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My thanks to Joel Davis and Andy Strycharski, who Inform me that the Sidney Society site http://www.sidneysociety.org/ has a "Donate" button at the upper right, under the search box. You may contribute there using PayPal. Please be sure to add a note in the space provided designating the gift for the Kalamazoo Graduate Student Travel Fund. Don On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Germaine Warkentin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Anne, that is very sweet of you, but my recollection of American banks is > that they hate changing Canadian bills -- and anyway, I am wary of sending > cash in the mail. Let's see what Don can find out about PayPal. I belong to > two other scholarly organizations (not large ones by any means) that use it > for membership payments, donations, etc. It costs the person being paid, > but perhaps for a charitable donation that could be added as a surcharge. > Also, if financially feasible for the society, it would aid in the regular > plea for and acceptance of donations, if we are going to keep on looking > for travel support for our young people. Let's see what happens. Much love, > Germaine. > > On 2017-05-01 6:16 PM, Anne Prescott wrote: > > Sounds good. Lots of pretty money! I do wonder when the USA will go for > pretty colors. Anne > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Judith Owens <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> I will take you up on that offer, Anne! >> Judith Owens >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On May 1, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Germaine, if you or other Canadians give me Canadian cash I can give Don >> real money, maybe as a check (or cheque)--you know, the American kind--and >> then take your pretty colored Canadian stuff to my bank. No problem, as we >> say in the States. >> >> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Germaine Warkentin < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Don, I would like to contribute, but I don;t have American cheques, and >>> bank money-orders cost the earth. Any likelihood of using PayPal? Germaine >>> >>> On 2017-05-01 4:09 PM, Donald Stump wrote: >>> >>> The organizing committees for Sidney and Spenser at Kalamazoo are >>> working together to support graduate students, who in the current climate >>> in higher education are, as we know, under unusual financial stress. >>> >>> To help out, we have established a Graduate Student Travel Fund to give >>> modest awards on a competitive basis to students giving papers at Kalamazoo >>> each year. Rob Stillman of the University of Tennessee has agreed to be our >>> Lord High Treasurer. >>> >>> There are two ways to contribute: >>> >>> 1. *Bring an object* for sale at the annual International Porlock >>> Society auction at Kalamazoo. Anything from autograph letters by Barnaby >>> Googe or period oil paintings of Queen Elizabeth to Shakespeare bobble-head >>> figures, Sir Walter Ralegh cut-out dolls, Roger Kuin yard gnomes, David >>> Wilson-Okamura straw hats, and snippy lapel pins and fridge magnets would >>> be most welcome. Drinks and snacks in the Elizabeth Boyle Room will now >>> have their own kitty by the refreshments. >>> 2. *Write a check. *I don't mean to brag, or to start any sort of >>> competition with the Spenserians or anything like that, but just as a point >>> of information, the Sidney Council has already pledged over $500. >>> >>> If you would like to make either sort of contribution, please contact me >>> off line to let me know, and I'll send details. >>> >>> Don >>> >>> -- >>> Donald Stump, President >>> International Sidney Society >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> Professor of English >>> 229 Adorjan Hall, 3800 Lindell Blvd. >>> Saint Louis University >>> St. Louis, MO 63108 >>> >>> Director of the Micah Program and >>> Co-chair of the Urban Project >>> 216 Wuller Hall >>> Saint Louis University >>> St. Louis, MO 63108 >>> (314) 494-3247 <%28314%29%20494-3247> (cell) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *********************************************************************** >>> Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of [log in to unmask]://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.individual.utoronto.ca_germainew_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=ShbZ24d9iLw6iHG_2QGTNA&m=6oCmZVMoUvvljaichTPoiWLqbvN5SyxOdrTxWExkPy0&s=muxTCPHXRwxnyTwHZAL4p7OtdrTqhmutri8CM71YqWo&e=> >>> >>> "There has never been a great age of science and technology without >>> a corresponding flourishing of the arts and humanities." >>> -- Cathy N. Davidson >>> >>> *********************************************************************** >>> >>> -- > *********************************************************************** > Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of [log in to unmask]://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.individual.utoronto.ca_germainew_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=ShbZ24d9iLw6iHG_2QGTNA&m=6oCmZVMoUvvljaichTPoiWLqbvN5SyxOdrTxWExkPy0&s=muxTCPHXRwxnyTwHZAL4p7OtdrTqhmutri8CM71YqWo&e=> > > "There has never been a great age of science and technology without > a corresponding flourishing of the arts and humanities." > -- Cathy N. Davidson > > *********************************************************************** > > -- Donald Stump Professor of English 229 Adorjan Hall, 3800 Lindell Blvd. Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 Director of the Micah Program and Co-chair of the Urban Project 216 Wuller Hall Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 (314) 494-3247 (cell)