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Giving the Gift of Words
S ELKS, we are proud of our many programs that benefit the youth of our nation, including our Elks Hoop Shoot and Soccer Shoot athletes and scholarship recipients. I also am a firm supporter of the Dictionary Project, a community service project with the goal of presenting a personal dictionary to each third-grade student in the United States. This program is inexpensive and benefits all children, whether or not they are athletic or academic achievers. I have heard the argument, “Why should we take on the Dictionary Project when today’s kids all have computers?” I served on a school board for many years and learned firsthand that there are children in just about every school who face challenges that include poverty and physical, sexual, and mental abuse. These children will likely never own their own dictionaries unless they receive them from an organiza- tion such as ours.
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April is the beginning of a new year for your lodge and is a great time to make plans for the Dictionary Project in order to be ready for the presentation of dictionaries in September at your local schools. Contact your area school administrators and explain the project. Once permis- sion is granted to proceed with the program, obtain the number of third-grade students enrolled in each school. I highly recommend that these students be given the book, A Student’s Dictionary. In addition to being a dictionary, this book contains reference material that covers grammar, history, important US documents, and much more.
Once the dictionaries arrive, prepare to personalize them with a label that names your lodge as the contributor. Then arrange to have a “work party,” when members of your lodge can place both a label and an Elks Drug Awareness bookmark in each of the books.
The website
www.dictionaryproject.org contains much more informa- tion about this program.
Thank you for Giving from the Heart and proving once again that Elks Care—Elks Share.
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The Elks Magazine, Vol. 90, No. 9, April 2012 (ISSN 0013-6263). Published monthly, except bimonthly July/August and December/January, at 425 W. Diversey Pkwy., Chicago, IL 60614- 6196 by the Elks National Memorial and Publication Commission of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America. Subscription price for Elks, $3.50 a year; for spouses of deceased Elks, $5 a year; for non-Elks, $12 a year. Single copy price, $2.
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