walls said.

The dictiona...

Fern Storer

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: -

Award-winning editor, intellectual, gracious hostess, devoted wife and friend, proud native Kansan and transplanted Kentuckian, perfectionist. Fern Storer was all that and more, according to friends and former co-workers. As food editor for the Cincinnati Post from 1951 to 1976, Ms. Storer used those traits to give people how to do things right.

`She was meticulous about testing recipes,` said current Cincinnati Post home/food editor Joyce Rosencrans. `She took great pride in the accuracy of those food sections and passed those principles down to me.`

Ms. Storer died Tuesday at St. Charles Care Center and Lodge in C...

Rotary Club of Springfield KY joins the Dictionary Project

By: Margaret Goatley
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Rotary Club of Springfield KY

The 20-member Springfield KY  Rotary Club donated dictionaries to all of Washington County`s (KY) 4th graders.   Since Kentucky 4th graders work on and submit writing portfolios, local administrators and teachers decided that dictionaries would be most beneficial to 4th grade students.  Attached are photos of local Rotary President Dave Pudlo and club representatives (including the Superintendent of Schools Larry Graves) presenting personalized dictionaries to local students and teachers in Washington Co Schools.