One of the city’s public schools could get a new name, if a request by a member of the School Committee is approved. 

 

On Thursday, School Committee member Collin Dias submitted a form to rename the Stone K-12 Day School, at 2501 S. Main St., in honor of the late Dr. Irving Fradkin, an optometrist and philanthropist who founded Dollars for Scholars.  

 

“I ask that this item follow the proper protocol and come before the committee when it is due to for a vote,” Dias wrote in a statement accompanying his filing. 

 

Who was Fradkin — or Stone, for that matter? And how would the renaming process work? 

 

Fradkin was born in Chelsea, the second-youngest of seven children of Abraham and Eva Fradkin, Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland. He came to Fall River in 1943, where he set up an optometry practice. 

 

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