dale’s first major secular ceramic commission was executed in 1964-65 for sarco canada’s new facility in toronto, a building designed by ussner. with its intricate surfaces of cut bricks within which were integrated abstracted figures, representing "sympathy for man," it was clearly influenced by recently excavated mayan architecture. made of unglazed and glazed brick and sculptured stoneware, in colours ranging from venetian red through terra cotta, orange, grey, purple, blue and turquoise, the five hundred square foot mural covered a wall in the entrance to sarco’s toronto offices. a year later, champion and critic of the allied arts, anita aarons, prominently featured this project in an exhibition catalogue page dedicated to dale’s ceramic murals published in conjunction with the university of toronto and the royal architecture institute of canada. aarons also subsequently included her in a 1967 exhibition of arts and architecture and participated with her in a radio interview on the importance of the allied arts.