Russellville Grange gives dictionaries in Portland schools

By: Donavon Boyd e-mail
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Donor: Russellville Grange # 353

Russellville Grange and Junior Grange gave dictionaries to the third graders at Rosa Parks Elementary School and Clarendon Elementary School in Portland.

Continuing a local tradition
Hood River Rotary members delivers free dictionaries to area fifth graders
By: Barbara Ayers press release
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Donor: Hood River Rotary Club

Each year for the last 14 years, Hood River Rotary Club has donated free dictionaries to every fifth grade student attending an accredited school in Hood River County, including: Parkdale, Pine Grove, Mid Valley, West Side, May Street, Cascade Locks and Horizon Summit.

Local Rotarians personally deliver the books to area schools each year between November and December. Yesterday was the last dictionary delivery - to Parkdale Elementary School.

Hood River Rotarian Bob Crunkilton and his wife Terri handed out dictionaries to Parkdale fifth graders as Rotarian Pat Evenson-Brady (also Hood River County School superintendent) led...

Milton-Freewater Republican Women organizes dictionary project

By: - Valley Herald, and correspondence
Friday, January 08, 2010
Donor: Milton-Freewater Republican Women

All 3rd and 5th grade students in the Milton-Freewater School District and the Athena-Weston School District received brand new dictionaries in December thanks to the dictionary project of the Milton-Freewater Republican Women`s Club.

The group organized the project in Milton-Freewater and worked with other local organizations including the Milton-Freewater Kiwanis Club, the Milton-Freewater Rotary Club, the Fruitvale Study Group FCE, the Athena Public Library Board, the Weston Chamber of Commerce, the Athena-McEwen Lions Club, and the Athena Elementary Parents in Education to raise money for the purchase of the dictionaries, says Sa...

Republican Women dictionary project

Friday, January 08, 2010
Donor: Milton-Freewater Republican Women's Club
Category: Article

All 3rd and 5th grade students in the Milton-Freewater School District and the Athena-Weston School District received brand new dictionaries in December thanks to the Dictionary Project of the Milton-Freewater Republican Women`s Club.

The group organized the project in Milton-Freewater and worked with other local organizations including the Milton-Freewater Kiwanis Club, the Milton-Freewater Rotary Club, the Fruitvale Study Group, and The Athena Group to raise money for the purchase of the dictionaries, says Sandy Marlatt.

The Dictionary Project started in 1992 in Savannah,Georgia, when Annie Plummer noticed there were childr...

Sixth-graders cheer for 'Webster'
Florence Masons donate more than 100 dictionaries to Siuslaw and Mapleton students
By: Ryan Cronk Siuslaw News
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Donor: Florence Masonic Lodge, Florence Rotary Club

It was like Christmas came early for Siuslaw Middle School sixth-graders, who each received a free dictionary donated and hand-delivered December 9 by members of the Florence Masonic Lodge.

`This is such a generous offer because I have some students who don`t have dictionaries at home,` said sixth-grade teacher Shirley Raia.

Florence Masons gave more than 100 paperback copies of `Webster`s Dictionary for Students` to the school, the lodge`s first time doing so.

Students personally signed their own copy before running off to page through the reference book, with huge smiles spreading across their faces.

`This i...

Rotary District 5110 shares creative thank-you note

By: - e-mail communication
Monday, December 14, 2009
Donor: Rotary District 5110

Wendy Kincade of Rotary District 5110 sent this lovely thank-you note that her Rotary Club received from the students at Alsea Elementary School.

Dictionary Donations
A project to hand out the books cheers students and Rotarians
By: Rebecca Woolington The Register-Guard
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Donor: Springfield Rotary and Springfield Twin Rivers Rotary

SPRINGFIELD — Jazmine knows a hundred-dollar word when she hears one.

`I looked up bioluminescence,` said the 8-year-old third-grader at Guy Lee Elementary School in Springfield.
The word, which left many adults in her classroom scratching their
heads, refers to the light given off by living organisms.

But why that word?

`Because it`s a big word that I heard in second grade, but couldn`t remember what it meant,` she said Monday afternoon.

Jazmine looked up the word in her very
own dictionary, one of about 850 to be distributed to every Springfield
third-grader from Springfield`s two Rot...

Canby students receive dictionaries from Rotary

By: Tim Cordill e-mail communication
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Canby

Over the last two weeks we delivered a total of 400 dictionaries to 3rd graders at Knight, Lee, Eccles and Trost Schools. A handful of classrooms were visited in each of the schools by a group of Rotarians to hand deliver the dictionaries. Jeff Rose, Superintendent of schools, is a Club member and also participated in the distribution as well. The dictionaries are their own to keep and the purpose of our project is to promote literacy in our community. This is an annual project to service the community which we have done for the past three years. A photo is included of a classroom visited at Trost Elementary.
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Rotary Club of Klamath Falls visits Ferguson School

By: Jean Phillips e-mail communication
Friday, November 13, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Klamath Falls

The Rotary Club of Klamath Falls, working with Rotary District 5110, will give dictionaries to 22 schools this year. Here is a note from a Rotarian who helped with the distribution:

I had so much fun with the Ferguson School third graders and our dictionary project.

They were so excited. Rotary does an outstanding job on so many projects. The third graders` minds are just like sponges, so ready to absorb all they can. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this project.

Jean
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Looking it up just got easier for third-graders
Local Rotary Clubs donate dictionaries for kids to take home and use to build their vocabularies
By: Andres Navarro The Bulletin
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Donor: Rotary District 5110

Students clapped and pumped their fists in the air while others cried out, `Yes!` when they learned they got to keep the dictionaries they received at Bear Creek Elementary on Tuesday morning.

The cheers and excitement seen in Bear Creek`s third-grade classes are something all third-grade children in Central Oregon will experience this week when local Rotary Clubs donate 2,750 paperback dictionaries to help students with their learning.

The donations are part of a nationwide program called The Dictionary Project.

`We were looking for a program that all Rotary Clubs can participate in,` said Walt Schloer, past district...

Rotary District 5110--South Coast

By: Charlie Kocher e-mail communication
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Brookings-Harbor

Dear Mary,

I`m happy to report that the dictionaries were handed out by Rotarians
on Friday to students at Kalmiopsis Grade School and Brookings-Harbor
Christian School in Brookings, Ore. I`m attaching a photo of some happy
recipients. Notice the two girls in front working to sign the Four-Way
Test nameplate....

The best story, however, came today at our club meeting. A Rotarian
said that she was telling her eighth grade granddaughter that she was
handing out dictionaries last week, and the granddaughter replied: `I
still have my dictionary. I use it every day.`

Congratulations on all your work. I k...

Altamont School children receive dictionaries from Rotary Club

By: Dan Kristoffersen e-mail communication
Friday, February 06, 2009
Donor: Klamath-Basin Sunrise Rotary Club

The Klamath-Basin Sunrise Club of Rotary District 5110 distributed dictionaries today at Altamont School.
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Rotary Club Gives Dictionaries to Pelican Elementary 3rd Graders

By: - e-mail communication
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Donor: Klamath County Rotary Club

The Klamath County Rotary Club, of Rotary District 5110, gave dictionaries to the third graders at Pelican Elementary School on November 25, 2008.

Excitement abounds with dictionaries

By: Christine Luehring email communication
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Donor: Alpha Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma

All third graders in the Pleasant Hill and Lowell school districts received a personal copy of A Student`s Dictionary from Alpha Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma in October. The children were told this was in honor of Noah Webster`s 250th birthday.

During student exploration time with the dictionaries, comments were heard about the discovery of presidential biographies, sign language, solar system information, and other material, in addition to words with definitions. The value of this book as a special resource was stressed by the presenters.

Current seventh graders were the first group to get dictionaries...

On Noah Webster's Birthday, Third Graders Get the Presents

By: Charlie Kocher email communication
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Brookings-Harbor

Do you know whose 250th birthday is this week?

The third grade students at Kalmiopsis School know, thanks to an annual Rotary Club project.

For the fifth year in a row, members of the Rotary Club of Brookings-Harbor handed out free dictionaries to the third graders, just in time for Noah Webster`s 250th birthday on Thursday.

Webster is credited with creating the first American dictionary of English spellings and pronunciations.

The name `Webster` was also given to the 18-foot inflatable duck used to advertise the club`s recent Wild Rivers Ducky Derby, which helped raise funds for club projects like the diction...

Tigard Grange brings words to second graders

By: Julie Schnetzky, Grange secretary
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Donor: Tigard Grange #148

We at the Tigard Grange would like to inform you of the great response we had with the M.I.T.C.H. Charter School of Tigard, Oregon in Washington County to the dictionaries we donated to them.

We had gone to our Tigard Tualatin public school district and asked for a school to help, and were informed that the Tigard Rotary Club was already filling that need. So we went looking for an alternative school. We found one just a few blocks from our Grange, the M.I.T.C.H. Charter School.

After contacting the school`s director, we quickly found out that their third graders already had their Webster Dictionaries. But it was the secon...

Redland Grange repeats successful project

By: Gertrude Thompson
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Donor: Redland Grange #796

We received many thank you notes from teachers and students!

Republican women help fifth graders look it up

By: Terry Murphy East Oregonian
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Donor: Round-Up Republican Women`s Club

PENDLETON--For the third year, the Round-Up Republican Women`s club is handing out dictionaries to fourth- or fifth-grade students throughout Umatilla County.

Mary Lou Fletcher serves as the president of the Round-Up Republican Women and the chairwoman of its Americanism Committee. She teamed up with Kandace Bostwick to hand out the books to the students in Pendleton. `We give around 1,320 dictionaries every year to the schools in Umatilla County,` Fletcher said.

The dictionaries for Pendleton, Pilot Rock and Milton-Freewater have already been distributed, and in a few weeks students in the Hermiston, Athena-Weston, Echo an...

Fort Rock Grange donates atlases to North Lake students

By: - Lake County Examiner
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Donor: Fort Rock Grange #758

The Fort Rock Grange has donated world atlases to fourth, fifth and sixth grade students at North Lake School. The Fort Rock Grange was able to obtain and distribute the books as part of `The Dictionary Project.`

Each student in the fifth grade received a Webster`s International Atlas. Other copies of the Webster`s Atlas were donated to the fourth and sixth grades for classroom use, and a copy was given to the library for all students to use. Jana Kittredge and Jose Tobiasson, Fort Rock Grange members and volunteers, presented the atlases to the fifth graders at North Lake School. Students played a game, `Where in the world is......

Delta Kappa Gamma continues Dictionary Project

By: Chris Luehring
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Donor: Alpha Sigma Chapter/Delta Kappa Gamma

Alpha Sigma Chapter/Delta Kappa Gamma continued its participation in The Dictionary Project by donating dictionaries to classes in three schools in November. They gave a total of 120 dictionaries to third graders at Trent School in Pleasant Hill, at Waldport Elementary in Waldport, and at Lundy Elementary in Lowell.

Members Lisa Lilles, Chris Luehring, and Virginia Gillmore distributed the books, presented a short lesson, and took pictures of students with the dictionaries. The students responded by sending personal, creative, and sometimes amusing thank you notes to the chapter.

In this third year ...

Warren Grange Picture

Friday, December 08, 2006
Donor: Warren Grange

A gift of words

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Donor: Hurricane Creek Grange

The Hurricane Creek Grange recently brought smiles to the faces of Wallowa County`s third graders in Wallowa, Enterprise, Joseph and Imnaha elementary schools when they presented each student with his or her own personal dictionary, complete with each child`s name imprinted on the inside cover page. Fifty-three third graders in all received a book. The grange participated in the national Dictionary Project as one of its service projects for the second year. According to members, the grange is dedicated to this annual project as a way to enhance the students` educational experience. As part of the presentation in Joseph, granger Ralph Stewart...

The Eta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma donates dictionaries to local third-graders

By: Kathy Allen-Kirsch letter
Friday, March 24, 2006
Donor: Eta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

Today Eta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International presented dictionaries to all the third graders (53 students) and their teachers at Woodlawn School in Portland, Oregon. The children were very excited to receive their books and they enthusiastically thanked our group for the gift.

Sprint gifts Columbia Gorge third graders with dictionaries

By: Betty Osborne
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Donor: Sprint
Category: Education

COLUMBIA GORGE (OR/WA): Sprint`s employee volunteers began fundraising last year for our first Dictionary Project, and the results were so successful, we were able to give all public and private school third graders throughout the Columbia Gorge their own personal student dictionary -- well over 1200 books. Our volunteers delivered them directly to each classroom, played dictionary games and thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent with the children.

The gratitude expressed in writing by students, teachers and parents has been overwhelming. With many classrooms still sharing dictionaries, the books fill a definite need, and the kids are...

Donating a wealth of knowledge

Monday, October 17, 2005
Donor: Coos Bay-North Bend Rotary

At Blossom Gulch Elementary School, Kathy Rosencrantz, standing, president of the Coos Bay-North Bend Rotary, distributes new dictionaries to third-grade students in Tina Weekly`s class on Friday.

The dictionaries donated by the Rotary will go to every child in the third grade in Coos Bay`s public and private schools. Other Rotary clubs in the county also are participating in the educational outreach opportunity. World Photo by Madeline Stee


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Grange gives Gazetteer student dictionaries to third graders

Friday, February 04, 2005
Donor: C.P. Grange #698

Community GOP women support scholarships, contests

Friday, February 04, 2005
Donor: Benton County Republican Women

In addition to participating in the Dictionary Project, the Benton County Republican Women have announced college and high school scholarship and internship opportunities and essay contests. The Dictionary Project Essay Contest: Open to all private, public and home-schooled fourth-grade students receiving dictionaries through the Dictionary Project who reside in Benton County . The subject of the essay is, `What is the difference between a right and a privilege?` Entries must be pertinent to the theme and can be related to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Essays must be ...

Dictionary Project
A women`s group provides each M-F fifth grader with a dictionary. About one quarter of the students in one classroom said it was the first dictionary in their home
By: Kathy Korrengel Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Donor: Milton-Freewater Republican Women Group

Abraham, 10, likes the maps in the back of his new dictionary. Carisa, 10, has used it to memorize the names of all the planets. And Grant, 10, wants to learn the metric system.

Francisco, 11, is learning about pop culture, including how to spell his favorite type of music, `rap.` Next: maybe he`ll learn Braille and American Sign Language.

These Freewater Elementary fifth-grade students are finding they can use their very own new dictionaries to do more than look up words, although they use it for that, too.

The dictionaries came courtesy of the Mi...

Local Republican Women distribute dictionaries

By: Karen Bright Valley Herald
Friday, January 28, 2005
Donor: Milton-Freewater Republican Women

Fifth graders in the Milton-Freewater School District now have their own personal dictionary, thanks to a local organization and its community service project.

Milton-Freewater Republican Women gave 155 dictionaries to fifth graders at Ferndale and Freewater Elementary schools recently.

The distribution of the 524 page book is part of `The Dictionary Project`. A national program implemented in all 50 states by volunteer groups in an effort to provide dictionaries for students.

It is a comprehensive dictionary and also includes The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitu...

Kids get an old-time gift of information
Dictionaries popular for local elementary school students
By: Cindy Blankenship Rogue River Press
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Colista Moore

A dictionary may not be on the top of every child`s wish list, but plenty third graders were delighted to receive their very own Webster`s last Wednesday. The dictionaries were a gift from Colista Moore.



`My kids are really excited about this,` said Rogue River Elementary teacher Barbara Evans. `We use dictionaries in class everyday. They use them during reading, writing, history-just about everything,` she said adding that the young children were sometimes frustrated by the classroom`s slim pickings.



Moore purchased about 150 Webster`s Classic Reference Library Dictionaries and with the help of Joan ...

Colista Moore photos

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Colista Moore