Arelene Wolinski

What an amazing professor! I was in her Ancient Egypt class in the late 90s. It was an evening class and she would always bring cookies for us. I still have the book she wrote for the course. She really lit my passion for Egypt. I always dreamed of going on one of her tours of the Nile. I will always remember her. Thank you, Professor Wolinski for sharing your knowledge, passion and laugh. You will be missed.

She was a wonderful human being and an amazing instructor at Mesa College. She will always be missed. I really enjoyed the time I spent in both of the classes

I liked subjects in humanities but didn't want to study them, opting instead for a STEM track. But I was required for my degree to study one year in a humanities subject. I procrastinated until I had to choose. The only subject left for me to pick was history and I dreaded it because I thought it would be boring and pointless. Professor Wolinski was my history prof. She opened my eyes and changed my life. Best professor ever.

Dr Wolinski was without a doubt one of the very best professors that I had the pleasure of meeting. Her Ancient Egypt class set in motion my continued love for Egypt and inspires me every time I travel to Egypt. RIP my dear friend.

Amazing person

Arelene was bigger than life. She and Thad truly blessed my life with travel. I will be forever grateful to her. I miss and love her.

Arelene opened the world of travel to me. Traveling to Egypt, Tunisia and Cambodia etc. with Arelene was an exciting learning adventure- and did we have fun! She is missed.

I had no idea that so many months ago we´d lost a wonderful friend of countless students, travelers, and fellow academics who shared her love of the classics and antiquity. Arelene and Thad were donors of over 400 volumes of the invaluable Loeb Classical Library that has for decades benefited the students and faculty in Classics at San Diego State University. Arelene was an indefatigably vibrant, always congenial member of the profession, and I just the other day, unaware of her passing, I...

I am so sorry to hear of Dr. Wolinski's death. Every class she taught at Oasis, I attended. She was fun and knowledgeable and a great teacher. She was interesting and courageous and I learned so much from her and will think of her often. She will be missed by a lot of us who finally experienced a really good history teacher!!