Arizona republican., 1903-05-30
CLOSING DAY EXERCISES
The End of the Phoenix Public SchoO
 Year

Year
 Yesterday marked the closing of the years work in the Phoenix grammar schools and it was celebrated by all the rooms in the various school buildings up to and including the Seventh grade. by rhetorical and other exercises. The Eighth grade pupils, who will next year take up their work in the High school will hold their comm mencement eXer- cises tonight in the auditorium of the High school building The school system of Phoenix has grown to be an institution of qlch magnitude that details of the activities | in each department cannot be fully giv- en. In most Of the six school buildings the different rooms united in holding | joint exercises. all being of a similar and an interesting nature. The most ! impressive exercises held yesterday were in the Central building by the | South Sixth and East Seventh grade | rooms, which united in the programme. l The other rooms in the building except | the Eighth grade had short exercises and then dismissed and joined the pu5- lie generally in witnessing the exercises | of the Sixth and Seventh, the order Of which was as follows:
 Song, "The South Sixth" school
 Reading, "A Girls Complaint" Gladys Jackson.
 Piano solo, June Williams
 Duet, Mrs. Christy and Mrs. Kirch- hoff.
 Drama, "Courtship or Miles Stand ish," dramatized by Ethel Ming and Ina Maddox. Cast-Miles Stardish. James Mcintosh; John Alden, Claude Jones; Priscilla. Ina Maddox; Barbara, June Williams; Hobornok, Alvin Bur tis.
 Reading, "A Naughty Little Girl" Miriam Hershey.
 Music, Alice Redewill.
 Talk on Teachers l have Known, ,' Bertha Vestal
 Solo, Under the Bamboo Tree, " Howard Cowan.
 Reading. "Spoopenaykes Bicycle. % Emma Luhrs.
 Reading. What the Little Girl Said. !. Genell McCrea. Solo, "Only Me" Ina Maddox.
 A talk on one Half," Alma Filing son.
 Music Bertha Kirkland. . CaHsthenics, Seventh grade
 
 [ graph" Ella Luhrs.
 Solo. Minnie Prince. Reading. That Old Sweetheart oi ] Mine,'' Ethel Ming.
 Quartette. "Life's Game of See-Saw,' 9 [ Dero Griffith, Leo Kirchhoff, Minnie , Prince and Eula Barr. Reading, "The Polish Boy" June Williams. 3 Music. Johanna Christensen. Pats Excuse.' Alma Ellingson and | Dora. Ambrose. ; Quintette. Minnie Prince Ethel Ming Ina Maddox. June Williams and Anna , Luke.
 Class prophecy. Ethel Ming.
 "Farewell,' school.
 During the programme Miss Heller Ely read the beautiful and highly ap- propriate poem written by Mrs. Down ing of this city and published in yes . terday mornings Republican, entitled Did the Children All Pass?" Q In the Churchill school there were . short exercises and in the East Eni l school the various rooms had rhetori. r calls. About the same order prevailed
 in the Linville school, great attention
 being paid to the decorations, whicl | were of evergreen and flags. At tn, West End there were good programme! and jolly times.
 The spectacular event of the gram
 mar schools will occur tonight. how
 ever. when the Eighth grade gives it:
 graduating programme at the Higl
 school building. These grammar schoo
 graduates are:
 Grace Idalia Dunbar. Alma Den,
 Macdonald. Helen Alexander, Emma A , Riebling. V. Hazel Osborn. Margare Mae Hurley, Fred Spaulding. BeI Baum. Prudencei Gillum, Alice Halsey Celora Martin Stoddard, Raymond P ' DeMund. Ruth Jessop, Caroline F = Bentley, Lyman D. La Tourrette, Will u bur L. Reynolds. Florita A. Damron Ava Grain, B. Eloise Grant, Anna Leai
 Irvine, Edward Ennis, Margaret Mae - bell Creager. Maud Perry. June Osborn y Neil s. Mccarthy. Margaret c. Jobes e Joe T. Melczer, Rue Eberle. Alma Ma = rilla Osborne, Alexander Baker. RutI d Ainsworth. Mabel Norton, Earl $ = Wiatt. Faye DeMund, George F. Byers y Charles Ludlum, Willie Simpson, Sadi
 T.. Karles. James W. Foushee, NJ. Haze = DeMund, Fred Henshaw Pearl Leo = nora Mathews, J. Palmer Irvine. e The order of these exercises will b II az follows:
 Salutatory. Grace Dunbar. Song, "Fairyland Waltz" class. C Oration, Life and the Advantages O - Education" Alexander Baker. = Recitation Diamond Cut Diamond, Il Prudence Gillum. Q Recitation. The Fate spf Virginia,
 Maebell CreaEer. $ Song, "A Japanese Love Song" Allie e HaIsey-
 T. Prophecy. Celora Stoddard. u Valedictory, Neil Mccarthy. T. Song, Away to the Fields,' class. u Presentation of diplomas. T. l.. Dal g ton, president of board of trustees. n After tke above there will be Q one 'f act farce entitled "A Regular Fix" fc e which the following cast of character IS has hten arranged:
 MT. Hugh DeBrass, Ralph Marshall $ AIr. Surplus Ca lawyer) 1vey Marshal g Charles Surplus this nepheyv), Roy Mo s Carthy; Abel Quick (clerK to Surplus fAylma Pearson; Smiler Ga deputy shei