E are delighted with this opportunity of wishing the Art Students’ Annual many happy returns of the day on its first birthday. It is our sincere hope that this its first faltering step will leave an enduring “footprint on the

sands of time.” ;

The Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts was formed as the result of the unceasing efforts of the B. C. Art League, who had made provision for its establishment in its constitution 6 years ago.

The School opened on Oct. lst with an enrollment far larger than had. been expected. But we can say with pride that contrary to all tradition we have com- bined quantity and quality.

An Art Students’ Club has been formed “for the mutual improvement of its members and the furtherance of art education,’ and student self-government has been established. All students upon registration and payment of a small fee auto- matically become members. The Art Students’ Club has undertaken to publish the “Paint-Box” and to hold a Beaux-Arts Ball annually. These two events, the Ball in the fall and the Paint-Box in June, we aim to make the high lights of the student activities of the year.

The School is fortunate in the possession of a talented and enthusiastic staff. Mr. Scott, the Director, is well known as an etcher and former super- intendent of Art in the public schools, and as the magazine goes to press we learn he has received further honors in the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. He is ably assisted in the Drawing and Painting department by Mrs. Hoole and Miss Railton.

Mr. Marega’s fame as a sculptor is international, and we are very lucky in having him as head of the modelling department.

Mr. Semeyn instils in us the principles of Design, leaving to Mrs. Sharland the more feminine province of Costume Design.

We hope that teaching us has proved as enjoyable to them as being taught has to us, and we are sure we all look back on the 1925-26 session as a year which has been happily and profitably spent.