Helen Carscallen

Helen Carscallen was born in Chengtu, Szechuan, West China in 1916. Her parents were educational missionaries. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1938, and decided early on to change careers about every ten years. Her first jobs were with the Big Sisters Association as a social worker, and Toronto Children's Aid in public relations. In 1956, she joined the staff of CBC's Public Affairs Department as a Program Organizer (the title was later changed to Executive Producer). She organized and edited a one-hour daily radio program called 'Trans-Canada Matinée'. In 1961-62, along with Helen James, she organized a conference on the status of women in Canada, called 'The Real World of Women' held at the University of Toronto in September 1962. Subsequently she was asked to initiate and organize a daily national half-hour television program called Take Thirty (1962). In 1965, she returned to the University of Toronto for post graduate studies. Her