Editing Robert Vesco (section)

==Early Life and Education==
Robert Lee Vesco was born on December 4, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan, to Donald Vesco, an Italian-American autoworker at Chrysler, and Donna Vona, of Slovenian descent. Raised in a lower-middle-class family, Vesco grew up in Detroit’s industrial heartland, attending Cass Technical High School. A restless and ambitious youth, he dropped out before graduating, driven by a desire to escape Detroit’s working-class confines. 

His teenage dreams, as recounted by biographer Arthur Herzog in Vesco: From Wall Street to Castro’s Cuba (1987), were to become a millionaire, lead his own company, and leave Detroit behind. Vesco briefly pursued an engineering correspondence course but abandoned it in his early twenties to chase financial opportunities, starting with an $800 stake in the aluminum market.