448:. To house the sports collection, Helms Hall was built in three phases. The first phase of the two-story building was completed on October 18, 1948, at cost of more than $ 125,000. On November 28, 1949, a building addition completed the second phase at the cost of $ 150,000. The third phase addition cost in excess of $ 150,000.
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National Championships, as they are known today, is disingenuous at best. This is especially true when dubious assumptions and unsupported claims are used to support this theory or to make Schroeder's picks more important or authoritative than they actually were at the time.
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for six years from its founding to his death (1951–1957). As a tribute to his service and support the FAE provide a grant to create the Paul Hoy Helms
Library in Liberal Adult Education. The collection was composed of books selected by faculty and staff over the fifteen years that the grant existed.
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After graduating from
Syracuse in 1912, Helms began working as a life insurance agent in Pennsylvania, where he met and married Pearl Ellis. After two years, they moved to New York, where Helms started a small bakery, taking it from one route to 200. In 1926 at the age of 37, he was forced to retire
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Helms provided the funding needed to operate Helms Hall. It was, as described by its sports museum's
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and owned a second residence at Smoke Tree Ranch. In 1948 Helms and other influential permanent and winter residents formed The
Committee of Twenty-Five to promote civic activities in Palm Springs. Other members included Asa V. Call, President of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., LeGrand Simson
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Helms Bakery was an enormous operation. It was at its height in the 1950s with 950 sales routes as far north as Fresno and as south as San Diego. The list of baked goods topped 150 items and he had 1,850 employees. Helms
Bakeries were turning out more than a million loaves of bread a day, all
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post-season tournaments were played, reflected the winners of the 1938 NIT and 1939 NIT, as well as the winners for all years of the NCAA Tournament except for 1939, 1940, 1944 and 1954. The
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at the corner of Venice and
Washington in Los Angeles County. He employed 32 people and owned 11 trucks, referred to as coaches. The Twincoach Helm's bakery truck, with its recognized two-tone custom paint job, is on display at the
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lifted off to make the first Moon landing and then return to Earth as per President Kennedy's objective. The company secured a contract to furnish bread for the mission, making Helms baked goods "The First Bread on the Moon".
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Bill Schroeder named a national champion in college basketball from 1901 to 1982, with his selections from 1901 to 1941 being named retrospectively in 1943 and 1957. The Helms champion, for the years in which the
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He incorporated the idea of the Official Olympic Bread into his company logo, placed on his factory signs and painted it on all of his coaches. His slogan was "Olympic Games Bakers – Choice of Olympic Champions".
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