Larry Wilbur & Dolgeville RC cleaning up cemetary

District Governor Bruce Frassinelli with President Salvatore Licari at 2001 official visit

Larry Wilbur & wife at Montreal Conference Parade of Presidents

Dolgeville Club Celebrates 50th Anniversary!

FROM: The Dolgeville Rotary Club

EVENT: Please help us celebrate our club's 50th anniversary by joining us at a commemorative dinner.

WHERE: to be held at the Dolgeville Masonic Lodge on Main Street

WHEN: Friday, May 12, 2000, 7pm. A social time begins at 6:30pm.

WHO: District 7150 Rotarians, Friends of Rotarians, Spouses and additional guests

COST: Dinner and program - $12 per person.

CONTACT: Please let us know of your intentions to attend by contacting Noreen Crane, 315-429-3490 or Larry Wilbur, 315-429-8409 NLT Saturday, May 6 so that we can prepare a personalized commemorative cup for you. Hope you can make it.

 

Dolgeville Central School & Rotary Team Up for Literacy Project

The Dolgeville Central School District and the Dolgeville Rotary Club are pooling their talents and resources to increase the level of academic achievement by the district's students. How? By involving parents, children, the district, the community and civic organizations in an educational partnership with the student's success in mind.

The proposed literacy project would use locally produced videos - using Dolgeville Central School teachers and students - and storytellers to help students achieve higher order thinking skills, evaluate what the students read and critically analyze what they have read and develop sequencing skills.

The purpose of the project is to "enhance each child's ability to read and succeed through the use of a book bag program in pre-kindergarten-second grade and the availability of a variety of books in the third through eighth grade classrooms."

Each bag contains books and activities leveled to the ability of the student and are signed out and taken home, where both the children and parents can read the books and perform the activities before returning the bag to the classroom. Books that integrate math, science and social studies would be purchased and placed in each third-eighth grade classrooms.

The videos, which are to be used by parents of children that sign out book bags, would be used to model techniques such as the pace of reading a story, how and when to ask questions, how to make predictions, the amount of time it takes to read a story and the importance of a quiet environment in the learning process.

The videos will also be available during parent workshops and through the school office. If a family needs a VCR to view the videos, arrangements will be made through the school. If parents experience difficulty reading, they will be offered the opportunity to participate in Dolgeville Central School's Adult Literacy Program, which is free of charge to district residents.

The storytellers would be used to provide assemblies for the children and monthly parent workshops and "to stimulate parental excitement about reading and will captivate both children and parents alike." The performers would also enhance a student's literacy and imaginative skills, vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, and story recall, awareness of other cultures and creative writing.

The intent of the program is to use storytellers not only during the school year, but throughout the summer months as well. The summer performances would be integrated with the Dolgeville Youth Recreation Program.

The Dolgeville Rotary Club secured $12,500. from Rotary International and $5,000. from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties to implement the project.

The Dolgeville elementary principal, Sharon Colpoys, and Dolgeville Rotary Club Secretary Louise Leonard spearheaded the committee's grant writing efforts. Members of the committee include: Sam Licari, Larry Wilbur (Club President), Joanne Williams, Carl Marucci, and Fred Doerrer. PDG Ed Paparella acted in an advisory capacity in both grant applications.

Club Secretary Leonard reports, "The book bag project is currently underway in grades K-2 and hundreds of books have been purchased for grades 3-8. These are being placed in each classroom to enrich each child's abilities. If you would like to visit and see the program in action, please give me a call."