Jim Helm

Raina Harjo age 19
Cayden Ward age 7
Kylie DeVercelly, 6
Chloe DeVercelly, 3
Oliver DeVercelly, 4 months

REAL ESTATE mostly, but I also taught school in 3 Oklahoma school systems, and spent some time in the OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT of CORRECTIONS (as an employee) I add the comment about the employment status with DOC as about half the Helm bunch are in law enforcement (and the other half of the Helm clan keep them busy - it takes one to catch one, you know!)
I got a Masters in Criminology when I went back to college at age 50. No, crime does not pay......but then neither did criminology. I did enjoy the field, but returned to real estate as I was first licensed in real estate in 1973. I had graduated OSU in 1970, but ended up living in NORMAN almost 40 years! Actually those Norman citizens weren't all that hostile to us OSU grads - I found that if I left my OSU sticker on the back of my pickup, they let me use HANDICAP PARKING anywhere in Norman!
I returned to the BA area to care for Dad when he was in his 90's. He passed away in February 2014 at age 95. His mind was sharp, and his memory virtually flawless ( but I can't remember where I parked my Jeep when I come out of Wal-Mart!) I'm in Tulsa at the moment, but am in the process of building a house in BA on the old Helm dairy farm. (Its no longer a dairy, THANK GOD!)

When we were all in the eighth grade, I was not doing well remembering the details of my constitutional right to remain silent. In a lunch time encounter with Jerry Holden, in the alley out behind the Stanfield Grocery he explained it to me, while sitting on my chest and beating it into my head with his fists, that, in the words of Solomon (Ecclesiastes, Chapter3) "there is a time to speak, and A TIME TO KEEP SILENT!"
His fists seemed to use Morse Code (Whap, Whap, WHAP - pause - WHAP, WHAP!) and until that time, no one had explain so thoroughly the benefits of remaining silent, and how superior that option was over the alternate right of free speech.
The wisdom he shared with me in that manner allowed me to avoid getting my nose ever broken again while expressing an unsolicited opinion! OK, I did get my nose broken again when I was in my 30's but that was the result of a snow-skiing accident, not the result of excess verbage!

I have few regrets in life, but one is my failure to be admitted into the Air Force pilot training. I was in the Air Force ROTC at OSU, but my eyesight was so bad, one supervisor said that I could serve my country best as a pilot for the NORTH Vietnamese, as my flying was a bigger threat to those around me than to an opposing force! (later in life I got Lasix surgery, and can see quite well!)
Retirement plans? Grandpa Helm lived to 92, and Dad made in to 95, but they never retired. I plan to just re-load and keep on working, as that seemed to work for them. Real Estate is not as physically demanding as all that dairy farm work was, and real estate requires me to stay sharp mentally.