Standiford Helm ’31

Dr. Standiford Helm died at the Evanston [Ill.] Hospital, Mar. 28, 1998. He was 88. Born in Exeter, N.H., Stan prepped for Princeton at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and then earned his MD in 1936 from Northwestern U. Medical School, Alpha Omega Alpha. He continued and completed graduate training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and joined the Army Medical Corps, in which he served from 1939-45. Stan became a major and was stationed at various posts in the South Pacific.

In 1945, honorably discharged, he returned to Evanston and practiced internal medicine there until his retirement. Stan was twice married, once divorced, once a widower, and was unmarried at the time of his death. He is survived by his sons James and Standiford II, his daughters Margaretta Withers and Isabel Struc, 12 grandchildren, and a sister, Marjorie Helm Swigert. The class joins his survivors in mourning the death of this devoted doctor.

The Class of 1931