Living In Fear On The University Campus
University is supposed to be about socializing and Good times..
Alan Cohen was from Oshinga, a small town. He had a loving family and he had enjoyed an idyllic childhood. His family was in the cattle business and he was extremely close with his Dad, Joe.
Alan’s public school had two hundred kids and when he went to High School (It was a regional High School) it was considered much bigger as there were five hundred students.
The Cohen family had to drive sixty five miles to go to a Synagogue. They went for High Holidays and Alan had spent weeks studying for his Bar Mitzvah on Zoom with Rabbi Tolsty. When he finally had his Bar Mitzvah on March 8th it was a a tremendous success, Some of his friends from Oshinga came with their parents (who were friends of his parents) for the service and party. His best friend Brad McMullen said he loved the ‘’whole Bar Mitzvah thing’’ so much, he was going to ask his parents if he could turn Jewish.
In High School because the school wasn’t very big, there wasn’t a lot of sports teams. The boys from Oshinga knew how to play hockey, and almost every year they won the Reeve’s Championship Cup. They beat every team in Northumberland County. Alan was proud to be the captain of the Oshinga Holstein Bulls for the last two years of his high school career.
