Mr.K Writing Center: Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream

Have you heard about Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream? If you didn't know what it is, let me give you some basic information. According to the Wikipedia, Ben & Jerry’s is an American food products company that manufactures ice products, such as ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet...etc. This company was found at Waterbury, Vermont on 1978 that created by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield(Wikipedia.org). From the information, Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream is a ice cream company that started almost 30 years ago, and because of the long history they have, now they have structure themselves into a good aspect for the future. Anyway, what is the point for us to know about Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream? The reason why we need to have some kind of information about Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream is because on the May 30th, “The Chairman of the Independent Board of Directors for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream-Jeff Furman” will return Cheshire Academy to celebrate the 221st Commencement Address as an alumni of the school(Cheshireacademy.org). This mean for students who likes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream could have the opportunity to know where the company start their ice cream life.

For the person who is coming to Cheshire Academy to do the speech is Jeff Furman. “Jeff Furman, is famous for having written the first business plan to help Ben & Jerry secure a bank loan.”(Benandjerrysfoundation.org). From this statement we can know that he is the biggest pusher to make the Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream to start. I didn't mean the creators are not important for the company, but the rule that Jeff played in the company is having the same level as Ben and Jerry-the creators of the company. However, his job’s during that time is not only thinking about the starting plan for the company. According to the foundation, “He played a key role in helping the company think about innovation in its social mission, such as with Partnerships, scoop shops operated by non-profits”(Benandjerrysfoundation.org). This tell us he is a really intelligent person. Due to the facts that all the starting plans for the company are his ideas, and those plans are usually include how to help their company to save the money, or how to find the best partnership during that tough period of time. One thing we need to know that the pressure for Jeff during that time, all the decisions that he made or planed will affect the company’s future. Although in our point of view, the company is just going in a really successful way, but we should all know that the reason why company will be such successful is because of the ideas that Jeff came out with! If you really think about Jeff we found out that he is not only very intelligent, but also a very careful person.

The head of the Cheshire Academy-John D. Nozell said that the reason for him to invite Jeff as the speaker of the commencement is because of the works that Jeff had done to the society should be share with these younger generation(myrecordjournal.com). This is an chance for all the students that study in Cheshire Academy to learn what kinds of attitude should a student have for their college or career, and some tips that will help them to walk on a successful future. While this is not only the opportunity for students to learn some social experience from the elder, but it is the first time for Jeff to return his high school over 50 years (myrecordjournal.com). Maybe until the day come we would ask him that whether the food in the dinning hall is one of the reason why he want to start the ice cream career!