Remembering William T. Moran

Contact: Wilton Corkern
Phone: 301.283.2113
Email: wcorkern@accokeek.org

Bill Moran passed away quietly this morning as a result of complications from congestive heart failure. The Accokeek Foundation lost a friend, worker, and supporter. In 2002, the Board of Trustees recognized Bill for four decades of volunteer service to the Foundation and to the local community. So powerful was Bill's contribution to the Foundation that the annual volunteer award was named in his honor.

Bill and Clara Moran moved to Accokeek more than 40 years ago, and Bill was a leader in the community from the beginning. In the 1960s, when it was clear that the county public schools were not meeting the needs of some of the local children, Bill helped organize the Canterbury School, and then chaired its Board of Directors. In the 1970s, he headed a local effort to reduce noise from airplanes taking off from National Airport - Bill authored the "Scatter Plan" compromise that is essentially still in effect. In the 1980s he pulled together a federation of homeowner associations and civic associations to make sure that citizens in the southwest part of Prince George's County were heard in the comprehensive planning process. In the 1990s he headed a coalition of organizations that succeeded in getting Bryan Point Road designated a "Scenic Road."

He chaired the Public Affairs Committee and the Road Committee of the Moyaone Association. In fact, for a time he was the road committee, actually driving the road grader himself.

Here at the Accokeek Foundation, Bill Moran was an anchor for the Board of Trustees and a counselor, mentor, and advisor to staff members and to other volunteers. He served on the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, the Organizational Relations Committee, the Land and Riverscape Committee, and probably all the other ones, too. He built the building that is now known as the "old outkitchen."

His contributions were varied and numerous. He will be missed.