---
title: "Congratulations VSDC - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Congratulations VSDC: from IVU News Oct 2000 Members of the Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia have played / are playing important roles in the international veg movement. Congratulations to these VSDC members: Saurabh Dalal - elected IVU Secretary, Madge Darnielle - elected IVU"
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5713:news-oct2000-vsdc&catid=241"
date: "2026-11-06T00:18:50+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Congratulations VSDC

![Congratulations VSDC](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-oct2000-vsdc.png)
 **Congratulations VSDC** *from IVU News Oct 2000*

Members of the Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia have played / are playing important roles in the international veg movement. Congratulations to these VSDC members:

Saurabh Dalal - elected IVU Secretary, Madge Darnielle - elected IVU Fellow, and Howard Lyman - elected IVU Fellow.

[**www.vsdc.org**](http://www.vsdc.org/)

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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