Baltimore Rotary Club and the City of Baltimore Recognize Volunteers

By: Vince Robinson letter
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Baltimore

On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, The Baltimore Rotary Club and the City of Baltimore will recognize our volunteers for their `SERVICES ABOVE SELF` through their efforts, energies and commitment to present dictionaries to the 3rd and 4th grade students of the Baltimore City Public Schools this year. The volunteers will be awarded a `Certificate of Appreciation` for their contributions to improving the quality of life to our youth by the educational values shared during the Dictionary Project .presentation.
For more information about the dictionary project click on the web site www.dictionaryproject.org

The Baltimore Rotary Clu...

Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore Mayor, Delivers Dictionaries To Students

By: Andrea Fujii WJZ Channel 13
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Baltimore

Dozens of Baltimore elementary school children received the gift of good spelling Tuesday.

Spelling and grammar just got a lot easier for 120 students at Westport Academy in Southwest Baltimore. They`ll all be taking home dictionaries from the Rotary Club.
`I won`t have to worry about using small words when I get older. I can use bigger words,` said Cache, student.
City leaders helped pass out the new gifts.

For the past five years the Baltimore Rotary Club has donated thousands of dictionaries to third-graders across the city.
`Dictionaries will help the third-graders just at the pivotal point when they learn to lov...

Ocean City Elks Lodge shares thank-you letters

By: Toni Wagner letter
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Donor: Ocean City Elks Lodge # 2645

Thank you for the opportunity to showcase the 3rd grade students in the Ocean City Elks # 2645 District of Maryland.

Enclosed are letters of appreciation from the students of the schools in our district that received `A Student`s Dictionary` through a Gratitude Grant from the Elks National Foundation. The four participating schools were Berlin Elementary School, Buckingham Elementary School, Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Elementary School, Ocean City Elementary School, and Worcester Preparatory School.

It was a great pleasure to be present when the students were given their personal dictionaries and feel sure you, too, will...

Rotary's book day
Gift dictionaries to students a local part of global outreach
By: James B. Morris The Washington Times
Monday, December 14, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Wheaton-Kensington

`Wow! I`ve never owned my own book before!` That`s what Jamal exclaimed when I handed him a brand-new, free dictionary at his third-grade classroom in Wheaton.

`Can I write my name in it?` he asked eagerly. I nodded and smiled, pointing to the very first page, where there was a pre-printed blank line for him to write his name. He quickly picked up his pen and very carefully wrote his name above the black line. Looking up, I saw that all the other third-graders were following his lead. They held pens, pencils or markers and earnestly wrote their names on the front page of each dictionary we had just given them. A loud chatter arose i...

Laurel Rotary Club promotes literacy with large gift to students
Organization to donate almost 600 dictionaries to third-graders at eight Laurel schools
By: Caitlin Moran The Gazette
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Donor: Laurel Rotary Club

The Laurel Rotary Club is donating nearly 600 dictionaries to third-graders at eight public and private elementary schools this fall.
The project, in its fifth year, is primarily funded by donations from Rotary members, and this year`s donations reached $775, said Rotary President Joy Kline.
The Club has already visited St. Mary of the Mills School and Bond Mill, Scotchtown Hills and Laurel elementary schools and plans to distribute the books to Montpelier, Oaklands, James H. Harrison and Deerfield Run elementary schools in the next several weeks.
Jeffrey Blitz, president-elect of the Laurel Rotary, said the Club has continued...

Rotary Club gifts all Calvert third-graders with dictionaries
Books include facts about states, presidents and more
By: Laura Buck Southern Maryland Newspapers
Friday, October 09, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Prince Frederick

Calvert County third-graders were given hundreds of pages of words this week, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Prince Frederick, which distributed dictionaries to Appeal, Barstow, Calvert, Dowell, Mutual and St. Leonard elementary schools as well as to Our Lady Star of the Sea School in Solomons.
The Rotary Club of North Calvert County did the same for schools north of Prince Frederick, Rotary Club of Prince Frederick Vocational Service Director Eugene Karol said while at Mutual Elementary School in Port Republic on Tuesday.
`Their faces light up; they love to look up things in the dictionary,` said Karol, who is also president of th...

Jefferson Grange visits Valley Elementary School

By: Doris Ifert e-mail
Friday, October 09, 2009
Donor: Jefferson Grange # 167

We enjoyed giving the dictionaries to four classrooms of third-graders at Valley Elementary School on Tuesday, October 6.  They were very well-received by the students.  We took pictures showing Margaret Arnold in one and Bernard Remsburg and David Ifert in others giving out the books. Mrs. Bradley, teacher, is shown in one of them. 

A Rotarian shares her experience at Wolfsville Elementary School

By: Patty McGill e-mail communication
Monday, October 05, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Carroll Creek

I thought you`d like to see the picture I took of a `very happy group of 3rd graders` at Wolfsville Elementary School. The teacher greeted me with overwhelming enthusiasm, telling me how the students had been eagerly awaiting the delivery of the dictionaries - they had heard about them from last year`s class. She was right - the whole class was brimming with excitement as they helped hand them out and listened to my telling them about the contents of the dictionaries, as well as a bit about Rotary. They then gladly assembled for a group photo!
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Rotary Club of Carroll Creek dictionary project update

By: Veronica Mozzano Rotary Club of Carroll Creek October newsletter
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Carroll Creek and Rotary District 7620

4,170,598 is the estimated number of third graders there are in the United States for this school year. They are mostly 8 or 9 year olds who are still excited about all there is to learn about the world. The project is working toward the goal of sending dictionaries to every elementary student in the United States. The goal of the Dictionary Project is to provide students with dictionaries to keep as their own personal reference books. In addition to helping students develop their communication skills, the project sponsors (by delivering the books personally) demonstrate to the students community service in action and build relationships wit...

Rotarians give the gift of words

By: Kelly Hahn Johnson The Herald-Mail
Monday, September 21, 2009
Donor: Washington County Rotary Clubs & Hagerstown Community College

Washington County Rotary Clubs will provide every third-grade student in the county`s public and private schools with a dictionary and Hagerstown Community College will provide each with a bookmark.

Howard County Rotary Clubs Improve Literacy Thousands Of Words At A Time

By: Karen Lubieniecki press release
Monday, April 20, 2009
Donor: Howard County Rotary Clubs

Howard County `s Rotary Clubs have been providing dictionaries to Howard County school children for five years. April 15 the county`s seven Rotary Clubs formalized their efforts with a new partnership with the Howard County Schools. Nancy Szlasa, Rotary District 7630 Assistant District Governor, Mary Schiller, Partnerships at the Howard County School System (HCPSS), and Howard County School Board member Sandra French, along with representatives of the seven Howard County Rotary Clubs, signed the agreement.

Under the partnership agreement, Howard County `s Rotary Clubs will purchase and distribute copies of A ...

Riverbend Estates Homeowners Association supports local school

By: Jacqueline B. Pyatt letter
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Donor: Riverbend Estates Homeowners Association & The Dictionary Project

Dear Ms. French:

The generosity of your grant made it possible for Riverbend Estates Homeowners Association to donate $250 to Fort Foote Elementary School. The dictionaries, provided by you, were distributed on March 10, 2009, to 51 third grade students, their teachers, the teachers` assistants, and the school librarian.

The Dictionary Project has become one of the most important initiatives undertaken by our association. We strongly agree that each child having a personal dictionary will help them become good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. That message is conveyed by Sarah Cavitt, chair of the committee, asso...

Jefferson Grange visits Valley Elementary

By: Doris Ifert, Family Activities Director
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Donor: Jefferson Grange #167

Again this year we delivered dictionaries to the third-grade students at Valley Elementary School and their teachers.  89 students were thrilled with their dictionaries that we delivered on October 20, 2008.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to give these dictionaries to the students at Valley Elementary School in Jefferson, Maryland.

Republican Women continue project

By: Betty Bryan
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Donor: Henson Valley Republican Club

Continuing our support of the Dictionary Project and Mamie Eisenhower Library and Barbara Bush Literacy projects, on October 22, 2008 our Henson Valley Republican Club of Maryland presented 91 dictionaries to Potomac Landing Elementary School, Fort Washington, MD.

We are proud to be a part of this program.

Learning how to spell ‘grateful'
Rotary hands out dictionaries to kids
By: Gretchen Phillips SoMdNews.com
Friday, October 24, 2008
Donor: Waldorf Rotary Club

Third-graders at Malcolm Elementary School in Waldorf were anxiously awaiting the arrival of their new dictionaries Thursday, a tradition that the Waldorf Rotary Club has made famous at the school for years.
`It might have all the words that there ever were,` said Richard, a third-grade student at Malcolm.
The student dictionaries passed out by Rotary Clubs throughout the area to third-grade students do not boast every word in the world but Richard was excited to find out that the dictionary did contain the longest word in the English language.
`I can`t believe it`s a whole word,` Sierra said of the type of enzyme the name of ...

Mt. Airy Rotary Club doles out dictionaries to students

By: Angie Cochrun Gazette.net
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Donor: Mt. Airy Rotary Club

Mount Airy Elementary School students have a new resource thanks to a donation from the Mount Airy Rotary Club.
`This dictionary is one of the coolest dictionaries,` Rotary Club member Carol Blackburn told a class of attentive third-graders last week as she held up a blue paperback book with a picture of a globe on the front.
She flipped through the book, pointing out not only the words it spelled and defined, but other perks. Students gasped when she showed them the sign language alphabet, the longest word in the English language, information on U.S. presidents, measurement tables, the solar system and capitols.
`I know what ...

Baltimore Rotary visits Cecil Elementary School

Friday, May 16, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Baltimore

Dr. Nancy Grasmick, the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, joined members of the Baltimore Rotary Club for a program and dictionary distribution at Cecil Elementary School in Baltimore on May 15.

Dictionaries donated as memorial tribute

Friday, April 11, 2008
Donor: Family and friends of Marty Dickinson

The family and friends of the late Mrs. Marty Dickinson have donated dictionaries to local students in Hampstead, Maryland for the past two years.

Baltimore Rotary Club Dictionary Project

Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Baltimore

The Rotary Club of Baltimore is distributing dictionaries to all of the third graders in the Baltimore City public schools and several Catholic schools.

Henson Valley Republican Women donate dictionaries in memory of Mamie Eisenhower

By: Betty Bryan
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Donor: Henson Valley Republican Women`s Club

In the late fifties when Dwight D. Eisenhower was our United States President, our National Federation wanted to give a gift to First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. Mrs. Eisenhower suggested that the organization give books to schools, nursing homes and such in her name, and the Mamie Eisenhower Library Project was formed (MELP).

Our Henson Valley Republican Women`s Club, a unit club of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women and National Federation of Republican Women, has participated in this program and donated books to local schools for many years. When we heard about the Dictionary Project a few years ago, we started giving dictio...

Jefferson Grange Dictionary Project

By: Bernard Remsburg press release
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Donor: Jefferson Grange #167

Recently the Jefferson Grange presented dictionaries to the third-grade students at Jefferson Elementary School. Members making the presentations were Bernard Remsburg, Alma Lakin and David and Doris Ifert. They were assisted by Neely McDonald, Assistant Principal, Lorie Gearhard, substitute third-grade leader and teachers Mary Cooley and Vickie Bradley. This undertaking is made possible under the guidance of the Dictionary Project in Charleston, S.C. It is believed that third grade is the best year to hand out these dictionaries because habits are best learned and become a part of us if we learn something or become acquainted with it wh...

Rotary Club in action

Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Owings Mills-Reisterstown

The Rotary Club of Owings Mills-Reisterstown recently completed its fourth year of `The Dictionary Project,` distributing dictionaries to third grade students in ten public schools. About 1,000 books have been distributed. The club partners with Owings Mills High School`s Adopt-A-Family program. Other philanthropic projects include Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, Humane Society of Baltimore County, volunteer fire companies, food drives, and the Community Crisis Center. The club meets most Thursdays at Mark`s Deli in Reisterstown. For more information visit www.RotaryOMR.org. Pictured from left, member Rachel Heird, Woodholme Elementary Scho...

Chestertown Rotary Club Donates Dictionaries

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Donor: Chestertown Rotary Club

Chestertown Rotary Club Proudly Marks Completion of the 5th Consecutive Year of its Dictionary Project





Greetings to Ms Mary French from the Rotary Club of Chestertown, MD.---

Forwarded for your information and file is a wonderful example of the partnership that we of the Rotary Club in Chestertown Maryland
enjoy with :The Dictionary Project` The attachment gives you the color public service advertisement our Club and Rotary has financed in our
local `Kent County News`. It will be published tomorrow, November 29,2007. This fall`s project at seven (7) elementary schools in Kent County
...

New Rotary president takes reins

By: Mona Ridder Cumberland Times-News
Monday, July 09, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Keyser

KEYSER - Every year at this time a new face takes the helm of the Keyser Rotary Club, and Thursday`s meeting saw the new face come to the fore as the Rev. Sally Bartling of Trinity Lutheran Church became president of the 84-year-old club.

Outgoing President David Vanscoy said in his farewell remarks that the time had been fleeting though he didn`t think it would be when he took office.

He said that a number of the club`s activities during the year stand out in his mind, including the Relay for Life, which raised considerably more than the previous year; the fall fundraiser, which netted some $8,000 for community projects; and...

Centreville Rotary photos

By: Don Blouch
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Centreville

Members of the Centreville Rotary Club donated dictionaries to third graders at Bayside, Church Hill, Grasonville, Kennard, and Matapeake Elementary Schools in Queen Annes County.

Dictionaries donated to third-graders by Rotary

Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Charles County

The Rotary Club recently donated about 1,800 dictionaries to Charles County Public Schools.
They gave one to each third-grade student to use as a resource in the classroom and at home to help them build their vocabularies.
This is the second year the Rotary Club has handed out dictionaries to third-graders. The club believes dictionaries are excellent tools for enhancing a student`s ability to read, write and communicate.
The local Rotary Club is part of Rotary International, an organization of business and professional men and women throughout the world who meet to build business character, provide humanitarian services, encou...

Rotary Donates Dictionaries

By: Ken Millstone The Potomac Almanac
Monday, January 01, 2007
Donor: Potomac Rotary Club

Members of the Potomac Rotary Club have begun a project to donate student dictionaries to third graders at schools throughout the Potomac area.



The student dictionaries also contain gen­ eral reference information, and the in­ side cover contains a brief description of Rotary Club International.



Groups of two or three Rotarians will visit each school, talk about Rotary and distrib­ ute the books. Potomac Rotary Club is vis­ iting seven schools - Cold Spring, Stone Mill, DuFief, Fallsmead, Lakewood , Travilah and Gallway Elementary Schools...

Information Dissemination
Bells Mill Elementary students receive dictionaries as gifts from local Rotary Club chapter
By: Aaron Stern The Potomac Almanac
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Potomac-Bethesda

Flipping through his new multi-use dictionary, 8-year-old Bradley saw what he thought might be a discrepancy and raised his hand.

`It says here that there are eight planets in our solar system, is that right?` Bradley asked. `How recently was this published?`

Bradley`s question was a reasonable one, given Pluto`s recent relegation to dwarf planet status, but his concern about his new book was allayed. Published in May 2006 by The Dictionary Project, Inc., the eleventh edition of A Student`s Dictionary and Gazetteer did correctly list the number of planets in the solar system at eight, down from the nine-planet system that had...

Rotary donates dictionaries to third-grade students

By: Jacqueline Rabe The Maryland Independent
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Waldorf

The third-grade students at Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School were taught what the longest word in the English language was by using the dictionaries given to them by the Rotary Club of Waldorf last week.
The longest word, which is 1,909 letters, is a word for the formula ``C1289H2051N343037558` — an enzyme that has 267 amino acids.
Administrators assured the students that the word wouldn`t show up on their weekly spelling test.
Each student in all four third-grade classes received a copy of ``A Students Dictionary` for their own personal use.
Randy Heim, president of Waldorf Rotary Club, said a dictionary is ...

Jefferson Grange No. 167 Pictures

Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Jefferson Grange No. 167

3rd Grade Dictionaries at Most Blessed Sacrament Elementary School Ocean Pines, MD

By: Susan Giove Rehoboth Sunrise Rotary Club
Monday, November 27, 2006
Donor: Rehoboth Sunrise Rotary Club

Dictionary project spells excitement for students
Rotary clubs provide books to help with words
By: Gretchen Phillips The Recorder
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Prince Frederick and Rotary Club of Northern Calvert Coun­ty

Local third-graders were shocked to find out that there are many words longer than `supercalifragilisticexpialido­ cious,` in Disney`s `Mary Pop­ pins.`



Last week, the Rotary Club of Prince Frederick and the Rotary Club of Northern Calvert Coun­ ty presented dictionaries to all third-graders enrolled in Calvert County public schools and the third-graders at Our Lady Star of the Sea School in Solomons as one of the many community outreach projects the clubs put together each year.



The dictionary project is in its third year...

College ParK Rotary Club distributes new dictionaries to local third-graders

By: John R. Moore
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Donor: College Park Rotary Club

The Rotary Club of College Pary, MD donated new dictionaries to third grade students at Cherokee Lanes Elementary School.

Grange Donates 250 Dictionaries

Thursday, December 01, 2005
Donor: Thurmont Grange #409

Third grade students in northern Frederick County are getting a little language arts help this year thanks to Thurmont Grange #409. The local organization recently donated nearly 250 dictionaries - one to every third grade student at Thurmont, Emmitsburg, Sabillasville, and Lewistown Elementary Schools.

In the top photo, Mrs. Brenda Smith`s third grade class at Sabillasville Elementary proudly display their new dictionaries courtesy of the Thurmont Grange. Grange members (L-R) James Moser, Elmer `Pete` Lambert, Greta Lambert, Jean Myers, and Rodman Myers and teacher Brenda Smith are shown standing behind the students.
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Look It Up!

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Nanticoke Rotary Club

The Nanticoke Rotary Club in partnership with the 43 Rotary Clubs in the District and the Seaford and Woodbridge school districts provided approximately 480 dictionaries to third grade students.

New Market Grange Gives Dictionaries to Third-Graders at New Market Elementary

Monday, March 08, 2004
Donor: New Market Grange

On Thursday, May 8, three of our New Market Grange members delivered 72 dictionaries to New Market Elementary School third graders and their teachers. We were accompanied by the Principal who took us to each of three classes where we described the project and presented each student and the teacher with a dictionary. We had placed each student`s name in the dictionary and called his or her name to come forward to receive it. Enclosed are several pictures of students receiving them. The students were quite enthused and proud to have a dictionary of their own. Thank you for your support of this worthwhile program. We plan to continue to give th...

Rotary Clubs distribute dictionaries to area schools

Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Donor: -

Well-defined Rotary project

Thursday, September 11, 2003
Donor: Chestertown Rotary Club

The Henson Valley Republican Women`s Club

Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Donor: The Henson Valley Republican Women`s Club

National Dictionary Project benefits two elementary schools

By: DEBBIE RECH Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Donor: The Rotary Clubs of Kent Island and Centreville

The Rotary Clubs of Kent Island and Centreville joined in a literacy project aimed at helping local third graders. They distributed new paperback Webster`s Dictionary New Encyclopedic Edition to a total of 296 third-graders at Bayside and Grasonville Elementary Schools .

Their efforts are part of a nationwide project which aims to provide every child in the United States with a dictionary as they enter the third grade. The nationwide Dictionary Project is the brainchild of a woman named Mary French. She got the idea from a 1995 letter to the editor printed in The Post and Courier in South Carolina .


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NATIONAL TITLE I DISTINGUISHED SCHOOL
`We Challenge... We Care`
Monday, December 10, 2001
Donor: POG

Mr. Arthur Goetz
Salisbury, Rotary Club
811 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, Maryland 21801

Dear Mr. Goetz:

On behalf of all of our third grade students, their teachers, and parents, I want to express our most sincere appreciation for the wonderful gifts of reference materials. The copies of New Revised Edition of the Webster`s Classic Reference Library Dictionary are tools that will have impact for life for our students. Many of our students lack personal references of any form (even newspapers) in their homes. With your materials and the positive examples that are provided through your membership, students should be v...