The TubaDiva Memorial Tuba Fund campaign is now underway

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The TubaDiva Memorial Tuba Fund is now accepting donations. Our goal is to raise enough money to purchase a tuba for an Atlanta-area high school band department as a memorial to the late Jenny “TubaDiva” Paradis, longtime administrator of the Straight Dope Message Board.

Here’s the link:

TubaDiva Memorial Tuba Fund

Here’s Jenny’s obituary, published by the Chicago Sun-Times, owner of the Straight Dope:

Jennifer Paradis, who ran Straight Dope Message Board for over 20 years, has died at 65

Please feel free to share these links.

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Thank you, Ed.

A question for anyone: I have a friend whose husband doesn’t understand message boards and believes that if you send money to a fundraiser for a person you’ve never met, you are being scammed. If my friend bought a Visa gift card with her own cash, could that be used to donate to a fundraiser such as this one?

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Done. Thanks for setting this up.

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Thank you, Ed

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A visa gift card can be used.

side note: It doesn’t look like paypal can.

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Thank you!

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I used PayPal. You click on Google Pay first, and then it gives you a bunch of options. No idea why they’d have you do that first, but that’s how I did it.

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Thank you for doing this, Ed.

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Yes, thanks Ed. Maybe this should be pinned to the top somewhere so everyone sees it. Looks to me like we are going to have extra money so maybe a fund of some sort?

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As a band parent three times over, I can tell you - High School Bands always need money.

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Odd, I don’t see an option for Google Pay.

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I’m on Chrome. Maybe it’s baked in?

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Thanks, Ed. Welcome back. Bump.

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I’m in. Thanks, Ed.

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I shared the GoFundMe link to the Facebook Straight Dopers group

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Thanks Ed, I’m in.

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Shared it on Facebook and Twitter.

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Thank you.

And, everyone: don’t miss the link in the obituary if you want to see TubaDiva in action.

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I just want to record for posterity that of this writing, the fund has been in existence for just 5 hours and has very nearly reached its goal already!! What a resounding success! Jenny would be proud of the community that she helped nurture! :star_struck:

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Thanks.
So nice when a community works like this.