North Side High School - Lasso Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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GLIMPSES INTO THE LIFE OF DR. HELBING Late in the nineteenth century on the sixteenth of Decem- ber, Dr. Hugh V. Helbing was born in Pimerville. Ohio. His family moved to Bonham, Texas, where he finished high school, and where he held his first job. that of street-car conductor. He first attended college in Valparaiso, Indiana. Later he worked his way through the American Medical School in St. Louis, first by wrapping bundles in a department store and then by working at night with the Terminal Railroad Associa- tion; he graduated in 1908. An accident put him to bed for a year. He fell from a derrick while working on a well and sustained a broken leg. The injury was so severe that the doctors advised an amputa- tion, but his father, who was also a doctor, refused, and so saved his leg. In 1909 he came to Fort Worth and established himself in the practice of medicine, which he has continued here since that time. Dr. Helbing got off to a good start by taking a wife early in his career. After a year's courtship he married Agnes Magoffin on November 16, 1910. They have three sons, Hugh V., Elmer, and Leslie, all graduates of North Side. About 1914. while medical examiner for an insurance com- pany. Dr. Helbing made his calls on a motorcycle because he thought his horse and buggy too slow. For many years he has taken a prominent part in civic af- fairs. He has been a booster for Fort Worth and especially for North Side. With the completion of the new North Side Senior High School building, one of his most cherished projects was realized. Dr. Helbing has many hobbies, as golf, pigeons, rabbits, boats, goldfish, and aquariums. Fond of dogs, he has always had one in his home.

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DEDICATION Long recognized as one of the best high schools in the South- west, North Side now has a physical plant in keeping with the fine spirit of its student body and the superior type of training that it offers. In recognition of his untiring efforts and interest in obtaining this beautiful and commodious new building for the boys and girls of North Fort Worth, the Lasso staff proudly dedi- cates this, the 1938 yearbook, to Dr. H. V. Helbing. Dr. Helbing has been a member of the Board of Education for the past six years and was recently elected for another six-year term. He belongs to the North Fort Worth Kiwanis Club, of which he was president in 1929, the First Presbyterian Church, the American Medical Association, and the Masonic Lodge.