Jerry Greenfield

Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York City, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973. He applied unsuccessfully for medical school in two successive years, 1973 and 1974. \n', 'In 1978 Greenfield and his friend Ben Cohen opened Ben and Jerry\'s Homemade ice cream scoop shop in an old gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. The company, which sold to the British-Dutch corporation Unilever in 2000, has since opened almost 200 franchised shops and reports earnings of $237 million annually.\n', '

Jerry Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a Jewish family, son of a stockbroker. He lived on Long Island throughout his youth until he left to attend Oberlin College in 1969. In 1963, Greenfield met Ben Cohen during gym class at Merrick Avenue Middle School. Their initial bond formed…