By: Bill Judd press release
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Donor: Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge # 2797
Dave Clark, Trustee, Murrells Inlet Lodge # 2797, presented dictionaries for the summer reading program to Ms. Shelia Sullivan, Georgetown County Public Library System, Georgetown, SC. Four libraries, Andrews, Carvers Bay, Georgetown, and Pawleys Island Library, received dictionaries for the program. The Lodge supports `The Dictionary Project` with over 4,000 dictionaries presented to public school students, along with supporting AMI Georgetown Marine Institute, Howard Adult Learning Center, and Tara Hall Home for Boys.
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By: - e-mail
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Chapin Sunrise
The Rotary Club of Chapin Sunrise was one of the first groups to participate in The Dictionary Project outside of Charleston, SC. Bob Ballentine has been organizing their efforts to give dictionaries to the students in each of the schools where his wife, Marcia, taught. Since 2002, they have given almost 2,500 books to the children in three schools.
Here are some wonderful letters they received from this year`s third graders:
Dear Dictionary Project,
thank you for the dictionary. I was able to use it in PASS testing. I can look up to see what supercalifragilisticexpialidoc ious means. I really like the dictionary becau... Click to read full story ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Donor: The Dictionary Project
The Tri-County Regional Chamber of Commerce is offering a $500
scholarship to a graduating senior in each public and private school in
Dorchester County School District Four, Orangeburg County Consolidated
School District Three and Bowman Academy for the 2009-2010 school year,
according to Chamber Scholarship Committee Co-chairs Jackie Jenkins,
board president, and David Longshore, past president.
Applications are available and can be obtained from guidance counselors at each high
school or at the Tri-County Regional Chamber of Commerce`s offices in
Holly Hill and St. George.
Deadline for the scholarship<... Click to read full story ...
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By: John Sweeney SC Now; The Weekly Observer
Monday, February 15, 2010
Donor: Johnsonville Lions Club
Do you know what the longest word in the English language is? Third graders at Johnsonville and Hemingway Elementary Schools do, thanks to the members of the Johnsonville Lions Club.
For the last seven years or so, the local Lions Club has donated dictionaries to third graders at the elementary schools of the Twin Cities. It is part of an initiative known as The Dictionary Project, run by a group based out of Charleston, SC, which provides dictionaries to area clubs and groups to be given to local school kids.
Lions Peter Knoller and Randy Smiley delivered the books to both schools this year. The pair are normally the ones who u... Click to read full story ... | | Peter Knoller, left, addresses students at Johnsonville Elementary School last week while delivering free dictionaries to the kids. Randy Smiley, assistant superinten... |
By: - press release
Monday, January 25, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Clemson
Clemson area Rotary Club annually donates new dictionaries to Central and Clemson Elementary third grade students. This year retired Clemson Elementary School Principal Paul Prichard said, `This is a gift that keeps on giving because students can use these dictionaries all the way through high school.` Click to read full story ... |  | | back row: Dr. Paul Prichard. front row from left: Hannah, Austin, Cortlinn, and Caroline |
By: Jim Tatum The Gazette
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Goose Creek
Mary French got involved with The Dictionary Project 15 years ago, and her enthusiasm grows with the years.
French, who heads up the project in Charleston, spent a few minutes with the Goose Creek Rotary Club talking about The Dictionary Project`s efforts to put dictionaries in the hands of third graders everywhere.
`I am passionate about making sure everyone gets dictionaries,` French said.
According to the organization`s website, the idea for The Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. In her lifetime she raised enough mone... Click to read full story ... |  | | Mary French displays some of the books The Dictionary Project is committed to putting in the hands of third graders. French was guest speaker during the Dec. 15 meeti... |
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By: John Floyd e-mail communication
Friday, November 20, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Florence
The Rotary Club of Florence has designed a billboard promoting the Rotary`s dictionary projects. The Rotary Club of Florence provides dictionaries for Florence school districts 01,02, and 04. Click to read full story ... | |
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By: Rob Novit Aiken Standard
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Aiken, Aiken Sunrise Rotary and North Augusta Rotary Club
Perhaps it`s just a little ironic: East Aiken Elementary School third-graders received dictionaries from area Rotary Clubs Wednesday while sitting at workstations with laptop computers.
`You hear about computers replacing books,` Aiken Superintendent Dr. Beth Everitt said. `But they`re going to write their names in their books and take them home. Nothing replaces a book in their hands.`
Dictionaries are being distributed this week to more than 2,000 public and private school third-graders in Aiken County through the annual project of three clubs: Rotary Club of Aiken, Aiken Sunrise Rotary and the North Augusta Rotary Club.
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By: Rob Novit Aiken Standard
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Aiken, Aiken Sunrise Rotary Club and North Augusta Rotary Club
In an era in which the correct spelling and definition of a word is as close as a computer or a Web-enabled smartphone, a dictionary in book form might seem quaint and retro.
That won`t be true for about 2,266 Aiken County third-graders, who will receive their own dictionaries from members of three county Rotary Clubs within the next few days.
About two dozen members with the Rotary Club of Aiken, the Aiken Sunrise Rotary Club and the North Augusta Rotary Club labeled and boxed up the books Saturday for distribution.
`It`s a fun experience delivering them to the schools,` said Regena Martin, the Rotary Club of Aik... Click to read full story ... | |
By: Mrs. Martinez letter
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Dear Dictionary Project,
Thank you so much for the dictionaries! What an amazing gift!
Love,
Mrs. Martinez`s third grade
Orchard Park Elementary School
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By: Ken Sibal The Times
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Donor: Little River Elks Lodge # 2840
Hope Reed, Exalted Ruler, presented the dictionaries to the North Myrtle Beach Intermediate and Middle Schools.
The Elks Lodge participates in The Dictionary Project with headquarters in Charleston, S. C. The mission of this project is to distribute dictionaries to as many schools as possible in the United States and other parts of the world as a community service. The Little River Elks Lodge received a grant from the Elks National Foundation in Chicago, IL, to help students from local schools to love reading.
Principal Graham of NMB Intermediate School and Principal Horton of NMB Middle School expressed appreciation for the ... Click to read full story ... | | Members of the Little River Elks Lodge 2840 recently presented more than 240 student dictionaries to North Myrtle Beach Intermediate and Middle Schools. |
By: Kathy Brazinski e-mail communication
Monday, March 02, 2009
Donor: Pickens Rotary Club
A. R. Lewis Elementary School will use the project as a service learning project for children in our after school program. They will place labels in each book showing the donation from Pickens Rotary and a place for their name. The students will then pack the books for each of the 5 schools in the Pickens area receiving the books: A. R. Lewis, Ambler, Holly Springs, Hagood and Pickens Elem. These books will go to all third grade students to take home. Click to read full story ...
By: John Floyd Rotary Club of Florence
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Donor: Florence Rotary Club
The Florence Rotary Club has sponsored two billboards located a few miles from Dewey Carter Elementary School, where the billboard photo was taken, to let the community know that January is Rotary Dictionary Month in Florence. The Florence Rotary Club joins with the Florence Breakfast Rotary Club and the Florence West Rotary Club to provide 1400 dictionaries each year to students in their community. John Floyd of the Florence Rotary says, `This is one of our favorite projects.` Click to read full story ... |  | | Members of the Florence Rotary Club with students and teachers at Dewey Carter Elementary School in Florence. |
By: Katherine L. Bennett Charleston Mercury
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Read - v. 1. Reproduce mentally or vocally written or printed words 2. Convert or be able to convert (characters, symbols, etc.) into the intended words or meaning
You have picked up this paper and are translating the words on the page into individual letters, the letters as a group into words and then the words into meaning. Thus, you can read. You may have learned this skill with a parent reading bedtime stories, in a classroom with large letters marching along the walls or maybe later in life when you realized the importance of literacy. At some point, probably around the third grade, you went from `learning to read to readin... Click to read full story ...
By: Charlotte K. Berger The Cheraw Chronicle
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Donor: Cheraw Rotary Club
Every year the Cheraw Rotary Club provides a personalized dictionary to every third grade student within the Chesterfield County School District during the month of October as part of a nationwide project called The Dictionary Project.
`Getting a child to read often and to use a dictionary as early as possible will lay the foundation or the rest of his or her educational years ahead,` said Rotarian Catherine Thompson.
In conjunction with International Literacy Day, which was on Sept. 8, the Dictionary Project is only one of many projects sponsored by Cheraw Rotary, which is involved in numerous services to help individuals and ... Click to read full story ...
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By: - Georgetown County School District
Monday, October 20, 2008
Donor: Rotary Clubs of Georgetown, Georgetown Breakfast, Andrews, Murrells Inlet, and Pawleys Island
For the 10th consecutive year the five Rotary clubs of Georgetown County have joined forces to provide dictionaries to all third grade students in the Georgetown County School District. Rotary Clubs in Andrews, Georgetown, Georgetown Breakfast, Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island purchased more than 1,000 dictionaries this year. `I can`t think of a better investment Rotary can make than providing our young people with one of the tools they need to get a quality education,` Alan Walters said. Click to read full story ... | | Alan Walters, a member of the Georgetown club and Governor-elect of District 7770 which includes 78 Rotary clubs in Eastern South Carolina, presents Kassidy Green wit... |
By: - NAPS
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Communities with active service groups across the country are in a unique position to provide children like Stephen with a vital learning tool that`s easy to use and builds confidence and curiosity while developing their reading skills…all with the simple gift of a donated Webster`s Dictionary.
The Dictionary Project began when South Carolina mom Mary French set a goal to raise funds to donate a dictionary to every third-grade student in the state. She saw a dramatic need to provide assistance to children at the critical age when they make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn.
Students in the early schoo... Click to read full story ... |  | | Students use dictionaries to learn about words. |
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By: Clayton Stairs Georgetown Times
Friday, May 16, 2008
Donor: Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge #2797
The Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge #2797 is once again taking part in a project that offers a free dictionary to every freshman in each of the four public high schools in Georgetown County. Over 7.5 million children throughout the U.S. have received a dictionary thanks to the generosity of sponsors who have participated in the Dictionary Project. Sponsors provide dictionaries for the children in their communities each year so they can enjoy the benefits of a large vocabulary. In 2007, more than 2 million dictionaries were given to students as a gift from people who live in their towns. The Elks will begin handing out the dictionaries at high s... Click to read full story ... | | James McMahon, Exalted Ruler of Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge 2797, center, presents Dictionary Committee Chairmen Bill Judd, left, and Dave Clark a check for $1,713.60 t... |
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Dictionaries delivered to students, courtesy of nonprofit
By: Jennifer Colton, Index-Journal Staff Writer The Index-Journal
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Donor: The Dictionary Project
From `barn` to `zebra,` more than 500 Greenwood students read definitions from their own personal dictionaries Friday thanks to The Dictionary Project.
Based in Charleston, The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 that tries to provide a free dictionary to each third-grader in South Carolina every year. Friday, those reference materials came to Greenwood.
Anya Marsalek Leveille, of The Dictionary Project, visited third-grade classrooms at five District 50 elementary schools. The books will be delivered to the schools Leveille wasn`t able to visit, she said.
`It`s been great,` Leveille said ... Click to read full story ... | | Under the direction of Anya Marsalek Leveille, third-graders write their names in dictionaries donated by The Dictionary Project at Oakland Elementary School. staff ... |
By: - Georgetown Times
Monday, November 05, 2007
Donor: Georgetown Breakfast Rotary Club
Kids at Maryville Elementary School opened brand-new dictionaries recently, courtesy of members of the Georgetown Breakfast Rotary Club. The dictionaries will open vast new worlds of information to these students and thousands of other third-grade students around the country who receive dictionaries from their local Rotary Clubs. The students get to keep their dictionaries and write their own names in them. Click to read full story ... |  | | The boy at right said, `I always wanted my own dictionary.` That dream has come true now. |
Friday, November 02, 2007
Donor: Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge #2797
Members of the Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge 2797 are providing a comprehensive dictionary to each ninth-grade student in the Georgetown County School District, according to a statement released Thursday by the Georgetown County School District.
This year`s distribution of almost 1,000 books is the first in a four-year program that will provide dictionaries to all of the district`s high school freshmen each year. Click to read full story ...
By: - News and Press
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Darlington
On Monday, October 1 the Rotary Club of Darlington donated about 450 dictionaries to all third-grade students in the Darlington and Society Hill areas. For almost seven years, this has been a project of the Rotary Club`s that has benefited the Darlington County School District. Click to read full story ... |  | | Pictured are: (front row L-R) Syderikia, Austin, Tateyanna, Todd, Trey, Areonna, and Joseph; (back row L-R) Tony DiLeo, Darlington Downtown Development; Dr. Rainey Kn... |
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Kingstree
Third-graders at W. M. Anderson Primary School are proudly using new dictionaries they received from the Kiwanis Club of Kingstree. Club members visited Anderson Primary and Williamsburg Academy on March 9 and distributed nearly 170 dictionaries to all third-grade students at both schools. The dictionaries will be a personal learning tool the students can use now and for years to come. The Kiwanis Club obtained the dictionaries through The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization based in Charleston.
... Click to read full story ... |  | | These third-graders at W. M. Anderson Primary School are proudly displaying new dictionaries they received from the Kiwanis Club of Kingstree. photo by David Shivers... |
By: Heather Patchett
Friday, March 30, 2007
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Dear Friends,
Thank you for the recent gift to The Walker Foundation to benefit the students at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB). As you know, our mission is to provide these students from all over South Carolina with the highest quality education possible, while also helping them achieve their greatest level of independence.
On behalf of the Foundation`s Board of Trustees and everyone at SCSDB, please accept our appreciation for your in-kind gift of 24 dictionaries for the third graders. Again, thank you for your support of our efforts.
Sincerely,
Heather E. Patchett, Executive D... Click to read full story ...
By: Heather Patchett
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Spartanburg Downtown
Dear Friends,
It was so nice to meet you all! You are doing amazing work on behalf of our young people. Thank you! I am proud to help in some small way.
Our Rotary Club will be proud to deliver dictionaries to the children in Spartanburg District 7, and I appreciate your helping to make this possible.
Hopefully, I can help spread the word about what you are doing and help to get others involved.
Thank you,
Heather Click to read full story ...
By: Maggie Park
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Dictionary Project,
Thank you so much for the free dictionaries for our third grade students. Our deaf, blind and multi-handicapped students appreciate the gift, along with their teachers. Thank you for this generous service to help us provide quality materials to our students.
Sincerely,
Maggie Park, Principal, Multihandicapped School, SCSDB Click to read full story ...
By: Lauren N. Seay
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Donor: The Dictionary Project
On behalf of the third grade at our school, our third grade teachers and students would like to thank you for the wonderfully attractive dictionaries! The students were so excited to have their own dictionaries to use at home and school.
They were especially thrilled to see the multiplication tables, the maps, the weights/ measures charts, and lest I forget, the longest word in the English language! The dictionary really encourages what we as a third grade cover in our classrooms, plus it will be a help to the students in the future as well. We are already using them as we strive to use correct spelling in our creative and expos... Click to read full story ... |  | | These friends are already learning new words in their dictionaries. |
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Friday, March 09, 2007
Donor: The Dictionary Project
Dear Mrs. French,
Thank you for the wonderful dictionaries. We are amazed with the longest word in English language which was in the last page. We also like the sign language page. We are going to use our dictionaries when we look up guide words for our spelling homework. We can also use them in writer`s workshop. Thank you again for giving us our dictionaries that we`ll use forever!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Sheriff`s Class, Chesnee Elementary School Click to read full story ... | | The children in Mrs. Sheriff`s class all signed the letter they sent to The Dictionary Project. |
By: Ron Peeples
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Donor: Charleston Elks Lodge #242
I wanted to take a moment to let you know what a joy it was to visit the different schools. To meet the principals, teachers, and students, and see their enthusisam was refreshing. The students we met were thrilled to receive their new dictionaries.
We were asked by Principal Larry Dicenso at Orange Grove to meet with students in the classrooms. He took us around to classes and introduced us to the teachers and students. It was really exciting to see the children`s faces light up as we handed out the dictionaries.
We also visited Drayton Hall, where Principal John Cobb met with us, along with his third grade teachers. ... Click to read full story ... |  | | The Charleston Elks received many colorful thank you letters from the students at Orange Grove Elementary School. |
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By: Verneta P. Guess
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Orangeburg-Morning
The Rotary Club of Orangeburg-Morning has had much success in implementing this project, and students in the above-referenced schools have benefitted immensely. Each year, it is a pleasant experience to read their many letters of thanks for the dictionaries. Click to read full story ... | | Third grade students at Mellichamp Elementary School proudly display their new dictionaries. At rear right is Mike Dennis of the Rotary Club of Orangeburg-Morning. |
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Donor: The Dictionary Project, NP
Each year all third grade students in [Spartanburg County School] District One receive free dictionaries to keep as a gift from the Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project is a non-profit organization. The goal of the program is to assist all students to complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students with their own personal dictionaries. The dictionaries are gifts to the students to use at home and school for years to come.
This is the eighth year that the dictionaries have been distributed. The success of the Dictionary Project has been through the tireless efforts and gen... Click to read full story ...
Monday, January 01, 2007
Donor: Westminster Rotary Club
The Westminster Rotary Club presented dictionaries to all third grade student at Westminster Elementary School and Orchard Park Elementary School in November. This project is one of many that the Westminster Rotary club participates in to promote education and literacy in our area. If you would like to know more about Rotary please visit a meeting and learn what Rotary has to does in our community and throughout the world. Rotary`s motto is `Service above Self`. Westminster Rotary meets weekly on Tuesdays at noon at Eva`s Restaurant.
... Click to read full story ... |  | | Orchard Park Elementary third graders with their new dictionaries, gifts from the Westminster Rotary Club. |
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Donor: Camden and West Wateree Rotary Clubs
Rotary International of Kershaw County has made a commitment to help in the advancement of learning for each third grader in Kershaw County. The West Wateree Rotary Club serves each elementary school in the West Wateree attendance area, while the Camden Chapter serves the Camden and North Central Schools. Click to read full story ... | | Jonathan Pace (left) of the West Wateree Rotary Club visits Kara Ollick (right) and her third-grade class at Blaney Elementary School to present free dictionaries to ... |
By: Buddy Milligan
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Donor: Rotary Clubs of North Charleston
Dear Editor:
Each year at this time the Rotary Clubs of North Charleston distributes individual dictionaries to every third grader in the public schools of North Charleston. I had the opportunity this year to participate in that endeavor. My fellow Rotarian, Steve Blanton, and I were assigned to deliver dictionaries to the students of Goodwin Elementary on Dorchester Road on Wednesday, November 1 $ `.
Being our first time in participating in this project neither of us knew what to expect. One hears so much negativity about our public school system. Needless to say we were more than pleasantly surprised at what we encou... Click to read full story ...
By: Trisha Greathouse Okatie Rotary Club
Monday, November 27, 2006
Donor: Okatie Rotary Club
The Okatie Rotary Club participated in the Dictionary Project on Thursday, November 16th. We provided approx. 130 dictionaries to 3rd grade students at Okatie Elementary school in Okatie, SC. (Near Bluffton and Hilton Head) The program is fantastic! The kids were great and the teachers appreciated the donation. We provided each student with a dictionary that included a dedication label as well as a take home letter to parents. We had ten Rotarians donate their time and the presentation lasted about 20 minutes for each classroom including a small snack. We choose the Webster dictionary with the small encyclopedia enclosure and walked the... Click to read full story ... |  | |
By: Tommy Howard Georgetowm Times
Monday, November 27, 2006
Donor: Georgetown Breakfast Rotary Club
Back in the mid-1960s, Dr. Claude Henry Neuffer taught an English class at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Officially, the class was `English 452: Vocabulary and Semantics.` Everyone who knew anything about the course, however, called it `I Want A Word.`
Neuffer didn`t dream up that name. It was a carry-over from when Havilah Babcock developed and taught the course.
It was tough.
Every other day in the summer of 1968, students had to come up with 20 new words. Every other day.
They had to be listed and defined, and published samples of each word had to be provided to Neuffer.
When Babcock taught the course, he wou... Click to read full story ...
By: Tommy Howard Georgetowm Times
Monday, November 20, 2006
Donor: Georgetown Breakfast Rotary Club
Back in the mid-1960s, Dr. Claude Henry Neuffer taught an English class at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Officially, the class was `English 452: Vocabulary and Semantics.` Everyone who knew anything about the course, however, called it `I Want A Word.`
Neuffer didn`t dream up that name. It was a carry-over from when Havilah Babcock developed and taught the course.
It was tough.
Every other day in the summer of 1968, students had to come up with 20 new words. Every other day.
They had to be listed and defined, and published samples of each word had to be provided to Neuffer.
When Babcock taught the course, he wou... Click to read full story ...
Friday, November 17, 2006
Donor: Camden and West Wateree Rotary Clubs
The Camden Rotary Club and West Wateree Rotary Club recently distributed over 800 dictionaries to third graders in Kershaw County. Camden Rotary Club member John Carmichael encouraged students to use the dictionaries to help them `study hard and make good grades,` so they might one day receive a Rotary Club scholarship. Students in Cindy Lindsay`s STEP (Special Training and Education Program) class at Camden High School help each year by placing in the front of each dictionary a label that identifies the book as a Rotary Club gift and gives the student a place to write his name. The local Rotary Clubs have been distributing the dictionarie... Click to read full story ... |  | | Camden Elementary School third graders (from left) Djimon, Robert, Serena and Fernanda look up the word `school` using their new dictionaries. Chronicle-Independent ... |
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Darlington
The Rotary Club of Darlington kept up its annual tradition of dispensing dictionaries to local elementary school students by recently handing out about 440 of the new edition of `A Student`s Dictionary.` The dictionaries include copies of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, maps of the seven continents, biographies of the 43 presidents of the United States, and facts about the planets in the solar system. Click to read full story ... | | Pictured are: Tony DiLeo of Rotary (who gave out the dictionaries); Michelle, Garrett, and Frankie of Brockington Elementary School; Superindendent Dr. Rainey Knight;... |
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Local Rotary Clubs donate more than 900 dictionaries to Lexington County elementary schools
By: Lisa Michals TheState.com
Friday, September 22, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Cayce-West Columbia and West Metro Rotary Club
Oh, the joy of reading. Zipping along, the story just twisting and swerving down the most fascinating paths, and then: an abrupt halt because of a word that absolutely trips you up.
Sure, the right thing to do is to stop, find a dictionary and look up the meaning. But it would be so easy to just guess what the word means and keep zipping along.
In Tami Richardson`s third-grade class at B-C Grammar School No. 1, students call those trip-you-up words `gems.` Unlocking the gems` secrets got a whole lot easier for Richardson`s third-graders Thursday, when they received free dictionaries.
The Rotary Club of Cayce-West Colu... Click to read full story ... | | Austin, 8, spells his name in sign language Thursday, copying the diagrams in his new dictionary as Anna, 9, and Stephen, 8, look over their copies. The dictionaries,... |
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Donor: The Dictionary Project, NP
Maggie Tucker of The Dictionary Project visited third grade classes on March 2 to distribute free dictionaries to students. The goal of The Dictionary Project is to assist all students to complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing the students with their own personal dictionary Click to read full story ... | |
By: Angie Walker letter
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Donor: The Chicora Rotary Club of Myrtle Beach, SC
Chicora Rotary Members of Myrtle Beach had a wonderful day December 7, 2005 distributing dictionaries to every third grade at the local Loris Elementary School and Green Sea Floyds Elementary School . 216 Dictionaries were distributed in all to a very welcoming crowd of smiling third graders. Present to help with this wonderful project were Chicora Rotary President Jeff Mense, Rotarians Dr. Bill Greene, Ray Wells as well as Jenna Price wife of Rotarian Chris Price and Emily Mense daughter of Rotarian & Chicora Rotary President Jeff Mense.
Everyone present was warmed by the heartfelt and genuin... Click to read full story ...
Monday, October 03, 2005
Donor: Rotary
As Rotarian Karen Young helped box up dictionaries last Saturday, her 5-year-old son, Ryan, found one and started thumbing through it with enthusiasm.
Ryan, a kindergarten student at St. Mary Help of Christians School, can`t read the dictionary yet. But he will soon enough, and in three years, four Rotary Clubs in Aiken County will give Ryan his own dictionary to keep.
More than 20 Rotarians gathered at Screenprint Factory on Laurens Street to label and box 2,000 dictionaries, which will be distributed to every third-grader in the county`s public and private schools. The participating chapters are the Rot... Click to read full story ...
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Donor: Sunrise Rotary Club of South Carolina.
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Greensboro
Every Third Grader deserves a dictionary of his own
My fellow Kiwanians, consider these words spoken by a principal on the subject of the importance of literacy: `The number of jail cells that we need in the future is determined by the number of kids who aren`t reading at the end of the third grade.`
It`s a sobering thought and we, as Kiwanians, have a wonderful opportunity to contribute in a way that will offer our kids perhaps the first and most powerful reference tool that a child should own – a dictionary of his own.
The Kiwanis Club of Greensboro ... Click to read full story ... | | Club Member hands out dictionaries. |
By: Prentiss Findlay Of The Post and Courier Staff
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Dictionary Project
She`s gotten a lot of support from Rotary Clubs in the eastern half of the state. In the western part, she`s had to do more fund raising and rely more on grant writing.
Before handing out the dictionaries, she checks their quality. She`s learned that some offer little in the way of a challenge of kids. One batch of dictionaries she delivered lacked the words respect and courteous, which she wanted the kids to look up. That was an embarrassment.
`Children really want to look up challenging words. They`re not looking for simple things,` she said.
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Mary French will pass out 55,000 dictionaries to S.C. third-graders in the coming school year. |
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Marion Rotary Club
Dear Rotary Club Members:
The third grade students of Britton`s Neck Elementary School are very excited to have new dictionaries in their classroom. Thank you for these excellent tools. Your generosity will make a difference in the lives of our students.
Thank you again for your wonderful gift and for caring about education in Marion County.
Sincerely,
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Manning Rotary Club
Members of the Manning Rotary Club recently gave dictionaries to all third graders in Clarendon County. Members of the Manning club spend several days visiting all five public and private third grade classes in Clarendon District 1,2,3 and Laurence Manning Academy and Clarendon Hall. The Club has been doing this project for several years and ` It`s one of the most enjoyable experiences I`ve had,` Club President-elect William Johnson said. `It`s amazing how excited and grateful the children are after receiving their dictionary.` Click to read full story ... |  | | Pictured handing out Dictionaries are Rotarians Walt Schinowski, Hal Lowder and Paul Floyd. |
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By: JIM FAILE
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Darlington Rotary Club
JIM FAILE The Darlington Rotary Club recently presented about 500 dictionaries to third graders in Darlington area elementary schools. The children will use the dictionaries in the classroom throughout the school year. At the end of the year, they get to keep the dictionaries. Principals accepted the dictionaries on behalf of their students. Standing, from left, are Linda Graham of Pate Elementary, Jean Taylor of St. John`s Elementary, Sam Whack of Rosenwald/St. David`s Elementary, Wanda Odom of Cain Elementary and Tony DiLeo, who chairs the dictionary program for the Rotary Club. Kneeling at right is Superintendent of Education Dr. Rainey Kn... Click to read full story ... | |
PUPILS RECEIVE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE
By: MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT The Sun News, South Carolina
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Rotary members and Myrtle Beach High School Interact Club
Rotary members and Myrtle Beach High School Interact Club members passed out the paperback books in the elementary school cafeteria. Principal Danny Bates asked his pupils to look up a couple of words before sending them back to class. Soon every third-grader in Horry County will have his or her own dictionary thanks to Rotary Club donations and a statewide initiative called the Dictionary Project.
A nonprofit organization based in Charleston , the Dictionary Project enlists help from local businesses and civic groups to purchase and distribute the books, said director Mary French. Last year, the project gave every S.C.... Click to read full story ... |  | | One of 260 third-graders given a new dictionary, scans the B`2 for `biography` Tuesday at Myrtle Beach Elementary School. |
Spell, Students, Spell
By: Editorial, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Rotary Clubs
Here`s how it`s spelled: R-O-T-A-R-Y. The Rotary Clubs are handing out dictionaries to each third-grade student. For some it will be the students` first one; for others, perhaps they have used their parents` or big sister`s at home. But for some, this can be the beginning of something magnificent.
The dictionary is a pathway to understanding, a not-incidental side trip off the main path of reading to learn and to imagine. The dictionary is a pronouncing device and a spelling device and a definition device and a distinctive word device.
It teaches, however, only if you open the dictionary, only if you give yourself an opportu... Click to read full story ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Beaufort Fund and the Hampton Rotary Club
Click to read full story ... |  | | Rotarians Tim Loadholt and Cynthia Strozier hand Estill Elementary School third graders dictionaries as well as their teacher as part of a Dictionary Project sponsore... |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Bennettsville Club and Delta Kappa Gamma
Click to read full story ... |  | | Pat Scoles, President of the local Delta Kappa Gamma chapter, and Sam Sparkman, President of the Bennettsville Rotary Club, presented dictionaries to the students in ... |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Delta Kappa Gamma
Children in Mrs. Crowley`s third grade class at Bennettsville Elementary School lined up to receive their special gifts on Wednesday afternoon. They carried the gifts back to their desks and immediately tore into them. The unusual thing about these gifts is that they weren`t toys or even clothes; they were dictionaries. And throughout the rest of the week, every third grader in every school in Marlboro County will be getting one.
The local Delta Kappa Gamma chapter has joined forces with the Bennettsville Rotary Club and the Marlboro County School District for `The Dictionary Project,` which seeks to eradicate the problem of illiteracy... Click to read full story ...
By: Cathy Gilbert
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Donor: Manning Rotary and the Clarendon chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Delta Kappa Gamma member Sue Jordan assists a Manning Primary School third grader with a dictionary assignment as Rotarian Paul Floyd helps another child. The two organizations distributed over 500 dictionaries throughout the county - one to every third grader in every school. Noted American author Ernest Hemingway once said, `All my life, I`ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.`
Thanks to the efforts and generosity of the Manning Rotary and the Clarendon chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, every third grader in Clarendon has the chance to see, maybe for the first time, that wide world of... Click to read full story ... |  | | Delta Kappa Gamma member Sue Jordan assists a Manning Primary School third grader with a dictionary assignment as Rotarian Paul Floyd helps another child. The two org... |
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Donor: Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant
Last week the Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant presented every third-grade student in East Cooper schools with his or her own copy of `A Student`s Dictionary.` Rotarians presenting dictionaries at Jennie Moore Elementary (photo at left) were David Kent and Jerry Bulcher and teacher Nancy Townsend. The students pictured are Sarah, Javontae, Tyree, Nicki, and Brandon. At right above, Kent and Bulcher joined teacher Dorothy Steed and assistant principal Ann Bulcher to see that students Imani, Khayla, Samantha, and Khalil got their dictionaries in hand. Click to read full story ... |  | | Photos: Vickey Boyd, Staff |
The will to spread the word (or millions of `em!)
By: JOHN MONK Columnist
Sunday, January 05, 2003
Donor: The Dictionary Project
One of the nation`s biggest buyers of McGraw-Hill paperback dictionaries lives in a small one-story house in Mt. Pleasant in Charleston County,` Only Wal-Mart and Dollar Tree buy more,` says Mary French, 45, with a can-you-believe-it grin.
This year, the Dictionary Lady — as she is known — expects to buy 700,000 dictionaries — a far cry from seven years ago when she started distributing dictionaries to some 8,000 Charleston-area third-graders.
For several years, she raised money and bought dictionaries for most of South Carolina`s 50,000-plus third-graders. It wasn`t just her alone — she created networks of distributors, many of... Click to read full story ... |  | | Age: 45 Home: Mt. Pleasant; Occupation: Homemaker, head of a foundation that distributes dictionaries to children; Quote: `Everyone thought that giving third-graders ... |
By: Lorie D. Roberts `The State`
Monday, October 01, 2001
Donor: Spring Valley Rotary Club
I always knew it would be easier to ask somebody how to spell a word than to either get lucky and figure it out myself or research it. But I made the mistake of first trying that tactic on my parents. `How d`ya spell (fill in the blank), ` I`d call casually from the homework table. `Look it up in the dictionary,` they`d always reply.
Obviously, all these years later, the words still stick. The dictionary has truly become the kind of friend you grow to know and understand with more contact. For that reason the Spring Valley Rotary Club`s Dictionary Project is intriguing. The project means the Rotary Club gives every third-gra... Click to read full story ...
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Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Georgetown Rotary Club
The Georgetown Rotary Club donated dictionaries to local third-graders. Click to read full story ... | | The Georgetown County Rotary Dictionary Project was capped when local third-grade students received free dictionaries. The delivery of the free dictionaries marked th... |
Passing out knowledge
By: Shellie DuRant The Hampton County Guardian
Thursday, March 11, 1999
Donor: Rotary Club
Recently I had the opportunity, along with several Rotary Club members, to make the third graders in Hampton County smile. They weren`t smiling because we told them they could get out of school early, but they did appreciate what we had for them - dictionaries. The gift we brought could last a lifetime and help them throughout their academic careers.
Our first stop was Estill Elementary where there were several third grade classes awaiting our arrival. The students were anxious to find out what we brought for them.
As we began to distribute the brand new dictionaries, several children were overjoyed because they n... Click to read full story ...
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