Brooklyn-born ice cream icon Jerry Greenfield to speak at St. Francis College
Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Is Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series Speaker
Brooklyn-born Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. will be the 2014 Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series speaker at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen St., on Monday, Oct. 27. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Founders Hall.
Greenfield returns to his native borough with 1,000 scoops of his favorite flavors for “An Afternoon of Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility and Radical Business Philosophy.”
When Ben and Jerry opened their first ice cream store in Vermont, they mixed their ideas of entrepreneurship with socially conscience ethics and showed that, just as in the Franciscan tradition, you can be successful by doing the right thing, school officials said.