Online petition seeks to rename USD 373 s Lindley Hall
The Kansan
A new grassroots effort is showing support for the renaming of Lindley Hall at Santa Fe 5/6 Center on Change.org.
A building that bears the name of the principal, and basketball coach, that got it constructed. However, Frank Lindley one of the most successful coaches in the history of Newton High School Sports established practices that were racist. Newton School Board chooses to honor a racist who has caused decades of unfair treatment and emotional distress to many community Hispanic and Black American students. While the name, Lindley Hall, may bring smiles to those who were deemed worthy enough to benefit from his tenure in Newton, it remains a horrible scar on the souls of minorities, wrote Maia Cuellar Serafini, the author of the petition located at Change.org on behalfon behalf of her father, Anthony Cuellar. Anthony Cuellar, a retired teacher form Newton USD 373, has been outspoken at the board of