Van Vlahakis: The Greek Green Pioneer

Van Vlahakis: The Greek Green Pioneer

Born on this day, January 14 in 1935, Vlahakis was the epitome of the American Dream and a great philanthropist throughout his life. Born in Crete on January 14, 1935, Van Vlahakis came to the US as a young man ready to change his life and the world; and he did. He left Greece in 1953 to escape poverty after World War II had torn apart Europe, and went to Chicago, IL to study chemistry at Roosevelt University. He was going to school in the morni…