After receiving his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University, Bert Helm came to Missouri State University in 1966. Although the Political Science and Philosophy departments separated in the late 1980s, Bert had a tremendous impact on our majors over the course of his forty-year career.
Reflecting on Emerson and education in 1992, Bert wrote that “we shall find nothing very much like the quiet and deliberate Sage of Concord.” A fitting epitaph for our long-time colleague, Professor Bertrand P. Helm.