Bernard "Buzzy" Hellring was a co-creator of Ultimate Frisbee.[1] Along with Joel Silver and Johnny Hines, Hellring created ultimate in the parking lot of Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.[2][3][4][5][6] and subsequently codified the rules of the sport.[7][8]
Hellring was the son of Bernard Hellring, an attorney and New Jersey Commissioner of Uniform State Law and Sally Horner Hellring of South Orange, New Jersey.,[9][10] part of the South Orange-Maplewood School District.
Hellring died in 1971, in an auto accident at Princeton University.[11][12]He was elected posthumously into the Ultimate Hall of Fame.[13]
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.