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Notes:
The Morning Call. Morning
Call. Allentown, Pa.: Apr 26, 1988. pg. B.10
Doris E. Helms, 60, of Hellertown R.1 and Palmer Township, former
Bethlehem Area School District teacher and the 1986 Moravian College
Alumni Association's Comenius Award winner, died Sunday in Easton Hospital.
A teacher for 39 years, Helms retired last June after teaching mathematics
at Liberty High School for 20 years.
She also taught mathematics at Hellertown-Lower Saucon High School,
1949-67, and English at Schuylkill Haven High School during the 1948-49
school year.
Born in Lower Saucon Township, she was a daughter of the late William
F. and Ethel I. (Hineline) Helms.
In addition to the Comenius Award, she received, in 1984, the Triple
E Award, a new award of the Bethlehem Area School District for exemplification
of excellence in education; the annual Educator of the Year Award from
the Bethlehem Schoolmen's Club, and the Bronze Bell Award in 1980 for
outstanding teaching.
Helms was coach of the Liberty High School Scholastic Scrimmage Team,
1976-87, during which her teams won the championship four years.
In addition, she was mathematics team coach at Liberty from its formation
in 1976 until 1986, and during this period, the team won most of the
area and regional mathematics tournaments, including the Muhlenberg
College Mathematics Tournament for nine consecutive years.
Helms also served as the debating team coach at Hellertown-Lower Saucon
for 17 years and at Liberty for three years.
The highest ranking 1948 graduate of Moravian College, she received
her master's degree from Lehigh University in 1951, and had 45 semester
hours of graduate work in mathematics beyond the master's degree at
Lehigh and Temple universities.
Professionally, she was the first president of the Eastern Pennsylvania
Council of Teachers of Mathematics, first chairman of the Lehigh Valley
School Study Council in Mathematics and a past president of the Lehigh
Valley Inter- Scholastic Debate Association.
She was a member of the Alpha Alpha chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma,
an international honorary organization for women educators; of Pi Mu
Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity, and of Pi Delta Epsilon,
honorary journalism fraternity.
In a Morning Call Neighbors story in November 1986, she said she always
knew she'd become a teacher, "It seemed natural. I've always liked
the idea of explaining things, especially in mathematics, because it's
so definite and clear when you've accomplished something."
Helms was a member of Durham Lutheran Church, Durham Township.
Surviving are two brothers, Glenn L. and William F. Jr. both of Lower
Saucon Township.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Heintzelman Funeral Home,
326 Main St., Hellertown. Calling hours will be 7-9 p.m. Wednesday.
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