Paul Hoy Helms (September 19, 1889 – January 5, 1957) was an American executive in the baking industry and sports philanthropist.

(Hoy was a deaf-mute and a Major League Baseball player who played for the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox.

[citation needed]) Helms lived on his uncle's dairy farm in Mount Healthy, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, with his aunt Anna Maria (who was also deaf) and their six children.

Helms attended school in Buffalo, New York and then matriculated at Syracuse University, where he was a coxswain on the crew team.

[1][2] After graduating from Syracuse in 1912, Helms began working as a life insurance agent in Pennsylvania, where he met and married Pearl Ellis.

The Twincoach Helm's bakery truck, with its recognized two-tone custom paint job, is on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

Helms won a first-of-its-kind contract to supply the breads to be served at the men's Olympic Village in Baldwin Park.

[9] On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off to make the first Moon landing and then return to Earth as per President Kennedy's objective.

In 1948 Helms and other influential permanent and winter residents formed The Committee of Twenty-Five to promote civic activities in Palm Springs.

[11] In February 1954, Helms, in keeping with the goals of the Committee of Twenty-Five, hosted President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the First Lady for a seven-day vacation at his private residence in Smoke Tree Ranch.

It possesses the last uniform worn by Babe Ruth, the one he wore as a coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938 and a torch used to start the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

[14] Helms served on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Adult Education (FAE) at Syracuse University for six years from its founding to his death (1951–1957).

As a tribute to his service and support the FAE provide a grant to create the Paul Hoy Helms Library in Liberal Adult Education.