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This is a site for those who loved Jay to share our stories and pictures. Jay lived 54 irrepressible, adventurous years and embraced many people, places, passions, and professions.  We would love to hear how he showed up in your life.

 

A memorial fund has been established at the Indiana University Foundation to recognize Jay's extraordinary scholarship in Uyghur studies, and to support and encourage young scholars in the field.  For details, please see below.

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Jay Dautcher Memorial Fund

We are gladdened to announce the establishment of a memorial fund for Jay at Indiana University, Bloomington, administered by Jay's dear friend and Uyghur expert Gardner Bovingdon. The purpose of the fund will be to recognize Jay's extraordinary scholarship in Uyghur studies, and to support and encourage young scholars in the field in his memory. IU is one of the few institutions in the US, and indeed the world, that trains students in and promotes research on the language, culture, and history of the world's roughly twelve million Uyghurs, as well as the contemporary affairs of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China and the neighboring countries of Central Asia where most Uyghurs live. Given the tense situation in the region in recent years, there has unfortunately never been a more important time to support such study and research.


If you would like to contribute, please go to https://www.myiu.org/one-time-gift and choose the following from the drop-down menu:

- School and Colleges

- IU Bloomington

- School of Global and International Studies

- School of Global and International Studies enrichment fund

- In the gift area, write: Memory of Jay Dautcher fund


If you would prefer to send a check, please make it out to the following address, with a notation that it be earmarked in memory of Jay Dautcher.

Indiana University Foundation

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Please reach out to Terri Dautcher (tldautcher@gmail.com) and Lyn Jeffery (lyn.jeffery@gmail.com) if you would like to add stories or photos and can't figure out how to do it - or for any other Jay-related reason.

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