University women help school with dictionaries
Published: November 15, 2005
By Karen Vittek
The News Guard
Third graders in north Lincoln County and Neskowin Valley School will have dictionaries of their own this month thanks to the efforts of the Lincoln City branch of American Association of University Women.
AAUW President Carol Colley said it’s important to foster learning starting at young ages in the hope the lore of knowledge will entice them to continue educating themselves throughout their adult lives.
“One of the women who is giving out the dictionaries still has hers from third grade and is still using it,” Colley said.
Dictionaries will be handed out in Taft Elementary tomorrow.
The dictionary program is just one facet of the AAUW’s work in the area. The group offers monthly networking meetings for area women, scholarships for local high school seniors and older women who want to return to college, sponsorship of the senior girls’ tea each year and monthly contributions of paper products to My Sisters’ Place, the local women’s shelter.
The organization also holds an annual fund-raising holiday home tour. Profits benefit its other programs.
The national association
The American Association of University Women has met nationally since 1881 “and has been a catalyst for change and the nation’s leading voice promoting education and equity for women and girls.” It has 1,300 branches around the country.
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