“There was a tradition for those students who won the Guild Medal being offered employment by a certain firm. When I won, however, my lack of experience on the construction site was cited as sufficient reason to break with tradition. I was told to return in five years with proof of experience and then I would be hired – as long as I signed an agreement not to marry for another ten years.”
1930 FOUTH-YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND STAFF. Beatrice Centner is fourth from the left. CHAIR, contemporary design adapted by Davidson.
DAVIDSON RESIDENCE, Cortleign Boulevard, Toronto, 1942; plans showing the first and second floors.
DINING AND SERVING TABLES, contemporary design adapted by Davidson.
School of Architecture, University of Toronto 1928–1932
1932 Completed four years of study and design thesis at School of Architecture, University of Toronto.
1932–1936 Sales clerk at Eaton’s department store in Toronto.
1937 With Edward Helm, a Hungarian officer and toolmaker, travelled to Tahiti, where they married and planned to settle on a plantation. Wrote articles about life in the South Seas for the Toronto Telegram.
1937 As war tensions increase, the Helms returned to Toronto. Research for a history of Peel County.
1941–1945 Worked as engineering draftsman with Canadian Industries in Windsor, Ontario.
1945 Moved to Los Angeles. Worked as engineering draftsman for a vehicle parts manufacturing firm.
1947 Moved to Eureka, California.
1947–1951 Worked as engineering draftsman, surveyor and mapmaker. Designed and supervised the building of the family house in Kneeland, California. (A second phase was added in 1973.)
1955–1956 Travelled around the world with her husband.
1956–1975 Employed by the office of the State Highway Division, retiring at the age of sixty-seven.
1982 Moved back to Eureka, following the death of her husband.
1993 Katharine Helm died in California.
Katharine Jefferys Helm was the daughter of C.W. Jefferys, well-known Canadian artist and member of the faculty of the School of Architecture, University of Toronto, from 1912 to 1939. While she was at the School of Architecture the length of the course changed from four to five years. There is no record of her graduating; nevertheless, the skills she acquired at university equipped her for thirty-five years of professional life in California.
1932 FOURTH-YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND STAFF. Katharine Jefferys is seated third from right.
B.Arch. 1938
1929 Registered in first-year architecture at the University of Toronto; Dama Lumley was already an elementary school teacher.
1934 Completed final year, School of Architecture. Among the nine students in that year, none had acquired the office experience required for graduation.
1935 Worked as a clerk, selling curtains at Eaton’s department store in Toronto.
1937 Display manager and consultant on interior decorating at Adams Furniture, a store in Toronto. Worked for John T. Findlay, Architect, St. Thomas, Ontario.
1938 B.Arch., University of Toronto. Travelled to Europe and Ireland.
1940 Married Alfred Bell, a chemical engineer, and moved to Windsor, Ontario, where two sons were born.
1946 Moved to Stratford, Ontario. First president and building chair of the new YWCA/YMCA. Organized the local chapter of the University Women’s Club.
1952 First meeting to organize the Stratford Festival was held at the Bell residence, marking the beginning of the Bells’ long-term active involvement with the Stratford Theatre Festival.
1960–1977 Juror for the Canadian Housing Design annual competition. Honorary secretary to the Stratford Festival Board. Awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
1979 Member of the Order of Canada is awarded to Dama and Alfred Bell in recognition of their work for the Stratford Festival. They were the first couple to be so honoured.
2001 Dama Lumley Bell died in Stratford, Ontario.
“I have been thinking a lot about my years at the school. It was hard work, sometimes we worked all night – and when the boys went to the burlesque show I would go to a movie or the library. When I think back on that training, I realize it has been invaluable in working with stage designers at Stratford. They have familiar problems to face – time and design and pressure.”
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