1926 - 27
The Year
The class featured 13 graduates, including Marlowe Branagan, who became a Salt Lake Tribune reporter. He covered high school sports, including several Judge games, during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Other graduates were Katherine Greene, William McOmie, Isabel Stallings, Arthur Dunford, Bunnie Brooks, Leo Daugherty, Tom Smith, William Ottenstein, Joseph Lynch, William Vaughn and William McDougall.
Lee Richards replaced Bob Gorlinski as head football coach, assisted by Lt. G. A. Smith. From Logan, Richards lettered for three years in football at the University of Utah, earning All-Conference honors as a fullback his senior year. He graduated in 1926 with a degree in physical education. Cathedral tied Park City for the division championship, going 4-2-1, with two wins apiece against Wasatch and North Summit. It lost to Carbon and Park City.
In his 1967 master’s thesis at the University of Utah, longtime coach Frank Klekas noted that “from the beginning, financial difficulties plagued the possibility of [athletic] program expansion … Basketball had its beginnings at Judge in 1926-27; however, due to the financial difficulties, coupled with the winless season, basketball was dropped from the program the following year.”
In that one year, Coach Ray Brady’s hoops team went 0-8 in league play, including losses of 87-11 and 70-14. Cathedral did beat a team from the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 47-46. Team members were Larry Brennan, Arnold Bond, Maurice Callahan, Joe Lynch, O’Brien Hyland, Tom Smith, John Dooley, Milton Loomis, Ed Hummer, Marlowe Branagan, Bill Leary, Tom Dugar and Wayne Branagan. Coach Brady was a 1919 graduate of East High School, where he played basketball and ran track. He also ran track at Notre Dame University and became a lawyer.
Class member Arnold Bond was characterized as “the oldest living Judge graduate” in a 2004 special history edition of the Bulldog Press. Interviewed by editor Laura Burchett in his house on 1500 East, the 94-year-old noted that he was in the third graduating class from Cathedral High. His English class was in what was an operating room in the old hospital. Bond said he had only three teachers at Judge – Sr. John Francis, Sr. Clara Arnez and Sr. Divictor – and that six of the 13 students in his class went to the seminary after graduation, three becoming priests. He played football, basketball and baseball, observing “we didn’t do so well, but we won a lot of moral victories.” They also got tough, practicing football in the street. He also skied – “you went straight down and prayed.” After Judge, Bond went to St. Mary’s College for two years before completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah. He prospected and built trails around Jackson Hole, Wyo. and was a photographer in New Orleans before settling into a 39-year career as an engineer for American Smelting and Refining Co. His advice to students: “Study hard, keep the faith and don’t sass your teachers.” Bond died Jan. 13, 2005.
A 1939 article in the Intermountain Catholic Register recalled that in a 1927 physics class, when the teacher left the class, a few students – namely Henry Bruneau, Tom Smith and Arnold Bond – sampled some grain alcohol she left behind to see if it was real. “After the alcohol was drunk, they solemnly resolved to stick to science.” The class provided more antics. Marlowe Branagan hooked up a fire hose, poked the nozzle out a third-floor window, ran back to turn the hose but was disappointed to see no water coming out of the nozzle. When he went to investigate, he encountered students from a second-floor classroom who said they were being flooded after the hose burst near the hydrant.
