Kiwanis Club of Charlotte provides dictionaries to Charlotte-Mecklenburg FOCUS schools

By: Libby Gray letter
Monday, April 05, 2010
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Charlotte

The Kiwanis Club of Charlotte has donated dictionaries to the 3rd graders in the FOCUS schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for the past 4 years and plan to continue this project for the 2010-2011 school year. This past fall we delivered 4,750 dictionaries to 3rd graders in 46 elementary schools. Our members really enjoyed delivering the dictionaries to classrooms. The students and teachers were most appreciative of our generous gift.

Some of my favorite comments that I heard frequently from some of the students were: Is this really mine? No one has ever given me a book before. May I take it home?

We ask that the students...

Ruri-Teens help promote Dictionary Project in Alexander County

By: Shelby Earp letter
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Donor: Gwaltney Ruritan Club

Dear Mary,

Thank you for all your help in helping me to let other clubs within our district know about The Dictionary Project.

Here is a picture of me and Jeannie Harrington and Vanessa Jansen, two young ladies that were presented a dictionary from The Dictionary Project.

Miss Jeannie Harrington was our guest speaker at our Ruri-Teen Ruritan Club.

Miss Jansen is the 2010 President of our Youth Ruri-Teen Club; she is leading us in many different community service projects.

Thanks,

Shelby Earp

Students get dictionaries thanks to donor and help from Gaston School of the Arts

By: Will MacDonald Gaston Gazette
Friday, December 11, 2009
Donor: Gaston School of the Arts

Look up the word `benevolence` in the dictionary and you might not find mention of the Gaston School of the Arts, but thanks to volunteers with the group and an anonymous donor, third-graders in Gaston County Schools will have an important learning tool to keep.

Each year members of the Gaston School of the Arts Board of Directors take time out from their busy schedules to hand deliver the dictionaries to classrooms in schools across Gaston County.

And some of the board members like Royce Robinson share their artistic talents during their visits with the children.

Robinson, a musician and songwriter, takes advant...

Laurinburg Rotary Club distributes dictionaries

By: - The Laurinburg Exchange
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Donor: Laurinburg Rotary Club

Having trouble spelling maneuver?

How about gubernatorial?

Thanks to a big assist from the Laurinburg Rotary Club, a county third grader may be able to help.

The Rotary club distributed 624 dictionaries Tuesday morning to the county`s elementary schools as part of The Dictionary Project, a nationwide program that has distributed more than 11 million dictionaries to students. The dictionaries cost about $1,100.

`This is a program that we feel is very important,` said Frank Ward, who coordinates the dictionary program for the Laurinburg Rotary Club. `Education and literacy is so important and we are glad to be able ...

Rockingham Rotary provides dictionaries to local students

By: - Richmond County Daily Journal
Friday, September 04, 2009
Donor: Rockingham Rotary Club

All third grade students in Richmond County received a free dictionary Friday courtesy of Rockingham Rotary, as part of the Club`s annual Dictionary Project. The dictionaries were a gift to each student to use at school and at home. Approximately 750 dictionaries were distributed to students across the county during the event.

The goal of the program — to help third grade students become good writers, creative thinkers and increase their vocabulary skills. All the funding is provided by Rockingham Rotary and free to the schools and children.

`The children are always excited about having their own personal dictionary that they ca...

Rotary Club Donates Dictionaries

By: - The Warren Record
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Donor: Warrenton Rotary Club

In memory of Harry Weingarten, Warrenton rotary Club members recently donated dictionaries to third-grade students at Warren County elementary schools. Each student recieved a personal dictionary to keep and use throughout his or her elementary school career.

Rotarian Bill Miller spearheaded the dictionary project. `Our Rotary club takes an active interest in elementary school students in Warren County, and we are pleased to present almost 300 dictionaries to deserving individuals in the third grade,` he said. `We hope that these dictionaries will have a positive effect on each student.`

Each dictionary is geared toward the e...

La Grange Rotary Club Donates Dictionaries

By: Keith King e-mail communication
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Donor: La Grange Rotary Club

As part of the Rotary International District 7730 annual Dictionary Project, the La Grange Rotary Club recently donated and delivered dictionaries to each 3rd grade student at La Grange Elementary School , Bethel Christian Academy , and Kennedy Home. The Dictionary Project is a favorite event of the students as well as La Grange Rotarians each year. The dictionaries are for the students to keep at school or at home and to use to further their education. Keith King, Rotary District 7730 Area 8 Assistant Governor and La Grange Rotarian, stated, `The Dictionary Project is just one of the many ways that we as Rotarians can give ...

Greenville third graders pleased to receive dictionaries from Kiwanis Club

By: Terria Baynor email communication
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Donor: Pitt County Professionals Kiwanis Club

These are pictures of the the Pitt County Professionals Kiwanis Club and their visit to Eastern Elementary School in Greenville, NC, to hand out dictionaries. 

Smithfield Rotary delivers 100 dictionaries

By: Cornell Cox email communication
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Smithfield

On Oct. 3, 2008, the Rotary Club of Smithfield, North Carolina, gave 100 dictionaries to five third-grade classes at South Smithfield Elementary School . Our Rotary Club`s President, Elaine Marshall, along with Rotarians Laurel Grantham and Cornell Cox made 12 to 15 minute visits to each class. The presentation theme, led by President Marshall, was centered around our current Rotary year`s theme, `Make Dreams Real.` Our Rotary group was warmly received by school staff, teachers, and students.


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Group hopes donation will help define kids` futures

By: Mike Wilder The Times-News
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Donor: Alamance Citizens for Education

Allison Gant is nearing the end of a long but enjoyable task: delivering 2,000 dictionaries to third-grade students in Alamance County.

Gant is executive director of Alamance Citizens for Education, which is giving out the dictionaries with a $5,000 grant from the Hayden-Harman Foundation.

If you think a crowd of third-graders won`t get excited about dictionaries, you`re wrong-- at least if you`re giving one to each of them that includes a sticker with their name inside the cover.

Gant was at Newlin Elementary School last week to deliver dictionaries to about 90 third-graders there.

`Whooooooaaa,` some of...

Dictionaries donated to third graders

By: Adrianne Flores News 14 Carolina-Triad
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Donor: Alamance Citizens for Education

BURLINGTON, N.C. -- They`re excited about education at Alexander Wilson Elementary School, and it`s all because of a book



`We have been delivering dictionaries to all third graders in Alamance County,` said Allison Gant, Executive Director of Alamance Citizens for Education.


A.C.E received a donation from the Hayman-Hardin Foundation this year to obtain 2,000 dictionaries for the Alamance Burlington School System. But unlike similar projects in the past, the books are theirs to keep.


`It`s not something that they have to leave in the classroom or that they have to give back,` Gant said.


Pr...

Alamance County Students Receive Dictionaries

By: Justin Quesinberry WFMY News 2
Monday, March 17, 2008
Donor: Alamance Citizens for Education

Alamance County, NC -- Third graders at Sylvan Elementary in Snow Camp each received a dictionary Monday. It`s part of the Dictionary Project. Alamance Citizens for Education is giving every third grade student in Alamance County a dictionary.

`We talk about the world of technology, but really having the skills that help a child to develop, some of the old fashioned skills, I guess, of looking up in the dictionary. I have one at my desk and I use it today,` said Allison Gant, executive director of A.C.E.

Money for the project came from the Hayden-Harman Foundation. A grant will allow the project to continue for two more year...

Third-Graders Receive Dictionaries
David and Anne Hobson donated the books
By: - Dunn Daily Record
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Donor: David and Anne Hobson

Third-graders at 10 Harnett County primary and elementary schools recently received new paperback dictionaries, which were donated by David and Anne Hobson of Pinehurst, formerly of Dunn.

The 1,400 `Webster`s Dictionary for Students` were donated by the Hobsons in honor of Hobson`s mother, Alese Hobson, and in memory of his father, Mack Hobson, both natives and lifelong residents of Harnett County.

Mr. Hobson said that, when he was growing up, he and his brothers and sister were fortunate to have parents willing to sacrifice for themselves so that their children could have virtually every learning resource and opportunity ava...

Gift of Words

By: - Daily Courier
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Donor: Forest City Kiwanis Club

The Forest City Kiwanis Club presented donated Webster`s Dictionaries to third-grade students at Harris Elementary School.  The Kiwanis are donating the dictionaries to third graders throughout the county.

Hickory students receive gifts from Kiwanis

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Donor: Catawba Valley Golden K Kiwanis Club

Recently the Catawba Valley Golden K Kiwanis Club made a presentation of 72 children`s dictionaries to the entire grade 3 class of the Southwest Elementary School in Hickory.   

Kiwanis give dictionaries in Greensboro

Monday, March 05, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Greensboro

Four Kiwanis Clubs in Greensboro share in the distribution of dictionaries to all third graders in Guilford County, NC.  This past year it was approximately 5,300 books.  These were distributed at the beginning of the fall semester.  The dictionaries you provide us are excellent for youngsters of this grade.  Our club intends to continue with dictionary distribution as a permanent part of our Kiwanis program.

Grange Members Present Dictionaries

Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Donor: Ranger Grange #1160

Ranger Grange representatives Randall Shields and Charles Forrister presented all third graders in the county with dictionaries as part of the organization`s Dictionary Project. In photo, Freda Morgan, third grade teacher at Hiwassee Dam Elementary School, thanks Shields and Forrister for her students` dictionaries. `Our third graders are very appreciative of the dictionaries and we will certainly make good use of them,` Morgan said.

Burgaw Rotary donates dictionaries

By: Virginia Teachey
Friday, February 02, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Burgaw

The Rotary Club of Burgaw donated dictionaries to students at several local schools.

Kiwanis deliver dictionaries at Belvoir and Northwest Elementary

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Pitt County Professionals

The Kiwanis Clubs of Pitt County, North Carolina, adopted the Dictionary Project this year with a pledge to provide personal dictionaries to all third-graders in the county.  The Kiwanis Club of Pitt County Professionals donated books at Belvoir Elementary and Northwest Elementary in Greenville on January 31, 2007.

Rotarians donate dictionaries

By: Ed Carr
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Clinton

The Clinton Rotary Club intends to make this project one of our top projects every year for years to come. We think it does a lot of good for the third graders of Sampson County, NC.

The photos are from local newspapers that were published this past fall.

Zebulon Rotary Club dictionary distribution inspires others

By: Barrie Davis, secretary
Friday, December 29, 2006
Donor: Zebulon (NC) Rotary Club

This is our second year with this project. A retired school teacher, Mrs. Sadie Braswell, contributed $250 to help with the project this year, because she read about it in our club bulletin. We certainly will conduct the project next school year. It is one of the best projects we attempt during the club year.

We also presented English-Spanish dictionaries to all third grade teachers, because we have such a large Hispanic population.

Wendell Rotary Club heard of our success the first year, and this year that club presented dictionaries to third graders at two elementary schools. ...

University City Kiwanis Dictionary Project

Friday, December 22, 2006
Donor: University City Kiwanis Club

The Kiwanis Clubs of Pitt County, North Carolina have adopted the Dictionary Project as a Division-wide endeavor.  The accompanying photos are of the University City Kiwanis` dictionary distribution at Wintergreen Intermediate School.

Dictionaries presented to third-graders at Gaston School of Arts

Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Donor: Hendricks Foundation

Gaston School of the Arts partnered for the sixth year with Gaston County Schools to present every third-grade student in the county with a free dictionary donated by an anonymous donor. The donor purchased the dictionaries as part of the `Dictionary Project` - a project founded in Charleston, S.C. to help improve literacy by giving dictionaries to young students.

The local anonymous donor, also a supporter of the arts, asked Gaston School of the Arts to help distribute the dictionaries and to promote the school`s arts classes.

`Computer `spell check` is great,` commented Gaston School of the Arts board member Suzy Hanno...

Scotland Republican Women Picture

Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Donor: Scotland Republican Women

Wallace Rotary Club

Monday, November 27, 2006
Donor: Wallace Rotary Club

The Wallace Rotary Club recently gave third graders at Wallace Elementary their own dictionaries for their personal use. BB&T contributed to the project. This has become an annual event for the local Rotary Club. In first photo, John Iacovino, Rotarian and coordinator for the dictionary project, and Wallace Rotary President Phil Livermore make the presentation to third graders from Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary. In second photo, far left is Phil Livermore, center are third graders from Wallace Elementary, far right are Blair Davis from BB&T and John Iacovino. Spokespersons from both elementary schools are appreciative of th...

Schley Grange #710 presents 600 dictionaries to 3rd graders in Northern Orange County for the third year.

By: Katherine Wilkerson Cheek
Monday, November 20, 2006
Donor: Schley Grange #710

Dictionaries went to New Hope Elementary School, Cameron Park, Pathways, Efland-Cheeks, Grady Brown and Central Elementary. Recognizing that the dictionary is one of the most valuable, interesting, and fun-loving tools that will help a student do their very best work in school, the Schley Grange saw a need to help our students. This dictionary is designed to carry these third graders right through high school and beyond. Seeing the excitement of the children, some having a book of their very own for the first time, and the approval of the teachers and principals, made us know that it was the right way to help in our school systems.

T...

Rotary Club donates dictionaries

Thursday, November 02, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Hendersonville

HENDERSONVILLE--For the fifth consecutive year, the Rotary Club of Hendersonville has provided a dictionary for every third grader in Henderson County as part of its annual `Sky Polega Gift of Knowledge` project.

More than 1,200 dictionaries were distributed in September to students and teachers in all 12 public schools as well as seven private schools in Henderson County.

Stephen L. Page, superintendent of schools in Henderson County, was at Dana Elementary School to acknowledge the donation. `The Henderson County Public School system is grateful for the Hendersonville Rotary Club`s generous gift of dictionaries to all thir...

Hendersonville Rotarian of the Year announced

Friday, July 14, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Hendersonville

HENDERSONVILLE--The Hendersonville Rotary Club has honored the late Bob Bass with the annual Robert A. Foster Rotarian of the Year Award.

Bass` widow, Peggy, accepted the award at a recent meeting of the club and thanked the members for a contribution to the Rotary Foundation in her husband`s memory.

Bass was a member of the Hendersonville Rotary Club for more than 14 years and was a Paul Harris Fellow. He implemented and chaired the club`s annual Gift of Knowledge project which donated complimentary dictionaries to every third grader in Henderson County for the past four years.

Connie Backlund, president of the loca...

Community Projects
Clubs aid schools, nonprofits, residents
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Donor: Hendersonville Rotary Club

For the fourth consecutive year, the Rotary Club of Hendersonville provided a dictionary for every third grader in the county as part of the `Sky Polega Gift of Knowledge` project. The dictionaries were distributed in September to all 12 public schools and seven private schools in Henderson County. Steven Page, Henderson County School Superintendent, accepted the gift from the club.

The project is named in memory of Sky Polega, an honor graduate of Hendersonville High School and Duke University`s School of Engineering. She won numerous academic and civic awards during her educational career. She died suddenly at the age of 25 from a ...

Brevard Rotary Club Presents Dictionaries

Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Donor: Brevard Rotary Club

The Brevard Rotary Club has presented a dictionary to every third grader in Transylvania County as part of Rotary`s emphasis on literacy. Copies were also given to Communities in Schools for its after school program and are available for third-grade home schooled children on request.



The advice of a local elementary school librarian was followed in selecting an edition that is age level appropriate. The third grade is a critical time in a student`s language development, and these dictionaries will give every child an equal chance to improve their word skills.



Last y...

Dictionary project gets high praise

Monday, October 17, 2005
Donor: Zebulon Rotary Club

Our dictionary project began last week when Bob Kennedy presented dictionaries to five third grade classes at Zebulon Elementary School and Heritage Christian Academy. The students and their teachers were delighted to receive the books and expressed profuse thanks to Rotary for the club`s generosity.

Still to go are third graders at East Wake Academy and Wakeloon Elementary School.

The third grade teachers expressed their hope that Rotary will continue this project in future years. `Dictionaries will help us in every class,` one teacher said.
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Rotary gives 3rd-graders dictionaries

Sunday, October 09, 2005
Donor: Wilmington East Rotary Club

Since 2001, some 11,000 New Hanover County third-graders have gotten a vocabulary boost, thanks to the Rotary clubs` Dictionary Project.

Robert Boxley, past president of Wilmington East Rotary, and Patrick Bisson, past president of Wilmington West Rotary, started giving each third-grade student, in both public and private schools, a dictionary in the 2001 school year.

In total, the Rotary project has distributed more than 2.3 million dictionaries.

The goal of the program is to help all students complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing each a personal dictionary f...

Club Spreads the Word

Sunday, April 10, 2005
Donor: Swift Creek Community Development Club

In March of 2005, the Swift Creek Community Club brought the National Dictionary Project to the Swift Creek Elementary School, where Mrs. Mary Ann Kannanis the principal. The Club gives dictionaries and thesauri to the students in the third, fourth and fifth grades.

Granville County Extension Volunteer Association donates Dictionaries to North Carolina Third-Graders

Monday, March 21, 2005
Donor: Granville County Extension Volunteer Association

Scout gives third-graders the gift of language for Eagle badge project
`For some of the kids, the dictionary was probably the first thing they could say was theirs.` — Cleve Cox
By: Amber L. Whitley Daily Times Staff Writer
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Henry Cox

When Henry Cox began planning his service project to earn his Eagle Scout badge he had no idea that seven months later he would still be trying to finish the project.
Cox`s problem isn`t that he`s procrastinating or that the project is going badly. It`s actually the exact opposite; Cox`s project is going too well.


Cox, 15, raised enough money through donations and a fund-raiser sponsored by American`s Best Peanuts of Rocky Mount to order dictionaries for the third grade students in nine Nash-Rocky Mount Schools.


But after ordering 900 dictionaries for those schools, Cox realized he had enough money left over to ord...

Dictionary project benefits students

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Anonymous Donor

Members of the board of directors of the Gaston School of the Arts presented dictionaries to every third-grader in Gaston County as part of Gaston County`s first dictionary project this year.

An anonymous donor purchased the dictionaries to help elementary students improve reading and vocabulary skills.

The donor, also a supporter of the arts, selected Gaston School of the Arts to present the dictionaries to the third-graders along with Beverly Keller from the Gaston County public school system.

Especially designed labels placed on the dictionaries` inside cover also publicized the School`s classes fo...

Kids eat up great new book from an anonymous donor
It`s called a dictionary; and to the third-graders it packs excitement
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Anonymous Donor

BELMONT — Move over, Harry Potter. Gaston County`s 2,600 third-graders are crazy about a new book. The students have no excuse for misspelled words on their homework assignments now that dictionaries have been distributed to third-graders in Gaston`s public, private and home schools.

The Gaston School of the Arts coordinated the distribution of the dictionaries this year with funding from an anonymous donor. Faculty members visited area schools over two weeks to distribute the blue, 448-page Webster`s Dictionary New Encyclopedic Edition.

Students at Belmont Central Elementary gave School of the Arts guitarist ...

Giving the gift of words
Third-graders receive anonymous donation
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Donor

What`s a hemisphere?



`I didn`t know what that meant,` Lowell Elementary third-grader Cramer said. The word popped up while he was reading a `Harry Potter` book.



He looked it up, just as thousands of other third-graders will be able to, because all Gaston County third graders will get the dictionaries courtesy of an anonymous donor.

`When we first got it — `anonymous.` That`s what we had to look up,` Kelsey Tate said.



The donor decided to give the dictionaries after reading a newspaper article about Mary French, a Charleston , S.C. , woman who began giving dictionaries to...

Spreading the Words
Former educator solicited donations to buy 2,000 dictionaries to give to students
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Mike Hendrix

ADVANCE — Mike Hendrix piled boxes of dictionaries in a car and traveled to Shady Grove Elementary School in Advance to begin his tour of Davie County`s six elementary schools.

Hendrix visited classrooms to donate dictionaries to third-, fourth-, and fifth graders on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14. He participated in a project to donate the books to the students.

`Let`s look up the word gratitude,` said Eva Ale, a fifth-grade teacher at Shady Grove Elementary. `Who`s got it?` she asked as Hendrix watched.

A succession of hands was raised, as students wanted to read the definition.

`I found this word,` said Tim...

Newport Rotary Club

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Newport Rotary Club

The Newport Rotary Club provided dictionaries to every second grade student at Newport Elementary on Thursday, January 30, 2003. Students were delighted, and such comments as `This is great!` `How awesome!`, and `Oh, boy!` were heard over and over. Even at the end of the day, children were seen clutching their dictionary and examining the pages. The dictionaries are for the children to keep, so that they can use them throughout their school career. The program hopes to aid children in their goal to become good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers.

Rotary Club spreads words to 3rd-graders

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Goldsboro Rotary Club

The Goldsboro Rotary Club set out Wednesday to ensure that every third-grader in Wayne County has a brand new dictionary.

About 45 club members and 15 Goldsboro High School students fanned out to all of the county`s public high schools to deliver the books to help spread the word about the importance of reading. They also went to private schools, charter schools and home schools.

In all, the club delivered 1,675 of the soft-cover edition of Webster`s Dictionary, which contains sections on computer and Internet terms, presidential information, maps and other reference items.

The club spent $2,000 to buy t...

Letter from Carteret County Board of Education

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Clubs

Dear Bevin & Rotary Presidents,



On behalf of the Carteret County Board of Education and myself, please accept my sincere appreciation for the donation of dictionaries to our county`s second grade students. As a fellow Rotarian, I believe the `dictionary project` appropriately merges the Rotary`s focus on literacy and youth.

Having a dictionary to use and call their own is very important to young people. This book will certainly support the learning process for that student at home and will likely be used by other family members.

The Carteret County Public School System is fortunate to ...

Liberty Rotary Club

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Liberty Rotary Club

Liberty Rotary Club President Wade Shelton and Don Striver went to Liberty School on Wednesday, March 7, to present a new Webster`s Dictionary to every third grader. They dispensed around 90 books.

Rotarians Sponsor Dictionary Project in Brunswick Schools

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of the South Brunswick Islands

When members of the Rotary Club of the South Brunswick Islands read about the Dictionary Project taking place in South Carolina to benefit students, they wanted to know how they could start the program in Brunswick County .



The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit program designed to raise money to provide a dictionary for every third-grade student in South Carolina in the hopes of improving their writing, reading and thinking skills by the end of the school year. The Rotary Clubs of Horry County, S.C., have taken this on as a club project.



After local Rotary members obtained more info...

The Dictionary Project
Fuquay–Varina, North Carolina
By: Cathleen Baldwin, Special to the Independent Fuquay–Varina Independent Page 1B
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Donor: Joyful Sounds Academy of Music and Ludlum Refinishing

On Friday, Nov. 7, the third-graders at Fuquay-Varina Elementary School were given a very special gift by two local businesses. Working with a South Carolina-based program called `The Dictionary Project,` Joyful Sounds Academy of Music and Ludlum Refinishing donated money for the purchase of over 100 dictionaries.

The dictionaries were given out to an excited and surprised third-grade class during a ceremony in the school`s gymnasium. Sue Simkiss, Fuquay Elementary`s PTA president, coordinated the acquisition of the dictionaries and was assisted in distributing them by Diana Thomas of Joyful Sounds Academy of Music. Monica ...