The Vegan Autumn 1978

SALLY SHRIGLEY With the passing of Mrs. E. B. (Sally)Shrigley, the Vegan Society has lost one of its last links with early days of the Society, and also one of its greatest servers. She was a member of the pioneer group of vegetarians who, seeing the natural logic of the step, asked if they could start a sub-group of nonlacto vegetarians within the Vegetarian Society. On being turned down, they met in November 1944 in London and a new society soon to be called the Vegan Society was born.

As with a plant or a human being, the most vital time is the early formative period when the new life is at the mercy of the surrounding conditions and is struggling to establish itself. This was the time when Sally's contribution was made. After the founding work (of such as Donald Watson,.the Simmons & Hendersons)the direction of the Society for a long number of years was largely in the hands of Sally Shrigley. She was President from 1960 to 1963, and occupied at various times almost every other official position in the Society and her efforts and energies saw it through a most difficult period. She was also a great worker for her local branch of the Vegetarian Society.

It is not easy for those who join the Society now, when veganism is known and its principles are being regularly endorsed by living experience and the findings of clinical and experimental research, to appreciate the atmosphere of the earlier years when pioneer vegans faced a misunderstanding and unbelieving world which viewed their efforts with suspicion and often ridicule and hostility. Sally carried this burden with a confident smile - she knew that she was living proof.

J. S. LUISE DA VIES Members who knew our former secretary will be grieved to hear that she died recently. An appreciation of her work will be given in the next issue.

RESEARCH - URGENT Professor Dickerson and Miss Murch are continuing Dr. Frey Ellis' investigation into Vitamin D, Vitamin C and red cell fragility In vegans. Will any vegan who can visit Kingston Hospital (after an overnight fast) and give a blood sample before the end of October, please ring Miss Murch, Dept. Haemotology, Kingston Hospital, Kingston -upon- Thames, Surrey. Tel. 01 546 7711. Ex.54.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more in it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. " Albert Schweitzer.

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