Marysville Elks Lodge completes third dictionary project

By: Kermit Morse press release
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Donor: Marysville Elks Lodge # 1130

This is the 3rd year for The Dictionary Project which distributes over 650 dictionaries to 3rd graders in the Marysville, North Union, and Fairbanks school systems, and to St. Paul, St. John, and Trinity Schools.  The Elks feel that a child cannot do his or her best work without a dictionary, and the teachers know that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and in class explorations thanks to the Elks.

Norton Grange shares thank-you letters

By: Mary Lee Smith letter
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Donor: Norton Grange # 2566

Norton Grange just finished distributing Words for Thirds in the Norton City Schools--Cornerstone Elementary, Grill Elementary, and Norton Primary School. Attached are three of the thank you letters the students sent.

(To read the letters, click to read full story, then click `View Photo.`)

Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club gives dictionaries to third graders

By: - Morgan County Herald
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Donor: Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club

The Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club recently distributed student dictionaries to all third grade students in the county as part of The Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project began in 1995 for the purpose of improving children`s reading ability and comprehension.

Dictionaries also serve as a tool for helping students become good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. To date, over 11 million dictionaries have been distributed to third grade students. This grade level is targeted because it is the level at which dictionary skills are usually taught, and third grade is also the year when students transition from learning to...

First Community Village shares thank-you letters

By: Edgewood School 4th graders letter
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Donor: Library Committee of First Community Village

The Library Committee of First Community Village retirement community gave dictionaries to the 4th graders at Edgewood School in Marysville on October 12. These are some of the thank-you letters they received from the students.

Dear First Community Village,

Thank you for driving some way to come visit us. I also want to thank you for letting us have those dictionarys. We have been using theme alot lattley.

Sincerely, Kameron

Dear First Community Village,

Thank you for the dictionary. I will use it carefully so I won`t brake it.

Your friend, Haukins

Dear First Community Village,

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A gift of words

By: Charlene Hoeflich Pomeroy Daily Sentinel
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Donor: Silverton Grange Ladies Auxiliary

Dictionaries are powerful tools in the hands of students, and the Silverton Grange Ladies Auxiliary knows that.

So for the past several years the Jackson County, W.Va. group has supplied dictionaries to third grade students at the Southern Elementary School.

`We cherish this opportunity to help a child,` said Auxiliary member Barbara Green. `A dictionary is one of the most powerful reference tools young children are introduced to during the schooling years. Its usefulness goes beyond just providing correct spelling, pronunciation, and definitions. It is also a companion for solving problems that arise as children develop their r...

Dictionaries for 3rd Graders

By: Sharon Henry press release
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Donor: Versailles Rotary Club

This past week, the Versailles Rotary Club distributed dictionaries to 3rd graders at Russia, Ansonia, Versailles and North Star Elementary schools. This is the seventh year the Rotary Club has distributed dictionaries at Versailles and North Star and the third year at Russia and Ansonia. The dictionary project has been headed up by Rotarian Brad Bruns since its inception. Assisting Brad were Rotarians David Vail, Deanna Jones and Sharon Henry.



Even in today`s `technological` world, the students were most receptive to receiving the dictionaries. In addition to definitions, each dictionary also contains weight...

Carrollton Ruritans provide dictionaries for sixth straight year

By: - Carrollton Free Press Standard
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Donor: Carrollton Ruritan Club

For the sixth consecutive year, the Carrollton Ruritan Club has provided dictionaries to third grade students at Carrollton and Augusta elementary schools.

Three Ruritan Club members attended the distribution at Carrollton on Friday.

Student representatives from the four 3rd grade classes at Carrollton Elementary School are shown receiving dictionaries from three club members.

Students pictured from foreground are Carson, Alexis, and Ben. Distributing the dictionaries (from foreground) are Club member and Past President John Rutledge, Club President Ralph Lucas and Club Secretary Kenneth Scott. Looking on in the backg...

Oxford Rotary Club continues Dictionary Project

By: Elizabeth Hagedorn The Oxford Press
Friday, October 09, 2009
Donor: Oxford Rotary Club

The Oxford Rotary Club has again helped promote literacy by giving dictionaries to third-graders at the local elementary schools.

As a part of the Oxford Rotary Club Dictionary Project in memory of Sandy Hormell, a former teacher in the Talawanda school district, the club has handed out about 1,000 dictionaries over five years to students at Kramer, Bogan and Marshall elementaries.

On Monday Sept. 21, Rotary president Tim McGowan, past presidents Gil Siegel and Paige Wood, Rotarians Norm Harsh and Ken Hormell along with Ernst Bever presented brand new dictionaries to Kramer third-graders.

The next day, they did the sa...

Dalton Rotary Club enjoys dictionary project

By: Gene Boals e-mail communication
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Donor: Dalton Rotary Club

I don`t know if this is typical, but our Dalton Schools are very special. Each year, each student who gets a dictionary or a thesaurus writes a thank you note on lined paper, so each year we get over a hundred of these thank yous, plus we always get a couple of thank yous from Dalton Schools.


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Students get wordy gift

By: Angela Weaver The Evening Leader
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Donor: St. Marys Rotary Club

Area third-grade students took home a present Wednesday after receiving special visitors in their classrooms.

A group of St. Marys Rotarians handed out dictionaries during the St. Marys Rotary Club`s ninth annual Dictionary Project to third-grade students at Holy Rosary School, East Elementary, West Elementary and Grand Lake Christian School.

At West Elementary, April Johns`s class was the first on the list to receive dictionaries.

`In my office I have many books,` Rotarian Jim Harris said before motioning to fellow Rotarian and St. Marys Public Library Director Sue Pittman, `Not as many books as Mrs. Pittman, but the...

Grime awarded for dictionary efforts in Henry County

By: Brenna Griteman Northwest Signal Weekender
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Donor: Henry County Retired Teachers' Association, Lions Clubs of Napoleon, Holgate, and Deshler

Want to know the longest word in the English language? Just ask a Henry County third grader, who can no doubt show you, but may not be able to pronounce the 1,909-letter word.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Henry County Retired Teachers Association and the Lions Clubs of Napoleon, Holgate and Deshler, no less than 3,200 dictionaries have been provided to Henry County`s third grade students since 2002.

While this is truly a collaborative effort, the Dictionary Project - which awards between 400 and 450 dictionaries each year - would not have endured without the vision and drive of Gene Grime. And for all his hard work,...

Rotary International President attends dictionary distribution in Newark

By: Jerry Billman e-mail communication
Friday, May 22, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Newark-Heath

The Rotary International President, DK Lee attended a school visit with us.  A very special and privileged moment.

Definition of Giving
Rotary donates dictionaries to third graders
By: Jim Sullivan The Ironton Tribune
Monday, April 06, 2009
Donor: Ironton Rotary Club

COAL GROVE – Third graders at Dawson-Bryant Elementary School might not know the definition of `scrumptious,` but now have the opportunity to look it up in brand new dictionaries given to them by the Ironton Rotary Club.

More than 100 dictionaries were distributed Friday to students in the Deering cafeteria as part of the Rotary Club`s annual dictionary giveaway. Rotarians Rod Depriest and Ken Meadows, both of National City Bank, handed out the dictionaries.

This year, the club has passed out approximately 900 dictionaries to third-graders in every public and private school in Lawrence County. This is the third year the Iront...

Wooster Township 3rd graders receive dictionaries from Elks

By: - e-mail communication
Monday, February 09, 2009
Donor: Wooster Elks Lodge #1346

Here are two photos of Wooster township third grade students with their dictionaries.  The dictionaries were presented by the Wooster Elks Lodge #1346.

Rushcreek Grange gives dictionaries to Bremen third graders

By: John Kennedy email communication
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Donor: Rushcreek Grange #2149

This is the third year this small group has presented dictionaries to all the students in 3rd grade. Rushcreek Grange #2149
Bremen, Ohio
Neil Miller, Master
...

Waterville Rotary continues project to invest in youth

By: James Pease
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Donor: Waterville Rotary Club

We recently completed the Waterville Rotary`s annual Dictionary Project for the Anthony Wayne and Otsego School Districts.  I give a `mini` 15- to 20-minute lesson to each class on the worth and use of a personal dictionary--guess that`s the teacher in me!

This is the third year for the project.  With the label insert, the project costs about $1,000.00.  Our club feels this is a bargain investment in the youth of our communities.  Your help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

A gift for learning: Rotary Club donates dictionaries to students

By: Kathie Dickerson Coshocton Tribune
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Donor: West Lafayette Rotary Club

About 100 third-grade students at Ridgewood Elementary School enthusiastically turned the pages of a new book Wednesday morning.
They were presented copies of A Student`s Dictionary by members of the West Lafayette Rotary Club.

`I love it; it has all kinds of information in it,` said Cheyenne, 8.

Ed Chapdelaine, Rotarian, said this is the second year the club has donated dictionaries to students in the district, one for each third-grader.

`The Rotary International president has emphasized reading, and we feel this is one way we can promote reading,` he said.

The dictionaries, at $2 each, were purchased w...

Students experience 'defining' moment
Noon Rotary Club donates dictionaries to third-graders
By: - Chillicothe Gazette.com
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Donor: Chillicothe Noon Rotary Club

When third-graders in Ross County need to know what a word means, how it`s spelled and how to use it, the answers will be found in their own personal dictionaries - thanks to the Chillicothe Noon Rotary Club.

For a fourth consecutive year, the Rotarians are donating dictionaries for third-grade students in 13 local elementary schools. Since 2005, nearly 5,000 dictionaries have been distributed.

Noble Yoshida launched the project during his term as club president, and continues to serve as chairman of the Dictionary Project Committee.

The local program, which is sponsored by Rotary Clubs nationwide, aligns with Rotary`...

Ruritans hand out dictionaries

By: - Free Press Standard
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Donor: Carrollton Ruritan Club

For the fifth consecutive year, the Carrollton Ruritan Club has provided dictionaries for third-grade students at two schools in the Carrollton Exempted Village School District.

A total of 101 dictionaries were distributed to third graders at Carrollton Elementary School last week, while 36 dictionaries were provided to third graders at Augusta Elementary School. Dictionaries to third-grade students at Dellroy Elementary School are provided by the Dellroy Ruritan Club.

In making the presentation, Ruritan Club secretary Kenneth Scott told the students that this is one of the projects of the Ruritan Club keeping money in the c...

Stelvideo Grange at Arcanum Elementary

By: Lynne Hinshaw
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Donor: Stelvideo Grange #295

This is our 4th year to participate in the Dictionary Project and we LOVE it! We have donated to Arcanum School Third Graders all 4 years, with 3 of our Junior Grange members actually being one of those 3rd graders. It`s so awesome to see these 3rd graders look thru their dictionary and the teachers are always so very appreciative! We receive 3 big envelopes of `Thank You` notes from all the kids! It`s great!!!

I think the Dictionary Project is GREAT!! And I am proud that our organization can be a part of it!

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Giving the gift of words

By: Katie Yantis, Staff Writer The Evening Leader
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Donor: St. Marys Rotary Club

ST. MARYS — Third-grade students at East Elementary sat with their eyes wide and mouths dropped open as they were presented with a special gift Wednesday morning. Members of the St. Marys Rotary Club worked their way around to all the third grade classes for the Dictionary Project, handing each student a dictionary.

The club started its day out at Holy Rosary school, and the rest of the day visited East and West Elementary schools, Grand Lake Christian Academy and Memorial High School. When the club had visited all of the schools for the day they delivered more than 240 dictionaries and a case of 24 thesauruses to each eleventh gra...

Morgan County students receive dictionaries from Rotary Club

By: Dixie Kirkbride
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Donor: Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club

The year 2007 was our third year of providing dictionaries to all third graders in the Morgan County School District, Morgan County, Ohio.

We provided 166 dictionaries in the fall of 2007 to third graders and their teachers in three elementary schools: East, South, and West. The Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club sent three or four Rotarians to each of the schools to individually hand out to each child. The names were provided to us by each school and the names of the students were written on a bookmarker. We also placed a label `A gift from the M & M Rotary` along with the bookmarker and a letter to the parents in each dictiona...

Henry County Third Graders receiving dictionaries

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Donor: Ohio Henry County Retired Teachers Association and Ohio Lions Clubs of Napoleon

In this modern age of computers, with spell-checks and thesauruses, has the usefulness of the dictionary out-lived itself?

Not so, say the Ohio Henry County Retired Teachers Association and the Ohio Lions Clubs of Napoleon, Holgate, and Deshler, as well as numerous third-grade teachers in Henry County.

The Henry County Retired Teachers` Association, in coordination with the Lions Clubs of Henry County, is undergoing a project for the third consecutive year to provide the dictionaries to every third grade student in the county schools, both public and parochial. Most dictionaries have already been presented, while a few cl...

Dictionaries donated by Morgan Grange

By: - newspaper
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Donor: Morgan Grange #829

Members of Morgan Grange once again this year took on a project to aid students at both elementary schools in the North Fork Local School District.  Grange representatives recently visited Utica Elementary School and Newton Elementary School to present third graders with dictionaries in an attempt to help them with their academic success.

Newark-Heath Rotary Club, Heath Schools - STEVENSON ELEMENTARY
C-A-M-P O-H-I-O Here We Come....
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Donor: Newark-Heath Rotary Club

With sunny, yet cold, November skies, the fifth-grade students at Stevenson Elementary School embarked on their annual trip to Camp Ohio. As the buses pulled away from Stevenson, the kinds were singing songs about camp fires and roasting marshmallows.

Heath students have been going to Camp Ohio for more than 35 years, and it remains the highlight of any fifth-grader`s year. Without the support from administrators and help from high school counselors, this experience would not be possible. Kids are able to excel in team-building classes, confidence-building experiences, friendship-building tasks, and most of all, memories that will la...

Waterville Rotary Club donates dictionaries

By: Karen Berger, Mirror Reporter The Mirror
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Waterville

Third-grader Julian knows exactly why the Waterville Rotary Club donated dictionaries to 345 Anthony Wayne students this month.

`So we can be smarter children,` Julian replied when Rotarian Jim Pease asked students in Susan Frank`s Monclova Primary School classroom.

While Pease passed out the Webster`s Dictionary for Students , he explained, `Up to now, you`ve been learning to read. From now on, you`ll be reading to learn. This is your dictionary to keep throughout school and it will be a valuable tool.`

The Waterville Rotary donation is part of a nation-wide effort called The Dictionary Project. Since its foundin...

Waterville Rotary Newsletter

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Donor: Waterville Rotary

Check the attached newsletter for pictures of the dictionary project in Ohio.

B. L. Miller Benefactor

By: Virginia Milliken
Monday, October 08, 2007
Donor: Smith Grange

    On Sept. 24 the third grade students in Leann Laure and Betsy Walsh`s classrooms were surprised to receive new personal dictionaries.  Mrs. Susan Postiy, a representative of Smith Grange, gave the students brand new dictionaries and explained to the children how this gift was from the local grange organization.  She also explained how the dictionaries were part of the larger Dictionary Project.  The timing is perfect for the students who are working on dictionary skills both in class and with Mrs. Smith during their library time.

Rotarians give students the gift of words

By: Kay Louth The Evening Leader
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Donor: St. Marys Rotary Club

ST. MARYS--The longest word in the English language consists of 1,909 letters and is a term for a chemical formula.

Friday, third graders at Holy Rosary and East and West Elementary schools were introduced to the very lengthy word for the first time.

It was Rotary Dictionary Day. For the past seven years, St. Marys Rotary Club has been delivering a brand new dictionary to each of the elementary schools` third graders.

Spearheading the project, Rotarian Jim Harris said educators claim it`s when students are in the third grade that they should be introduced to dictionaries. Harris, along with Rotarians Tami Sanford an...

Monroe Grange gives dictionaries to high school

By: - newspaper
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Donor: Monroe Grange

Monroe Grange members presented approximately 400 student dictionaries to Tippecanoe High School last week.  The Grange consistently provides a variety of services to the community and the schools.  Much of the organization`s fundraising is achieved through an annual pie sale, coordinated by member Phyllis Lewis.  Last year the Grange presented dictionaries to LT Ball Intermediate and Tipp Middle School.

Andover Rotarians give third graders `word power`

By: Craig L. Hofius newspaper
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Donor: Andover Rotary Club

ANDOVER--Nearly 100 Pymatuning Valley Primary School third grade students got their very own dictionary during an assembly in the cafeteria last Friday, courtesy of the Andover Rotary Club.

Andover Rotary members Mary Hockran, Eric Senor, Rev. Steve Mickels and Bob Hall gathered at the primary school at 9:30 a.m. to present a Webster`s Student Dictionary to 99 third grade students.

`We have some very special people here today to give you a gift,` said Erin Pierce, Pymatuning Valley Primary School principal.

Hockran introduced herself, Hall, Senor and Mickels to the students last Friday. She explained to the children ...

Word up

Friday, March 23, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Ironton

Through a partnership between National City Bank, the Ironton Rotary Club, Briggs Lawrence County Public Library and The Ironton Tribune, every third grader in Lawrence County is being provided their own dictionary as a Rotary effort to promote literacy.

Rotary `Project Dictionary` Delights Dublin Third Graders

Thursday, March 01, 2007
Donor: A.M. Rotary Club of Dublin

Dublin AM Rotary`s commitment to support community literacy projects and education resulted in a recent Club donation of 1,167 brand new dictionaries to third graders at Chapman and Wright Elementary Schools.

Rotarians keep focus on literacy

By: Marianne Austin, Tribune Correspondent Coshocton Tribune
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Donor: West Lafayette Rotary Club

West Lafayette Rotarians Dorothy Dalton, John Powell, Bob Nelson and President Ed Chapdelaine met in Ridgewood Superintendent Bill Caudill`s office this week to present every third-grade student in the district with a new dictionary to be used in the classroom.

The Rotary purchased 125 books for West Lafayette, Plainfield and Fresno Elementary schools. The Rotary let the teachers select the dictionary based on age appropriateness and other factors.

The Rotary selected this project to promote literacy in the Rotary International Campaign for Literacy program.

`It`s nice to see the kids being thankful and receptive to ...

Gallia County fifth graders receive gift from Rotary Club

By: Charles W. Clark, Secretary
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Donor: Gallipolis Rotary Club

Kiwanis celebrate Education Week with dictionaries

By: Barbara Armitage
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Donor: Alliance Kiwanis Club

For several years the Alliance Kiwanis Club has donated dictionaries to each third grade student in 8 elementary schools in our area. This fall we did it in conjunction with American Education Week so that students would have them during their third grade year (that`s the year of the state reading accountability test). Here are some snapshots of our distribution. We do a lesson on dictionary usage focusing on the various elements found in this particular dictionary, and have the kids find several definitions and maps. We send a letter home explaining the project and talking about the importance...

Nimishillen Grange donates dictionaries to SHM School

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Donor: Nimishillen Grange #1627

The Nimishillen Grange # 1627 has donated dicationaries to the third graders at Sacred Heart of Mary School in the Louisville/Marlington school districts. They also donated to North Nimishillen School`s third graders in the Louisville School district.

This is the first year for Nimishillen Grange to do this project, although other Granges have been doing it for several years. We hope to give dictionaries to all the third graders at Louisville School as well as St. Louis in the coming years. We plan to rotate each year to different schools.

Norma Summers is chairman of the dictionary committee along with lecturer Staci Batd...

Dictionaries Distributed

Friday, November 17, 2006
Donor: West Branch Area Ladies Ruritan Club

Six Ruritan Clubs of the West Branch School District bought and distributed new 2006 dictionaries to each third-grade student and each third-grade teacher in the area for the fifth year.  Participating Ruritan clubs are Beloit, Demascus, Goshen, Knox, West Branch Ruriteens and the West Branch Area Ladies Clubs.

Dik-shun-ner-ees for students
Jefferson Grange gifts specific book to assist in educating area third and fourth graders
By: Emily R. Chesnic Gazette Newspapers
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Donor: Jefferson Grange

JEFFERSON - According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, a dictionary is `a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually ar­ ranged alphabetically, giving in­ formation about their meanings, pronunciations and etymolo­ gies.` And if one does not know what an etymology is, he or she should look it up in the dictionary, just like area third and fourth grad­ ers more easily could do now thanks to the recent generosity of the Jefferson Grange.



On Wednesday, September 27, the Jefferson Grange, Post No. 1311, which has slightly more than 120...

Moraine Rotary Club donates dictionaries to local fourth-graders

By: Dave Miller letter
Monday, April 10, 2006
Donor: Moraine Rotary Club, OH

The Moraine Rotary Club distributed 400 dictionaries to 4th grade students at four different schools in their area.

Grange sponsors dictionary project

By: Mildred Rollin
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Donor: Huntington Grange # 2043

Huntington Grange # 2043 sponsored a `dictionary project` for all third-graders in the school throughout the nation. Their goal is to give an educational book to each third-grader. Huntington Grange #2043 sponsored the third-grade class at St. Edward`s school. They gave 21 students a dictionary the child can keep.

KIWANIS DISTRIBUTES OVER 400 DICTIONARIES TO LOCAL STUDENTS

By: Barb Armitage letter
Monday, March 06, 2006
Donor: Alliance Kiwanis Club

The Alliance Kiwanis Club is once again participating in the Dictionary Project, a national project whose goal is to place a dictionary in the hands of every third grade student. During this week and next, members of the Kiwanis Club will visit every elementary school in Alliance, Marlington and Regina Coeli to present students with their dictionaries. Students receive a letter to their parents explaining the project and the gift. In addition to the presentation, a short lesson examining this particular dictionary and its special

characteristics is shared with the students. Students in the pictures below ar...

Rotary Club of Athens makes its 3rd annual delivery.

By: Bob Marinellie
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Athens

For the 3rd year in a row, the Rotary Club of Athens has delivered between 500-600 dictionaries to all 3rd graders in Athens County. This annual event has been one of the many highlights for the club as we often hear about the impacts it has on the children. Athens County has nearly 30% poverty and oftentimes these dictionaries are the only books some children will own. Additionally, Athens County is home to one of the most fiscally challenged district in the entire state. Despite these challenges, it is easy to see the smiling and happy children who received this year`s delivery.

Rotary buys dictionaries for 3rd graders

By: Craig L. Hofius Gazzette Newspapers
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Donor: Andover Rotary Club, OH

ANDOVER - Hundreds of sips taken by area residents at Andover Rotary`s soup lunches provided the organization with money it needed to give a dictionary to every 3rd grader at Pymatuning Valley Primary School.

Mary Hockran, Andover Rotary president and Rotary members, Dr. Linn Newman and Sandy Baumgardner, gathered at the primary school at 10:45 a.m. in the auditorium to present a Webster`s Student Dictionary to each 3rd grade student.

Each time a person paid $3.50 for a soup lunch, which included coffee, tea or milk and dessert (cake, pie or cookie), it brought Rotary that much closer to raising the money it needed to pu...

ROTARY CLUB OF SUGARCREEK, OHIO, PROMOTES LITERACY

By: Donald K. Smith letter
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Donor: Sugarcreek Rotary Club

The Rotary Club of Sugarcreek, Ohio, with President John Meek, educator,
R. Arline Smith, educator and Ted Gerber, superintendent of the Garaway
Local Schools as Rotarians promoted literacy before Christmas 2005.

The photograph pictures Smith, Rotary Vocational Chair, Cindy Kettlewell,
Baltic third grade teacher with Debbie Sewell, Baltic Elementary Principal
distributing the dictionaries to the Baltic third grade students.
All third grade students in the district were given dictionaries by the Rotary
Club of Sugarcreek and the local newspaper, The Budget of Sugarcreek....

Columbus Rotary Club donates dictionaries to local students

By: Richard Slager
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Donor: Columbus Rotary Club

The Columus Rotary Club has  `magically` caused local elementary school students` test score to rise by donating to each child a personal student dictionary for them to keep.

Henry County Third Graders receiving dictionaries

Thursday, December 15, 2005
Donor: Lions Club

Have yu evar wundered how a sertain word is speeled, but kudn`t find the wurd?

Welcome to the club.

However, there is a solution or two available. If your computer has a spell-check, you`re in business. If you still have your dusty dictionary on the bookshelf, you have a second option.

In Henry County there will shortly exist a third option. Ask a third grader if you can use his or her dictionary.

The Henry County Retired Teachers` Association is undergoing a project to provide the dictionaries to every third grade student in the county schools, both public and parochial. Some dictionaries have already b...

Rotary Club gives dictionaries to third graders

By: Sarah Zopfi The Herald Dispatch
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Donor: Huntington Rotary Club

HUNTINGTON -- What`s in a word?
That is the question Huntington Rotary Club members hope to answer for Central City third graders through the donation of dictionaries.

On Tuesday Rotary President Linda Pleasants and member Judy Rule passed out more than 50 dictionaries at Central City as part of The Dictionary Project.

`We know these kids have some dictionaries at school, but we want them to have one of their own,` Pleasants said.

So far 3,022,088 dictionaries have been given to children across the nation.

Rule said third grade is a time when students can really start looking stuff up in the dictionary....

Thanks to our Community!

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Donor: Smith Grange

Thanks to the Smith Grange third graders at B. L. Miller are the proud owners of new dictionaries. As part of their community service project, Smith Grange representative Susan Postiy presented each student in Mrs. Leann Laure and Mrs. Linda Little`s class with their own personal dictionary. We want to thank the members of the grange for their generous support for our students.

Dictionaries donated in honor of resident`s 100th birthday.

By: Kate Fazzini
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Donor: Kiwanis club of Florida

As a lifelong lover of words and their power, Westerville resident Harriet Carter marked her 100th birthday with a gift of dictionaries to all third- through fifth-graders at two area schools.

The Webster`s dictionaries will go to Pointview Elementary School in Westerville and Fair Alternative Elementary School in Columbus . The donation was made in Carter`s name by her grand-niece, Cherie Boone.

`It`s unbelievable. It`s magical,` Carter said of the gift. `It`s going to be their own personal copy, to keep.`

Boone, who is a teacher in West Palm Beach , Fla. , said she first learne...

Moraine Rotary Club pictures.

Monday, April 18, 2005
Donor: Moraine Rotary Club

Belmont Grange Donates Dictionaries

Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Donor: Belmont Grange #889

Belmont Grange #889 of Barnesville recently presented the members of the fourth grade at Barnesville Elementary School with special ency­ clopedia edition`s of Webster`s Dictionaries for students.



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Members of the grange hope the gift will help students get into the habit of `looking things up` in dictionaries and other reference books.


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Loudonville Rotary Members donate dictionaries to McMullen School Third-Graders

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Donor: Loudonville Rotary Club

Words for Thirds

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Ohio State Grange

WHEREAS, the `Words for Thirds` is an attractive and valuable program.

WHEREAS, a dictionary is perhaps one of the most powerful reference tools that a child should own.

THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Ohio State Grange encourages all of the Ohio Granges to consider and support this valuable program.

This is a committee resolution.

Dictionaries For All

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Loudenville Rotary Club

They distributed last Friday to third-graders in the McMullen School. At left third-graders show off their new dictionaries. The dictionary delivery is part of an effort, sponsored in part by Rotary Clubs across the country, to put a dictionary in the hands of every third grade child in the country. Last year the local Rotary gave dictionaries to every third- through sixth-grader, and their intention is to provide them for every third-grade class in the future. Kick and Linda O`Brien watch as Colonial Manor residents Alice Kick and Mary Cates affix Rotary Club stickers on the covers of dictionaries.

Retired teacher gives dictionaries to third graders

By: AARON E. AUZINS NWS Intern
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Carolyn Plassman, with the help of her husband, Donald

Carolyn Plassman, with the help of her husband, Donald, has been reaching out to Henry County third-grade students this week. In fact, they`ve been reaching out and handing the students dictionaries.

In-unisons exclamations of `thank you` stream from the excited students as they receive a copy of `Webster`s Classic Reference Library Dictionary,` donated through an effort made by Carolyn Plassman.

`I got the idea from an article I saw in an edition of American Profile (published every Friday in the Northwest Signal),` said Carolyn Plassman.

The cover story of the Oct. 1319 edition of American Profile de...

Students Given Gift of Words

By: Excerpts from article by Jim Brewer
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Loudonville

President Marjorie Atkinson of Loudonsville, Teacher Marilyn Carroll, and three of her proud students.

Last week, Marjorie Atkinson, President of the Rotary Club of Loudonville, presented 120 new dictionaries to the third-graders of the R.F. McMullen School . `The dictionaries are for the students` own use,` she explained in presenting them to third-grade teacher Marilyn Carroll. `They may keep them in their desks at school, or take them home with them. The idea is that the dictionary is for each child to keep, so they can take it with them on to the fourth grade.`

Rotary clubs, along with Friends of the Library group...

Spellbound?

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club

Rotary offers reference book to young readers
Dictionary service project new this year.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Wapakoneta Rotary Club

Submitted by the Wapakoneta Rotary Club

The Wapakoneta Rotary Club has adopted a new community service project called The Dictionary Project. It allows the local Rotary Club to donate dictionaries to all third grade students in the Wapakoneta school system, a total of 275 dictionaries.

The St. Marys, New Bremen/New Knoxville and the Sidney Rotary Clubs have also adopted this project.

The students will be receiving Webster`s New Encyclopedic Edition Dictionary . This 448 page soft back book includes new computer and Internet terms, an appendix of geographic information, presidential information, conversion tabl...

Rotary Making the Rounds

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club of Mt. Sterling

Dictionaries from Byesville Rotary

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Byesville Rotary Club

Sandy Valley Ruritans have words for Waynesburg third-graders

Thursday, September 30, 2004
Donor: Sandy Valley Ruritan Club
Category: Article

The Sandy Valley Ruritan Club has a few words for third-graders at Waynesburg Elementary School. In fact, the club has a whole book of words.

Last week Ralph Rennie, left, and Walt Petrime presented dictionaries to Mikayla Baumgarten and Dakota Sciury, as well as their classmates at the school. The dictionaries not only contain a lot of words to help the students as they strengthen their vocabularies; the books also have biographies of all the American Presidents, maps, information on the planets and the entire United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The Ruritans purchase the books through The Dictionary Projec...

Generous Gesture

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Donor: Northampton Grange 2553

David Darst and Priscilla Allaman, both officers of Northampton Grange 2553, recently presented dictionaries to 130 third-graders at Woodridge Intermediate school that were purchased by the Grange.
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Thanks To Aetna Grange, Third Graders Can `Look It Up`

By: Karen Berger
Monday, September 20, 2004
Donor: Aetna Grange

The 112 third graders al Delia Elemenlary learned how to spell `grateful` last week, thanks lo free dictionaries from The Aetna Grange.

Aetna Grange decided to donate The dictionaries to PDY students after learning about The Dictionary Project, a national nonprofit organization that has donated 1.5 million dictionaries to third graders throughout the United Stales, said Gene Patterson, master of the Grange.

Aetna Grange members were on hand last week to pass out dictionaries in the five third grade classrooms al Delia Elemenlary. From left: Cliff Shell. Don Howard, Gene Patterson, Richard Lees and Wilbur Parker.

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News Release - Star Grange #778
Bidwell, Ohio
Monday, March 15, 2004
Donor: Star Grange #77S

Star Grange #77S presented A Student`s Dictionary to each third-grader at Meigs Elementary School recently as part of their Community Service Work. The project is part of the Words for Thirds Project, a national effort to put a dictionary in the hand of every third-grader.
The program is an opportunity for children to expand their vocabulary and for many to actually own a dictionary. The dictionary is for the students to keep, so that they can take it home with them and use it throughout their school career. These dictionaries also include lots of other important information that will help as the students continue their school career, such...

Willoughby Rotary Club donates dictionaries to area elementary students
Willoughby, Ohio
By: Jackie Tilton, Staff Writer The News-Herald - Page A3
Monday, January 12, 2004
Donor: Willoughby Rotary Club

The eyes of Sheila Domizi`s third-graders lit up as a glossy blue book was placed on each desk and the pupils began eagerly thumbing through the pages within seconds. The gift was compliments of the Willoughby Rotary Club, which purchased new dictionaries for each third-grader in the Willoughby-Eastlake and Kirtland school districts as well as each parochial school within the two districts` boundaries.

Rotarians are taking turns delivering the books to each of the schools. Washington Elementary School in Eastlake was among the scheduled stops Thursday for Maureen Kelly Byron and Sally Phillips, both former teachers, and w...

How do you spell giving?

Monday, October 01, 2001
Donor: Austintown Rotary

Excerpts from articles by Ian Hill and Joyce Pogany of The Austintown Town Crier, October and November 2001.



As a community service and promotion of literacy, the Austintown Rotary purchased 625 dictionaries to be given to third grade students in Austintown and Jackson Milton public and parochial schools.

This is the largest distribution in Ohio so far, but it is carried out in many states by Rotary clubs.



`It seems like a small project, but it affects over 600 kids,` said Gary Reel, community service chairman and former Austintown teacher. `The goal is that they would have something ...

Two Ohio Rotary Clubs take the lead in 2001
St. Marys, Ohio
By: Cathy J. Schreima The Evening Leader Newspaper
Thursday, August 30, 2001
Donor: St. Marys and the New Bremen/New Knoxville Rotary clubs

Two local Rotary International Clubs are taking part in a nationwide program that provides dictionaries to third grade students. The St. Mary`s and the New Bremen/New Knoxville Rotary clubs have donated funds for 192 students and teachers in St. Mary`s and about 130 students and teachers in New Bremen and New Knoxville schools. The books were purchased through The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization designed to raise money to provide dictionaries for third grade students.



Jim Harris, past president of the St. Mary`s Rotary Club, said, `I received information in the mail about the program and within hours we h...