[2] He was born to Jacob Sapirstein;[1] the stein ending, Yiddish pronunciation: "SHtein", means "stone".
[1] In the 1930s, rather than merely sell what others had designed, he began what is now the American Greetings Creative Department, which the New York Times described as "one of the biggest art studios in the United States."
He authored the company's "From Someone Who Likes to Remember Someone Too Nice to Forget" card, using skills he developed and improved by taking courses at night.
Among the causes supported by Stone were Yeshiva University, Hebrew Academy of Cleveland,[1] and the Chinuch Atzmai Torah schools in Israel.
[4] The Stones supported projects under the guidance of Rabbi Nachum Zev Dessler, in Cleveland.