Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-17
Professor Philbrook, Who Has Been Retained for Another Term, Is in the Front Rank of Arizona Educators.
List of Pupils Awarded Bisbee
 Daily Review Reading DipIo- mas for Last Year Shows Interest in Reading Circle.

It was not until six years ago that the ten-room school house in the heart of the city became inadequate to han de the large increase of pupils that each year found growing steadily. Then the Lincoln school in Tombstone canyon and the Lowell schools below the city were proposed. They were built in 1901.
 Following them came the South Bis bee and Don Luis schools. These lat ter are the result of the we'll nigh per feet system inaugurated with the coming of Superintendent Philbrook.
 Prior to the coming of MT. Phil brook Bisbee had ever thought that her scool faculty and principals were all that the times and conditions called for. Risbee is not wanting in appre- citation of the good done by her old time teachers. and their names are still on the lips of the fathers and mothers whose children received first school training at their hands. 1key have had their just praise showered upon them and will probably continue to be the recipients of many flatter- ing remarks after the present genera hlOh hdo pdoSSu Ool ok NIAC SNAoOA- going days and have taken up the bat tie os life.
 But to F. c. Philbrook Bisbee owes more than to any other tutor who has come within her borders. Mir. Fhil- brook was and is the man of the hour and the man for the place which he occupies.
 Coming to Bisbee less than two years ago, a stranger to the life and surroundings of the west, Mfr. Phil brook realized the needs of the schools. realized too. its possibilities in an educational way. Armed with the best of training, added to which is the inbred qualifications of born teacher, Mir. Phiibrook has accom- piished more fin his sort stay than most men would dare contemplate.
 A strict disciplinarian, with all the kindness of a father toward his own children, Superintendent Philbrook has endeared himself alike to pupils and teachers. His work speaks for itself. The recognition he tas. re- ceived at the hands of the local sLlOol board is the best testimonial that could be written of him. ,fe will open Bisbee's schools in the fall. marking the beginning of his third year as superintendent of :ha C strict.
 To him and his unflaggirg energy is due the fact that the iist:icI will rot have to teach its children n close stuffy school-rooms, neither walk their little selves tired in order tiat Ley may be taught the fundamental priC- ciples of systematic thought and study.
 F. c. Philbrook is a native of Illinois. laying graduated from the Sta;c Nor nal school there in the class Tf 'SS. Prior to coming to Bisbee, MT. Phil brook taught in the public schools at Williams. before which time he was of the faculty of the Northern Arizona Normal school at Flagstaff.
 His first experience as a school teacher. after his graduation from Illinois normal, was at Lena, Illinois, where he taught for four years. Fol lowing this he was principal of the high school at Rochelle, Illinois wEer twelve lady teachers scrveG under him. Leaving Illinois he car:e to Ari- zona where it is hoped that he will remain, devoting his life and ale thought to the cultivation of the Ari- zona youth.
 Since Mir. Philbrool's coming Q Bis hee. the grading of the schools and the perfection of high school -,ourse which places Bisbee in the ffoat rank of Arizona's educational system, have been accomplished.
 The annual banquet of the children of the public schools, as well as tue annual field day of the boy athletes, show that Mir. Philbrook realizes that physical development and mental recreation go hand in hand @ith the true development of the mind, that only in healthy body can healthy mind exist.
 To be brief, Superintendent Pfil- brook has done more in two years for the good and advancement of the Pisbee schools than has ever been done in any five years of previous work on the part of any number of teachers.
 His ability to cope with the prob lens that faced Bisbee in her schools resulted in the present fine Central school being erected at a cost of S55.- 000, with interior furnishings which represent an expenditure of s10,000 Grounds to cost s7.000 will soon be come a beautifying setting to the ar. chitecturally model building which serves as Bisbee's main school edifice Out of bond issue of S75.000 all this has been done and besides there still remains as surplus to be used from time to time in maintaining the grounds about the building sS,00o