Third grade receives gift of dictionaries

By: Moe Bohannon Oakes Times
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Donor: Woody and Jean Gulsvig

`We had four children and three grandchildren graduate from Oakes Public School, and we feel we want to give back to the School in gratitude for their education,` stated Woody and Jean Gulsvig.

The Gulsvigs have begun a tradition on this day, Thursday, September 6, 2007, of presenting each third-grade student with a dictionary.

Woody found out about this program from a Rotary Club in Arizona, where the Gulsvigs go for the winter months. The program is called the Dictionary Project and is based in Charleston, South Carolina. The Gulsvigs stated they will continue the program as long as they are able and then hope someone wil...