I have been asked to "rite a “Swan
Song", but not being perticularly adept
at speechifying, I will make it short.

I would just like to say how really
sorry 1 am to ‘be leaving the school.
When you first enter, full of ambition
and bursting with ideas,you think "Good
Heavens! = Four Years!" Then here you
are about to leave guiding hands and
brilliant suggestions to > on on
your on.

At last the school is to have a buil-
ding of its om ‘which “ill “give next
year's executive, which is an excellent
one, wonderful opportunities for reor-
ganizing, Also there vill be three less
flights of stairs to climb!

I have enjoyed the position I have
held among you during the past year. It
is an excellent experience for anyone
and my only regret is that I have not
done more with that year, I would like
to give a vote of thanks to Mr. Scott
and the Students' Council for valuable
support.

A word in farewell to the Palette,
and I hope it will continue on a still
larger and more excellent scale next
yoar.

Joyce Benson.
Dear Graduates,

I am sorry to lose you - $ But I'm
glad you made the grade, It has been a
happy year, and I hope you'll feel that
you are taking away with you, something
tangible and precious, Associations -
knowledge and experience that will en-
rich all your lives and will help
release within you the fine artistic
expression of which I know you are
capable, :

Use your knowledge,if you would have
it live and grow,

The world needs more beauty in its
thinking and in its way of living - and
it needs our young artists as much as
it needs its daily bread. Bless you -
Come back often - and we'll have a real
school of our own in which to welcome
you next winter.

Sincerely,
Grace VW, Melvin.

TO THE 1936 (JUBILEE) GRADUATES .....

Each year in the month of May a num-
ber of students complete their fourth
year of Art School with a quality of
work behind them which werrants gradua-
tion.

The Graduation Diploma is a mark of
attainment but it must be considered
merely as a milestone in the path of
experience,

During your four years the school
has striven to give what it could of
the true principles of art ~ These prin
ciples you will take with you into the
testing field of a fuller contact with
life than is possible within the walls
of a school,

Your schooling goes on and you will
only reach the full expression of your
personality if vou see the future as a
huge laboratory in which you are a work
er --

The world has as great a need of the
artist today as ever, although the form
of his expression may be different from
yesterday.

It will be for you to find out where
and how you can apply your art training
and it should be remembered that it may
be applied in many vocations and under
many conditions,

Vancouver is at last awakening to
the artistic talent of its sons and
daughters and the future is bound up
with you.

The city is of a beauty which chall-
enges your quality and power - Step out
in this Jubilee year and think what the
next fifty years may be for the city
through your work in the arts.

You are the last graduates to emerge
from these rooms in which the school
commenced eleven years ago.

The school will reopen in September
within a building which it can truly
call its own and will offer amenities
which you did not enjoy. We hope never-
theless, that you will carry away mem-
ories of a happy and profitable school
life -

Remember, too,that we are at alltimes
glad to see old students back again and
if we can be of further service please
command us -

Keep your eye clear and your tools
ready!

Charles H, Scott,
Director.