One of my most popular web pages the past five years has been the list of ten best happy hours in Dunwoody’s Perimeter Center Area. My friend Patty Morrison and I compiled it as a summer project and it has been periodically updated. Google defines happy hour as a...
About Dr. Heller
Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 1: B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – Tradition
The B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky - Tradition It is a Jewish tradition to Bar Mitzvah boys at age thirteen and Bat Mitzvah girls at age twelve to thirteen. Due to the Pandemic, young Kyra Polinsky was facing her fourteenth...
Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 2: B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – Celebration
B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – The Celebration My nephew Craig Polinsky and his lovely wife Tara are both medical doctors with a practice in Deerfield Beach, FL. The Pandemic caused the postponement of their daughter Kyra’s Bat Mitzvah...
What Fuels My Fire
I have been inspired and self-actualized by two major life forces. I am a teacher at heart so the first has been a life-long search for information – learning history to understand the present, identifying trends and phenomena to better prepare for the future,...
First Official Review of Dues by OnlineBookClub.org
Official Review: Dues by Arnold Heller Post by OloladeO » 26 Nov 2018, 09:10 [Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Dues" by Arnold Heller.] 4 out of 4 starsShare This Review Dues; the coming of Allie Cohen is a fictional tale by Arnold Heller,...
Selected Poems & Speeches from Dues – The Coming of Allie Cohen, a novel by Arnold Heller
Most of the novel (Copyright 2018 by Arnold Heller) is set against the end of the Carter administration (1978- 1980) and sprawls across the Reagan era (1980 – 1988). The Library of Congress Control Number is 2017919395, ISBN 978-1-5434-7390-2, 978-1-5434-7389-6,...
Arnold Heller and Bobbie Heller Polinsky’s Genealogy 3: Our DNA Estimate and Ethnicity Breakdown
My sister Bobbie and I have always been aware of 75% of our family origins. Grandmother Freda Belford Heller was from Minsk, Belarus. Our mother Jeanne Bernstein Heller Polinsky’s parents were Samuel Bernstein and Sadie Roth Bernstein, both...
Arnold Heller & Bobbie Heller Polinsky’s Genealogy 2: Our Pennsylvania Family’s Roots, History, and Heritage
Our Family Heritage: Founders of Hellertown, Pen Argyl, Saylorsburg, Appenzell, perhaps Wind Gap too and more. ...
Arnold Heller & Bobbie Heller Polinsky’s Genealogy: Journey into Our Mysterious Family Heritage
From Hoyt Bernard “Bernie” Heller, 1914 - 1955, to Conrad Heller, Brandenburg, Germany, estimated birth 1434 – 1494. My sister Bobbie and I grew up with very limited knowledge of our Heller family line mostly located in east – central...
Photo Album 10 – Arnold & Sue Heller: More Pictures and Stories from our Perfect Wedding
My wife Sue radiated on her wedding day like a sun in the sky. I’ve marveled at how a pretty girl in love and dressed in a gorgeous wedding gown truly glows with a special beauty on her marital day. I’ve witnessed it in Sue and others of her generation and again with...
Photo Album 9 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Most Treasured Family Photos
Sue proudly and lovingly displayed photos that were special to her in attractive frames, or on prominent walls. Four years ago, when I moved into my apartment, all of her favored pictures were gathered in to a visibly prime display space in my living room. With the...
Photo Album 8 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Career and Life Passes with the Blink of an Eye
It took me ten years to find my professional home - Northside / North Atlanta High School - where I believe I had the best twenty-five year long-run of any classroom teacher - certainly had the most fun. I bounced around though for a decade between three...
Photo Album 7 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Perfect Wedding, June 17, 1973
Sue and I were engaged a year to the day after moving to Atlanta on Feb. 22, 1972. My incredibly supportive in-laws, Herman and Roz Auerbach, of whom I never told an in-law joke about, worked very hard to throw Sue and I a fabulous wedding and a great start in a new...
Photo Album 6 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Sasha’s Bar Mitzvah – Celebration
Sasha reading his Torah portion – father and grandfather Herman Auerbach look on. Group picture: Maggie Auerbach Bolstad, nine months older than Sasha, kneels behind him. L – R: Jeanne Heller Polinsky, Arnold Heller, Sue Heller, Herman Auerbach, Lisa Auerbach, Marc...
Photo Album 5 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Sasha’s Bar Mitzvah – Tradition
Left – right: Parents Arnold & Sue Heller, Sasha Heller, Grandparents Roz & Herman Auerbach Wikipedia: Bar is a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic word meaning son; bat means daughter; mitzvah means commandment or law. The male achieves adult status at age thirteen,...
Photo Album 4 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Core and Extended Family
Most of my mother and father’s generation have passed on and some of mine too – a full ancestry genealogy is the last in this photo album series. Left to right at Sue’s shower: Grandma Freda Belford, (standing) Sadie Scheer Roth (Sue’s grandma), Roz Auerbach...
Photo Album 3 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Selected Special People We’ve Known or Met
I have always been a social person and enjoyed a lot of friends over the course of my life – Sue too. A number of them are really special, others were unique individuals that we met in some foreign locale and bonded with very quickly, one of the great joys...
Photo Album 2 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Son Sasha Bart Heller is Born April 19, 1979
Photo Album 2 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Son Sasha Bart Heller is Born April 19, 1978. I always imagine Sasha, eight days old here, looking up at his mother and thinking; “Wow, did I ever luck out! I have a really pretty and cool looking Mom.”...
Photo Album 1 – Arnold & Sue Heller: My Beautiful Wife of Thirty-Eight Wonderful Years
Photo Album 1 – Arnold & Sue Heller: My Beautiful Wife of Thirty-Eight Wonderful Years Sue, age 3, pictured with brother Marc Auerbach, two years older. It’s been said that behind every successful man is a good woman; also, that one and one equaled...
Arnie Heller’s 70th Birthday Celebration at Secret’s Maroma in Cancun, Mexico: Part II.
I have been a lifelong student of architecture and fascinated by its role in creating interesting and attractive public or private spaces that we occupy. After previously experiencing and enjoying Secret's Silversands and Blue Aqua, I’d become a student of the...
Arnie Heller Turns 70 at Secret’s Maroma in Cancun, Mexico: Part I
From Feb. 21 – 27, 2016, special friend Patty Morrison and I celebrated our 70th and 69th birthdays; Patty, Feb. 24, me Feb. 26. As fellow baby boomers, we weren’t thrilled about reaching these ages. We’d twice celebrated week long vacations at all adult, all...
DUES: The Coming of Allie Cohen
DUES: The Coming of Allie Cohen A Novel By Arnold Heller God sends a Messiah who does not fly through the air, walk on water, or hurl lightning and thunderbolts. The Prophet’s mission - the Lord’s Einstein of human relations research - is to...
Achievements
Received many awards for excellence in academic, entrepreneurship, international education Organized / facilitated / hosted 25 student exchanges 1989 – 2011 including 6 super-exchanges Coordinated major Atlanta forum 1980 – 2004:...
About Dr. Arnold Heller
Arnold Heller earned B. A. (1968) and Masters of Education (1971) degrees from Pace University, New York City, and a Ph. D. from Georgia State University in Atlanta (1978) for Curriculum & Instruction and taught in the Atlanta Public Schools (1972 – 2004)...