1931 - 32
The Year
Construction began on the new school complex.
A winless football team sustained the worst defeat in school history, 157-0 to Tooele, and failed to score a point in an 0-5 season under Coach Francis Decker. He was a West High graduate who played football and baseball at Utah State University. He had been an assistant at West before coming to Judge. The team had 22 players.
Fr. J. S. (Joseph Sydney) Keefe, Judge’s school administrator, curtailed sports programs indefinitely because of the Great Depression.
There were 23 graduates on June 3 in the Judge Auditorium.
General Excellence Award: Leo Shields. He went on to earn a doctorate in philosophy from Notre Dame in 1941 and taught for a year at Holy Cross College before joining the Army. Shields died in Brittany sometime between July 16 and July 20, 1944.
William McChrystal provided an oration about “Washington’s Attitude Toward Religion” while Dorothea Jean McDougall addressed “Washington, Youth’s Inspiration.”
Fellow graduates: Helen Conrady, Ruth Anne DeBus, Donna Downey, Charles Fisher, John Guthrie, Maria Keith, John Leary, John Maher, Mary Meehan, John Murphy, Robert Murphy, Edmund McClelland, Kathleen Nelligan, Peter O’Carroll, Jr., Catherine Pelly, Leo Quick, Bertha Sheya, Francis Shields, Lawrence Tavey and Evelyn Taylor.
Purcell became owner and operator of Continental Insurance Agency. McChrystal was valedictorian at the University of Portland and later a pilot and executive with Frontier Airlines.
