ZAGNY is happy to announce that one our long-time meber Ervad (Dr.) Soli P. Dastur was awarded the Rohinton Rivetna Outstanding Zarathushti Award by FEZANA. This was awarded at the recently concluded XV North American Zoroastrian Congress in Houston.
Originally from Tarapur, India, Ervad (Dr.) Soli Dastur is a graduate of Bombay University and Northwestern University in chemical engineering. Now retired, Soli worked in various senior-level and executive positions at Proctor & Gamble for 30 years.
Today, he performs various community services including navjotes, weddings, jashans, Muktad prayers, and obsequies, lectures extensively on the Zoroastrian religion and scriptures, and is working to preserve Zoroastrian literary resources in both printed and audio-visual formats. Soli serves on the board of the Zoroastrian Association of Florida, and is active within various religious and community organizations including FEZANA, the North American Mobed Council (NAMC), and Coming Together Roundtables. He travels all over North America and internationally in his desire to share his religious knowledge.
In all 5 Awards were handed out at the Congress.
Dinyar P. Patel won the Outstanding Young Zarathushti Student Award and Farrokh Namdaran was awarded the Humanitarian Service Award.
ZAGNY members bagged three of the five awards. This was a great year for ZAGNY and confirms our association’s position as one of the pre-eminent Z associations in North America.
