Life in Rewind. Terry Murphy Weible

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      Shortly after the bull incident, Michael sailed across the ocean, landing at Niagara Falls with his family-a brief stopover for the Jenikes before his father landed a professorship at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Jenike family, which soon included younger brother Ian, moved many times, until Michael’s senior year in high school when they headed east to Winchester, Massachusetts.

      The constant shifts of neighbourhood and school took a heavy toll on the very shy Michael. It seemed every school had its own group of bullies waiting to terrorize the next new kid-and he was always that new kid. It was agonizing being beaten up all the time, but it was even more unbearable for him to watch his younger brother become a target as well.

      But Michael recalls the incident where he stopped being a victim. One afternoon, after yet another move-this time simply to a new neighbourhood within Salt Lake-he and Ian were approached by a group of older boys. A calm came over him. Suddenly, it no longer mattered to him that the boys who had come to pick on them were all bigger, and it didn’t matter that he was outnumbered; he’d had enough. He took Ian home, and came back to fight the boys, alone.

      Michael quickly developed a reputation for fearlessness, but also for trouble. Born out of the necessity to survive as the new kid and a target for bullies, a very nice boy suddenly became a behavioural and academic challenge. The behavioural problems that ensued led his parents to enrol the now fiery 11-year-old in a more discipline-orientated, religious private school. His parents hoped that the structure would help put him back on the straight and narrow. But Michael’s hatred for bullies continued to solidify, and now extended to the tyrannical figures that ran his new school.

      The German headmaster, a strict disciplinarian with a somewhat sadistic bent, arranged gruelling boxing matches between his students at lunchtime. Michael remembers having been intentionally paired with a much bigger boy just so the man could watch him take a beating. It was a school where only the strong survived the administration, much less the brutality of the tougher boys, and Michael remembers vividly the cruelty displayed by its leadership, particularly on one occasion when a young Dutch boy whose mother was dying of cancer was struck so hard by the headmaster that you could see the detail of his fingerprints on the side of the boy’s face for the rest of the day. It was a profound and lasting experience for Michael. Going forward, he would be wary of authority and rarely trusting of administrations of any

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