Craig Stockwell presents the Award to Tom Julius

At their breakfast meeting on Thursday, April 9, the Keene Elm City Rotary Club awarded MIP’s Chair Tom Julius the Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition for his outstanding service to the community. Through MIP Tom has formed deep relationships, played a significant leadership role in the housing campaign, and overall led with wisdom, strategy, deep commitment and thoughtfulness. In addition to leading MIP, Tom, a retired teacher of both primary school and at Antioch University, is also active with the United Way, Monadnock Outdoors, and more. Through diligent and stealthy coordination, Tom’s wife Barbara Bryce and MIP’s Angela Pape managed to coerce a roomful of Tom’s closest friends out of their beds early on Thursday morning and into the room as surprise witnesses to this much deserved award.

The Keene Elm City Rotary Club awards Paul Harris Fellowship Recognition to a person whose life, vocation and behavior demonstrates, embodies and represents the Rotary values and spirit of humanitarianism and actions that contribute toward building peace and human understanding. It honors the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris. The nominee’s impact must be exceptional and clearly reflected through their vocation and also through their impact on the broader community, whether local, national or international.