Bernard Hellring

Bernard "Buzzy" Hellring was a creator of Ultimate Frisbee. [cite web | author =
title = Founders of Early Ultimate Teams | publisher = Ultimate History
url = http://www.ultimatehistory.com/founders/Pg/teamfounders.html | date = | accessdate = 2008-04-06 ] Along with Joel Silver, Hellring created ultimate in the parking lot of Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. [cite web | author = Adam Zagoria
title = The History of Ultimate | publisher = The Ultimate Handbook
url = http://www.ultimatehandbook.com/Webpages/History/histulti.html | date = | accessdate = 2008-04-06 ] Hellring died in 1971, in an auto accident at Princeton University. [cite web | author = | title = The "Founders" | publisher = Ultimate Players Association | url = http://www.upa.org/Founders | date = 12/28/2005
accessdate = 2008-04-06 ] He was elected posthumously into the Ultimate Hall of Fame. [cite web | author = | title = Ultimate Hall of Fame Inductees | publisher = Ultimate Players Association | url = http://www.upa.org/hof/inductees | date = 2/14/2008
accessdate = 2008-04-06 ]

After his death, funds were raised to fulfill his dream of producing the high school newspaper he edited as an in-house daily, through purchase of a large Heidelberg printing press. This press was sold sometime in the late 1990s as traditional printing arts were replaced by computer-based technologies in the school's curricula.

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