Helen Louise “Lala” Schnee was an artist, illustrator, and curator. While serving as art director of the Office of Civil Defense in Washington in the 1940s, she designed the insignia for the Civil Defense and for the Air Force Reserve. Schnee was also a founding member of the Foundry Gallery in Washington, D.C., and later served as curator and chairman of the Friendship Gallery at the Friendship Heights Village Community Center in Maryland. She accompanied her husband, a Foreign Service Officer, to posts in Argentina, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Egypt, and Burma.
