Jamie
Jamie’s Reading List
Books were such an important part of Jamie’s life. Below are some of his favorites. Youth favorites The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien The Redwall series – Jacques The Dark Tower series – King The Song of Ice and Fire series – Martin His Dark Materials series – Pullman Under the Black Flag […]
Send Silence Packing Tour
Send Silence Packing, a program of Active Minds, is an exhibit of 1,100 backpacks representing the number of college student lives lost to suicide each year. Active Minds Inc. has collected and continues to collect backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. By displaying backpacks with personal stories […]
A Message from the Bernard Family
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 is the first anniversary of Jamie’s death. Last year, Jamie left us in the early hours of a Monday. It was that morning that Sallie and Tom received the terrible call, and later that afternoon we had to tell Fred the sad news. The last few days have been heavy for […]
Taming the Blank
Today, in honor of Jamie’s birthday, a collection of Jamie’s writings has been compiled into the book Taming the Blank. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book with be donated to the foundation.
JKBF makes first grant to Bard College Scholarship Fund
The James Kirk Bernard Foundation’s first grant since its inception in February 2010 will go to the Bard College Class of 2010 Scholarship Fund. The fund was established by the graduating senior class to provide scholarships to rising seniors unable to complete their education due to financial hardship. The fund honors the memory of the three […]
Highlights
Today, January 25, 2012, marks the second anniversary of Jamie’s passing. We love and miss him today with particular intensity, but we will love and miss him always. We ask that those who knew Jamie take a few moments of their day to remember him, and we hope that remembering him- his humor, his talents, […]
In Memory of Jamie Bernard
Jamie Bernard was a kind, creative, and brave young man who lived his entire life with generous humor and quiet courage until the day he passed from us. He was a beautiful human being, and that beauty will live on in the memories of those he left behind and in the many writings and drawings […]