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By: Desiree Doherty e-mail
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Tulsa
Each year, the Rotary Club of Tulsa presents approximately 125 personalized dictionaries to each English and Spanish speaking third grader at Celia Clinton Elementary School. Through the Tulsa Metro Chamber`s Partners in Education program, the Rotary Club of Tulsa has provided volunteer service, mentoring, and financial support for special projects for over 20 years, helping our adopted school move from the `at risk` list to a high performing and creative learning environment.
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By: Damon Butcher e-mail
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Donor: Elk City Rotary Club
Elk City Rotary Club was pleased to be able to participate once again in the Dictionary Project. I believe this is our fourth year to participate. We provided dictionaries to approximately 255 3rd Grade students. We provided 171 dictionaries to the students at Fairview Elementary of the Elk City Public School District, 43 dictionaries to students of Merritt Elementary of Merritt School District, and 25 dictionaries to the students of Canute Elementary in Canute, OK. We also were able to provide approximately 16 dictionaries to the Heart of Western Oklahoma Home Schooled students in Western Oklahoma.
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By: Donald Johns e-mail communication
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Donor: Owasso Rotary Club
This year, we have a new elementary school in Owasso. We also added the Collinsville, OK public school system since they do not have a Rotary Club. We also added the Cornerstone Christian Academy, and provided 96 dictionaries for the Rejoice Christian School mid-high and high school students.
This continues to be my favorite Rotary project and the Owasso Rotary Club hopes to continue to fill in the smaller school districts in our area which are not covered by Rotary Clubs. In this season of gratitude, I am thankful for your coordination of this important literacy project across the U.S.A. God Bless America!
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By: Meghan McCormick The Norman Transcript
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Donor: Cross Timbers Rotary Club
Cross Timbers Rotary Club wants third-graders in Norman Public Schools to own dictionaries.
Rotarians Sara Martin and Mark Marsee dropped off boxes filled with student dictionaries Wednesday morning at Adams Elementary.
Martin said the Cross Timbers club has partnered with The Dictionary Project in Charleston, S.C., for the annual project.
`This is our third year to do it,` Martin said. `The goal is for children to have a dictionary.`
She said the project takes place not only in Norman, but worldwide.
`Thanks to their partnership with The Dictionary Project, Rotarians and other service organizations all acr... Click to read full story ...
By: Evelyn E. Harms letter
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Donor: RSVP of Central Oklahoma
This letter is written to honor Dale Putnam, a very special member of RSVP of Central Oklahoma, for his outstanding commitment to individuals in our community.
Dale has been a member of RSVP for nine years, initially volunteering his time for RSVP America Reads Tutoring and Mentoring program, a one-on-one tutoring program for 1st through 3rd grade students who are reading at least 50% below grade level. Dale`s volunteer involvement is extensive, but includes Even Start, Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity and Oklahoma Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program.
Dale has tutored and mentored childr... Click to read full story ...
By: - The Owasso Reporter
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Owasso
For the past several years the Rotary Club of Owasso has provided dictionaries to every third grader in Owasso schools, which includes the seven elementary schools, Rejoice, and Wright Academy.
Club members took a day recently and delivered the books with the students` names in them to the classrooms instead of their regular weekly meeting. It`s one of the many community projects the civic club participates in every year made possible by several fund-raisers including the recent Taste of Homes Cooking School.
Donnie Johns, who is in charge of the dictionary project, says it not only provides the students with a re... Click to read full story ...
By: Breanne Palmerini KJRH.com
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Donor: Midtown Tulsa Rotary Club
More than 1400 students at Tulsa elementary schools will get a special gift today.
Dictionaries will be making their way into the hands of all the third graders at 20 elementary schools in the Tulsa Public School District.
The Midtown Tulsa Rotary Club delivers about 1400 dictionaries to students. The club uses grants and money it earns throughout the year to pay for them. They`ve been handing out dictionaries for more than 5 years.
Students at Zarrow International Elementary, along with Eisenhower Elementary will be getting dual language dictionaries because of their immersion programs.
Teachers at Zarrow say the ... Click to read full story ...
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By: Derrick Miller The Duncan Banner
Friday, May 30, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Duncan
A dictionary is more than just a book with words and definitions. For some Duncan third-grade students, dictionaries could prove to be a lifeline to more knowledge.
The Duncan Rotary Club provided dictionaries for all third-graders at Woodrow Wilson, Emerson and Mark Twain. Along with these books, students received letters explaining the project. These letters were addressed to the parents and guardians of the students.
Susan Camp, Rotary member, said, `I think it was great. I think it`s important that they have their very own books because books are keys to opening doors of opportunity for them.`
At the three schools, ... Click to read full story ... | | Mark Twain third-graders Sari, left, and Rhiannon look at the dictionaries they received from the Duncan Rotary Club at the end of the school year. photo by Derrick ... |
By: DAVID JONES Contributing Editor Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers - Tulsa,OK
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Donor: Southside (Tulsa) Rotary Club
Dolly Dixon recently joined Southside (Tulsa) Rotary Club. She wanted to ensure that the dream of her late husband, Stanley, endured.
The dream wasn`t originally Stanley`s. It was the dream of Annie Plummer.
Because of that dream, thousands of children in the Tulsa area and more than a million throughout America, have new dictionaries to help them succeed in school.
Annie Plummer was an African-American woman born in the Depression. The fifth of 12 children, she dropped out of school early to raise a daughter as a single mom. She was a maid and a school crossing guard to make ends meet.
But she valued educati... Click to read full story ... |  | | BOOK DONATION: Dolly Dixon is carrying on her husband Stanley`s dream of giving local children dictionaries through Tulsa Rotary clubs. The program was originally con... |
By: Nora Froeschle, World Staff Writer Tulsa World
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Donor: Tulsa Midtown Rotary Club
The third-graders start flipping through the books, searching out information.
More than 150 third-graders at Kendall-Whittier Elementary School got a surprise gift Monday: a new dictionary with the student`s name on the inside cover.
Ana Reynoso`s class gasped in unison when they heard that part.
One student, David Bravo-Rodriguez, called out `Congratulations!` as each of his classmates went to the front of the room to receive their dictionaries from members of the Tulsa Midtown Rotary Club.
Club President Steve McCormick said, `I know not all of them will use the dictionary; I know some of them will be lost b... Click to read full story ... |  | | Yadira, a student at Kendall-Whittier Elementary School, receives a dictionary Monday from Tulsa Midtown Rotary Club members Cherie Bass and Steve McCormick. photo b... |
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By: Doris Kent
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Donor: Washington Grange #299
The accompanying photos were taken in September when I delivered the dictionaries to the third-grade students at Pond Creek-Hunter School.
They were excited and thrilled to get the books and looked up words. Click to read full story ... | |
By: Patti Green
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Donor: Arbuckle Sunrise Rotary Club
The Arbuckle Sunrise Rotary in Ardmore , Oklahoma sponsored a dictionary project for the 4 th grade students at Franklin Elementary. Every 4 th grader received a dictionary with a name label and Arbuckle Sunrise Rotary`s name and logo.
We had a program where the children were given their dictionary by Rotary members.
Approximately 60 children have received the dictionaries and as new 4 th grade students transfer to our school, they also receive a dictionary. The students wrote thank you letters to our Rotary members.
The students love their dictionaries and use them everyday. Thank y... Click to read full story ... |  | | Fourth grade students at Franklin Elementary School received dictionaries from members of the Arbuckle Sunrise Rotary Club. |
By: Bob Schaefer, PDG
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Newkirk
We supplied dictionaries to the third graders at the Newkirk Grade School. We also supplied dictionaries to the combined third and fourth grades at Peckam, Ok. Grade School and the Kildare, Ok. Grade School. We choose these two additional grades schools because they feed the Newkirk Middle School and High School.
Great project. When we were handing them out, those that had received theirs were looking through them and talking about them to their classmates. After we handed them out to the Newkirk Students (we did it at a club meeting, the students were the program and entertained us with songs) a vote was taken to continue this projec... Click to read full story ...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Idabel
Each third-grader in McCurtain County will be receiving a student dictionary this week.
Each of the 35 clubs of Rotary District 5830 try to adopt a literacy program each year, said Bob Heinemann, a longtime Rotarian.
It`s the second time the Idabel Rotarians, including some who reside in Broken Bow, have provided dictionaries to elementary students. But this time the project is reaching more people. The 550 dictionaries, in a handy softcover student edition, are going to each of the third-graders in the 15 school districts in the county this week. Previously, the dictionaries were given out only in the Idabel area.
... Click to read full story ... | | Idabel Rotary Club members, from left, Bob Terry, Henry Moy, Marva Heinemann, Linda Potts, SuZan Cole and Bob Heinemann prepare boxes of dictionaries for delivery to ... |
Monday, November 27, 2006
Donor: Cherryvale Community Grange
The Grange is proud to support The Dictionary Project with its Words for Thirds program. With a nation-wide network of volunteers, more than 100,000 dictionaries have been p resented to third grade students. That number will increase when Cherryvale Community Grange gives each third grader at Wakita and Deer Creek- Lamont Schools a personal copy of Webster`s Dictionary for Students later this month.
A dictionary is one of the most powerful tools young children are introduced to in their school years. Its usefulness goes beyond providing correct spellings, pronunciations and definitions. It is also a companion for ... Click to read full story ...
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By: Tom Gilbert Tulsa World
Friday, October 27, 2006
Donor: Rotary District 6110, Tulsa area Rotary Clubs
Rotary Clubs in a district that covers part of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri are making dictionary donations to third graders. Click to read full story ... | | Stephany, a third grader at the Holy Family Cathedral School, looks through a new dictionary she received from the Will Rogers Rotary Club. Also looking over their n... |
By: Bunmi Ishola The Norman Transcript
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Donor: Cross Timbers Rotary of Norman
`Forever?` a little girl asked in amazement after Marilyn Geiger and Scott Bauman announced that each child in her class was getting a dictionary to keep.
`Until we`re dead?` another child asked.
`Well, let`s hope until it gets worn out from using it so much,` Geiger replied, laughing.
Geiger and Bauman are members of the Cross Timbers Rotary of Norman, which decided to participate in The Dictionary Project, giving each third-grader in the Norman Public Schools a dictionary.
The Dictionary Project is a national organization created to provide students with dictionaries to help with school work. The organization beg... Click to read full story ... |  | |
Cross Timbers Rotary Club members Marilyn Geiger and Scott Bauman pass out dictionaries to third-graders at Jefferson Elementary School as part of The Dictionary ... |
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Donor: Center Point Energy
Representatives from Centerpoint Energies pre sented the students of Fletcher second and third grades with dictionaries and pencils through `The Dictionary Project.`
The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization. The goal of this program is to assist all students to complete the school year as good writ ers, active readers and cre ative thinkers by providing the students with their own personal dictionaries. The dic tionaries are a gift to each stu dent to use at school and at home for years to come.
Over 3,022,088 children have received a dictionary from ... Click to read full story ... |  | | Fletcher second and third grade students say Thank You to representatives of Centerpoint Energy for their new dictionaries. Seated bottom left are the represenatative... |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: -
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary Club
Tulsa- The Tulsa Rotary club`s ninety-two members have delivered 3,677 books to 187 classrooms and handing each student (and teacher) their own personalized copy.
`We feel this one on one contact was more important than the value of the book. The 3,000 thank you letters I have received to date tell the story of how grateful the kids are for our personal care for their education,` said Stanley Dixon `So many of them asked us to come back.`
We have already pledged to the 57 school principals in the Tulsa Public School system that we will continue the project (which is locally called the `World of Wor... Click to read full story ...
Fort Smith Leads the Way
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Donor: Fort Smith Rotary
After completing distribution in nearly all of our hometowns, Rotarians of District 6110 have moved out into rural areas not represented by existing clubs.
Typical of the work in rural schools is ADG Ellyn Schieffarth`s Fort Smith Rotary Club. After passing out over a thousand books in the Fort Smith School System, she raised enough money to buy an additional 1,728 dictionaries to cover all the elementary schools within the jurisdiction of her Mount Magazine Girl Scout District, which is her `day job`. This area contains several counties in Arkansas and parts of two in Oklahoma .
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