Timothy Moore, a long-time Rotarian with a strong community involvement, has been chosen as Vicksburg Rotary Club’s Hero of the year. He has had perfect attendance since joining the Club in1964. He has held all of the Club’s leadership positions and was honored by the Club as a Paul Harris Fellow.
He has participated in the annual Vicksburg Rotary Showboat for 50 years, served on the script committee, in the chorus, and as a cast member. His community involvement has included: Vicksburg Community Schools Foundation, Vicksburg District Library expansion project, high school locker room building fund raiser, Vicksburg Historical Society, the local United Way committee, and most recently the community pavilion project where he procured trees and supervised the mill sawing of the timber.
He will be honored in May at the Rotary District Conference in Kalamazoo, when the 64 clubs in the area, come together. Other Vicksburg Rotarians who have been selected for this honor in past years include Warren Lawrence, Gordon Oswalt, Richard Coppes, and Jim Shaw.