Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-31
DOUGLAS COMMENCEMENT
 EXERCISES ON FRIDAY
First Class at Shelter City Re-
 Ceive Diplomas.

DOUGLAS, May 3O.-(Special.)- )-
 The city of Douglas and it's public schools can always be n"nud of its first commencement and its splendid
 program So ably presented by the mem
 sers of the first graduating class With the assistance of classmates.
 This class has the distinction which
 no other class will have, of being the
 first to "cross the threshold" which
 will be crossed 90 many times in tie commencement addresses of CtRer graduating classes to come. It con sists of seven members, four girls and three boys, Miss Zollie I. Bell, Thomas
 Briggs Rice, Miss Jessie Lee Pratner, Rex Rice, Miss Rachael Cohn, Miss Abigail Stella Crawford and John An drew Bell.
 The class at the last minute de- cided to dispose of the class day exer-
 cises, which were to have been held in the afternoon, and some of the class day numbers were On the program | last evening. The big auditorium room
 was artjsticaIly decorated with the three big flags which wave over the
 local school buildings, with smaller flags and with the class pennants, and
 bunting of the class colors.
 | After the opening of the program with the piano solo, Pilgrims Chor- ius," by Miss Jenks, and the invoca-
 ton by Rev. Clyde ". Demming, came
 the first address by Rex Rice. His l topic was Does the United States i Need a Larger Armament" He was inclined in the affirmative, but said
 sity. This was followed by a very pretty song by the high school Glee club.
 The next number was one that has
 been looked forward to with keen ex- l pectancy by all It was the class prophecy by Miss Jessie Prather- She. affirmed that in arriving at her prophe-
 sies she had made no use of spiritual
 ism or astrology because they were
 not logical She said she had used
 the method of assignment, which con-
 sists something of the study of char acter and environments, that by care ful study of the life of Julius Caesar and the history of Rome, the fall of the empire might have been foretold. Thus sne knew just what was in store for her classmates in the year 191u. ZCliie I. Bell will be delvtng into the long hidden history of animal life on the globe; Thomas Rice is destined -c become a 2J0-pOund United State:
 senator; Rachael COhn will be matron in a large orphan asylum, where she Is exercising her careful painstaking
 zeal in the care of others; Rex Rice ] is to be a Right Rev. Doctor of Divin- ity, with fashionable congregation; Abbigail Crawford will then be deveI- oping ner sterling business instinct as
 stenographer in a local law office;
 John Andrew Bell will be attending pink teas and leading the geTmain in
 the ultra society of a large eastern city. And as for the prohpetess herself. she does not hesitate to confess that she sees no change in her vocation program SO ably presented by the mem
 bers of the frst graduating class with
 Miss Rachael Cohn in ner oration
 on The Beauties of the Vest de tended not only Arizona scenery in a
 very able manner but gioried also in the Colorado and New Mexico variety.
 John Andrew Bells subject was the
 College and the World" It was in defense of the question, Does a Col lege Education Pay?" and tbe speaker left DO doubt that 1t did, He said that science was the most important