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Former regent and DAA recipient dies

By Tom Vogel
January 8, 2007

Hovald K. Helseth '56, a former regent and St. Olaf Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, died on Jan. 3 at age 72. Helseth, who was from Minnetonka, Minn., attended medical school at the University of Minnesota following his graduation from St. Olaf, and went on to build the pediatric cardiac surgery program at Minneapolis Children's, with open-heart surgery beginning in 1974. A recent obituary in the Star Tribune describes him as "a pioneering children's heart surgeon and an old-school Norwegian to his bones."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.