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Michelle Husby
I was invited to a dinner meeting and
everyone was very nice. The Mission of
BPW fit with my belief system and, at the
end of the meeting, we said the Collect
together and everyone squeezed hands at
the end. It was a lovely prayer and a
lovely ending. I was sold. That was De-
cember of 1989 and I've been a member ever since.■

Monique Lee
Since along the years my life circumstances
called for me to live in different Countries, with
everything BPW has to offer: Networking, Men-
toring, Skill building and Economic empower-
ment, I have especially appreciated that it is
an International Organization. Together with six
friends, following a radio message we had heard from the,
then, BPW International President to be, Maxine Hayes (1980-
1983) who was visiting Hong Kong, we became Founder Mem-
bers of BPW-Hong Kong (1979). In this buzzling city we were
soon to be 104 members covering 14 different nationalities!

Moving to UK (1999) I had then the privilege to be
asked to run the ‘BPW Network London’ … which I did for 12
consecutive years. There again the Club had a strong cosmo-
politan membership, not to mention the many BPW visitors
from all over the world we often had the chance to meet as
they were passing through London.
Being finally here, in California (2012-now) where an
international presence reigns, I very soon found in the Berke-
ley-BPW Club and all others Clubs around, that warm, reliable,
spirited friendship, where not only one feels welcomed but
where that sense of BPW ’raison d’être’ is immediately recog-
nizable. It is reflected in the support we bring to each other,
our commitment in seeing women and girls evolving in their
careers, as well as maintaining our place in a number of Inter-
national Organizations such as ECOSOC/UN, and the Govern-
ment of our own Country where our dedicated efforts are to
ensure that our BPW voice in support of all women is clearly
heard.■