The Rotary Club of Shepparton appointed a District Governor’s special representative Mr Ed McKeon, a Past President of that club, to investigate the possibility of forming a Rotary Club in Mooroopna.

The club was organised on the 30th April 1964. Charter was granted on 11th May 1964 and presented on the 11th July 1964 at a Charter Dinner at the Victoria Hotel in Shepparton. The first President was the late Rotarian Mack MacKellar who was a member of the Shepparton Club prior to the formation of the Mooroopna Club.