ATHENS – The MARTIN-YOUNG PAUL HARRIS FELLOWSHIP AWARD is the Athens Rotary Club’s highest and most distinguished award. It signifies an expression by Rotary of an appreciation and recognition for substantial contribution to its humanitarian and educational programs.
The award is named for Athens’ first two Paul Harris Recipients, Carl Martin and Bill Young, and for the founder of Rotary, the Chicago lawyer who began our great organization over 100 years ago.
L to R: Logan Moffatt, Barbara Stinnett, and Jim Moffatt
The award accompanies a club donation of $1,000 from the Athens Rotary Club, in the recipient’s name, to Rotary International, which supports Rotary’s worldwide programs.
On September 29, 2023, Rotarian Jimmy Woodroof recognized the club’s latest MARTIN-YOUNG PAUL HARRIS AWARD recipient.
The words that best describe this person are generous, caring, selfless-servant, and faithful. He is ALWAYS willing to help someone in need or ‘GET BEHIND’ a worthy cause. He is one who prefers to remain unknown in his many contributions. He has a genuine and discerning gift for helping others obtain success or enhance another life. He has given so much to this community, which he has loved and helped lead for so many years.
Athens, Alabama, is a better place for us all to live and enjoy because of the dedicated life and service of Jim Moffatt.
Jim Moffatt has been a Rotarian for 20 years and served the club as President in 2013. He has served in various ways and forms of leadership for this club, never seeking notoriety, but only unyielding and dedicated service to Athens Rotary and to the community. He is usually the first to volunteer for any Rotary project we are engaged in and has been doing so since DAY 1. Jim is an outstanding professional in this community, having practiced law in Athens for 41 years. He graduated Cum Laude in 1979 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and received his Juris Doctorate from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1982.
Media Release/Blake Williams, TMP/Communication & Research Specialist/Limestone County Economic Development Association
