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Where it all began
Brief background of the Founders of Ben and Jerry’s Ice cream
Ben Cohen
Bennett Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951. ... It was there he met Jerry Greenfield, in junior high school. Ben and Jerry both attended and graduated from Calhoun High School in Merrick. Ben’s first professional contact with ice cream came in his senior year of high school, when he worked as an “ice cream man,” driving a truck, ringing bells, and selling ice cream pops to kids. Ben enrolled in Colgate University and dropped out after a year and a half, going back to being an ice cream man. ...
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951, four days before his partner, Ben Cohen. ... It was there that he met Ben, in junior high school. Ben and Jerry both attended and graduated from Calhoun High School in Merrick. Jerry remembers that he and Ben were two of the widest students in their school and actually came to know each other trying to run the track in gym class. They also double-dated together in Ben’s convertible Camaro, complete with an 8-track cassette tape deck. Jerry graduated from high school with a National Merit Scholarship under his belt and enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio to study pre-med he did not get past the entry exam. At Oberlin, Jerry got his first taste of working in the ice cream industry when he took a job as a scooper in the college cafeteria
Ben before ice cream
Ben had many jobs they included
• pottery wheel delivery person
• pediatric emergency room clerk
• Taxi driver
• Craft teacher
• Pottery, stained glass, photography and film making teacher.
Approximate Word count = 1214
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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