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Welcome to Berkeley Hall’s New Additions! Welcome to our new addition to the BHC family, “Chase Wesley Sims.” Please join us in congratulating J.W. Sims, Director of Security, and his wife Shania on their precious son's arrival on April 3rd.
Welcome “Harper Wren Folk!” Please join us in congratulating Jodie Folk, Spa & Fitness Center Nutritionist and Trainer, and her husband Jamie, on their beautiful daughter's arrival on Saturday, May 9th.
“Next Year in Havana” by Chanel Cleeton July 6 | Ladies Locker Room | 3pm After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity – and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. Havana, 1958: The daughter of a sugar baron, 19-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest – until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary.
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Miami, 2017: Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa’s last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Review: Penguin Random House “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson Aug 3 | Ladies Locker Room | 3pm Bryan Stevenson, the visionary founder and executive director of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, has done as much as any other living American to vindicate the innocent and temper justice with mercy for the guilty – efforts that have brought him, among myriad honors, a MacArthur genius grant and honorary degrees from Yale, Penn and Georgetown.
Member Photo by Michele Wallace McMath “Sunset from York Circle.” What a breathtaking view, we truly are fortunate to live in such Lowcountry splendor! 12
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As a young lawyer, he forsook the wealth that was virtually guaranteed by his degrees from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, taking what amounted to a vow of poverty to pursue civil rights law in the South. He began at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta before moving to Alabama to start the Equal Justice Initiative. Now 54, Stevenson has made his latest contribution to criminal justice in the form of his inspiring memoir “Just Mercy.” Review: The Washington Post
