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Alviar Cohen
June 26, 2002 - June 21, 2021
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2021-07-14 02:26:55 View / Comment (0)
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2021-07-10 20:06:21 View / Comment (0)
Joe Isbill
Where to start...It was our DofE practice expedition and it hadn’t stopped raining the first day and it wasn’t going to on the second day either. I took the map and looked at it and said why dont we follow the short cut along the road. About 5 mins later the group safety leader pulls up in his van and starts berating us for walking along a main road to save 1 mile of walking we were sent back to follow the marked route and at the next checkpoint were given a 5 mile penalty loop. Safe to say I wasn’t popular with the boys in our group but Alviar was the one to say come on then lets go get this done and also took the map out of my hands for the rest of the trip. When it came round to the real thing and we had to make a presentation his fascination for wild flowers carried us through the project that without him would likely have been a load of flowers and green plants on some slides with a group of lads just looking at them saying the colours of the plants. I will always cherish the hours we played video games and he would always stick to the one character he knew best no mater how much we suggested diversification, and to be fair he rarely put a foot wrong playing that character. Although never taking arts he certainly could draw, I still have the hand drawn birthday card he made for my 18th birthday that drew on the fact i always spent too much time looking at and buying clothes in the common room rather than putting that time into schoolwork. There was also all the Japanese sweets he always encouraged us to try when he spares that he brought in for a snack and after a trip to Japan brought us back bags of sweets for us to try ourselves. As well as that there was the obsession with pens that infiltrated our friendship group, with at one point all of us having the same Lamy pen but all in different colours to save time knowing who’s was who’s! Those are just a few memories of the many I could write paragraphs about
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2021-07-03 16:03:43 View / Comment (0)
Izzy mancey
i sat a few seats away from Alviar in chemistry. i hated chemistry with a burning passion at a-level, and this was known by my entire class. i continually failed my class tests and could never keep my temper. but whenever i asked Alviar for help on a concept - he never made me feel stupid, which is something a fair few of my classmates knew how to do. he always had a story to tell, a smile on his face and an aura of positivity. he was truly the best of us x
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2021-06-30 17:26:34 View / Comment (0)
Sarah Ellins
At the end of year 11 at a classic Roundwood Park gathering in Rothampsted Park, I remember sitting with Alviar next to a tree discussing at length the many flavours of echo falls, as he sat with his bottle of White Peach and Mango wine he tried his best to convince me of its superiority. While everyone else sat there with a variety of cheap beer, he sat drinking his wine, true to himself in every sense. Every time I see a bottle of White Peach and Mango wine, I will be reminded of him and his unique charm and his extraordinary spirit.
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James Crawley
James Crawley
Being five years older than Alviar, I never really saw him at school other than on the schoolbus in my final two years at Roundwood. However, we were in the same Karate class when I was around 14 and he was only 8 or 9. As we both attended Karate at least once a week, I saw him a lot in Karate. As we were at similar belt levels, we were often in the same group. I have several funny memories of Alviar at Karate even all these years later. Two main memories still remain. There was a time, after a Karate lesson, where me and him were in the changing rooms, it was just us two. I was changing out of my Gi, then he just suddenly blurted out "FAT ARSEHOLES!" for no reason. He wasn't insulting me or saying it maliciously, he was just being cheeky! Seeing a small child blurt this out was the funniest thing I'd heard all year, as it reminded me when I was 8 or 9 and I used to scream random rude things in front of teachers or older people (and to him I would've seemed really old!) to see what I could get away with. I literally burst out laughing right there and then because it took me by so much surprise. Another was when he turned to the Sensei and said "He's trying to kill me with the Kata!" I have no idea why but this also cracked me up. Just the way he said it. Fast forward 9 or so years and I find out about the Save Alviar campaign. The name rings a bell, and then I remember, this was someone I once knew from Karate! I was so shocked to hear he had leukaemia, that funny kid from Karate I knew all those years back. I was never close friends or anything with him, and never saw him again after he was about 12 when I left Roundwood, but I still do have memories of him and was shocked and saddened at his passing. My thoughts are with his family in what must have been a really rough few years!
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