Greg Tacconi-Moore
By Sean Sweeney Journal Correspondent

Lots of things fit like a glove for Greg Tacconi Moore.

Volunteering his time is one thing that Greg slides into easily.

The 17-year-old Ashby resident has organized musical concerts that benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina, where soloists and youth bands perform to raise money for hurricane relief.

He said that organizing a show of its size is a lot of work, a workload he handled with ease. As the producer, he was able to delegate tasks to others to help the production run smoothly.

His next show, he hopes, will be on March 1.

"We keep hitting bumps in the road, just with scheduling and getting the maximum amount of people there. Last year, we raised well over $700, which is very good considering it was 3 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon," he said.

In addition, Greg was able to use his powers of persuasion to get members of the North Middlesex chapter of the National Honor Society - of which he is a member - to volunteer their time at last December's Squannacook Children's Christmas Fair. The volunteers helped run the games at the fair.

"It was a really big success. We had a fair amount of teenagers there helping out, including myself: actually, I was dressed up like a pirate and had my own little buried treasure game," he said.

As the Junior Class Vice President, Greg and his fellow classmates are embroiled in the planning stages for next year's senior prom. He also is gearing up for the upcoming school musical, where he will handle the auditorium stage lighting.

"I'm fixing the lights up, readjusting them, making sure the mixing board works. I do a fair amount of acting, but I focus heavily on lighting."

Finding ways to improve a current plan to introduce block scheduling at his school, North Middlesex Regional, is another way Greg fills his schedule.

He has come up with a plan, which would offer an "open campus" senior privilege for 12th graders starting in September.

"I want to talk to [Superintendent of Schools Dr. Maureen] Marshall to get it all finalized," he said. "She not only wants to get the system implemented, but she wants to make sure the kids enjoy it. She's done a lot of work on it. I asked around and said, 'If you have a senior privilege, the junior class of this year would be willing to go into the block scheduling.'"

Despite only being a junior, Greg is already looking ahead to college - his 3.5 GPA should help write his ticket to any school he chooses. Letters from Williams College, Brown University and New York University have already cluttered his mailbox.

He plans to study pre-law, with an emphasis in corporate defense.

"I've always been interested in the legal field; I've been watching Law & Order since I was seven years old," he said. "It's an absolutely addictive show."

Lawyers do quite a bit of pro bono work, and Greg has plenty of experience giving freely of himself. Like an Isotoner, it's a perfect fit.