Born December 10, 1916. A retired teacher, she was the first woman to serve as president of Congregation Achduth Vesholom, the city’s Reform Jewish congregation. She served as president of the Friends of the ACPL and president of the library’s building corporation. Her awards include the Sagamore of the Wabash, the Father Tom Light of Christ Award from St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the 2010 Tapestry Dedication Award and Fort Wayne Community Schools named its middle school speech contest trophy the Betty E. Stein Award. She received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Saint Francis in 2014.
- Betty Stein has seen dramatic changes in her 97 years, Bonnie Blackburn, Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 on Fort Wayne.com.
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During a recent visit, Betty Stein reminisced about the libraries she grew up with in Fort Wayne. If you are inspired to support our new library as part of the Madge Rothschild Resource Center, please donate one of "Betty’s 100 Books" in honor of her upcoming 100th birthday. Find out more at http://www.templecav.org/Participate/Learning/Library.aspx
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During a recent visit, Betty Stein reminisced about the libraries she grew up with in Fort Wayne. If you are inspired to support our new library as part of the Madge Rothschild Resource Center, please donate one of "Betty’s 100 Books" in honor of her upcoming 100th birthday. Find out more at Welcome To The Madge Rothschild Resource Center archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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December 14, 2016 post by the Allen County Public Library on Facebook:
Many thanks to Betty Stein for her praises in the article in The News-Sentinel! Congratulations to another one of "the county's greatest"--she just celebrated her 100th birthday!
One of the county's greatest treasures archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
- At 100, longtime local educator, N-S columnist Betty Stein recalls a 'charmed life' Becoming a teacher was "one of the "most wonderful things" she has done by Kevin Kilbane originally published December 9, 2016 in The News-Sentinel newspaper archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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October 7, 2017 post by The News-Sentinel on Facebook:
As we say goodbye to our print edition, centenarian Betty Stein gives her thoughts on what The News-Sentinel has meant to her.
News-Sentinel columnist reflects on newspaper's history archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
- BETTY STEIN: Reminiscing leads to a column Fort Wayne — long ago posted November 28, 2017 in The News-Sentinel newspaper. Was archived 3 times November 28, 2017 and December 4, 2017 but had problems loading the last time it was checked on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. This column was going to be about your fascinating responses to the last column that was concerned with protagonists and “The Forsyte Saga.” But all of a sudden nostalgia wrapped itself around my self and I am in a mood remembering what it used to be like. Ergo – a column on Fort Wayne long December 18, 2022 post on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.
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October 1, 2018 post by The News-Sentinel on Facebook:
For many years, Betty Stein has given us numerous great columns and tidbits about Fort Wayne's past. Read her farewell column.
BETTY STEIN COLUMN: “We have become friends – and I am far richer because of that” - her farewell column and announcement of her forthcoming book September 28, 2018 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.
BETTY STEIN COLUMN: “We have become friends – and I am far richer because of that” was archived 3 times November 28, 2017 and December 4, 2017 then again October 1, 2018 but had problems loading the last time it was checked on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Betty Stein, who wrote more than 2,000 “By the Way” columns for The News-Sentinel, has collected some of her best into a book and will sign them for her readers Friday, Dec. 7.
Copied from Betty Stein’s familiar ‘By the Way’ columns are now a book; signing Friday published December 5, 2018 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.-
December 10, 2018 post by The News-Sentinel on Facebook:
Happy Birthday to former
News-Sentinel columnist Betty Stein!
The News-Sentinel newspaper. Was archived 2 times December 10 and December 26, 2018 but had problems loading the last time it was checked on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.Today is Betty Stein’s 102nd birthday. So here is my birthday card to her. Betty is best known to News-Sentinel readers for her columns that appeared in the newspaper beginning in 1982, the year I became sports editor. But she became much more special to me when I became editor of the paper in 2007, because along with that responsibility came the distinct pleasures of editing her columns and interacting with her on a regular basis.
Copied from KERRY HUBARTT COLUMN: “By the way,” Betty Stein, your many friends are richer for having known you published December 10, 2018. - By The Way, the Columns of Betty E. Stein Paperback – October 30, 2018, by Betty E. Stein (Author), Blake Sebring (Author) on Amazon.com states:
During the summer of 1982, in her role as assistant to the principal, Betty Stein gave The News-Sentinel’s Stewart Spencer a tour of Memorial Park Middle School. The paper’s incoming editor, Spencer was looking for his daughter’s new school."We just hit it off beautifully," Stein said. "He loved the school, and he liked me." Spencer suggested Betty write a guest column, and her first was published Nov. 12, 1982. She continued every other Tuesday until July 31, 2018, and including her Afterwards and Page Turner submissions, Betty wrote more than 2,000 columns in The News-Sentinel.As selected by Betty, here are more than 100 of her best columns, highlighting Fort Wayne and national history, felines, books, movies, music, teaching and, of course, quizzes. – all including Betty’s signature humor, 100-year perspective and self-deprecating style. Here’s your chance to reminisce about some of your favorite Betty Stein memories.