{"id":1922,"date":"2019-09-30T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2019-09-30T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:04:20","slug":"the-happiest-people-we-know-barry-henkin-heights-high-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"The happiest people we know: Barry Henkin, Heights High Hall of Famer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"title-container\" class=\"post-title\" tabindex=\"0\" contenteditable=\"true\" spellcheck=\"true\" aria-label=\"Post title\">The happiest people we know: Meet the unofficial &#8216;mayor&#8217; of Menorah Park Senior Living Center in Beachwood | wkyc.com<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wkyc.com\/embeds\/video\/95-f83e626f-ccb1-4188-9aa5-287fc86de076\/iframe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBEACHWOOD, Ohio \u00e2\u20ac\u201d If you&#8217;ve ever walked the halls of Menorah Park Senior Living Center in Beachwood, chances are you&#8217;ve been greeted by Barry Henkin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my job,&#8221; said Henkin. &#8220;I like making people happy and people feel welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that friendly, outgoing personality that has dubbed him the unofficial &#8216;mayor&#8217; of Menorah Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are days that I don&#8217;t know if I work for him, or he works for me and that&#8217;s OK!&#8221; laughs Menorah Park CEO Jim Newbrough.<\/p>\n<p>Henkin&#8217;s official job is to assist residents going to and from physical therapy, but there isn&#8217;t a task that he won&#8217;t happily do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the heart of this community, what really makes Menorah Park special, he&#8217;s at the core,&#8221; said Newbrough.<\/p>\n<p>Part-time gardener, greeter and full-time spreader of joy to everyone he meets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always have a positive attitude,&#8221; Henkin said. &#8220;I always smile. I&#8217;m always happy to see (the residents). Give them a hug, make them feel good and say, &#8216;I&#8217;m glad to see you today. I hope you have a nice day.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born with Asperger syndrome, Henkin doesn&#8217;t let his challenges define who he is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look at myself as a human being like you and me. I tell people to look at me for who I am. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t judge me for the way I wear my clothes or the way I look, but look at me as Barry Henkin.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he defines himself by how he chooses to live.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you talk to Barry about it, what he will really say is everybody has challenges,&#8221; Newbrough said. &#8220;He has his set of challenges. Everybody else has their set of challenges. You just keep overcoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming challenges and spreading happiness, no matter the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just be happy,&#8221; Henkin said. &#8220;Have a positive attitude. When you wake up each morning say to yourself, &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna have a good day. I&#8217;m gonna do my best, look my best and do the best I can.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/features\/barry-henkin-unofficial-mayor-menorah-park-senior-living-center-beachwood\/95-a95fb311-06cd-48cd-bc99-a137ed6c81fa?fbclid=IwAR3ORhwlerrAIBV3XQdPnfTGdZE-2tpjjYhHf2jZvz7UgHQMdUWGGAXGC3A\">The happiest people we know: Meet the unofficial &#8216;mayor&#8217; of Menorah Park Senior Living Center in Beachwood | wkyc.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And today, Barry is now a member of the Cleveland Heights Distinguished Hall of Fame, Class of &#8217;80 Graduate Barry Henkin<br \/>\nHe can&#8217;t wait to see you all at the 40th reunion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The happiest people we know: Meet the unofficial &#8216;mayor&#8217; of Menorah Park Senior Living Center in Beachwood | wkyc.com BEACHWOOD, Ohio \u00e2\u20ac\u201d If you&#8217;ve ever walked the halls of Menorah Park Senior Living Center in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/?p=1922'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>The happiest people we know: Barry Henkin, Heights High Hall of Famer!<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chhs-class-of-1980-40-year-reunion","tag-barry-henkin","excerpt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chhsreunion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}