Rotary Clubs team up to serve local schools

Volunteers from three Rotary Clubs in north central Illinois worked together to give dictionaries to children at eleven local schools on November 10.

Thank you, Victory Grange!

Victory Grange # 538 presented dictionaries to third graders at Orland Consolidated School and Dedham School. Following are some of the letters they received from the Orland students.

Ogdensburg Elks Lodge makes big impact

Dear Mary,
Our Ogdensburg Elks Lodge # 772 really enjoy being part of your wonderful program. I’m sure that we will be getting more dictionaries to pass out again for 2011.

The great dictionary giveaway

Pemi Valley Pomona Grange #18 in conjunction with the North Haverhill Girls Club recently presented dictionaries to the third grade students of teachers Rose Bailey, Debbie Brown and Nancy Leete at

Metroplex Republican Women

Metroplex Republican Women has been a Dictionary Project sponsor since 2007.

 

2010 was a big year for the North Little Rock Women’s Club

Dear Mary,

Rotary president promotes reading

When Jerry Coutant visits elementary or middle schools, he says he feels like he is standing among the people who will be the leaders of tomorrow.

Third graders delight with dictionaries

Elks Lodge member hands out dictionaries

Third graders at Glennon Heights Elementary School now know that the longest word in the dictionary has 1,900 letters.

Janesville dictionary project continues

Many senior citizens have participated in a Reminiscence Writing Class from Ruby Walton at the Janesville, Wisconsin, Senior Center.

Senior Citizens share their memories and make a gift to the future

 Ruby Walton of Janesville, WI, teaches a class at the Senior Citizen Center called Reminiscence Writing.