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 Albums
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...