Reading 5k/10K set for July 3

Thursday, June 17, 2010
Donor: Kaysville Rotary

KAYSVILLE — `Run for Reading` is the theme of the Kaysville Rotary Club`s July 3. 5 and 10K run/walk.

It
will start at 7:30 a.m. at the Davis High School stadium, here. Awards
will be given in each division and a prize drawing held.

Proceeds
from the run will benefit `I Like Me` reading program for first
graders, and the Rotary Club`s dictionary project for third graders.

Register online at www.kaysvillerotary.com.

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Sugar House Rotary shares letter from grateful Salt Lake City teacher

By: Wally Brown e-mail
Monday, May 17, 2010
Donor: Rotary Club of Sugar House

Hello Dr. Brown,
I wanted to drop you a line to once again thank you and the Rotary for the dictionaries you presented to my students last fall. At this point in the year the kids have become quite proficient in using the dictionaries. They find ways to use them nearly every day in class. Much of the time the kids don`t even have to be told to `Take out your dictionary and look this up.` I was thrilled to see the class refer to their dictionaries with automaticity last week, and thought you might be interested in knowing the value this reference has been in my class this year.

Sincerely.
Carol Fackl...

Rotary Club donates dictionaries to third graders in Salt Lake City By: Natalie Dicou The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Donor: Rotary Club of Sugar House Nibley Park Elementary students now have the English language at their fingertips thanks to the Rotary Club of Sugar House. Each third-grader at the Salt Lake City school received a dictionary from club members last week. Rotary Clubs statewide have made it their mission to get dictionaries into the hands of every third-grader in Utah through The Dictionary Project, a nationwide effort. If you`re a third-grader, the Rotary Club hopes to find you, whether you`re a student at a public, private, charter or home school. Rotarians have even been known to hike into the Grand Canyon, loads of dictionaries on their backs, to delive... Click to read full story ...

Jacquelyn, 8, receives the first dictionary for Nibley Park Elementary third-graders from Rotary Club member Earl B. Jones as part of a service program to help with ...

Ogden Rotary Club receives award for dictionary project

By: Justin Fawson e-mail communication
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Ogden

To Jeremy Dunn, President, Rotary Club of Ogden

Jeremy,

I wanted to let you know that the Rotary Club of Ogden was nominated for this year`s Sue Westenskow award in this morning`s Partners in Education committee meeting at the Ogden/Weber Chamber of Commerce. This award recognizes people or organizations who make a significant contribution to the schools in Ogden and Weber School Districts. Rotary was nominated for our efforts in The Dictionary Project, and the committee voted unanimously to present the award to us this year. There will be an award ceremony/breakfast in April that we`d like you to attend. I would ask ...

		Sugar House Rotary Club provides dictionaries for Salt Lake City students By: Wally Brown e-mail communication Thursday, November 26, 2009 Donor: Sugar House Rotary Club The Sugar House Rotary Club will deliver dictionaries to 40 schools in the Salt Lake City area this fall. These pictures are from Nibley Park Elementary School in the Salt Lake City School District. Click to read full story ...

		Nephi Kiwanis Club Helping with Dictionary Project By: Heidi Kelso e-mail communication Wednesday, November 04, 2009 Donor: Nephi Kiwanis Club Dictionaries were distributed on Monday, November 2, 2009, by a Nephi Kiwanis Club member to third graders at Mona Elementary School in the Juab School District, Nephi, Utah.  Click to read full story ...

Rotary Club of Cedar City's Dictionary Project Completed
Rotarian reports on large successful dictionary project
By: Diana Graff e-mail communication
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Cedar City

The dictionary project is completed for Iron, Beaver, and Garfield counties, and one charter school, Gateway Preparatory Academy.

I am a real advocate for getting the dictionaries in the hands of the
third grades as soon as school starts. I guess this is the old third grade teacher coming out in me.

We gave 888 dictionaries to students and 39 to teachers, 1 to a custodian (who was using a 1966 dictionary), and left several in classrooms for new students.


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Vernal Rotary Club includes Grand Canyon school in their dictionary project

By: Russ Perry letter
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Donor: Vernal Rotary Club and Russ & Cindy Perry

The village of Supai is the home of the Havasupai Indian Tribe. They are a short, hearty people of Yuman descent related to the Hualapai, Yavapai and Mojave Indians. They migrated up the Colorado River from the Kingman area about 700 years ago and settled along Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon. There are about 500 residents living in the remote village of Supai, eight miles from the South Rim. It is a beautiful place with waterfalls and deep pools of blue green water. Havasupai means `People of the Blue Green Water.`

There are no roads to the village. It is an eight-mile hike or horseback ride down a steep and rocky trail to get to t...

Years And Miles Apart, Brothers Receive Rotary Dictionaries

By: C. Leon Ahlum email communication
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Spanish Fork

Emerson, a 3 rd grader at Slippery Rock Area Elementary School , in Slippery Rock, PA, was excited and happy to receive a dictionary in September, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Slippery Rock. When he got home that day he told his mother, `I got a dictionary just like Marshall did.` Marshall was a 3 rd grader in the public schools of Spanish Fork, Utah, when the Rotary Club there distributed dictionaries in his class. Marshall found his dictionary useful in his homework assignments, and, when the family moved to Slippery Rock a few years later, he made sure his dictionary made the trip, too. Emerson was familiar ...

Wally Brown of Rotary District 5420 travels many miles to make deliveries A progress report from Utah By: Dr. Wally Brown, District Literacy Chair e-mail communication Monday, November 24, 2008 Donor: Rotary District 5420 Last Tuesday Harold and I traveled 300 miles round trip to visit three rural schools in Delta and Fillmore. Great fun. On Wednesday, Ennis Gibbs from our club and I went to the Tintic school district. The most remote tiny school district in Utah. Three elementary schools. We visited Eureka, where my great-grandparents lived for a while after they immigrated from Germany in the 1880`s. Eighteen third graders, and two of them had books that we delivered to their siblings five years ago. One student was a tiny little blonde girl, almost blind. She had a Braille reading machine. Her classmates were so excited to see B... Click to read full story ...

Vernal Rotary delivers to 3rd graders in three counties

By: Donna Trotter email communication
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Donor: Vernal Rotary Club

The Vernal Rotary Club has completed the delivery of dictionaries to all the third graders in Uintah, Daggett, and Duchesne Counties in Utah as of October23.  We even delivered to the homeless shelter and the Ashley Education Center that assists the homeschooled students.  Thank you for providing such a wonderful means of helping our children.

Wally Brown is the Rotarian in charge of Utah`s Rotary dictionary project, and we hope to keep our state at the 100% level.

A Lovely Story from South Salt Lake Rotary

By: Sue Hall email communication
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Donor: South Salt Lake Rotary

The South Salt Lake Rotary Club delivered a total of over 300 dictionaries to 5 elementary schools this year. Sue Hall writes, `As we were leaving the class at St. Ann`s School one of the boys held up his book and said, `This is my BEST FRIEND!!` We LOVED that!! Good luck as you continue in this most worthwhile project. We REALLY enjoy being part of it each year!!`


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		Bright Ideas donating to support literacy By: Bright Ideas Graphic Design Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Donor: Rotary Club of St. George September is Rotary Literacy Month. We invite you to support literacy while receiving professional marketing and communication design services that will build value for you and your customer. We will donate 10% of all project revenues ordered by September 30, 2008 to the Rotary Club of St. George in support of the Rotary dictionary project. This project distributes dictionaries to all third grade students in Washington County. The goal of the dictionary project is to assist all students in completing the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students with their own personal dictionary. The dic... Click to read full story ...
A photo from the Rotary Club of St. George's dictionary distribution last year.

		July Jamboree Sees Successful 11th Year By: Ashley Langston Cedar City Review Thursday, July 17, 2008 13:19 Donor: Cedar City Rotary Club The July Jamboree, a yearly street fair and car show on Cedar City`s downtown Main Street, took place Saturday, July 12, drawing great cars and vendors and a large crowd. Wayne Clark, Jamboree chair, said there were almost 200 cars. The cars and vendors completely filled the street from 200 North to Center Street. The event started at about 4 p.m. and ended at almost 11 p.m. Clark said in that time, there were probably about 8,000 to 10,000 people who came through. He said he really appreciated all the vendors, car owners and the public who came and made the event successful. `I just think everything really makes it a great comm... Click to read full story ...
The July Jamboree attracted nearly 200 cars, which were lined up on Main Street from 200 North to Center Street.

Rotary Club Prepares for Golf Tournament Wednesday, May 07, 2008 20:59 Donor: Cedar City Rotary Club The Cedar City Rotary Club annual golf tournament will be at Cedar Ridge Golf Course on Wednesday, May 14. Lunch will be at noon with a shotgun start at 1 pm. Over $120,000 has been raised from the golf tournament and has gone toward enhancing the mission of Rotary in Cedar City. The Cedar City Rotary Club is a community organization of business and professional persons united with Rotarians worldwide who provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Among the organizations the Rotary Club supports in Cedar City are the Rotary Centennial Veterans P... Click to read full story ...

South Salt Lake Rotary Club sees impact of dictionaries

By: Sue Hall, Rotary Club President
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of South Salt Lake

We have been involved in the Dictionary Project for a few years now, and our club members have really enjoyed presenting the books to students as well as their interaction with them. Most enjoyable for us has been the excitement we see in the eyes of a child as they hold their very own book and a whole new world of words opens up for them. One student this year turned immediately to the maps to find Nigeria, the country his family came from. He was born in the USA so never really knew where it was--it was just a name out there that he wondered about. When he found the country, he was so excited!

At Woodrow Wilson Elementary the s...

		Rotary Club Touches Lives By: - South Salt Lake Journal Saturday, March 01, 2008 Donor: South Salt Lake Rotary Club Want to make a group of third graders happy? Give them their very own dictionaries. The South Salt Lake Rotary Club recently presented 77 third graders at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School with their very own personal dictionaries. Each year the South Salt Lake Rotary Club presents third graders in every elementary school in South Salt Lake with this special gift. The students` reaction is nothing short of opening a present on Christmas morning. These dictionaries are used continuously throughout the rest of the school year and possibly for the rest of their school years. The books are a valuable resource for these youngst... Click to read full story ...
Students display dictionaries donated by South Salt Lake Rotary Club.

Jordan schoolchildren get new dictionaries

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Donor: West Jordan Rotary Club

SOUTH JORDAN — Every third-grader at Welby Elementary now has a dictionary, thanks to a partnership involving the Utah Central Credit Union and West Jordan Rotary Club.
The groups distributed 162 dictionaries to the students. The dictionary project is part of a nationwide literacy campaign by Rotary International. The credit union provided the funds to purchase the books.
Utah Central Credit Union is one of about 10 companies and professional organizations in West Jordan assisting with the dictionary project, according to Sharon Richardson, coordinator of the project at the West Jordan Rotary Club. Twenty elementary schools in the J...

One good turn deserves another Wally Brown By: Judy Magid The Salt Lake Tribune Monday, April 16, 2007 Donor: Rotary Club of Sugar House Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Pulitzers: All give recognition for outstanding achievements, and sometimes make people famous. But often those we most admire are people making their marks in less grandiose ways every day. This occasional series is about people close to home who change lives through daily interaction. Some are well-known, others less so. Each is unique; all are people we admire. If you know someone we should include, contact Judy Magid at magid@sltrib.com or 801-257-8608. Mention `root canal` at a dinner party and conversation grinds to a halt. Endodontist Wally Brown never has understood this phenomenon. `A root ... Click to read full story ...

Wally Brown donates dictionaries and wheelchairs to people in need, and has done volunteer dentistry abroad with humanitarian missions. photo by Ryan Galbraith for Th...

		Blanding Rotary donations prompt thank you letters Friday, December 01, 2006 Donor: Blanding Rotary Club The Blanding Rotary Club was chartered earlier this year, but it has already been busy with many projects around the city and the county. According to Rotary President Phil Lyman, the Rotary Club`s goal is to make a positive impact on the community and perform service where possible. Last summer the Rotary served breakfast on Memorial Day and on the 4th of July to help raise funds for some of their projects. Rotary members wish to thank all who supported these activities because the money raised helped to purchase dictionaries for 294 third grade students in Blanding, Bluff, Mexican Hat, Aneth, Montezuma Creek and Navajo Mountai... Click to read full story ...
Note of thanks for Dictionary donation: This thank you note came from a San Juan County 3rd grader. It was one of many sent to the Blanding Rotary Club.

		Peterson Elementary Picture Thursday, November 09, 2006 Donor: East Carbon Rotary Club Click to read full story ...
Third grader Marriah Darty and her classmates each recieve a dictionary from Sam Leonard and JOm Robertson, both representing the East Carbon Rotary Club

Rotary Club Gives Third Graders More Than A Few Choice Words By: Denise Wahlquist Cedar City Review Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Donor: Cedar City Rotary Club Over the past couple weeks the Cedar City Rotary Club has been giving third grade students every word in the English language. In fact, club members haven`t just given them to Iron County students, they are giving them to Beaver and Garfield County students as well. They`ve been giving these young people dictionaries. Last year almost a million and a half dictionaries were given away to kids across the nation. The Rotary Club and other organizations distributed the books and continue to keep this tradition because of the benefits they see with the students. Diana Graff, chairman of this project for the Rotary Club, has been doin... Click to read full story ...

Students in Miss Ball`s third grade class at Three Peaks Elementary show off the dictionaries given to them by the Rotary Club.

Donating words
Logan Rotarians give 3rd-graders new dictionaries
By: Emilie H. Wheeler
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Donor: Logan Rotarians

By the end of next week nearly every third-grader in Cache and Rich counties will have another book to add to their collections — as little as it might be.

As it has for several years, the Logan Rotary Club is spending this time of the year delivering children`s dictionaries to every third-grade class in the area.

And for Danielle, that means learning new words.

`I`m excited about learning about new words that I haven`t even heard before,` said the River Heights third-grader in Sara Coleman`s class.

Danielle, along with several other kids at River Heights who received dictionaries Tuesday m...

A letter from Red Cliff`s Elementary School in Nephi, Utah

Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Donor: West Jordan Rotary Club

A letter from Red Cliff`s Elementary School in Nephi, Utah.

Dear Rotary Club Members
and Mr. Wallace Brown
and Mrs. Pat Brown

The dictionaries that you
brought our third grade class are just stupendous (page 313 wonderful
and amazing). We feel voracious (page 352 exceedingly eager) to use
them frequently. Our spelling can be scrupulous (page 286 exact and
precise) now. We used to have a queue (page 260 a line of people
waiting) to ask our teacher how to spell words, but now, thanks to all
of you, we have our own precious (page 248 much loved) Dictionary.
W...

		Alex Brotherson - Robert Frost Elementary School in Taylorsville, Utah Wednesday, July 05, 2006 Donor: Sugar House Rotary Mary, Just a couple of items of interest. This photo is a third grade student in Taylorsville, Utah. He is congenitally missing his arms but obviously thrilled with his Dictionary. I am sorry about the quality of the photo, but it is a cropped, enlarged photo of a bigger group. I should have been more alert and got a better photo. Dr. Wally Brown District Literacy Chair PDG Rotary D5420, 2003-04 (H) 801 277 6230 (C) 801 718 8341 `How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.` Anne Frank ... Click to read full story ...

Rotary Club Gives Educational Gift to Students By: Mindy Hatfield Thursday, October 20, 2005 Donor: Hurricane Valley Rotary club For the past three years, the Hurricane Valley Rotary club has been spied in the elementary schools around the area, handing out dictionaries to the third-grade students. Once again, Rotary club members gave dictionaries to the third-grade students of La Verkin, Hurricane, Three Falls and Springdale elementary schools on Oct. 6, 7 and 10. Many students were excited to receive their own copy of the dictionary. After she helped in distributing the dictionaries, project spokeswoman Rita Bice noticed several students looking at the longest word, which is several lines long, in the back of the dictionary. ... Click to read full story ...

Third-grade students of LaVerkin Elementary hold up their dictionaries.

Richfield promotes the magic of reading

By: Brent Thorne email communication
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Donor: Richfield Rotary Club

Next week, February 19, 2004, several Rotarians will present 350 dictionaries to 3rd grade students at Monroe Elementary, Salina Elementary, Koosharem Elementary and 4th graders at Pahvant Elementary Schools. Earlier this year an alumnus presented dictionaries to the third graders at Ashman Elementary so in Richfield this year we are presenting them to the 4th grade. The 350 dictionaries have been personalized with the student`s name in each, along with the 4-way test. The school principals and teachers are excited to receive them. We anticipate making this an annual project.



As a side note, last week my ol...

St George Rotary Club donates dictionaries to school By: Hillary Gubler Thursday, April 15, 2004 Donor: Rotary Club of St. George ST. GEORGE -- Members of the Rotary Club of St. George handed out 101 student dictionaries to East Elementary School third-graders Wednesday. `One girl asked me three times, `I get to take this home?`` said Rotarian George Whitehead. `Another said, `I`m going to take this home tonight.`` Whitehead, who volunteered with fellow Rotarian Janet O`Riley to distribute dictionaries at East Elementary, said he enjoyed seeing the joy on the kids` faces when he told them they got to keep their own book. The Rotary Clubs of St. George and Hurricane are saturating county elementary third-grade classrooms with app... Click to read full story ...

Third-grader Brenda, left, watches as St. George Rotary Club Rotarian Janet O`Riley gives Lacy, right, a new student dictionary.

Orem Rotary Club donates dictionaries to school

By: Christi C. Babbitt THE DAILY HERALD, page C4
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Donor: The Orem Rotary Club

Sharon Elementary School third-grader Tanner said he`s found words he`s not familiar with in the book he`s reading, but new dictionaries given to him and his classmates will help him learn the meanings.

`I know I can probably look them up in the dictionary,` Tanner said.

The Orem Rotary Club presented third-graders at Sharon Elementary School in Orem with their own dictionaries Wednesday morning. The club also gave dictionaries to the third-graders at Orem`s Geneva Elementary School on Wednesday and plans to make the same presentation to third-graders at Orem`s Windsor Elementary School on March 3.

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Letter To Central Middle School, Ogden, Utah

Friday, October 24, 2003
Donor: Peter Budge Johnston

Nearly sixty years ago my father, Peter Budge Johnston, finished growing up in Ogden , and we would like to donate these dictionaries in his memory. We are really just following the example set by Mary French (www.dictionaryproject.org), who started this project with the goal of getting a dictionary to every school child in South Carolina . We have since learned that the Ogden Rotary club is working with her organization in getting a dictionary to every third-grader in the Ogden area. We would like these dictionaries to go to the sixth-graders at your school. The dictionaries will arrive in about three weeks. Please call us . . . ...

		Sugar House Rotary Club Photos Saturday, January 01, 2000 Donor: Sugar House Rotary Club Nearly sixty years ago my father, Peter Budge Johnston, finished growing up in Ogden , and we would like to donate these dictionaries in his memory. We are really just following the example set by Mary French (www.dictionaryproject.org), who started this project with the goal of getting a dictionary to every school child in South Carolina . We have since learned that the Ogden Rotary club is working with her organization in getting a dictionary to every third-grader in the Ogden area. We would like these dictionaries to go to the sixth-graders at your school. The dictionaries will arrive in about three weeks. Please call us . . . ... Click to read full story ...
Students holding up their new dictionaries with teachers looking on

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