Gassetts Grange # 327 continues dictionary project

By: Bonnie Sanderson letter
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Donor: Gassetts Grange # 327

Gassetts Grange # 327 of Chester, VT, delivers dictionaries to 8 different schools each year. We enjoy giving as much as or more than the children do receiving. We love to watch them looking through them. Almost all our children are in awe of the longest word in the English language.

Thank you from us and our children.

Fraternally,

Bonnie Sanderson, Secretary

Lakeview Grange shares thank-you notes

By: Hiram Allen letter
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Donor: Lakeview Grange # 359

Lakeview Grange # 359 is part of the Vermont Dictionary Project. The Grange is enjoying their dictionary project and hope to expand it.

A third thank-you letter, written in pencil that was too light for the scanner, says,

`Dear Lakeview Grange,

Thank you for my dictionary. I love it! It is awesome. I enjoyed looking at the dictionary. I like to learn new words. Have a great day.

From, Ian`

(to read other thank-you notes, click, `View Photo`)

Cambridge Students Receive Books from Rotary

By: Anita Lotto e-mail communication
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Donor: Rotary Club of Cambridge Area

The Rotary Club of Cambridge Area has provided dictionaries and thesauruses to students in the Cambridge, Fletcher, and Waterville school districts.

Bridport Grange Distributing Dictionaries to Area Schools

By: Deborah Ploof email communication
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Donor: Bridport Grange

The annual distribution of dictionaries has begun. Bridport Grange Master Deborah Ploof visited Bridport Central School`s third grade class on October 22nd and distributed a new dictionary to every third grader. Mary Hogan Elementary School third graders received theirs on November 11th. Other area schools are scheduled to receive theirs later this month.

Bridport Grange has been distributing dictionaries for 6 years to all the elementary schools in the ACSU district. Over 1200 dictionaries have been distributed thus far.

The `Word for Thirds` project is designed to aid third grade teachers in their goal...

Rotary Club donates dictionaries to students at Newbury

By: Ian Clark email communication
Monday, November 03, 2008
Donor: Rotary Club of Woodsville, NH & Wells River, VT

The Woodsville, NH - Wells River, VT Rotary Club donated 18 dictionaries to students at the Newbury Elementary School, Newbury, VT on October 9, 2008.

TelecomPioneers enrich lives of Vermont`s children

By: Kay Hopkins, treasurer e-mail
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Donor: Vermont Life Member Club of the Jasper N. Keller Chapter #33 of the Verizon TelecomPioneers

The Vermont Life Member Club of the Jasper N. Keller Chapter #33 of the Verizon TelecomPioneers was given a $3000.00 Grant for Education. We chose the Dictionary Project for our schools here in Vermont . We ordered 540 Dictionaries and 250 Pictionaries.

I am fortunate to have a friend in North Danville , Vt. who is associated with the Reading Recovery Program in Vermont. Her 2 associates, along with many pioneer members and their partners, were able to distribute the books all over the state.

We have received many thanks from students and teachers. This has been a ...

Poultney Valley Grange participates in project

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Donor: Poultney Valley Grange/Vermont Dictionary Project

The Poultney Valley Grange participates in the Vermont Dictionary Project and gives books to the students at Poultney and Wells schools.

The Poultney students sent letters of thanks to the Grange, including these:

Dear Grange Members,
Thank you for the dictionary. I really enjoy it. I really like it and I alredy used it. It makes me feel like I am special. I use it like a book. It is fun to look at it. I learn a lot from it.
Sincerely, Carrie

Dear Grange Members,
Thank you so much for the new dictionary. I love it because when ever I get stuck on a word all I have to do is look in it. I also...

Third graders receive dictionaries from Grange members

Saturday, May 05, 2007
Donor: Ferrisburgh Grange

For the fourth consecutive year, Ferrisburgh Central School third grade students are the recipients of new dictionaries of their very own, thanks to Ferrisburgh Grange members and its participation in the Words for Thirds program. At a ceremony earlier this week, Ferrisburgh Grange members Isabel Munnett and Weston Spooner came to school and presented 29 dictionaries to assist third grade students to complete their school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing them with their own personal dictionary! FCS learners spent the rest of the afternoon using their new resource. The Grange movement believes in lov...

VFW Ladies Auxiliary excites and empowers students

By: Sheila Spaulding
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Donor: Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary #758, St. Albans

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary #758, St. Albans, VT distributed 168 Dictionaries on March 22, 2007 in Franklin County Vermont. 5 Auxiliary Life Members visited 4 schools. We did a 15 minute presentation. The students were so excited to get these books and the teachers were so appreciative.

The schools were Franklin Elementary, Bakersfield Elementary, Sheldon Elementary, and Highgate Elementary.

We hope our little part helps. ...

Pownal kids get the gift of words

By: Mike Gleason Bennington Banner
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Donor: Pownal Historical Society

Pownal Elementary students will now be well-armed in any war of words.
The Pownal Historical Society handed out dictionaries for every student in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades as part of a national program called `The Dictionary Project.` These dictionaries will become the personal property of each student.
Focus on 3rd grade
`The dictionaries are subsidized by the project--we paid a nominal fee,` said Joyce Held, a member of the historical society. Held handed out the dictionaries along with Principal Joan Paustian and her husband, historical society president Ken Held. `The program is primarily for third-graders, ...

Elks USA and the Dictionary Project

By: David R. Carr
Friday, September 29, 2006
Donor: Elks USA

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is a proud sponsor of youth programs throughout the United States. Of everything that the Elks do, perhaps nothing is more important than our work with the country`s youth. The efforts of the Elks on behalf of the young... in Scouting and scholarships, sponsoring athletic and artistic endeavors, youth camps and drug awareness programs... sow the seeds of accomplishment and commitment that benefit the nation. The work and generosity of the Elks help today`s youth become tomorrow`s scientists, industrialists, teachers, artists, athletes, doctors, judges, lawyers, and much more.

Lodges pa...

Words for Thirds

By: Dorothy M. Ling
Monday, March 27, 2006
Donor: Lake Caspian Grange

GREENSBORO - This is the fourth year Caspian Lake Grange has shared in a Grange Dictionary Project by taking dictionaries to Lakeview Union School . Thursday morning, Julia Shipley, a new Grange member from Craftsbury, and Dorothy Ling took 12 dictionar­ ies to Lakeview, Union School third graders.

The children learned the Grange was organized after the Civil War to help farmers and became a rural legislative and service group. Using the new dictionaries the children learned why it is called the Grange by finding the old and new meaning of the word.
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Powerful words: Waterbury father on mission to deliver dictionaries to Vermont third-graders

By: Sally Pollak Burlington Free Press
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Donor: The Vermont Dictionary Project

EAST MONTPELIER -- When he got his new dictionary, second-grader Steven flipped through its pages, looking for the word `community.`

In Steven`s dictionary, `A Student`s Dictionary,` community is defined as: `a town, city, suburb, or other place where people live and work, a society.`

Steven belongs to the community of children who go to East Montpelier Elementary School , about 225 kids. Within that community, he belongs to a smaller group -- the 60 or so second- and third-grade students who last week were given dictionaries by Thomas Stevens of the Vermont Dictionary Project. Stevens, a kind of one-man nonprofit...

The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus

Saturday, January 01, 2005
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