DOYLESTOWN ROTARY CLUB HONORS AHMED MAZAHERI, MD FOR 50 YEARS OF MEMBERSHIP AND DEDICATION TO ROTARY

(DOYLESTOWN, Pa)– The Rotary Club of Doylestown is celebrating Dr. Ahmed Mazaheri’s 50 years as a dedicated member of the international service organization. Mazaheri, a retired physician who lives in Doylestown, has dedicated the past 50 years to providing “service above self” to the local community and to people and organizations around the world.

 Mazaheri, born in Iran, left his native land at the age of 18 and went to Germany where he attended the University of Bonn for college and medical school and the University of London.  He came to Washington, DC in 1956 where he did his medical internship at Georgetown University. He then returned to Germany where he was a medical liaison for the United States Army. He returned to the US in 1961, where he did his medical residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He started practicing in Doylestown in 1962 in his specialty, urology. Dr. Mazaheri retired from medical practice in 1994.

 Throughout his Rotary career, Dr. Mazaheri has been involved in many different activities to promote education and goodwill. He has participated in vaccine programs, helped out in nursing homes and retirement communities, and educated people both locally and internationally on current health issues.

Dr. Mazaheri is grateful to his mentors Clifford Laudenslager, a distinguished family practitioner and Arthur Wolfe, former superintendent for the Central Bucks School District, for helping him strive to achieve and help people around the world.  “Rotary is giving people a chance to spread the message of goodwill to the community. Every aspect of life deals with helping others and Rotary does exactly that” stated Dr. Mazaheri. He developed a Rotary Walk-A-Thon to promote the message of goodwill, physical exercise and health.

Dr. Mazaheri’s ties to the Doylestown area run very deep. He was a president of the Doylestown Rotary Club in 1983, where he participated in a polio vaccination project in India.  Dr. Mazaheri also served as president of Doylestown Hospital Medical Staff, Bucks County Medical Society, Boys Scouts of America Executive Committee, Board of Trustees of the Bucks County Community College and the Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Examiners. Mazaheri currently is on the Board of the Bucks County Health Department, organized the Doylestown Hospital Retired Doctors Alumni Group and also teaches a C.L.R. course on the Middle East at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown and several colleges in California.

About the Doylestown Rotary: 

The Doylestown Rotary Club is comprised of business owners and professionals living and/or working in Doylestown, PA and the surrounding communities. Founded on April 28, 1924, the Doylestown Rotary was organized with a chartering membership of 20.

The Rotary Club of Doylestown sponsors business card exchanges, Four-Way Test Awards, Scholarship Awards, as well as events to raise funds for other organizations in need. Over the years, Rotary Club of Doylestown has supported Doylestown Hospital, the Anne Silverman Health Clinic, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, NOVA, Bucks County Housing Group, Bucks County Opportunity Council, Camp Discovery, Central Bucks YMCA, The United Way, and Doylestown FISH...along with many other community projects.  Most recently the club is collaborating with the Yardley/Morrisville Rotary Club on a water filtration project scheduled for 2013-2014.

Since 1965, the club has hosted dozens of foreign exchange students and sent as many local students abroad as part of their Student Exchange Program. The Rotary Club of Doylestown continues to host and send abroad exchange students. It also sponsors the Central Bucks East Interact Club, provides college scholarships to graduating seniors at all three Central Bucks High Schools, sponsors a regional weekend leadership camp for six Central Bucks High School students, and supports an annual essay and speech contest for local high school students.

On an international level, the Rotary Club of Doylestown provides financial support to Rotary International polio prevention programs, the Shelter Box program, and to programs that assist Maasai villages in Kenya, where monies raised have helped fund the drilling of five water wells. The final well project was completed and fully functional in June 2011.

Throughout the years, the Rotary Club of Doylestown and its members have been leaders in the community and have practiced "Service Above Self". For more information about The Rotary Club of Doylestown visit http://doylestownrotary.org. To learn more about Rotary International visitwww.rotary.org.