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long and loyal services to the Region Indian Red Cross. His interest in social
and to the Grand Lodge he was services has made him actively
invested with the distinguished award involved in several charitable trusts
of Order of Service to Masonry on 9th (whose complex management he
September 1991 at the august hands of specializes in). He was the Auditor of a
M.W. Bro. Justice Prakash Narain. number of Charitable Institutions and
His many years of active involvement trustee of many public trusts, one of
and valuable services in different them being Mancherji Nowroji and
disciplines in freemasonry were Khursedji Mancherji Banaji Trust
recalled when in the year 2000 he had (where one of the conditions is that one
the unique privilege of being invited to of the Trustees should be a Non
be the W.M. of Lodge Islam No. 27 in Parsee).
the 125th Anniversary of the Lodge. He He was appointed the Grand
rose to the occasion and did the Lodge Representative of the Grand Lodge of
proud by successfully arranging a New South Wales, the Grand
number of good programmes like Blood Representative of the Grand Lodge of
Donation Drive, Eye Camp, Cancer the Supreme Grand Chapter of
Detection Camp, and Fellowship Kentucky (USA) and the Grand
Meeting out of Bombay. He further saw Representative of the Grand Mark
to it that the Lodge published its History Lodge a Michigan (USA).
on 125 years of its existence. His term To conclude, Mohsin bhai as he was
culminated in the donation of a fully affectionately called by many, stands
equipped ambulance, which project tall in the world of Freemasonry
was very much lauded. specially in the Western Region and
Regarding his academic background, even at the Grand Lodge of India level.
he graduated in the faculty of His genial and affable disposition, his
Commerce from Bombay University in personal interest in social and
1950. and then passed the Chartered charitable projects, his keen insight into
Accountants Examination in 1953 and financial problems coupled with his soft
also graduated in Law. His specialized spoken and mild mannered personality
expertise is in the subject of Taxation. has endeared him to one and all.
He was on the Board of several -By R. W. Bro. Pervez. R. Patel
companies and organizations. He was
a Director of Bombay Mercantile Co- Photograph Courtesy
Operative Bank for 14 years and its W.Bro.Sameer Desai
Chairman in 1994-95. He was on the
local Advisory Board of International
Bank of Oman. He was the Treasurer of
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