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Dorothy Schein celebrates 100 years By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
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100-YEaR-old doRoTHY SCHEIN blew out the candle at her birthday celebration at Grace Lutheran Church in Malverne. Schein has been a parishioner there for about 50 years, and previously volunteered at the church’s office.
he community of Grace Lutheran Church came to celebrate 100 years of Dorothy Schein last week. Schein, who reached the century mark on Aug. 19, has lived in Malverne for nearly 50 years. Originally from Queens, Schein attended Public School 155 in her elementary years, and John Adams High School. Dorothy, called Dotty by friends and family, worked at Hartford insurance Company from 1941 to 1984. Throughout the more than 40 Continued on page 4
Committee asks: What should we call Lindner Place? By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
A committee made up of community organizers and members of the Malverne board of trustees moved forward at an Aug. 21 meeting with efforts to rename Lindner Place, a street named for a reportedly prominent member of the Ku Klux Klan. Attempts to rename the street have been ongoing since 2020, when George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minnesota, drawing renewed scrutiny toward monuments, building names and street names associated with white supremacy. An online petition calling for the
removal of Lindner’s name started by T.J. Magno amassed more than 5,600 signatures. Paul Lindner was president of the Malverne Bank from 1926 to 1931, in addition to being a farmer and a major landholder in the village and rose to prominence at the height of the socalled “Second Klan” during the 1920s, when the white supremacist group peaked at more than five million members across the country. Lindner was a prominent figure in the New York Klan, acting as the “Exalted Cyclops” or chief officer of his local chapter and a “Great Titan,” indicating a top position of leadership at the
county level. Lindner organized cross burnings and a march of the KKK through Freeport, according to the initial petition to rename the street. Committee members stressed that Lindner and the Klan directed their venom toward many different groups of people. “When you hear ‘the KKK,’ most people think of a certain thing against Black people. That wasn’t specifically the case here in Malverne,” said committee member Lori Hunt Lang. “It was against immigrants. It was against Catholics. It was against, specifically here, Irish Catholics and Italian Catholics.” The Malverne board of trust-
ees organized a committee in January to generate ideas for changing the name of the street. The committee had initially decided against naming the street after a person, expressing concerns that selecting one name over others might upset the friends and family of the person not chosen. The committee conducted a
survey in which village residents voted for their favorites among a list of 35 names. A total of 209 votes were cast, with 20 of the 35 names receiving votes and four names winning a majority of the community’s support. “Liberty” received 19 votes, “Mayberry” received 23, and “Library” pulled in 27 votes. But Continued on page 15