A program started by the late Annie Plummer back in the early 1990s is being revived. Plummer was known as the Dictionary Lady, and she handed out more than 47,000 dictionaries and thesauruses before she died in 1999.

Today, the Economic Opportunity Authority for Savannah-Chatham County announced it would start a program to make sure every four-year-old in the Head Start Program will get a free dictionary.

Plummer’s daughter Barbara Dorsey was on hand for today’s announcement and is very happy that her mother’s legacy will be carried on.

“I’m really excited at the thought that another organization, other than my mother, would do something with the children,” she said. “It’s really exciting. I’m going to be involved with it.”

The Head Start Program has 1,000 dictionaries to hand out this year. They are hoping for grants and donations to fund the program in the future.

Reported by: Ron Wallace, rwallace@wtoc.com