Helen Sawyer Hogg - In Her Own Words

Variable Stars in Globular Clusters: Helen Sawyer Hogg's Presidential Address to the Canadian Astronomical Society
(1973, JRASC 67, 8)
Helen Sawyer Hogg was the founding president of the Canadian Astronomical Society when it formed in 1971. In her presidential address to the Society on May 12, 1972, she gave some personal reminiscences of her astronomical career which began in 1926.

SHAPLEY'S ERA: Helen Sawyer Hogg's Memories of Harlow Shapley
(1988, IAU Symposium 126, 11)
To mark the centennial of Harlow Shapley's birth, Harvard College Observatory hosted an IAU Symposium in August 1986: The Harlow Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies. Helen knew Shapley well. He had been her thesis supervisor when she was at Harvard (1926-1930) and after she left, they maintained a regular correspondence for the rest of his life. She was invited to speak about Shapley at the symposium and her talk was published in the conference proceedings.

Memories of the Plaskett Era of the Domionion Astrophysical Observatory 1931-1934.
(1988, JRASC 82, 328)
In 1988, the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada established an award to honour John Stanley Plaskett, the director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory from 1918 when it opened, until 1935. It was at the DAO that Helen began her own observing program to discover and classify variable stars in globular clusters, after her graduation from Radcliffe in 1931. In a special issue of the  RASC Journal in 1988, she wrote an article about her memories of Plaskett and the DAO.

The Astronomy Column in the Toronto Star
(1981, David Dunlap Doings, January issue)
Forty Years with an Astronomy Column - Behind the Scenes View
(1981, Cassiopeia, Vernal Equinox Issue)
For thirty years, beginning in January 1951, Helen wrote a weekly column on astronomy for the Toronto Star, a major Toronto newspaper. (Her husband Frank had wrtten the column for the previous ten years.) After her final column appeared, on January 10, 1981, she recorded her memories in the DDO Doings, the David Dunlap Observatory newsletter, and in Cassiopeia, the newsletter of the Canadian Astronomical Society.