H. Jay Dinshah (November 2, 1933, to June 8, 2000) was born in New Jersey, New York, United States. His father was a United States citizen who was born in India and whose ethnicity was Parsi, and his mother was a United States citizen whose family was of German ancestry. Jay Dinshah founded the American Vegan Society[1] early in 1960 and later that year married the English-born Freya Smith Dinshah, whose parents were active in the Vegan Society (of England), who contributed to the early growth of the American Vegan Society, and who is president of the American Vegan Society today. The American Vegan Society was headquarted at Malaga, New Jersey, on a family-owned parcel of land they called \"Suncrest\", or \"the Suncrest Educreational Center\". The center was characterized by vegan publishing and outreach, vegan archiving, spiritual inspiration, providing people with an experience of