Bowie and Nocona Rotary Clubs Partner with Atmos Energy for Dictionary Project

By: Randy West e-mail
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Donor: Atmos Energy, Bowie Rotary Club, Nocona Rotary Club

Atmos Energy, the Bowie Rotary, and Nocona Rotary Club joined together to furnish dictionaries to the 3rd and 4th grade students in Montague County.

For Atmos Energy and its employees this was a very rewarding project. As the picture indicates the students were very happy to receive a dictionary of their very own. Both Rotary Clubs look forward to continuing this project in the future. This was one of the best projects our club has ever participated in. 

West Bowie County Rotary Club's Dictionary Project

By: Skip Gombert e-mail communication
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Donor: West Bowie County Rotary Club

The West Bowie County Rotary Club again this year provided dictionaries to the ten elementary schools on the west end of Bowie County, Texas. Schools in New Boston, DeKalb, Maud, Redwater, Hooks, Simms, Leary, Red Lick, Hubbard, and Malta, Texas are supported by the project. Over 500 dictionaries were delivered by members of the club. This is the third year the club has provided dictionaries to area schools, with over 1400 dictionaries now in the hands of third graders.
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Former Texas Supreme Court Justice visits students in his hometown

By: - The Monitor
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Donor: Weslaco Rotary Club

Third graders at Justice Raul Gonzalez Elementary School in Weslaco received a special gift on October 30 when Raul Gonzalez Jr. returned to his hometown to visit a school named in his honor.

Justice Gonzalez assisted his brother, Weslaco Economic Development Director Hernan Gonzalez, to distribute dictionaries to every third grader at Gonzalez Elementary. Hernan, former president of the Weslaco Rotary Club and his brother Raul, a former member of the Brownsville Rotary Club, took part in the Weslaco Rotary dictionary program in which every third grader receives a new dictionary.

This year the Weslaco Rotary Club placed the R...

Kerrville Rotary donates dictionaries

By: - Hill Country Community Journal
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Kerrville

Third graders at Tally Elementary School show off their new dictionaries donated by the Rotary Club of Kerrville. Helping out at Tally were Club President Brian Bondy, Doug Whinnery, David Martin, Guy Overby and Sue Whinnery, shown in the rear. In all, the Club donated more than 500 dictionaries to third graders in KISD (Tally, Nimitz, Tom Daniels, and Starkey Elementary Schools), Center Point ISD and Hunt ISD, and to all the elementary students at the Hill Country Youth Ranch in Ingram.

Utopia, Junction, and Bulverde students receive dictionaries from generous donor

By: Mary Sherwood e-mail communication
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Donor: Mary Sherwood

Mary Sherwood of Kerrville visited several elementary schools recently to deliver dictionaries to their third graders.

Kingsville Noon Lions Dictionary Project

By: - Lions' Roar newsletter
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Donor: Kingsville Noon Lions Club

Kingsville Noon Lions Club presented dictionaries to each third grade student in the five Independent School Districts and three parochial schools in Kleberg and Kenedy Counties. Dictionaries were selected and purchased through dictionaryproject.com. At the web site you can locate all of the schools that have been provided or need dictionaries. The site lists a dismal 7.04607% of the state being covered by the project so far this school year.

Texas reports that more than 50% of the students who finish grade seven drop out before finishing high school. This project focuses on third graders because that is when they get involved in rea...

Rosenberg Rotary's parade float celebrates Dictionary Project

By: Ginger Johnson e-mail communication
Friday, September 25, 2009
Donor: Rosenberg Rotary Club

The Rosenberg Rotary Club`s parade float made a great showing in a parade today, with larger-than-life dictionaries and smiling Rotarians.

The Rosenberg Rotary has donated over 2,000 dictionaries to third-grade students in the Lamar and Needville school districts this year.

Kingsville Noon Lions Club spells d-o-n-a-t-i-o-n for kids
Club donates 500 dictionaries to area students
By: Georgia Wingate Thompson The Kingsville Journal
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Donor: Kingsville Noon Lions Club

Students in Elsa Gonzales` third grade class at Alice G. K. Kleberg Elementary School were surprised by a knock on the door Monday morning and a visit from their new superintendent, principal and several men wearing yellow vests with lions embroidered on them.

Members of the Kingsville Noon Lions Club, attired in their pin-laden club vests, came bearing gifts that will keep on giving to all of the students--dictionaries. Lions President Dave Christopher had told members one of his projects for the year was to give all third grade students in Kleberg County a dictionary of their own. It took Lion Anse Windham a few months of Internet ...

The Dictionary Project in Wichita Falls

By: Lindsey Rogers KAUZ.com
Friday, September 18, 2009
Donor: State Farm Insurance agent Mike Morris

Some Wichita Falls third graders are getting a gift they can use through out the rest of their education. It`s all part of a program called The Dictionary Project.

Nearly eleven million children have received a dictionary through this program. Now, dozens of Wichita Falls students can enjoy the benefits of a large vocabulary thanks to a local State Farm Insurance agent.

The goal of The Dictionary Project is to help students complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. Which is something Wichita Falls State Farm Insurance agent Mike Morris wants to be part of.

`If the kids understand ...

Giving the gift of words

By: Valerie Jones The Sun
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Donor: Northwest Forest Republican Women

K-Jin looked in the pages of the new book in his little hands and practiced sign language.

`I can spell `Nitsch,`` he said with a smile.

Last Tuesday, a handful of women delivered six crates of dictionaries to the third-graders at Nitsch Elementary.

Now, each third-grade student at Nitsch will have their very own dictionary, thanks to the philanthropic efforts of the Northwest Forest Republican Women, who implemented the dictionary program after President George W. Bush created the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002.

The organization donated 144 brand-new dictionaries to the students of Nitsch, enough for each ...

Northwest Forest Republican Women Make Donation to Nitsch Elementary School

By: - The Tomball-Spring Times
Friday, September 11, 2009
Donor: Northwest Forest Republican Women

Representatives of the Northwest Forest Republican Women visited Nitsch Elementary School in the Klein ISD on September 8 to make a donation of dictionaries for third grade students. Each child received a dictionary that is theirs to keep and use at home and at school.

Nitsch principal Ms. Carol James noted, `We really appreciate the Northwest Forest Republican Women for their generosity and willingness to help our students be more successful at school and at home.`

The presentation was made by organization president Ms. Sue Ann Lurcott assisted by members of the board of directors: Ms. Madeleine Forehand,...

NBRW Dictionary Program for 1,122 Third Graders…

By: Sami Devillier NBRW newsletter
Friday, February 27, 2009
Donor: New Braunfels Republican Women

New Braunfels Republican Women provided 1,122 dictionaries to New Braunfels Independent School District and Comal Independent School District third-grade students.

DaGin Stewart, Literacy chair, along with other NBRW members visited ten elementary schools the second week of December. As in past years, the students are delighted to receive their `very own` dictionaries that contain the Constitution; the Bill of Rights; the sign language alphabet; the planets; the longest word that contains 1,909 letters, and much more. That longest word makes their eyes dazzle in astonishment.

The students are waiting as if for Sant...

DAR brings dictionaries to Emory students

By: Eva Spurlin letter
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Donor: Elizabeth Denton English Chapter, NSDAR

We presented dictionaries to the fourth grade students at the Rains Intermediate School in Emory on November 7, 2008. There were 143 dictionaries presented there that day. Susan Few, our Registrar, and I were the representativees of the Elizabeth Denton English Chapter of NSDAR, of the Mineola Chapter. We take all the dictionaries to the school, and whatever is left over we leave there for the teachers to distribute to the students who are absent and then for the new students that keep coming all through the year, and hopefully all the students get a dictionary some time during the school year.

Thank you for letting us be part of The...

Fort Worth Como Elementary Third Graders Receive Dictionaries

By: - newsletter
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Donor: Fort Worth Republican Women

Representing Fort Worth Republican Women, Literacy Chairman, Ludie Heineman, and President, Sharon Dale, distributed approximately 75 dictionaries to all third grade students and their teachers at Como Elementary School on Friday, October 22. Working with the Dictionary Project, we have been providing dictionaries to students in the Fort Worth area for many years. Fort Worth Republican Women enthusiastically support the goal of the Dictionary Project, as we believe providing students with their own personal dictionaries will assist the students in creative thinking, active reading and improved communications skills. Through this projec...

Utopia and Junction students receive dictionaries

By: Mary Sherwood email communication
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Donor: Mary Sherwood

Mary Sherwood of Center Point, TX, provided dictionaries for students in Utopia and Junction and delivered them on November 4th and November 7th, 2008.
`Everyone had a great time,` she said. ...

Words of happiness
Rotary Club donates dictionaries to grateful Ponder third-graders
By: Britney Tabor Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, October 24, 2008
Donor: Denton South Rotary Club

Eighty-seven third-grade students were surprised with their own personal dictionaries Thursday in an assembly at Ponder Elementary School.
One by one, students from each third-grade class made their way to the stage in the school`s cafeteria to collect the book, which was donated by members of the Denton South Rotary Club. The donation was a community service project done by the organization to encourage literacy among children.

After children received the dictionaries, they returned to their seats with smiles on their faces. Prior to returning to class, many inspected the books and shared what they found with their peers and te...

Grayson County Republican Women donating dictionaries to county 3rd graders

By: Joan Ball Texoma Republican Star
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Donor: Grayson County Republican Women

Grayson County Republican Women have joined a national drive to provide county school children with their own dictionaries, according to Barbara Woodruff, GCRW president.

Susy Carter will be helping Woodruff coordinate the endeavor as well as encouraging donations of books to a school or public library.

The local group is joining Republican women across the state who already have donated more than 20,000 books in the dictionary drive since 2003.

Local Republican women will deliver more than 700 dictionaries to third-grade students in Collinsville, Gunter, Howe, Sadler Southmayd, Tioga, Van Alstyne, Whitesboro, Whitewr...

Weatherford Fourth-Graders Receive Dictionaries

By: Al Beynon email communication
Friday, September 26, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Weatherford, Texas

On September 9, 2008, the Rotary Club of Weatherford Texas distributed 624 dictionaries to all of the 4th grade students in the Weatherford Independent School District (WISD). This was the 3rd consecutive year our Club has done so. Included were Spanish-English dictionaries for English as a Second Language (ESL) children. Approximately 75 Club members participated in labeling the books and 28 members took the books to seven elementary schools and handed them out one-by-one to the kids. Every child sent a hand-written thank you note or card. Some of their comments: `Thanks you so much for the dictionaries. I appreciate them so much....

Second graders get new dictionaries from Kilgore Rotary Club

By: GREG COLLINS Kilgore News Herald
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Donor: Kilgore Rotary Club

Kilgore Rotary Club members took dictionaries to Chandler Elementary School Friday and distributed them to each second grade student and teacher on the campus.
David Castles chaired the Dictionary Project, which has now occurred for four or five years in a row. Other Rotarians who accompanied Castles were Sammy D. York, president of the Kilgore Rotary Club, and K Castles, Claud Wallace, Debbie Dudley, Jerry Camp and Greg Collins.

Rotarians handed out 300 dictionaries to students and teachers, along with a pen from Citizens Bank. Students used the pens to write their names in their dictionaries, and each teacher has planned a dic...

Allen Retired Educators Association distribute books at Boyd Elementary

By: Staff reports The Allen American Star
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Donor: Allen Retired Educators Association

For many years, the Texas Retired Teachers Association has directed a state-wide book project of giving books to students to take home. The Allen chapter (AREA) has always participated in this endeavor.

For many of these children, this is a new experience since they have never had a book of their own. For this year`s project, AREA selected Boyd Elementary. From September through January, the organization raised money. The major portion of the funds came from internal contributions. The group also held a fund raiser at Barnes & Noble Book Store in December by wrapping presents for contributions. More than $1,400 was raised to purch...

Allen Kiwanis Dictionary Project

By: Lee Howard
Saturday, June 07, 2008 15:11
Donor: Kiwanis Club of Allen

The Kiwanis Club of Allen has completed its 2008 Dictionary Project. Every third grade student in Allen ISD and nearby Lovejoy ISD was presented a Webster`s Dictionary to keep and take home, use at home and school, and take to the fourth grade. Over 1400 dictionaries were distributed this year.



The dictionaries are presented to the students with a brief lesson on how to use them. Students are asked to look up words and read the part of speech and the meanings. This exercise supports the third grade language arts curriculum and demonstrates the importance of using a dictionary into adulthood.
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Come Celebrate Learning With BAR-W!

By: Gloria Lamoureux Hill Country Times
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Donor: Bulverde Area Republican Women

The May Bulverde Area Republican Women (BAR-W) program will be a very special event celebrating learning. Join us for the annual student dictionary signing, the 2008 BAR-W scholarship presentations, an opportunity to meet our special guests and ice cream social. The program will feature our very special guests who are a teacher and 4th grade students from Specht Elementary School. Each will tell our members in their own special way what the Dictionary Project has meant to them through the dictionaries donated under Bar-W sponsorship. So mark your calendar now and plan on joining us at 7:00PM, Wednesday, May 21, at the GVTC Auditorium.
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Atherton Dictionary Project--It was all about the students

By: Shari Smith
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Donor: Great Southwest Rotary of Arlington

The presentation of the dictionaries for the third grade at Atherton Elementary was completed on Friday, May 2nd, in the cafeteria.  It was a most successful day for all involved.  The  students were bursting with energy.  The teachers and aides were exuding pride.  The principal was beaming from cheek to cheek.  We felt that we had just landed in the midst of the warmest and most enthusiastic setting that could be imagined.  Who would have thought that dictionaries could bring so much happiness to all who participated!

G.O.P. R.I.P.? No Way!” According to Speaker Dr. Timothy Roth

By: Joan Stachiw Hill Country Times
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 21:49
Donor: Bulverde Area Republican Women

At the sixth annual Bulverde Area Republican Women`s (BAR-W) Membership Reception held April 16 at the GVTC Auditorium, Dr. Timothy Roth, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance at University of Texas El Paso, laid to rest the myth that the G.O.P. is dead and about to be buried. No one would ever begin to think that a `math` professor would bring down the house, but that is exactly what Dr Roth did. Attendees are still talking about his riveting address on the presidential candidates and state of current election politics. We`re sure that his handprints will forever be embedded in the GVTC podium, so passionate, profound, and powe...

Republican Women enjoy second year of project

Monday, March 31, 2008
Donor: Republican Women of Caldwell County

Peggy Butler Duda of the Caldwell County Republican Women wrote, `I never expected in a thousand years the dictionaries to be received with such joy and enthusiasm from the students as well as the teachers. The children always ask, `Can you come back next year?` They want everyone to have a dictionary! The teachers tell me the children carry their dictionaries everywhere they go.

The Republican Women thank all of the donors whose generous contributions have made it possible for the Caldwell County Republican Women to provide each third-grade student in the County with his or her own dictionary:

WalMart of Lockhart
Carl ...

`Dictionary Project` gives students extra tools for education, future

By: Kathi Bliss, Post-Register Editor Post-Register
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Donor: Caldwell County Republican Women

Hundreds of Caldwell County third-graders received an extra tool toward a better education and a brighter future in December, thanks to the generosity of several supporters and donors and the dedication of a group of local women.

For the second time, the Caldwell County Republican Women spear-headed a book distribution in Caldwell County sponsored by a national organization, The Dictionary Project. The program, instituted in 1995, seeks to aid in education by providing a dictionary to every third-grade student in the nation. In the second year of the Caldwell County Dictionary Project, 474 students were given their very own dictio...

Dictionaries Presented

By: - The Luling Newsboy & Signal
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Donor: Caldwell County Republican Women

The Caldwell County Republican Women, represented by Peggy Duda, Esther Wilson and Annette Lacy, presented dictionaries to each third-grade student in the Luling school system December 20th. 

The goal of The Dictionary Project is to improve reading ability by encouraging the students to use dictionaries to better use the English language effectively.  This is the second year for the third-grade students to receive dictionaries from the CCRW.  Dictionaries were also presented to the third-grade students in the Lockhart and the Prairie Lea school systems.

Midland West Rotary distributes dictionaries at Travis

By: Ruth Campbell Midland Reporter-Telegram
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Donor: Midland West Rotary Club

When curiosity overwhelms third-grade students at Travis Elementary, they can flip open their dictionaries and look up what they want to know, courtesy of Midland West Rotary Club.







Seven members of the service organization on Wednesday distributed 94 of the reference books.


`It was so wonderful,` Assistant Principal Linda Silvas said. `The children`s eyes just brightened up. They were so excited about getting their own dictionary. It will open up a new form of communication for them.

Many of the youngsters don`t have books of their own at home.


`It`s very exciting...

Opening the door to words

By: - newspaper
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Donor: Hereford Rotary Club

The Hereford Roary Club is donating copies of Webster`s Dictionary to all third graders in the Hereford ISD, Walcott, St. Anthony`s and Nazarene schools as part of their `Dictionary Project.`  The project is to aid third-grade teachers in helping students become good writers, active readers and creative thinkers.  The purpose of the project is to allow the children to take their dictionaries with them to the fourth grade and use it throughout their school career.

Dictionary Project - October `07

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Donor: Mary Sherwood

Included are pictures from schools who received the dictionaries.

Captions included next to picture

Leon Valley Grange helps pupils with dictionaries

By: Marvin Schweppe
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Donor: Leon Valley Grange #1581

It was a pleasure for the Leon Valley Grange #1581 to participate in The Dictionary Project again this year. It is a great program that really helps the pupils. For the third year, we donated dictionaries to the Leon Valley Elementary School in Leon Valley. This year we gave the school 98 dictionaries. The photograph that I have enclosed was taken at the presentation. We are holding a poster that the pupils made and gave to us.

For the first time, we have also presented 150 dictionaries to the Wanke Elementary School. The school has told us that we will be able to participate in a program later in the year. Both of these schoo...

Republican Women and Rotary Club donate dictionaries in Humble

By: Nancy Fulton
Friday, September 07, 2007
Donor: Kingwood Area Republican Women and Humble Rotary Club

Third-grade students in five Title 1 schools in Humble I.S.D. will receive dictionaries.  The five schools are Park Lakes, Jack Fields, Lakeland, North Belt, and Humble Elementary.  720 dictionaries will be donated.

Both the Kingwood Area Republican Women and the Humble Rotary Club support and value education, good citizenship, and good government.

Caldwell County Republican Women receive expressions of thanks

Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Donor: Caldwell County Republican Women

Below are letters from children in Caldwell County, Texas.

Submitted by:
Peggy Duda
Dictionary Project Chairperson
Caldwell County Republican Women

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Dear Mrs. Duda,

Thank you for the dictionary. You are very kind and sweet too. I learned how to do my name in sign language. This is how it goes [child drew sign language hand symbols]. That`s how you do my name in sign language. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Jessica
Lockhart, Texas

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Dear Mrs. Duda,

I love the books. They ...

Dictionary Day is proclaimed as dictionaries are distributed to every third grader in Caldwell County
Caldwell County Republican Women sponsors The Dictionary Project, a national non-profit organization, in Caldwell County
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Donor: Caldwell County Republican Women

Caldwell County , TX , May 7, 2007: Judge H. T. Wright of Caldwell County , Texas , proclaimed May 7, 2007 as Dictionary Day. The proclamation kicked off the first annual distribution of A Student`s Dictionary from The Dictionary Project, a non-profit organization that provides dictionaries to students via local sponsorship. The Caldwell County Republican Women (CCRW) funded the purchase of the dictionaries and provided one to every third grade student in every Caldwell County elementary school.



The CCRW`s Dictionary Project committee visited all six of Caldwell Counties` elementary schools to pers...

Donations Promote a Strong Vocabulary

By: Jeanie Goodwin Press Release
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Donor: New Braunfels Republican Women

As part of our Caring for America , the New Braunfels Republican Women recently delivered 790 dictionaries to area third graders. NBRW participates in The Dictionary Project, a non-profit organization started in South Carolina . The goal of The Dictionary Project is to provide a personal dictionary to third grade students to aid them in becoming good writers, active readers and creative thinkers.



Local schools receiving dictionaries were Lone Star Elementary, Curtis Wubbena, Principal, Carl Schurz Elementary, Merry White, Principal, Memorial Elementary, Kathy Kenney , Principal and Frazier Elementar...

Allen Retired Educators Present Books

By: Dale Howard Press Release
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Donor: Allen Retired Educators Association

The Allen Retired Educators Association, AREA, recently, on March 16, presented 474 books to individual students in the lower grades at Rountree Elementary School in Allen. Twenty AREA members participated in this project. One teacher read a story to each Headstart, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade classroom, then presented a hardback book to each student.



Personal dictionaries, obtained through The Dictionary Project of Charleston, South Carolina, were given to each 3rd grader. The retired teachers did a dictionary exercise on homonyms, history and geographic terms in those classroo...

Mt. Pleasant Rotary donates books

By: Sara Neal
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Mt. Pleasant

The accompanying photos show Rotarians handing out dictionary/reference books to 3rd graders. This special project is part of our Literacy program that the Rotary club supports. Each year we furnish these books to EVERY third-grader in Titus County.  Last Thursday, we handed out over 500 books to students at E.C. Brice, Vivian Fowler, Annie Sims, Frances Corprew, Chapel Hill, Harts Bluff and Winfield campuses.

Well Done, Good and Faithful Servants!

By: Jan Roe, MDPC Outreach Ministry
Monday, February 26, 2007
Donor: Ormonde and Margaret Smith

It`s one thing to talk about the importance of helping our community. It`s another thing to roll up the sleeves and dive right in.



That is precisely what Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church has done in Spring Branch for many years. From building a park playground, a community garden and a school reading deck, to serving meals at a homeless women`s shelter, volunteering in food pantries and establishing and operating two leading social and community service non-profits, our church has been a dedicated leader in ministering to the whole community.



A major part of our ministries in Spring Branch is ...

Dictionary partner named Texas Association of Partners in Education Award winner

Monday, February 05, 2007
Donor: Ormonde Smith Jr.

Ormonde and Margaret Smith of Houston, Texas have been named recipients of the prestigious TAPE Gold Award in the category `Texas Senior Volunteer Award.` This award distinguishes them as leaders in developing innovative partnerships with schools. Recipients were recognized at the TAPE Partnership Awards Reception and Banquet at the Austin Convention Center on January 30.

Ormonde and Margaret received many congratulations, including the following from the Senior Pastor of Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church:

Dear Ormonde,

Let me congratulate you on receiving the Gold Award from the Texas Association of Partners in Ed...

Volunteers win state awards

By: Spring Branch Independent School District STARNews
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Donor: Ormonde and Margaret Smith

Spring Branch senior volunteers and several neighborhood churches have won top state education awards from the Texas Association of Partners in Education (TAPE). In all, SBISD partners earned six awards this year.



Named Top Senior Volunteers are Ormonde Smith, 91, and his wife Margaret, 87, who earned a Gold Award from the state association. The Smiths have worked tirelessly to distribute student dictionaries to all Spring Branch third graders through the Dictionary Project.



Ormonde`s volunteer involvement reaches back many years to the popular Help Us Grow (HUG) tutoring program at Housman ...

Texarkana International Rotary Club--2006 Literacy Project

By: Paige Worrell, Community Service Chair
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Donor: Texarkana International Rotary Club

We are pleased to announce the kick off of our inaugural Dictionary Project. Third grade is a very important year for students to learn about reading. We are helping our area students in this journey by providing all third grade students with a personal dictionary. We have over 1100 students in the four Texarkana area school districts and it is our hope that this will help teachers and parents support the children.



With tight school budgets, we know that new resources are always needed. We hope this project will provide an extra resource for the third grade teachers in our school districts. This year we have partne...

Literacy `#1` for San Antonio Airport Rotary Club

By: Ned Stocker
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Donor: Airport Rotary Club of San Antonio

January 24, 2007, Airport Rotary Club of San Antonio delivered 200 dictionaries to Ridgeway Elementary School of North East Independent School District . These 3rd grade children `lit up` and filled our hearts with gratitude as they grasped their new dictionaries to their chests.



Naturally, every student wanted `my name` on `my dictionary` . . so out came the magic markers! Little did these young eager minds know how important this District 5840 Rotary Project would be in their lives. Bob Jacobs, Airport Rotary`s Dictionary Project manager, just smiled and watched the excitement in each classro...

Daughters of the American Revolution project well-received

By: Lucille Gilbreath
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Donor: Elizabeth Denton English Chapter of NSDAR

Our Dictionary Project was very well received at the Quitman Elementary School in November 2006.

The children and teachers all wrote short notes of thanks to our local DAR chapter, Elizabeth Denton English Mineola, for these dictionaries, and everyone who saw them was very impressed with all the information they contained.

We thank you so much for helping with this worthy project.   

Pinnacle Women`s Club adopts project

By: Debbie Ellsworth
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Donor: Pinnacle Women`s Club

Our organization, the Pinnacle Women`s Club, is a group of women in a neighborhood on Cedar Creek Lake in Northeast Texas. We have been in existence for nine years and are strictly a non-profit organization, earning our money by fundraising. Our largest fundraisers each year are a huge garage sale in the fall and a golf tournament in the spring. We have been very successful with both of these fundraisers because we pour all of the money back into our community throughout the year.

We were very happy to participate in your dictionary project through the Rotary Club. The dictionaries were given to third grade students in the Malako...

2006 Student Dictionary Project

By: Skip Gombert
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Donor: West Bowie County Rotary Club

The West Bowie County Rotary Club`s new project for the year (2006) was the `Dictionary Project`. Club provided student dictionaries to all 3 rd grade students and their teachers in 8 schools on the west end of Bowie County , Texas . The size of 3 rd grade classes varied from as small as 7 to the largest at 93. A total of 408 dictionaries were distributed. Club members put the Rotary wheel emblem and 4-Way Test stickers on each dictionary. This project will become an annual event for the club and 2 more schools will be added in 2007.



The West Bowie County Rotary only has 17 members, but loves to co...

Using dictionaries, Davis touts school and commitment

By: Raymond Linex II Corsicana Daily Sun
Monday, November 20, 2006
Donor: Keith Davis

BLOOMING GROVE — When Keith Davis finished up his high school career at Class 2A Italy , Top 25 programs did not come calling the wiry 5-10 safety. When his days at Sam Houston State ended and despite a conference defensive MVP award, his name went uncalled on draft day.

Four years later, however, he starts for America `s Team in the NFL, and gives back to the area that served as his place to grow and develop.

`I always felt in my heart and knew in my heart that I`d make it,` said Davis , a two-sport star for the Gladiators who has turned into a solid 6-0, 205-pound fourth-year safety with the Cowboys.

T...

Mary Sherwood`s Thank You Letters from Students

Monday, October 23, 2006
Donor: Mary Sherwood, Dion Pickett, & Chris Preston

Dictionary Project

Sunday, October 22, 2006
Donor: Georgetown Area Republican Women

The Georgetown Area Republican Women`s `Caring for America` volunteers distributed approximately 170 dictionaries to third grade students at McCoy Elementary School on Friday, October 13.

A total of 500 dictionaries were distributed in the Georgetown, Florence, and Jarrell areas as part of The Dictionary Project.  The goal of the program is to assist students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students with their own personal dictionaries.

This is the fourth year the Georgetown Area Republican Women have participated in The Dictionary Project.

Fourth grade students receive dictionary donations from Weatherford Rotarians

By: Danie M. Huffman The Weatherford Democrat
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Donor: Weatherford Rotary Club

Ask any fourth grader how to spell `mackerel` and chances are they beat you to the punch in the correct spelling. The reason they know is because Weatherford ISD students had the word on their spelling test last week. They study words day in and day out, yet most of them are not sure what a mackerel actually is.



Those students have a better chance of knowing how to spell, punctuate and know such definitions now that the Weatherford Rotary Club members finished their latest endeavor, called the Dictionary Project.



Tuesday, Rotarians donated 550 dictionaries to Weatherford ISD students, along with 250 S...

Montgomery Elem. & Stewart Creek Elem.

Monday, July 17, 2006
Donor: NSRW

I need to correct the `title` in the first picture, I was not the ways & means chairman-- I am the Literacy chair. We delivered dictionaries to the 3rd grade students Montgomery Elem. & Stewart Creek Elem.

Ormonde Smith receives Mayor`s Volunteer Houston Award

Thursday, June 01, 2006
Donor: Ormonde Smiith

Westchase resident Ormonde Smith, 91, is a recipient of the Mayor`s Volunteer Houston Award in the education category.  Smith, who has been a volunteer with the Spring Branch school district for 15 years, implemented the Dictionary Program, which ensure that every third-grade pupil in the district can enjoy the benefits of a large vocabulary.  Smith assisted more than 1,400 Spring Branch school district third-graders.

The Gift of Books

Friday, March 24, 2006
Donor: Frederickburg Morning Rotary Club

The Fredericksburg Morning Rotary Club recently donated more than 200 dictionaries to Fredericksburg Elementary School for the fifth graders there. In the photo, Mike Drew, left, project chairman for the Morning Rotary Club who also participated in the FES Reading Rodeo, gives a copy of the dictionary to Santana Lozano. Also shown is fifth grader Rhianna Moellering.
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Donations Promote a Strong Vocabulary
Area Third Grader to receive dictionaries
Monday, December 19, 2005
Donor: New Braunfels Republican Women

As part of our Caring for America , the New Braunfels Republican Women recently delivered 792 dictionaries to area third graders. NBRW participates in The Dictionary Project, a non-profit organization started in South Carolina . The goal of The Dictionary Project is to provide a personal dictionary to third grade students to aid them in becoming good writers, active readers and creative thinkers . Local schools receiving dictionaries were Lone Star Elementary, Curtis Wubbena, Principal, 200 3 rd graders, Carl Schurz Elementary, Merry White, Principal, 60 3 rd graders, Memorial Elementary, Kathy Kenney, Principal, 315 3 r...

Third grade student get dictionaries from Rotary

By: Guiseppe Barranco The News, Port Arthur
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Donor: Port Arthur Rotary Club

In a special project conducted by a local Rotary Club, elementary students all over Port Arthur are receiving dictionaries.

`I know it is dictionaries, but the kids really do get excited about the books,` Shannon Harris, member of the Rotary Club of Port Arthur and director for the dictionary program, said.

Since the middle of November, members of the club have been traveling to third grade classrooms to deliver the books to children to help with their educations

`It is an honor. Every one of these kids has the potential to be the president of the United States and this program will help kids to achieve goals like tha...

Ellis County Republican Women donate over 2400 dictionaries to local students

By: Floy Poe letter
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Donor: Ellis County Republican Women

The Ellis County Republican Women completed their 3 rd annual Dictionary Distribution in September for the 2005-06 school year. The Club donates funds and receives contributions from private citizens and elected officials to provide dictionaries for every public and charter school third grader in the 10 school districts in Ellis County. This year we distributed over 2400 dictionaries

Our members and other community leaders love to see the excitement on the faces of the youngsters when they receive their dictionaries. We really enjoy the thank you letters that we get. One young person said, `Thank you again for understanding how...

Literacy Effort

Monday, October 17, 2005
Donor: Ellis County Republican Women

Ellis County Republican Women`s Club distributes to over 2400 local third-graders.

Rotary makes gift to library

Thursday, September 29, 2005
Donor: Kilgore Rotary Club

Kilgore Rotary Club presented new dictionaries to the second grade class at Sabine Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon. Gabrielle, 7, a student in Rhonda Kirk`s class checks out her new dictionary and signs her name. The dictionaries are for the students to keep. The Rotary Club also presented dictionaries to the students at Chandler`s second grade class. Gregg Collins and Gregg Murphy, both Rotarians, passed out the dictionaries and pens with the help of the Sabine second grade teachers.

Alamo Grange donates dictionaries to local third-graders.

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Alamo Grange #1446

The `Words for 3rds` project of dictionary distribution closes another chapter with the delivery of 192 dictionaries to Mr. Andres Del Bosque, Executive Director for Instructional Services of the Somerset Independent School District on July 5 , 2004 . The books were donated by the Alamo Grange #1446 in support of the nationally sponsored community outreach program. Somerset ISD is located in the small town of Somerset , about 8 miles south of San Antonio , Texas . This school district supports a large number of low income migrant families. Each teacher and 3 rd grader was supplied with their very own dicti...

Dictionary In Each Third Grade Hand

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Chambers County Republican Women`s Club

Every third-grade student in Chambers County received a dictionary to begin the spring semester, thanks to Chambers County Republican Women`s Club.

`The club distributed a total of four hundred thirty-three dictionaries to Anahuac, Barbers Hill and East Chambers school districts to very excited, thankful children,` said spokesperson Cheryl McDonald.

Members of the club voted to participate in and purchase dictionaries from The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization whose sole mission is to distribute dictionaries to as many third-graders as possible.

Mary French founded The Dictionary Project in 1995 in Charl...

Dictionaries donated to students

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: The Chambers County Republican Women`s Club

Every third-grade student in Chambers County received a dictionary to begin the spring semester.

The Chambers County Republican Women`s Club distributed 433 dictionaries to Anahuac, Barbers Hill and East Chambers County school districts.
Members of the club voted to participate in and purchase dictionaries from The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization whose sole mission is to distribute dictionaries to as many third-graders as possible.

Mary French founded The Dictionary Project in 1995 in Charleston, S.C., with the idea in mind that a child cannot do his or her best work without a dictionary.

By 1999, the ...

Students get gift of words from donors

Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Ormonde Smith and friends

Ormonde Smith and his friends gave a free dictionary to each fourth grader at Ridgecrest Elementary School last week.

It`s not the first time they`ve done it. Last year, they handed out dictionaries to third-graders at Houseman Elementary.

Eventually, Smith hopes to provide a free dictionary for every third grader in Spring Branch ISD.

The program was shifted to Ridgecrest fourth-graders this year because third-graders had been given dictionaries previously. However, the focus remains on third-graders.

Smith, 88, has been joined in the project by several other members of HUG (Helping Us Gro...

Couple buys dictionaries for all Bryan 3rd graders

By: CHRISTOPHER FERRELL Eagle Staff Writer
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Donor: Louise and Sam Sharp

Sam Sharp was so moved by an article he read in `The Wall Street Journal` a few months back that he couldn`t wait to get his own project started.

It told the story of Mary French, a South Carolina housewife whose foundation puts a dictionary in the hands of every third-grader in her state. Her project started small but has grown over the past six years and now supplies dictionaries to about 55,000 students in 580 elementary schools.

Sharp, who is retired, thought the idea was a good one and believed students in Bryan could benefit from it. So he went online and found the Web site for French`s nonprofit organiz...

Rotary Club hands out dictionaries to students

By: Jeanie Wiggins Port Arthur Staff Writer, Texas
Saturday, September 01, 2001
Donor: Rotary Club of Port Arthur

About 900 dictionaries were handed out to Port Arthur third graders this week by the Rotary Club of Port Arthur.` This is our first year to do it. It was done in South Carolina last year. We hope to continue it as a yearly project,` said Jeff Hayes, project coordinator of the Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization based in Charleston , SC , that enlists help from local businesses and civic groups to purchase and deliver dictionaries to third graders. Hayes, Cecil Balzerson, Pat Avery King and Tom Messina delivered dictionaries to DeQueen Elementary in Port Arthur . Hayes explained to the studen...

Canyon Lake Republican Women Photo

Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Canyon Lake Republican Women

About 900 dictionaries were handed out to Port Arthur third graders this week by the Rotary Club of Port Arthur.` This is our first year to do it. It was done in South Carolina last year. We hope to continue it as a yearly project,` said Jeff Hayes, project coordinator of the Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization based in Charleston , SC , that enlists help from local businesses and civic groups to purchase and deliver dictionaries to third graders. Hayes, Cecil Balzerson, Pat Avery King and Tom Messina delivered dictionaries to DeQueen Elementary in Port Arthur . Hayes explained to the studen...

West of the Pecos Republican Women Photos

Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: West of the Pecos Republican Women

About 900 dictionaries were handed out to Port Arthur third graders this week by the Rotary Club of Port Arthur.` This is our first year to do it. It was done in South Carolina last year. We hope to continue it as a yearly project,` said Jeff Hayes, project coordinator of the Dictionary Project. The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization based in Charleston , SC , that enlists help from local businesses and civic groups to purchase and deliver dictionaries to third graders. Hayes, Cecil Balzerson, Pat Avery King and Tom Messina delivered dictionaries to DeQueen Elementary in Port Arthur . Hayes explained to the studen...

Quanah First In Texas To Adopt Dictionary Project
South Carolina-Based Program Puts Words At The Fingertips Of Every Third Grader
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Donor: Quanah Historical Preservation and the Quanah Chamber of Commerce

South Carolina-Based Program Puts Words At The Fingertips Of Every Third Grader.



Third-graders at Reagan Elementary School will have thousands of words at their fingertips when they start school this fall. Quanah Historical Preservation and the Quanah Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to initiate the Dictionary Project in Quanah.

The South Carolina-based project aims to put dictionaries in the hands of every third-grader in the United States . Quanah is first town in Texas to adopt the project for all its third-graders. The Dictionary Project has the blessings of Quanah school trustees and Supt. Terr...