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By: Robert Kisselburgh MS Digital Daily
Monday, March 29, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Madison-Gluckstadt
The Rotary Club of Madison-Gluckstadt presented copies of A Student`s Dictionary to third graders at Camden Elementary on Wednesday, March 24, and will deliver dictionaries to the third grade students at Luther Branson Elementary in Farmhaven on Wednesday, April 7.
The club also presented both schools with $250 gift cards from The Bookshelf on Highway 51 in Ridgeland to assist with summer reading supplies for students.
`Camden Elementary School is deeply appreciative of the generosity of the Rotary Club and the dictionaries donated for our third grade,` said Sandra Dewberry, the instructional specialist at Camden Elementary... Click to read full story ... | | Mrs. Johnson's third-grade class at Camden Elementary with members of the Madison-Gluckstadt Rotary Club |
By: Greg Campbell e-mail communication
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Donor: North Jackson Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of North Jackson, MS, gave out some 400 dictionaries to third graders as part of the Dictionary Project. I was chairman of the project this year for our club and truly enjoyed it. The Jackson Public Elementary Schools that were given dictionaries are; Spann, McLeod, Casey, Boyd and McWillie. Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Joyce Shaw press release
Friday, January 16, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Ocean Springs
Since 2006, the Rotary Club of Ocean Springs has provided over 1,200 free dictionaries to students in the Ocean Springs and St. Martin communities. This year`s service project will provide about 700 dictionaries to 3rd graders.
... Click to read full story ... |  | | Ocean Springs Rotarians (left to right) Sheila Bennett, Bonnie Mitchell, and Wendy Garner give dictionaries to St. Alphonsus School 3rd graders Slay (left) and Emily... |
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Donor: The Dictionary Project, delivered by Lee Gray, CPA
Dear Ms. Mary French,
Thank you for giving us these wonderful dictionaries. We really needed them.
Thank you,
Mrs. Harris 3rd grade class
Brandon, Javosity, Anthony, Christina, Laedward, Cardell, Travarris, and Mrs. Harris
Osyka Elementary School, Osyka, Mississippi Click to read full story ...
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By: BRITTANY BROWN hattiesburgamerican.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
Donor: Hattiesburg-Sunrise Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Hattiesburg-Sunrise donated personal dictionaries to third grade students at Woodley Elementary School Thursday to help improve their vocabulary.
`These dictionaries don`t belong to the school or anyone else,` club member Tom Heanue told the students. `They belong to you.`
Heanue, four Rotary Club members, and state Rep. Toby Barker of Hattiesburg were at the school Thursday to present the dictionaries to students.
He said the club spent about $460 purchasing dictionaries for all third-grade students in the Hattiesburg Public School District, a project they`ve done for the past three years.
... Click to read full story ... | | JOE STEVENS, a member of the Rotary Club of Hattiesburg-Sunrise, hands out dictionaries to third grade students at Woodley Elementary School Thursday. (BRITTANY BROWN... |
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Ocean Springs
In December, the Rotary Club of Ocean Springs completed its third annual distribution of dictionaries for school children in Ocean Springs and St. Martin . Dictionary Project chairman, Laurie Mohler (left), assisted by Rotarians Ward Wicht (center), and Wendy Garner (right) presented dictionaries to 3 rd grade students and their teachers at Oak Park Elementary School in Ocean Springs Rotarians distributed over 700 dictionaries to 3 rd graders at seven schools as its community service literacy project for 2007-08. ... Click to read full story ... | |
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Pascagoula
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Pascagoula visited elementary schools in Pascagoula, handing out dictionaries to all third grader students. Dictionary skills are one of the benchmarks all third graders must master.On the first day of the giveaway, Kiwanis members visited Beach Elementary, Central Elementary and Eastlawn Elementary. On the second day, Arlington Elementary, Cherokee Elementary, Jackson Elementary, and Lake Elementary. In all over 320 dictionaries were giving to the students.
Richard `Woody` Wood
Past-Governor (2004-2005)
Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District
Kiwanis International
Kiwan... Click to read full story ... | |
Friday, December 07, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Pascagoula
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Pascagoula visited elementary schools in Pascagoula, handing out dictionaries to all third grader students. Dictionary skills are one of the benchmarks all third graders must master.On the first day of the giveaway, Kiwanis members visited Beach Elementary, Central Elementary and Eastlawn Elementary. On the second day, Arlington Elementary, Cherokee Elementary, Jackson Elementary, and Lake Elementary. In all over 320 dictionaries were giving to the students.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.
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By: By Vershal Hogan (Contact), | The Natchez DemocratKatie Stallcup (Contact) | The Natchez Democrat
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Donor: Natchez Rotary Club
NATCHEZ — Learning to read for the first time — learning letter sounds, word identification and comprehension — can be a challenge.
Especially in your 60s.
But for Fayette resident Gertrude Miller, 64, it`s worth it..
Miller has been a student in the Natchez Senior Center`s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program`s adult literacy class for three years.
She first became involved in the program when her daughter started taking a GED course at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and learned students who do not have the necessary pre-GED reading skills are referred to RSVP Director Janet McNeely.
`I wanted to be... Click to read full story ... |  | | photo by Destiney Robb
Janet McNeely helps teach Gertrude Miller to read Friday morning at the Senior Citizens Center in Natchez. |
By: Carolyn Ladner
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Gulfport-Orange Grove
The Rotary Club of Gulfport-Orange Grove, Gulfport, MS recently completed the Annual Dictionary Project. What started three years ago as a Centennial Project for our Rotary Club, in honor of 100 years of Rotary worldwide, continues as a yearly project.
Our Club holds fundraising events such as the annual Christmas Concert and golf tournament to obtain funds to pay for the dictionaries. The schools that we selected to serve are in the Harrison County School District with 11 elementary schools: Three Rivers, Harrison Central, Bel-Aire, Lyman, Lizana, Pineville, Saucier, West Wortham, North Woolmarket, Woolmarket and D`Iberville. Thi... Click to read full story ...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Donor: Mississippi BellSouth TelecomPioneers
Mississippi BellSouth TelecomPioneers local president Danny Atkins and member Ronnie Underwood gave dictionaries to Caledonia third grade students. The 151 third graders received the books from the club. The Pioneers are active and retired telecommunication employees who volunteer thousands of community service hours each year. During the month of November, local Pioneers are giving a dictionary to every third grader in a nine-county area: Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster and Winston. Click to read full story ... |  | | Mississippi BellSouth TelecomPioneers local president Danny Atkins, left standing, and Robbie Underwood, right, gave dictionaries to Caledonia third grade students Ty... |
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By: Robert Kranz
Friday, January 19, 2007
Donor: Rotary Clubs in Southern Mississippi
We have finally completed delivering dictionaries to all the third and fourth graders in Harrison County, Mississippi. The Orange Grove Rotary delivered to the County school and Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport and Biloxi Rotary Clubs covered their respective city`s schools, including private or parochial schools. The private or parochial schools that I am aware of are as follows: (Gulfport) St. John, St. James, Westminster Academy, Temple Christian. Christian Collegiate Academy and (Long Beach) Coast Episcopal, St. Thomas and New Life Academy. We did the fourth graders because Katrina interrupted our schedule last year. ... Click to read full story ... | | St Thomas School, Doug St John, Long Beach Rotary |
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By: Jeff Kiessel
Monday, October 23, 2006
Donor: Ludington Rotary Club
Click to read full story ... | | South Hamlin third grader Ben looks up a word in the dictionary he and his classmates received from the Rotary Club Monday. The Ludington Rotary Club handed out rough... |
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By: Joyce Shaw Bay Press
Friday, May 05, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Ocean Springs
At their August 2005 Board meeting, Ocean Springs Rotary Club leaders voted to fund the Club`s new literacy project--giving a dictionary to every third grader in their town. But along the way Hurricane Katrina happened.
`We had just begun compiling the contact information and getting the number of dictionaries we would need when Katrina hit,` said project leader Joyce Shaw. `I began reconnecting with the schools in mid-October and they asked that we not do the project until the second semester.`
School enrollment was down immediately after the hurricane, In April 2006, club member and past president Leah Snyder and Shaw deliv... Click to read full story ... | | St. Alphonsus Catholic School in Ocean Springs - Meleigha Trahan`s third grade class with Rotarian Leah Snyder. |
Friday, April 21, 2006
Donor: Lacey Mid Day Lions
Lacey Lions clubs give kids dictionaries
Third-graders at several elementary schools in Nortl Thurston Public Schools are receiving dictionaries through ~ philanthropic project organized by three Lacey-area clubs.
Students at Lacey and Mountain View elementary schools already have received dictionaries. Students at Lydia Hawk, Meadows, Olympic View and Pleasant Glade elementary schools are expected to receive their dictionaries soon.
The project was organized by the Lacey Lamplighters Lions Club, the Lacey Mid Day Lions Club and the Lacey Sunrise Lions Club.
The Olympian
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By: David Lush Delta Democrat Times
Monday, February 27, 2006
Donor: Washington County Republican Women
GREENVILLE - The Dictionary Project, which benefits third-graders in the public schools in Washington County , will get a much-needed fund-raising boost this week.
The Washington County Republican Women will raise money for their Dictionary Project on Thursday starting at 6 p.m.
The Celebrity Fun event will be held at Fermo`s Italian Restaurant on U.S. 82 West.
Tickets are $20 per person.
The dining experience will be highlighted with service by Republican leaders from around the state.
Diners will be offered a choice of five items from the menu of Bob Portwood and Fermo`s... Click to read full story ...
Sprint gives students dictionaries
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Donor: Sprint
Mid Valley Elementary third-graders received a surprise gift recently when they were given student dictionaries by volunteers from Sprint.
Betty Osborne and George Spontak, representatives from Sprint, visited all three third grade classes to present the children with their free dictionaries.
During their visit, Osborne and Spontak helped the students explore the books by conducting a word scavenger hunt. As the children paged through their dictionaries, they excitedly discovered more than just words — the books are also filled with maps, illustrations of the planets, sign language, Braille, and other fascinating tidbits of kn... Click to read full story ...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Donor: Aberdeen Rotary Club
Literacy is one of Rotary International`s areas of emphasis. One of its projects is a dictionary distribution to third grade students. The objective of The Dictionary Project is to provide an opportunity for Rotarians to participate in a hands-on, interactive community service project that promotes literacy at a very basic level. The Aberdeen Rotary Club is providing dictionaries to every third grade student in the Aberdeen School District, Hamilton Elementary School and Oak Hill Academy. Rotarians are shown with Belle Elementary principal Terry Cox and third graders Jordan Gladney and Stormie Neal, holding dictionaries. Belle Elementar... Click to read full story ... | |
By: Sandi P. Beason Daily Journal
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Donor: Tupelo Rotary Club
TUPELO - By the end of the week, students throughout the county will have a new resource to use at home.
The Rotary Club is giving a dictionary to every third-grader in Tupelo and Lee County as part of its literacy program.
Jim Missett, Literary Task Force Coordinator for Tupelo Rotary Club and production director for the Daily Journal, said some children either don`t own a dictionary or don`t have access to one at home. By putting the dictionaries in the children`s hands, they will have a personal reference book, he said.
In addition to nearly 13,000 words, the books have information on weights and measures,... Click to read full story ...
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Donor: Mid Jersey Cape Rotary Club
The Mid Jersey Cape Rotary club, located in southern New Jersey participated in our annual Dictionary distribution to all our area third graders.
Our club distributed nearly 400 dictionaries to students in Middle Township , Dennis Township , Bishop McHugh School , Cape Christian Academy , Stone Harbor and Avalon Elementary Schools , and Sea Isle Elementary .
Accompanying photo pictures Mrs. Collett`s third grade classroom in Middle Township .
Also pictured are Middle Township School Superintendent Mike Kopakowski, and R... Click to read full story ...
By: JULIE FINLEY
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary
Public schools reflect their community, and the community reflects its public schools. That`s the message from officials at the schools and in economic development, and right now it`s packaged in mostly good news.
Based on last year`s test scores, three of the four Natchez-Adams schools eligible for state rankings jumped a level. The fourth, Robert Lewis Middle School, went down.
`The higher the school rating the better off we are in having perspective projects look at our area,` Economic Development Authority board Chairman Woody Allen said.
And telling a story of improvement means even more, he said.
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Monday, February 07, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Gulfport
The Rotary Club of Gulfport-Orange Grove completed their 2005 Centennial Project January 18th. with distribution of dictionaries to third grade classes in Harrison County Schools. Rotarians and Interact students from Harrison Central High distributed and explained dictionary usage to third graders in the 11 public county schools. Project Chairman, Carolyn Ladner stated that approximately 1800 dictiionaries were given to students, teachers and principals. A plaque was presented to each school principal for their participation in the Club`s Centennial Project. Teachers were pleased to have another teacher tool for their students and the st... Click to read full story ...
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Educational investment
By: Lisa Voyles Betty J. Dulaney
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Donor: Rotary Clubs of Bruce and Calhoun City
By Lisa Voyles
lisa.voyles@monitorherald.com
The Rotary Clubs of Bruce and Calhoun City are working on a joint project to promote literacy in Calhoun County. Both clubs agreed to donate funds to purchase dictionaries to be placed in the county schools. The dic tionaries are being distributed through the third grade classrooms in the local schools and each student in that grade will own the dictionary to keep as they move up to higher grades.
`This is something that they can keep,` said Rotarian Dr. Carter Dobbs. `Each student will have their own dic ... Click to read full story ... | | Third grade students pose with the new dictionaries donated by the Bruce and Calhoun City Rotary Clubs. |
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By: Jessica Waldon The Natchez Democrat
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Donor: The Natchez Rotary Club
NATCHEZ- The school district has recognized it, businesses have recognized it, the schools have recognized it and now the governor has too - the community and the schools are working together in Natchez and Adams County .
Monday, the Natchez-Adams School District was awarded a Governor`s Award for their `outstanding` school and community partnerships on the district and community wide level. `This award belongs to every school and every partner because each of them has done an outstanding job,` said Millicent Mayo, coordinator of Partners in Education for the district. `They have made us the top program in the stat... Click to read full story ... | | Morgantown Elementary student Brionna Smith, 8, hugs her new dictionary Wednesday. Rotary Club members Chuck Caldwell, Sim Mosby, Natchez-Adams superintendent Anthony... |
Rotary distributes dictionaries to Natchez-Adams students
By: Julie Finley
Monday, March 15, 2004
Donor: Natchez Rotary Club
Third-graders at Morgantown Elementary had a new incentive to learn their spelling words Friday. The gift of bright yellow, brand new dictionaries that were theirs to keep made school work a little more fun for at least a few min utes. Members of the Rotary Club visited the school Friday morning to distribute the dictionaries, a service project of the club`s. In each classroom the Rotary representatives went over the Rotary Four-Way Test with the students. The test includes four questions the club members use when making decisions. The questions include: is it the truth, is it fair to all concerned, wi... Click to read full story ...
By: Jenny Maher HOPE Magazine, Page 9
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Donor: The Book Ladies
If you found yourself on the early bus in Jack¬son, Mississippi, you might just be lucky enough to have Sheila O`Flaherty as a fellow passenger. She would look you over, and, if you happened to be under age ten, she might fumble in her canvas bag and pull out a library book and offer to read to you between stops. If this turned out to be your regular route—say, on the way to a public school across town—you could arrange your schedule to ride with O`Flaherty on her way to work every day, rain or shine. Count on her to bring the books. Some of her books might take a few rides to complete.
`We like animal sounds, and rhymes are good,` ... Click to read full story ...
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