1934 - 35
The Year
Senior Class President: Ford Barlow
Vice President: Marjorie Stohl
Secretary: Mary Woolf
Treasurer: Sam Thurman
Football and basketball programs were reinstated for the next year.
The annual Senior Luncheon mockingly presented itself as a funeral ceremony, presided over by the “Left Reverent Hyde Taylor Clayton.” Class poet Martha Ross offered a dirge, valedictorian Charlotte Knight gave a sermon, and Jeanne Hall and Mary Jones offered remarks, followed by commentary from Barrie Wanless and Ford Barlow. Helene Westlund performed “incidental music.” The main entrée was “roast leg of veal a la coffin.”
There were 25 graduates in the Judge Auditorium.
Valedictorian: Charlotte Knight
Class Poet: Martha Ross
Historian: Jeanne Hall
Prognosticator: Mary Jones.
Fellow graduates: Mary McQuaid, Alice Moffett, Elinor Wright, Josephine Sheets, Mary Frances Lightheiser, Helen Harrington, Helen DeBus, Mary Dugan, Walter Keating, Joseph Duffy, Bob Halavity, Ruben Myers, Frank Welsh, Bernard McEnany, John Neville, John Pelly, Byron Bennett, Hugh Conway, Leon Duffen, Jimmy Quish, Donny Cowburn, Chic Boner, Carl Davidson.
In 1986, Class of 1935 graduate Helen DeBus visited Salt Lake for the first time in 50 years. Then living in Portland, she stopped by Judge and later wrote a letter of thanks. She found “the gals who were working in the offices were tremendously helpful, so congenial.” Not finding a picture of her graduating class, in her letter she forwarded a copy of her photograph along with a fifth-grade picture. “The two dark skinned Sisters were Syrians as I remember exceptionally nice. The real unsung heroes were the Sisters of Charity, who ruled with an iron hand but we did learn. Boy, the sting of that ruler, that was enough. To sum it all up, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, the Great Depression.”
