1950s


Jack Tupper Daniels ’55, Cortland, NY, an Olympian and award-winning athlete, just finished his biography. “Luck of The Draw” tells of his time competing in modern pentathlon in three World Championships and two Olympics and his years coaching Olympians, collegiate national champions and NCAA All-Americans. He was inducted into the U.S.A. Track and Field and Cross-Country Association’s Coaches Hall of Fame in 2019. “I still consider my years at the University of Montana as the greatest years of my life,” he says.


Larry Helwig ’55, M.S. ’57, Brookings, SD, established the first “choose and cut” Christmas tree farm in South Dakota with his wife. Helwig enjoyed an extensive career in forestry, working in timber management in Custer State Park, as a manager for a pulp and paper wood chip plant in the Black Hills and as the state’s extension forester for South Dakota State University’s Horticulture Department. He earned the S.D. Society of American Foresters’ Forest Resources Award in 1988 for his work in tree management, increasing Black Hills timber harvest and initiating an urban forestry program in the state. Now, 92 years old, Helwig enjoys talking about urban forestry with his grandson, a horticulturalist.

 

Larry Helwig



Richard Woods ’56, Chicago, self-published his latest work, “Seven Court House Windows Shattered: Montana Celebrates the Armistice.” He is the author of several other compilations focusing on history in Phillips and Valley counties in Montana.