Eastside Grange distributes dictionaries to three schools

By: Donald Vogel letter
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Donor: Eastside Grange # 109

Eastside Grange in Kalispell distributed dictionaries to third graders at Creston School, Cayuse Prairie School and Fair-Mont-Egan School.

Helena Elks complete dictionary distribution

By: Duke Hudson email communication
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Donor: Helena Elks Lodge

Well, our project for 08 is complete. I`m attaching the last of the
school pics.
Good to work with you again, and we`ll likely be doing this again in 09. It`s
become quite popular.

Can you spell empowerment?
Area students receive special gift from the Helena Elks Lodge # 193
By: Alana Listoe Independent Record
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Donor: Helena Elks Lodge #193

Jack Berry stood in front of a group of Hawthorne Elementary third-graders Wednesday morning and asked if they knew what the Elks Lodge was.

`You hunt for elk,` one student guessed.

Berry, a member of the Helena Elks Lodge #193, went on to explain that members of Elks are a little like Boy or Girl Scouts.

`We are men and women who get together to help other people,` he said.

From advocating for veterans to providing scholarships to college-bound students, the Elks have consistently worked to help those in need.

And for the third year in a row, the Elks, in partnership with The Dictionary Project, have provi...

Helena Elks begin dictionary distribution

By: Duke Hudson email communication
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Donor: Helena Elks

Just want to advise you that our dictionary distribution
is underway here. We have something like 27 schools to deliver to, as well as
several children who are home schooled. We`ll pass out around 950
dictionaries. Here are a few pics of schools.

As you can see, we`ve some pretty small schools in this part of the country.
...

Round Butte Grange continues successful project

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Donor: Round Butte Grange #126

The Round Butte Grange in Polson was the first Grange in Montana to participate in the Dictionary Project.  They have been donating dictionaries to local third graders since 2004.

Hamilton Elks project report

By: Laurie Smith
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Donor: Hamilton Elks Lodge #1651

We all enjoyed doing the Project and look forward to doing it again. We also have a local Rotary Club here in Hamilton. We did not realize that they also were going to give out dictionaries. As ours were already delivered to all the third graders in our valley, they decided to give their dictionaries to all of the fourth graders. That was very well accepted, as we were told by several principals of schools that the fourth graders were disappointed they did not get one. For your information, next year, the Hamilton Elks Lodge will again donate dictionaries to all of the third graders, and the Rotary has decided to donate theirs to the fi...

Helena Montana Elks Lodge #193

Saturday, December 01, 2007
Donor: Helena Montana Elks Lodge #193

Good morning Mary; Am attaching a couple of pics of deliveries to Helena 3rd. Graders. Also attaching a letter to the Editor of the Helena Independent Record. Hopefully it will get printed.

Duke Hudson


Dear Editor:

Helena Lodge #193, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has had the pleasure of presenting more than 800 third grade students with dictionaries this fall. How exciting it has been to support the literacy work of schools in our Lodge area by giving each student their own dictionary. From Townsend to Lincoln and Wolf Creek to Boulder, as well as in Helena public and private schools, Elks me...

Dictionary project aims at 3rd-graders

By: LAURA TODE - The Gazette Staff Billings Gazette
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Donor: Downtown Rotary Club

In the third grade, children are somewhere between learning their ABCs and answering essay questions. Teachers agree that vocabulary development is crucial at that age, and members of Rotary Clubs in Billings are helping by giving a dictionary to every third-grade student in Billings and surrounding schools.

Members of the Downtown Rotary Club distributed the first boxes of the paperback dictionaries Monday in the two third-grade classes at McKinley Elementary.

In Tracey Tounsely`s third-grade class, students are given vocabulary words from...

Donate (vt) - to give

By: Jenny Harris, Staff Reporter Ravalli Republic
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Donor: Hamilton Elks Lodge 1651

Montana`s next spelling bee champions may have a couple of things in common - they might be third-graders and hail from the Bitterroot Valley.




Thanks to Hamilton`s Chapter 1651 Elks Club, every third-grader in Ravalli County from Florence to Darby will be receiving his or her own pocket-sized dictionary.




The dictionary donation is part of a national, nonprofit program called the Dictionary Project that began in Savannah, Ga., in 1992. The program stayed largely in the South until 1997, when the project`s board of directors decided to expand its mission into all schools in the United States...

Elks ensure all Flathead County children receive dictionaries

By: David Barnes
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Donor: Kalispell Elks Lodge #725

While attending the Elks Grand Lodge Convention in Orlando, FL in July 2006, Exalted Ruler David Barnes, of the Kalispell Elks Lodge #725, heard about The Dictionary Project for the first time. After returning from the convention he reviewed The Dictionary Project`s web site and discovered that four Granges in Flathead Valley had and were participating in the project. After contacting all four granges Barnes determined that a significant number of schools and students being left out. He then contacted the Flathead County Superintendent of Schools, Marcia Sheffels, and determined the number of students in both public and private sch...

Plains Grange Gives Dictionaries

Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Donor: Plains Grange #101

Kalispell Grange donates dictionaries to local third-graders.

Sunday, February 13, 2005
Donor: Kalispell Grange #500 of Selkirk

Livingston`s Dictionary Project is a Winner!

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club

`Unicorn` – an imaginary animal that looks like a horse with one horn in the middle of its forehead (sic). So starts a thank you card from a 3 rd grader at the Washington Elementary school after receiving a dictionary from the Livingston Rotary Club. This definition was taken from a 450-page dictionary that the Livingston club recently presented to each 3 rd grade student at that school.



Dictionaries, 186 in all, were given to 3 rd grade students in ten public and two private area schools including the elementary school at Mammoth Hot Springs, just inside Yellowstone Park. In some cases, dictionaries were ...

A dictionary donation

Thursday, October 28, 2004
Donor: The LaSalle Grange, MT

The LaSalle Grange makes a little money from renting its facility each year. This year, they used some of the funds to buy dictionaries for every third grader in Columbia Falls. Here, Kathleen Carlson and youngster Gavin have a conversation on vocabulary. Carlson, Judy Olson, Jeanie Warner and Evelyn Sutton, of the Grange, coordinated the effort.