1937 - 38
Class Leaders
Student Body Officers: Mac Williams, president. Other officers were Neil O’Donnell, William Wunderlich, Mary Jeanne DeBus, Richard Van Derck, Hope Toone, William Reid, Beverley Benson and Virginia Vetter.
The Year
Sr. Theresa Clare was principal.
With help from student government officials, the Knights of Columbus held the annual Mardi Gras Ball at the Coconut Grove ballroom to raise money for Judge.
Mac Williams and James Riley presented a bronze plaque with engraved verse to Jordan High School, which was mourning the deaths of 24 students in a train-bus crash. Reilly came up with the idea.
Classmate Jean DeBouzek, honored by Judge in 1995 for his contributions to the community, said at the ceremony that Judge gave him a respect for authority, something he lacked when he came in. Case in point: He drove his Model A Ford, nicknamed Abigail, down the front steps of the original school. “I never actually got thrown out,” he added. “Because if I had, I would have been in real trouble at home.”
Plays
“When Christmas Comes,” starring James Maher, Jane Morton and Junior Melich and the Judge Memorial Band, and “The Gift of Christmas,” starring Roylance Reese, Nadine Spell, Dorothy Smith and Corinne Larsen, with the Judge Glee Club.
“Strongheart,” starring Jim Sweeney, Donald McGarry, Jack Ivers, Bob Williams, Bill McHugh, Betty Nelson, Mary Jeanne DeBus, Marcia Wade, Jean DeBouzek, Pauline Graveline, Charles Harmon, Dick Best, Bob Howe, James Clark, Raymond Johnson, Bob Nickerson, Tom Hill, Bob O’Sullivan, Paul Neuens, Bill Ivers, James Riley, Jack Reid, Bill McQuaid, Bill Morton, Jack Sweeney, Charles Schultz, Neil O’Donnell, Joe Hession and Margaret Hearley.
Sports
Football was limited to a four-game schedule. Coach Ken Larsen’s 16-member team shut out two opponents (Wasatch and Morgan) while being shut out twice (by North Summit and Park City).
Wally Morse took over the basketball program. Morse was All-State in football and basketball at Granite High, where he graduated in 1933. He then went to St. Mary’s College in California, where he lettered for three years in football and baseball. He earned All-America honors in football his senior year and was an assistant for one year at Granite High before coming to Judge.
Graduation
44 graduates (22 boys/22 girls) on June 3 in the Judge Auditorium.
General Excellence award: Robert Howe; Holy Cross Scholarship to St. Mary’s: Marguerite Chambers.
McGean Award for athletics: Thomas Hill.
The Judge band and Glee Club performed at the ceremony, as did pianists Grace Lundberg and Beverly Benson. They played “White Jasmine” from “Tropic Night Suite.”
Members of the graduating class were Fred Barend, Mary Ann Bero, Richard Best, Marguerite Chambers, James Clark, Elizabeth Cronin, Mildred Curley, Jean DeBouzek, Mary De Bus, Emma Evankovich, Beth Fisher, Stella Fisher, Pauline Graveline, Charles Harmon, Margaret Hearley, Thomas Hill, Georgina Hoffman, William Howe, Margaret Ivers, Raymond Johnson, Marguerite Kurtz, Ann La Branche, Edwin Laramie, Margaret Lawson, William McHugh, Donald McGarry, Mary Frances McMinimy, Katherine Maloney, Robert Maloney, Montana Rose Murphy, Bette Ann Nelson, Paul Neuens, Robert Nickerson, Virginia Nilson, Robert O’Sullivan, Julia Park, William Reid Jr., Marjorie Sullivan, Michael Sweeney, Richard Van Derck, Marcia Wade, Robert Williams and Stanley Young.
