Sunday, April 04, 2010
Donor: Pole Tavern Ruritans, Elmer Grange No 29
On Saturday, April 10, the Pole Tavern Ruritans and the Elmer Grange No. 29 will be cooking breakfast for the
public at the Elmer Grange Hall from 7 to 10:30 a.m. for a special
fundraiser. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children under
10. Adult take-outs are available. The Upper Pittsgrove School
Partent-Teacher Organization will hold a bake sale. Proceeds will benefit the Third Grade Dictionary Project.This
worthwhile effort purchases dictionaries and distributes them to third
grade students in Salem, Gloucester and Cumberland counties.Tickets may be purchased in advance by contacting any Elmer Grange or Pole Taver... Click to read full story ...
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By: Caroline Gosselin The New York Times: The Local
Monday, February 22, 2010
Donor: Maplewood Rotary Club
I am a Rotarian.
And next Saturday, Feb. 27, I and my fellow Rotarians from the Maplewood Rotary Club will host its 13th annual Affair of the Heart Gala at the Maplewood Woman`s Club, 60 Woodland Road, to raise money for the Gift of Life — an organization that organizes, sponsors and hosts children from under-developed countries that are in dire need of life-saving heart operations.
So what is a Rotarian?
A Rotarian is a shop owner in downtown Maplewood, a stay-at-home mom looking to volunteer her time, a retired engineer, a local doctor, an architect, a real estate agent, a photographer, an electrician, a banker — th... Click to read full story ... | | Rotarian John Mousseau speaks to Seth Boyden third graders about the Dictionary Project. |
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By: Summit Public Schools TheAlternativePress.com
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Summit and New Providence & Beechwood Title Agency, Inc.
Ferris, Leslie, and Ingrid, third graders at Summit`s Brayton School, look through the dictionaries they received from the Rotary Club of Summit and New Providence. The dictionaries were donated by Rotary Club member Gregory Drummond of Summit`s Beechwood Title Agency, Inc. on behalf of the club`s sponsorship of The Dictionary Project in Summit. This is the fifth year that Beechwood Title Agency, Inc. has donated dictionaries to all of the Summit Public School`s third graders.
Mr. Drummond and Scott Olsen, former president of the Rotary Club, recently visited Brayton School to kick off the distribution of the dictionaries for 2010. ... Click to read full story ... | | Ferris, Leslie, and Ingrid, third graders at Summit’s Brayton School, look through the dictionaries they received from the Rotary Club of Summit and New Providence/Ph... |
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By: Beechwood Title Agency, Inc. The Alternative Press.com
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Summit/New Providence & Beechwood Title Agency, Inc.
Scott Olsen, former President of the Rotary Club of Summit/New Providence, thanks Gregory Drummond of Beechwood Title Agency, Inc. for sponsoring The Dictionary Project in Summit. To date over twelve million dictionaries have been donated to schools in America through this project.
This is the fifth year that Beechwood Title Agency, Inc. has donated dictionaries to each third grade student in the Summit school system.
Scott and Gregory recently visited Brayton Elementary School to kick off the distribution of the dictionaries for 2010. Click to read full story ... | | Gregory Drummond with three students. Photo by Peter Wallburg Studios |
By: - Belleville Times
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Donor: Belleville Elks Lodge # 1123
The Belleville Elks Lodge 1123 recently distributed over 400 free thesauruses to all the sixth graders in the Township of Belleville`s grammar schools. The students who received the books were extremely appreciative of the donations.
The thesauruses were purchased through The Dictionary Project.
The Dictionary Project originated in Savannah, Georgia, in 1992 when Annie Plummer gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home.
The Dictionary Project is a non-profit organization and has provided more than 12,012,426 school children throughout the United States dictionaries or similar books free o... Click to read full story ... |  | | Pictured with the Belleville No. 8 School students are, from left, Elks member Jay Meglio, Sixth grade teachers Genevieve Trocolor and David Miller, Principal Dora Ca... |
By: Barbara Kochie press release
Monday, December 21, 2009
Donor: Brick Morning Rotary Club
The Brick Morning Rotary Club has distributed dictionaries to 3rd graders at St. Dominic School in Brick and Holy Family School in Lakewood . This is a yearly project the club supports as part of The Dictionary Project headquartered in Charleston , South Carolina .
The Dictionary Project goal is to provide dictionaries to all 3rd graders for their personal use and as a resource for their families. The organization feels this will improve vocabulary and word use and be an essential tool in a quality education.
... Click to read full story ... |  | | Pictured: Charles Goldfarb, Brick Morning Rotary Foundation President, and Eileen Fagan, Assistant Principal of St. Dominic School, Brick, NJ |
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By: Dorothy O'Connor NorthJersey.com
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes
Members of the Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes once again visited all four local elementary schools, distributing dictionaries to each member of every third grade.
As they have done each fall throughout the past decade, local Rotarians recently visited the Lincoln and Lenox elementary schools as well as St. Mary`s and Windsor School students.
`This is our club`s literacy service project and just one of the many community service projects we undertake each year for the benefit of residents and, in particular, the youth of our area,` said Phil Sohn, Columbia Bank financial services officer, who is chairman of the Rotary Club Dicti... Click to read full story ... | | Pompton Lakes Rotarians Peter Lefkowitz, Phil Sohn, Ken Snowe and Fred Kressaty (at rear) are joined by Lenox School Principal Vincent Iraggi and third-grade teachers... |
By: - The Advertiser-News
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Donor: Wallkill Valley Rotary Club
Each year, the Wallkill Valley Rotary Club sponsors a program called the Gift of Knowledge in which members of the club hand out dictionaries to all the third-grade students in their service district.
This year the Club gave out 454 dictionaries to the seven elementary schools. This project was initiated in 2001 and has been one of the club`s top projects since its inception.
Not only does each student receive their own dictionary, but in turn, each student is encouraged, by this gift, to become more active readers and better writers. Among those who received the dictionaries were students at the Sussex Christian School.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Donor: Boonton Rotary Club
For the eighth consecutive year, members of the Boonton Club
distributed dictionaries to third graders of The Wilson School and
Wildwood School in Mountain Lakes, Rockaway Valley School in Boonton
Township and School Street School in Boonton. Additionally, thesauruses
were distributed to the fourth-grade students.
According to some
school administrators, the project not only benefits the student, but
also is one which appears to be changing the way students are looking a
people, especially those representing the business community. Many of
the students now see people, aside from their parents and teachers, asClick to read full story ... |  | | Julia, a third-grade student at Wildwood School in Mountain Lakes, receives her copy of 'Webster’s Dictionary' from a Boonton Rotary member, her grandfather, Angelo G... |
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Students in the local school district may have a better vocabulary thanks to the Rotary Club
By: Tonya Holman The Gazette (Hawthorne Edition)
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Donor: Hawthorne Rotary Club
The Hawthorne Rotary Club recently held its 2009 Dictionary Delivery. Members of the Rotary Club delivered 250 Merriam-Webster dictionaries to third-grade classes at Washington Elementary, Jefferson Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, St. Anthony`s Elementary and Hawthorne Christian Academy.
`This is our fifth year doing this and the kids absolutely love it. It also helps to inform the kids about the Rotary Club,` said Rotary Club President Kim Hauser.
The donation of dictionaries began with a program called the Dictionary Project. The goal of this program is to assist students in completing the school year as good writers, act... Click to read full story ... | | The Hawthorne Rotary Club gave out dictionaries to third-graders in town. |
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By: Carmine DeMarco BergenNOW.com
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Teaneck
This year, as in the past, the Rotary Club of Teaneck is in the process of handing out dictionaries to all 3rd graders in the public school systems in Teaneck.
Together with the dictionary, each student receives a letter for their parents explaining who are the Rotarians of Teaneck.
In response to the dictionaries that were handed out, the students wrote back with their thanks and appreciation. Here are just a few of the letters received:
`Thank you for the dictionaries. How did you fit all that information in one dictionary?`
`I like the dictionary. I like the longest word at the end of the dictionary. I like that i... Click to read full story ... | |
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By: Michael & Maria Kotus letter
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Donor: Pioneer Grange # 1, in memory of Mrs. Angelina Guerriero
Dear Mrs. French,
St. Augustine third grade students have expressed their appreciation for the dictionaries.
I am in the process of locating schools that have not participated in this program.
The Dictionary Project gives one a sense of satisfaction in knowing that this magical book opens up a world of knowledge to a child. We wish to continue this effort.
Although my mother left us in June, family members and friends donated monies on her behalf to continue distributing dictionaries. Click to read full story ... | |
By: Todd Roast e-mail
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Donor: Randolph Rotary and Interact Clubs
Cameron Yeh and Dylan Roast (President and VP of Randolph High School Interact Club) presented dictionaries to the third graders at Ironia Elementary School.
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By: Jacqueline Hlavenka Independent
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Matawan
The Rotary Club began a new project this year to ensure that no child would go back to school without a backpack or proper supplies for class.
The organization collected 70 backpacks, hundreds of school supplies and more than 600 dictionaries for students within the Matawan-Aberdeen School District.
The backpack project, led by Rotary Club member Nancy Haddock, began in August and came together just in time for the new school year.
The 70 backpacks were stuffed with supplies and were delivered to K-12 schools within the district on Sept. 1.
`There are a lot of needy kids,` Haddock said. `With the economic times... Click to read full story ... |  | | Matawan Rotary Club members with backpacks collected for schoolchildren. |
Denville
By: Photos by John Bell Denville Rockaway this Week
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Denville, NJ and the Denville Sunrise Rotary
Category: Pictures
Third-graders at Riverview Elementary School, Lakeview Elementary School and St. Mary`s School received dictionaries from the Denville Rotary and Denville Sunrise Rotary in a September presentation. The gifts are an annual tradition for the Rotary, aimed at helping students improve their literacy skills. Click to read full story ...
By: John Wispelwey e-mail communication
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Pequannock Valley
Our Rotary covers the towns of Pequannock, Riverdale, and Lincoln Park in NJ. We donate to 5 elementary schools within these towns each year. The highlight one year was when the 92-year-old retired superintendent of the Peqquannock Township School system (and founding member of our Rotary) came with us to the Elementary School named in his honor and he gave out the dictionaries to each student and then they had a full school assembly to honor him and to sing the school song for him. There was not a dry eye in the auditorium. He passed away later that year, and he said of all his memories, he cherished that moment with the best of his life. ... Click to read full story ...
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By: - Maple Shade Progress
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Maple Shade
The Maple Shade Rotary Club has been putting new dictionaries in the hands of third grade students and teachers in the Maude Wilkins and Our Lady of Perpetual Help schools for several years.
We know how important it is to learn to read in third grade, and we believe a personal dictionary will be a great help.
It is truly a rewarding experience for all involved. Several club members distribute the dictionaries to the students and explain a little about Rotary. They encourage the students to go through their dictionaries and find the planets, presidents, sign language and longest word in the English language. The students are... Click to read full story ... | |
By: Wendie Makoujy Hunterdon County Democrat
Friday, June 05, 2009
Donor: Ringoes Grange # 12
In 1909, William Howard Taft was sworn in as the 27th president of the United States, instant coffee and the radio were invented, and John D. Rockefeller became the world`s first billionaire. And here, the members of Ringoes Subordinate Grange No. 12, Patrons of Husbandry, proudly took ownership of their very own meeting hall.
Now, 100 years later, 40 or so dedicated Ringoes Grange members still meet at that hall the first Monday of every month to discuss community betterment initiatives -- much like their predecessors did a hundred years ago. Only without the candle light.
Formed in 1883, Ringoes Grange will celebrate the build... Click to read full story ...
By: - The Daily Journal, Helping Hand column
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Donor: Pole Tavern Ruritans and Elmer Grange # 29
UPPER PITTSGROVE -- The Pole Tavern Ruritans and Elmer Grange No. 29 will serve breakfast for the public at Elmer Grange Hall from 7 to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 4.
The menu is scrambled eggs, link sausage, toast, pancakes, sausage gravy, potatoes, chocolate milk, milk, coffee and juice. Enjoy at the grange or as a takeout.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children 5 to 10 and may be purchased in advance by calling Bill Brooks at (856) 358-8031 or Dolores Kernan at (856) 358-8169 or by contacting any Elmer Grange or Pole Tavern Ruritan member.
In addition, the Upper Pittsgrove PTO will hold a bak... Click to read full story ...
By: Keith Hagarty The Brick Times
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Donor: Brick Township Lunchtime Rotary Club & Brick Township Morning Rotary Club
Saying that words are one of the most empowering forces an individual can have, the township`s Rotary Clubs recently donated dictionaries to children in all of Brick`s elementary schools.
`Here in Brick we want to create terrific writers, active readers and creative thinkers,` said school administrator Mary Ann Ceres.
Ceres, the former superintendent of schools for the district, currently serves as administrative consultant to the school district, as well as the president of the Brick Township Lunchtime Rotary Club.
The Brick Township Lunchtime Rotary Club provided dictionaries for third graders in the town`s public s... Click to read full story ...
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By: - Flemington-Raritan Regional Schools newsletter
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Donor: Grand View Grange # 124
Once again, the Grand View Grange presented third graders in our district with dictionaries. This is the fifth year that the Grange has given dictionaries to children in our town. Thanks, Grange! Click to read full story ... | | Students from Robert Hunter School look through their new dictionaries. |
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Donor: Tony Richardson
This month, our director Mary French visited with Tony Richardson, a running back for the New York Jets, to thank him for his continued support for the Dictionary Project. He has donated $128,000 to the Dictionary Project in the past five years through the Rich in Spirit Foundation, a charitable organization that he created to enrich the lives of the people in the community where he plays football. Tony introduced the Dictionary Project in Kansas City, Missouri, when he played for the Kansas City Chiefs and in St. Paul and Minneapolis when he was traded to the Minnesota Vikings. His charity also benefits Special Olympics and Athletes in Acti... Click to read full story ... |  | | (from left) Bob Pityo, Dictionary Project co-ordinator for Rotary International/North America, Tony Richardson from the New York Jets, Mary French, Director of The Di... |
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By: - Warren Reporter
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Donor: Blairstown Rotary Club
It`s that time of the year when the Blairstown Rotary Club distributes dictionaries to the third grade students in Blairstown, Knowlton, Frelinghuysen and Hope.
This project, now country-wide, was started by Mary French in Charleston, S.C., and adopted by Rotarians throughout the United States.
It has now spread to many countries where the children would never see a dictionary. The Rotary Club is now sending dictionaries to schools and orphanages in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda with the help of the Blairstown Rotaract Club at North Warren Regional High School.
Amanda Abbiate, a teacher, is their coordinator and assists in getti... Click to read full story ... | | At Knowlton Elementary School are, from left to right, John Maxman, grandfather of Alexa, Gene Woznicki, and Richard Wallace. Children, Brian, Alexa, Andrea and Charl... |
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By: Michael Townley myCentralJersey.com
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Plainfield-North Plainfield
The Rotary Club of Plainfield-North Plainfield recently concluded its annual Dictionary Project at the Plainfield elementary schools.
Three teams of Rotarians went to the ten elementary schools in Plainfield on Oct. 24 to give a dictionary to every 3rd grade student. Nearly 500 English and almost 100 Spanish-English dictionaries were presented to the students.
`We decided several years ago to adopt the Dictionary Project for Plainfield and North Plainfield school children,` said Linda Persichino, president of the club. `This project is so important to the education of our children, and is one of our primary community service ... Click to read full story ... | | Rotarian Paul Henry gives a dictionary to one of the 3rd grade students at Plainfield's Stillman School. |
By: Tom Lanahan email communication
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Donor: Morristown Rotary Club
The Morristown Rotary held its Dictionary Project during the week of October 13-17th.
The club distributed 480 dictionaries to all the third grade students in the Morristown/Morris Township school district.
Tom Lanahan
Morristown Rotary Dictionary Project Chairman ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Getting ready for the Dictionary Project at Alexander Hamilton School |
By: - Brick Township Bulletin
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Donor: Brick Morning Rotary Club
The Brick Morning Rotary Club has distributed dictionaries to third-graders at St. Dominic and St. Paul Schools in Brick and Holy Family School in Lakewood.
This is a yearly project the club supports as part of The Dictionary Project headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Dictionary Project`s goal is to provide dictionaries to all third-graders for their personal use and as a resource to their families. The organization feels this will improve vocabulary and word use and be an essential tool in a quality education.
Charles Goldfarb and Dr. Donald Cooper, Brick Morning Rotary members, distributed the dicti... Click to read full story ...
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Mountainside
The Rotary Club of Mountainside gave thesauruses to fourth-grade students at Deerfield School.
Club Treasurer Bart Barre` said, `These were most well received, as you can see from the pictures and samples of some of the numerous thank you notes we received from the students.` Click to read full story ... | |
By: Mel Fabrikant The Paramus Post
Friday, March 28, 2008 13:19
Donor: Dictionary Project
Dear Dictionary Project supporters in New Jersey,
I hope this finds you well. I have some exciting news--between July of 2007 and March of 2008 we have shipped 101,291 dictionaries to New Jersey. That`s more dictionaries than there are third-grade students in New Jersey`s public schools! We want to make sure that every third grader in the state has indeed gotten a dictionary before the end of this school year, but we will need help. We need to identify which schools have and if any have not yet received dictionaries and set up a way to get the books to them.
I hope that you may be willing to help us in this effort. If there is n... Click to read full story ...
By: - Daily Record
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Donor: East Hanover Rotary Club
The East Hanover Rotary Club has donated 360 copies of Webster`s Dictionary to students over the past five months. The club donated the books to third graders in East Hanover, Newark, East Orange, Passaic, Woodbridge, Georgia and Illinois. Click to read full story ... |  | | Pictured with their new dictionaries are students at Passaic Catholic Regional School, with their teacher, Ms. Lisa, and Carl Vidal of the East Hanover Rotary Club. |
Over 2,500 dictionaries donated by Hightstown- South Brunswick Rotary
By: CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer North Brunswick Sentinel - NJ
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Donor: The Rotary Club of Hightstown-South Brunswick / The N.J. Gateway Federal Credit Union
SOUTH BRUNSWICK - The Rotary Club of Hightstown-South Brunswick donated more than 2,500 dictionaries to thirdgrade students in SouthBrunswick,Monroe, Cranbury, Jamesburg and Hightstown this fall. This was done as part of Rotary International`s Literacy/Dictionary Project,which has helped over a million children throughout the United States since the project`s beginnings 10 years ago.
`We do it to encourage children to read, to look up words, help with spelling, help them speak and pronounce words,` said Pat Darcey, the communications director for the local Rotary Club.
The N.J. Gateway Federal Credit Union was also heavily ... Click to read full story ...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Donor: The Rotary Club of Hightstown-South Brunswick / NJ Gateway Federal Credit Union
MONMOUTH JUNCTION — The Rotary Club of Hightstown-South Brunswick, with financial help from an area financial company, has donated more than 2,500 dictionaries to third-grade pupils in South Brunswick, Monroe Township, Cranbury, Jamesburg, and Hightstown.
The club — which is participating in Rotary International`s Literacy/Dictionary Project — receives significant financial support from NJ Gateway Federal Credit Union, according to club president Jackie Guthrie.
Guthrie explained that the purpose of the project is to put a new dictionary in the hands of every third-grade student in the club`s service area, and to c... Click to read full story ...
By: - Belleville Post
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Donor: Belleville Elks Lodge #1123
Belleville Elks recently donated free dictionaries to the township of Belleville students. The Elks donated 360 dictionaries which were delivered to the Belleville Board of Education business office.
The dictionary project, as it is called, originated in Savannah, Ga., in 1992, when Annie Plummer gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. The Dictionary Project, a non-profit organization, has provided more than 1.25 million school children throughout the United States dictionaries free of charge. The cost of the dictionaries is generally covered by the many civic organizations in the communities.
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Breakfast for Dictionaries
By: ROBERT WAITE Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Donor: Randolph Rotary
On February 9, Saturday, in the morning, at the Randolph High School Commons, there will be a Pancake Breakfast. This event is sponsored by the Randolph Rotary to support its annual Dictionary Project in the Randolph Schools. The Breakfast begins at 9AM & ends at Noon.
The Breakfast immediately precedes the Morris County Basketball Tournament being held at the High School. The price for breakfast is $7.00 for adults, $3.00 for children 6 & under (infants are free). Advance tickets will be available through any Rotarian. The breakfast menu consists of pancakes, bacon & sausage with milk, OJ, and coffee available. Rotarians... Click to read full story ...
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Donor: Kearny Rotary
The Rotary Club of Kearny completed their 6th Annual Dictionary Project on Thursday, October 11th, meeting with the 3rd graders of Holy Cross School in Harrison and the East Newark Public School . Dictionaries were given to the Kearny and North Arlington public school districts earlier in the month, as well as St Stephen`s in Kearny , Sacred Heart, Lyndhurst and the Kearny Christian Academy .
The Rotary Club began this project in 2002 and has adopted it as a way to give a gift of literacy to the neighborhood children. Our project has grown from our first presentation of 404 dictionaries t... Click to read full story ...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Blairstown
The Blairstown Rotary Club recently held a meeting at which Susan Batts was the guest speaker for the evening. Club members learned that Susan had delivered the club`s gift of 250 dictionaries to a school in Butare , Rwanda . They also learned that this was no small accomplishment.
As current residents of Harmony, Susan and Richard (Dick) Wallace of the Rotary Club have known each other for a long, long time. He learned that she was going to Rwanda and requested that Susan deliver the Rotary Club`s gift to a school in that country. Richard noted that the dictionary donation had been a two-year quest,... Click to read full story ... | | Rwandan students are pleased with their new dictionaries, gifts from the Rotary Club of Blairstown. |
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By: Bob Wolf
Friday, April 20, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Ridgewood A.M.
The Rotary Club of Ridgewood A.M. is almost finished distributing dictionaries (A Student`s Dictionary) to more than 700 third graders in the 11 elementary schools in Ridgewood (Hawes, Orchard, Ridge, Somerville, Travell and Willard), Glen Rock (Byrd, Central, Coleman and Hamilton) and Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. There has been a tremendous outpouring of appreciation and a wealth of publicity associated with this distribution for The Dictionary Project, Ridgewood A.M. Rotary and Rotary International. We have been gratified and deeply touched by the numerous thank you notes and reactions to the personalized presentations that we have received from... Click to read full story ... | | Rotarians Bea O`Rourke (left) and Stephen Lear present copies of the student dictionaries to Travell School principal Margy Leininger.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Donor: Pole Tavern Ruritans and the Elmer Grange No. 29
UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP. On Saturday, March 31, the Pole Tavern Ruritans and the Elmer Grange No. 29 will be cooking breakfast for the public at the Elmer Grange Hall.
The menu includes scrambled eggs, link sausage, toast, pancakes, sausage gravy, potatoes, chocolate milk, milk, coffee and juice. Eat in or take out from 7 to 11 a.m.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 to 10 and may be purchased at the door or, in advance, by contacting Bill Brooks at 358-8031 or Dolores Kernan at 358-8169. In addition, the Daretown Boy Scouts Troop No. 60 will hold a bake sale.
Proceeds will be used to fund the third ... Click to read full story ...
Friday, February 09, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of West Milford
WEST MILFORD — If you are the parent of a third-grade student in the West Milford School system, your son or daughter recently received his or her own dictionary. The West Milford Rotary Club was gearing up for its third annual `Dictionary Project.` A representative from the club visits each third-grade class in the West Milford School system and distributes a Webster`s Encyclopedic Dictionary to each student. This year, the club included the township`s parochial schools and well as home-schooled children.
Rotary has long been committed to vocational service. The Dictionary Project is just one of the ways Rotary expresses its commitme... Click to read full story ... |  | | Rotary President Glenn Gross welcomes West Milford`s newest Rotarian, Kathleen Rogers. |
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Rockaway
Click to read full story ... | | A student in a Rockaway parochial school receives her new dictionary from a member of the Rockaway Rotary Club. |
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Donor: East Hanover Rotary Club
The East Hanover Rotary Club has distributed over 300 dictionaries to 3rd grade students in East Hanover, Woodbridge, and Newark during December 2006 & January 2007.
Carl Vidal, Club Treasurer, said, `No matter where they go to school, the children are thrilled to hear that they can keep the books. In fact, the principal of East Hanover`s Central School told me that he has seen middle school students still using the dictionaries.` Click to read full story ... |  | | Carl Vidal of the East Hanover Rotary Club distributes dictionaries to students at East Hanover Central School. |
By: Kim A. Hauser, Rotary Club President
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Donor: Hawthorne Rotary Club
The Hawthorne Rotary Club would like to extend a heart-warming thank you to Mary French for continuing this wonderful, worthwhile project. You cannot imagine how we feel when we give these dictionaries to the children and the appreciative response we get in return.
We delivered dictionaries to every third grader in Hawthorne, NJ at St. Anthony Catholic School, Hawthorne Christian Academy, Jefferson Elementary School, Roosevelt Elementary School, and Washington Elementary School. We also delivered dictionaries to two home-schooled children.
We cannot wait until next year!!! Click to read full story ... |  | | Third graders at Hawthorne Christian Academy with their new dictionaries. |
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Friday, December 01, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Blairstown
The Blairstown Rotary, like most of the Rotary Clubs in our District, have been distributing dictionaries to 3rd graders in our communities for many years. The children always enjoy receiving their personal `Gift of Knowledge` and get really excited about them as evidenced by the many notes of thanks they send back to us. For all the Rotarians that help distribute them, the satisfaction of seeing their excitement and smiles is a priceless Rotary treasure.
However, last year, soon after the Blairstown Club distributed the dictionaries, PDG Dick Wallace was reminded that there are other children around the world that do not have t... Click to read full story ... | | Fourth graders at Blairstown Elementary School preparing dictionaries for the Dominican Republic with their notes inside. |
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes
POMPTON LAKES – Members of the Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes went visiting Monday morning, spending time with and bringing gifts for some of their most favorite of all people in the community – the students.
As they have done for the greater part of the past decade, local Rotarians made their annual visit to local elementary schools, distributing dictionaries to each member of every third grade. On Monday they visited Lincoln Elementary School and St. Mary`s School, and on Thursday they will visit students at Lenox Elementary School and Haskell Elementary School in Wanaque.
Phil Sohn, Columbia Bank Financial Services Officer a... Click to read full story ...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Donor: Dunellen-Green Brook Rotary Club
The Dunellen-Green Brook Rotary Club recently presented dictionaries to the third grade students at John P. Faber Elementary School, Dunellen, and Irene E. Feldkirchner Elementary School, Green Brook.
Rotary International, with 1,200,000 members world-wide, is a service organization with many local and international projects, including the Dictionary Project which each year distributes free dictionaries to third grade students. Other projects include the eradication of polio, water purification, and building homes in Ecuador. Our local club supports scholarships, the library, the rescue squad and fire departments, and other ... Click to read full story ... | | Pictured are Joan Henry (chairperson of the Dictionary Project), Sandy Hoy, Assistant Principal at Faber, Robert Altmire, Faber School Principal, Jane Campbell, third... |
Friday, November 03, 2006
Donor: Dudley Grange
Dudley Grange presents Third Grade Students in Dudley with Dictionaries
On Thursday, October 19 th , Margaret Bibeau and Ginny Litchaz, members of the Grange, presented dictionaries to 7 third grade classes.
The children had no idea they were coming and were very much excited over receiving a dictionary of their own.
This is a yearly project the Grange does and is called `Words for Thirds`
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Donor: Meyersville Grange
Irene Schaefer of Chatham, left, president of the Meyersville Grange, presents these Millington School third graders with their own dictionaries. The children are, second from left, Danny, Jamie, Krishna, and their teacher, Shawn Sventy. Litty Hado, Grange member, with Mrs. Schaefer and other Grange members, paired up with The Dictionary Project based in Charleston , S.C. , to make the donation to all 117 third graders. Since its inception, more than three million children have received dictionaries from local organizations who participate in the Dictionary Project. To learn more about the program, visit www.d... Click to read full story ... | |
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Saturday, April 01, 2006
Donor: Point Pleasant Boro Rotary Club
The Point Pleasant Rotary Club found The Dictionary Project to be a worth while project. Their generous donation of dictionaries to local elementary schools was well received by faculty and students. Click to read full story ... | | Frank Scarpone, President of Point Pleasant Rotary Club |
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By: Kim A Hauser letter
Friday, January 13, 2006
Donor: Hawthorne Rotary Club
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Wow, what a great experience it was to present all of the third graders in our town with dictionaries. They were very appreciative!!! Attached are a couple of photos of me with the children.
Thanks for your work in getting the word out to the Rotary clubs so that we can do this most worthwhile project!
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By: Ron Williams
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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 .
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Donor: The East Hanover Rotary Club
The East Hanover Rotary Club has been participating in The Dictionary Project since 2002. Dictionaries are distributed to third graders in schools in East Hanover, Woodbridge , Orange , Passaic , and Newark , New Jersey . President Carl Vidal says, `When the students realize that these dictionaries belong to them and not the school, their faces just light up. I can`t tell you how much my Club enjoys this project and looks forward to it ever year.`
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By: Rodger Woodbridge letter
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Donor: Mid-Bergen Rotary Club
Thank you for making The Dictionary Project an ideal endeavor for small Rotary Clubs such as ours.
After visiting three towns, six schools and fourteen class rooms the gratitude of students and teachers was overwhelming.
For us, it was a joy to see the smiling faces of the third graders in knowing that they have their very own personal reference to the wonderful world of words. As many children wrote in their letters to us `Thank you very much… it will make me smarter.`
Here are a few pictures… there are more on our Club`s website http://Mid-BergenRotary.org under Current Events.
We can`t wait to do it again next y... Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Roger Woodbridge Mid-Bergen RotaryClub Web-site
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Donor: Mid-Bergen Rotary Club
After visiting three towns, six schools and fourteen class rooms, the gratitude of students and teachers was overwhelming.
For us, it was such joy to see the smiling faces of the third graders in knowing that they have their very own personal reference to the wonderful world of words. As many children wrote in their letters to us `Thank you very much.....it will make me smarter.`
Please view pictures of of our visits to the classrooms on our web-site http://Mid-BergenRotary.org, under current events
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
Donor: Grandview Grange #124
All 3rd-grade students in our district welcomed a special visit from the Grandview Grange in November.
For the second consecutive year, the Grange presented all 3rd-graders in the district with a free dictionary as part of an annual national program that supports students and education.
After a special visit from members of the Grange, each 3rd-grade student in all four district elementary schools received a paperback dictionary and a keepsake letter from the organization. Thank you, Grandview Grange! Click to read full story ... | | Grange members Claire Grissett, Marilyn Smith, Ann Zyck, and Dick Smith visited each elememtary school in our district. |
Monday, November 07, 2005
Donor: Verizon Telecom Pioneers
The local chapter of the Verizon Telecom Pioneers has donated 88 dictionaries to the third grade classes at McKinley Avenue School as part of the organization`s Dictionary Project.
The dictionaries are 524 pages long and filled not only with definitions, but with useful information such as presidential biographies, the Constitution, the solar system, and weights and measures.
Across the country, local Pioneer groups have given books to school libraries, after-school programs, shelters and entire classes of school children. Click to read full story ...
Over 500 Dictionaries given to Morristown 3rd Graders!
By: Tom Lanahan
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Donor: Morristown Rotary
The Morristown Rotary`s 2005 Dictionary Chairman Tom Lanahan would like to thank all the Morristown Rotarians that helped distribute over 500 dictionaries to 8 schools in Morristown. This year `school captains` organized their teams to help distribute the dictionaries at each school during Morristown Dictionary week. The captains were Mike Dodd, Liz Colquhoun, Gary Reppen, Jim Mongey and Bill Weiss. The captains were supported by 16 other Rotarians. Thanks goes to all. Click to read full story ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Donor: Cedar Grove Rotary Club
It needs no batteries, special game cards or discs. It can be enjoyed in solitude without a team or coach. A dictionary is a wonderfully simple gift for a child, for all it takes is eagerness and excitement for learning to be appreciated.
For six years, the Cedar Cove Rotary Club generously has given dictionaries to every third grader in town. It`s a program that we`ve followed each year, and look forward to as well.
Rotarian Bob Pityo, spearheaded this program and has been its champion. He`s Johnny Appleseed of the dictionaries, spreading them throughout the state and the country.
Since the first year of... Click to read full story ...
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Friday, June 17, 2005
Donor: Point Pleasant Boro Rotary CLub
The Point Pleasant Boro Rotary Club donated 256 dictionaries to all third-grade students in the Point Pleasant School District. The dictionaries were dedicated to past district governor William Skidmore.
Rotary President Lynn Mahoney, Treasurer Mary Guetzlaff, Secretary Nancy Rhinesmith, Councilman Roger Pyrtko and Chairwoman Mary Skidmore were on hand to person ally hand out the pocket dictionar ies to each student.
The `Grow with the Rotary` program, through which all third- graders receive their own personal pocket dictionary will be an annual event.
`It starts with the chil... Click to read full story ... | | Mary Skidmore [above, back row, from left], Carol Clark, Lynn Mahoney, Mary Guetzlaff and Nancy Rhinesmith were all on hand recently when Point Pleasant Boro Rotary d... |
A Primer On Service Above Self
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Pequann Valley Rotary Club
As part of the annual dictionary distribution project, Dr. Steven J. Gerace, Charter Member of the Pequann Valley Rotary Club distributed dictionaries to the third grade classes at the school named in his honor which is celebrating its Thirtieth Anniversary this year. In addition, his participation as a Charter Member is even more noteworthy because Pequannock Valley marked the Fiftieth Anniversary of receiving its charter earlier this year. `DOC,` who retired as Superintendent of Schools, has been an active, involved member for all of those fifty years!
Following the individual book presentations to all three third grades,... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Morristown Rotary Club
The Morristown Rotary Club`s Dictionary project chairman Tom Lanahan was accompanied by a visiting Rotarian Shobha Desmulch who is from India . Her granddaughter is a student at MCH school, one of the 9 schools that the Morristown club distributed almost 500 dictionaries to.
The 3rd grade students received their own copy of the Merriam-Webster`s Dictionary. The dictionaries are presented in the hope that the recipients will become good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers.
The Rotary also supports efforts to eradicate polio worldwide by 2005, a cause dear to heart of Ms.Deshmulch who spends half the year ... Click to read full story ... |  | |
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Members distribute dictionaries through local elementary schools, Phillipsburg, NJ
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Phillipsburg Rotary Club
Dictionaries open doors.
`A dictionary is perhaps the first and most powerful reference tool that a child should own,` said Gloria Decker, president of the Phillipsburg Rotary Club. `Its usefulness goes beyond the spellings and definitions within it. It is a companion for solving problems that arise as a child develops his or her reading, writing, and creative thinking abilities.`
To that end, William Wojcik, a member of the Rotary, wrote the name of every third-grader in Pohatcong Township, Lopatcong Township, Greenwich Township, and Phillipsburg School District elementary schools into the inside cover of `A Student`s Dictiona... Click to read full story ... | | Green Street Elementary School student Serena clutches the new dictionary she received through the `Gift of Knowledge` program of the Phillipsburg Rotary Club |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The South Amboy/Sayreville Rotary Club
Readin`, Ritin` and Rotary were the topics in third grade classrooms in South Amboy and Sayreville in the weeks before the spring break. The South Amboy/Sayreville Rotary Club distributed over six hundred dictionaries to students and teachers in the two municipalities. Each book sported the Rotary seal and contained a bookplate of the Rotary 4-Way Test.
The books were distributed free of charge during a brief lecture that emphasized the importance of using a dictionary when reading and writing. Each gazetteer contains a comprehensive dictionary, a table of weights and measures, a biography of each of the forty-thre... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Rotary Clubs of Bridgeton
For many students, school is the first place they ever encounter a dictionary, usually a large and cumbersome volume of words they will find necessary to understand for the rest of their lives. Thanks to the Bridgeton Rotary clubs, however, 850 third graders in the city and surrounding school districts will be looking up many of those words in their own, lightweight and handy, bright yellow dictionaries. Better yet, the dictionaries, `The Best Dictionary for Students,` distributed by Dictionary Project, Inc. out of Charleston, S.C., will be theirs to keep, and to take home.
`I think this is a wonderful project,` said Michael Coyne, p... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Rotary Club of Jersey City
In 2003-04, the Rotary Club of Jersey City initiated a new community service project aimed at helping to promote literacy in the Public Schools of Jersey City. After a visit by a speaker from the neighboring Rotary District 7470, club members and the board decided to implement `The Dictionary Project` in Jersey City.
To learn about the club`s new Dictionary Project go to:
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By: Dorothy O`connor, Staff Writer The Record
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes
POMPTON LAKES/WANAQUE – Members of the Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes traveled to seven local schools this past week to present more than 300 dictionaries to third grade students.
Rotarians, led by President Phil Shon, and including Mary Hamilton, Ken Prestia, Fred Kressaty Judy Montgomery, Peter Lefkowitz and Terrance Brennan visited the schools to provide third grade students in both communities with their own personal dictionaries.
Prestia, who originated the local project three years ago said, `The Dictionary Project is designed to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of th... Click to read full story ... |  | |
Daily Record
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Morristown
Morristown – More than 400 dictionaries were donated to several Morristown area schools by the Rotary Club of Morristown in October. The donations were part of the club`s annual initiative known as the Dictionary Project, which is a brainchild of its director, Mary French.
The Sussex Avenue School in Morristown received about 50 dictionaries. Morristown Mayor John `Jay` DeLaney Jr. honored the Rotary Club contributions by proclaiming the week of Oct. 20 as `Dictionary Week.` Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Newark Rotary (District 7470)
The Dictionary Project, a new community service program of the Newark Rotary (District 7470), kicked off city-wide recently at St. Lucy School . Rotary members, along with parish and school officials were on hand late last month as new dictionaries were distributed to third-graders.
The Dictionary Project, founded by Mary French in South Carolina , has spread to cities throughout the country. Its former District Governor, Bob Pityo, brought it to the attention of the Newark Rotary. Member Richard Russo (also a past president) initiated the endeavor because he `thought it was a worthwhile activity for the Newark Rotary... Click to read full story ...
By: Becky Coffey Harbor News Staff Writer
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Old Saybrook Rotary Club
`The dictionary program is a national Rotary Club program, but our Old Saybrook chapter is the first one in Connecticut to participate,` said Norz.
As part of their program, the Rotary Club of Old Saybrook will give away more than 400 dictionaries this year to third grade students in the three towns.
`The books will be yours to keep,` said Norz of the dictionaries.
The club has placed a typed label with each student`s name on a Rotary book plate to remind them of the principles of the organization inside the front cover of each dictionary.
Then the moment came. Students heard their names called o... Click to read full story ...
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Sussex County Rotary Clubs Are On Board, The Dictionary Train — Full Throttle!
By: Mary Ann Seeko
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Multiple Donors
Last year when Bob Pityo told me about the dictionary projects I was so excited that I couldn`t wait to tell all the clubs in Sussex County about this win-win project: win for the children who received the books, and win for us who experienced the pleasure of giving a `gift of knowledge`. When I called all the clubs and told them about this, they were excited too. We went one step further and decided to make a big, first impression and asked each municipality in the county and the county- to issue a proclamation declaring the third week in October as `Dictionary Week.` It was during that week that each club presented dictionaries to all the ... Click to read full story ... | |
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Blairstown Rotary Club
Teachers, and parents, the Blairstown Rotarians have committed to making this community Literacy Project an annual event for all third graders in the Blairstown area. Although this is a Rotary Project, they are quick to point out it would not be possible without the financial support of the community.
The Blairstown Rotary Club distributed personalized dictionaries to over 230 third grade students in the four elementary schools in the Blairstown area again this year.
After the students received their dictionary they were asked to look up the word `SERVICE`, and they soon discovered it means `Help given to others` which t... Click to read full story ... | | Blairstown Rotary Club President explains the basics of Rotary Service to 3rd grade students at Hope Elementary. |
By: CANDICE REED FOR THE NORTH COUNTY TIMES
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Golden K Kiwanis Club
VISTA — Don White had some time on his hands. The Vista resident had recently retired from running his own biotechnology business and had even gone back to college to earn his degree — graduating at the age of 65 with a major in Spanish. Still, he wanted to do more.
`I didn`t want to sit around and watch war news all day,` said White, 67, in an interview last week. `I was` trying to figure out what to do when I read an article in the North County Times about a dictionary project for kids and I decided to check it out.`
The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing dictionaries to third-grade... Click to read full story ...
Over 65,000 Third Grade Students Have Received Dictionaries
By: Robert Pityo Cedar Grove Club
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Cedar Grove
Since the Rotary club of Cedar Grove introduced the Dictionary project to District 7470 Rotary clubs three years ago, over 65,000 third grade students have received the new Encyclopedic Edition of Webster`s dictionary. The dictionaries, personally distributed by Rotarians in the classroom, become the property of the students and are used daily in the classroom for the entire third grade semester.
According to South End School principal, Rick Norman, `the students love the project as do their teachers and parents. Teachers benefit by knowing that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and in class ex... Click to read full story ... |  | | PDG Bob Pityo addresses a joint meeting of the Glen Ridge and Bloomfield Rotary clubs on the Dictionary Project. Mary French, National Director of the Dictionary Proj... |
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Morristown Rotary Club
Morristown Mayor Jay DeLaney, on behalf of the citizens of the Town of Morristown and the Morristown Rotary Club, proclaimed the week of Oct. 21 through Oct. 25 as `Dictionary Week.` In keeping with Rotary`s long tradition of supporting literacy and language programs, the Morristown Rotary Club donated 800 dictionaries to the third grade classes of eight Morristown schools. It was the second year that Morristown Rotary Club donated the dictionaries. From left, are members of the Morristown Rotary club, Tom Harrigan and Tom Lanahan, chairmen; Finbarr Corr, Paul Nelson, president; Jim Mongey and Gary Reppen, chairmen. They presented dictionari... Click to read full story ... | |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Kiwanis Club of Lakewood
Click to read full story ... |  | | Above, the third grade students of Clifton Avenue Grade School in Lakewood proudly show off their new dictionaries. The Kiwanis Club of Lakewood distributed over 400 ... |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Clubs
Are certain words creeping into your third grader`s conversation?
Not to worry.
Ya don`t got trouble with a capital `T.`
On the contrary, what you probably have is `thoughtful,` a thoughtful third grader, that is.
That`s because, although `thoughtful` starts with a `t,` as it relates to Maplewood and South Orange third graders, the `t` rhymes with `d` and that stands for dictionaries - courtesy of the Rotary Clubs of Maplewood and South Orange.
In fact, the two philanthropic organizations distributed 500 free pocket dictionaries to all third graders in the district last week as part of ... Click to read full story ... |  | | NEWS-RECORD of Maplewood and South Orange The South Orange and Maplewood Rotary Clubs donated 500 dictionaries to all third grade students in the South Orange and Map... |
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By: JOE ADELIZZI TOMS RIVER BUREAU
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Leisure Village
An eight-year-old student had a strong grasp on her dictionary as members of the Kiwanis Club of Leisure Village continued to hand them out to other third graders at the Clifton Avenue Grade School yesterday. `Oh, I plan on using it,` she said as she leafed through the 448-page Webster`s Classic Reference Library Dictionary that the Kiwanis Club gave to every third-grader in the Lakewood school system.
Schools Superintendent Ernest J. Cannava was as happy as his students with the gift from the Kiwanis. `A lot of these children don`t have this type of reference material in their homes. It`s a chance for them to find a new world,` ... Click to read full story ... | |
By: PAUL MILO Verona-Cedar Grove Times
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Cedar Grove`s Rotary Club
Last Thursday, for the third year in a row, members of Cedar Grove`s Rotary Club began giving away dozens of dictionaries to the township`s third-graders, each paperback copy affixed with a label on the inside front cover proclaiming the book to be a `gift of knowledge` from the club.
The Rotary`s donation of Webster`s dictionaries is a spin-off of the Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization started six years ago by Mary French, a resident of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, whose goal initially was to get a dictionary into the hands of every third-grader in that state, every year. But with the help of the Rotary`s president, Bo... Click to read full story ... |  | | The Rotary Club of Cedar Grove visited St. Catherine of Siena School Nov. 13 to hand out dictionaries to the third graders taught by Mrs. Cicchetti and Mrs. Reamer. S... |
BRANCHBURG
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Branchburg Rotary Club
When the call goes out for help, the Branchburg Rotary Club responds with enthusiasm. As part of Governor McGreevy`s effort to promote literacy in the State, The Branchburg Rotary Club distributed dictionaries to the every third-grader at Old York School.
Branchburg Rotary Club President Julie Ann Juliano and her board responded by making this its first major community service project of the year. A committee, chaired by Doug Merritt and assisted by club members, purchased 350 dictionaries and distributed them during a special assembly at the Old York School The Rotarians also visited individual class rooms to demonstrate how to use... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Branchburg Rotary Club
When a call goes out for help, the Branchburg Rotary Club responds with enthusiasm. As part of Gov. James E. McGreevey`s effort to promote literacy, the Rotarians distributed dictionaries to third-graders at Old York School. Club President Julie Ann Juliano and her board chose the drive as their first major community service project of the year. A committee chaired by Doug Merritt purchased 350 dictionaries and handed them out at a special ceremony. Community members interested in volunteering in the Rotary`s mentoring or reading programs may contact Tulsi Maharjan at (908) 526-1200, ext. 8312 or visit the Web site to learn more about local ... Click to read full story ...
Mine Hill kids get glimpse of careers during Rotary visit
By: MICHAEL DAIGLE DAILY RECORD
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Wharton-Mine Hill Rotary Club
MINE HILL -- The Canfield Avenue School third-graders found it easy to define one part of the visit by local Rotary Club members last week. Kaitlyn read aloud the definition of a dictionary from the one she had just been given.
The other reason behind the visit - to promote the state`s school-to-career program was a little more elusive.
Meghan, 9, said she wanted to work in the Morris County courthouse like her mother, although she could not describe what her mother does. `You have to go to college to do her job,` Meghan said.
School-to-career is a program that links education and job preparedness ... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Lake Hoptacong Rotary
Every third grade student at Tulsa school is a recipient of a Webster`s dictionary thanks to the Rotary. Students show off the dictionaries they received from Bob Pityo of Cedar Grove Rotary, Larry Martin, the project chairman, and Stand Stronski, president of the Lake Hoptacong Rotary. Click to read full story ... |  | |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Cedar Grove
If Cedar Grove`s third graders suddenly start speaking like Rhodes Scholars, don`t be alarmed. Over the last few weeks, the Rotary Club of Cedar Grove has donated a new Webster`s Dictionary to each third grade student in town.
According to school administrators, third grade is when students begin to work independently. Students start to read, write and think creatively and Rotarians say that third grade is an appropriate age to own a dictionary.
`A dictionary is the first and most useful tool a child can own,` Rotary Club President Bob Pityo said.
Rotarians visited North and South End Schools and St. Catheri... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Cedar Grove Rotary Club
The Rotary Club donated dictionaries to all third grade students in the Tulsa Trail School. Those in attendance from the Lake Hopatcong Rotary Club were President Stan Stronski,Dr. Wayne Threlkeld, Larry Martin, Harry Reese, Robert Button, Gus Baker and Bob Aughey. Mr. Bob Pityio from The Cedar Grove Rotary Club was also in attendance. Eight thousand dictionaries were donated and distributed in North Jersey. Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: RICHARD QUINN TOMS RIVER BUREAU Asbury Park Press
Monday, November 01, 2004
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Leisure Village
LAKEWOOD -- The Kiwanis Club of Leisure Village gives dictionaries to the township`s third graders every year, but this year`s ceremony at Clifton Avenue Grade School was a landmark.
First, because the man who started the three-year-old tradition, Ed Renk, 85, died earlier this year.
Second, because this year may be the last the dictionaries are only in English.
`You have a very diverse population in Lakewood and you`re right, many Hispanic families are moving into the area,` Betty Renk, Ed Renk`s wife, said when the dictionaries were doled out Wednesday. `The language at home is Spanish.`
And next ye... Click to read full story ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Donor: Rotary Club
TO: MARY FRENCH
FROM: ROTARIANS IN DISTRICT 7470
Rotarians know better than anyone else the value of volunteerism and how it creates win-win situations. Volunteers, such as you win by earning a sense of worth and accomplishments, and the recipients of this volunteer work, in this case third grade students, win by receiving assistance to improve their lives.
When we think of the very best in Rotary, we could do no better than to look at what you are doing and strive to follow your example.
You have obviously put your heart and soul into the Dictionary project, voluntarily, with no expected reward, other... Click to read full story ...
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Sunday, October 21, 2001
Donor: Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes
Rotary Club President Ken Prestia said, `We came to give the kids dictionaries and tell them about the importance of using the books as well as what Rotary is and what we do. Boy were we surprised when they got up on the stage and not only told us what Rotary means and does, but had made a great poster that they presented to us. And then they read a whole poem about the importance of a dictionary. It was great.`
In addition to the Rotary poster, the students created their own artwork to illustrate the importance of dictionaries.
After presenting the dictionaries at the Haskell school, the Rotarians rushed off to donate dic... Click to read full story ... | | Celebrating `National Dictionary Day,` members of the Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes traveled to Haskell School in Wanaque where they were treated to a special presenta... |
By: Christine Duane, PR Wall Sunrise Rotary, Wall Township, NJ 07701 www.wallsurnriserotary.org
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Wall Sunrise Rotary, District 7500, Club 60065
. Inspired by `Dictionary Projectt`, Wall Sunrise Rotary`s president, Sandy Carlet, dedicated her top priority project to delivering a dictionary to each and every third grade public school student in Wall Township . Knowing that `the limits of your language are the limits of your world, (Ludwig Wittgenstein), Sandy met with West Belmar`s Principal, Anthony Abeal, who hosted the after school assembly program on January 4, where all 32 third-graders received a Student`s Dictionary that contains a comprehensive dictionary, weights and measures, Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, maps of all seven continents, inf... Click to read full story ...
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