1944 - 45
Class Leaders
Senior Class Officers: Bob Raterman, president; Jack Morrissey, vice president: Lorraine Smith, secretary; Jack McCormick, treasurer.
Junior Class Officers: Norman Harmon, president; J. Murray Mooney, vice president; William Brennan, secretary; Tom Cashman, treasurer.
Sophomore Class Officers: James Hearley, president; James Morrissey, vice president; Nancy Bertagnole, secretary; Tom Curley, treasurer.
Freshman Class Officers: Richard Stringer, president; Kathryn Kilkenny, vice president; Julia Maher, secretary; William Handley, treasurer.
The Year
Although the school building was taxed by the number of students enrolled in the elementary and high schools, a dance program was added. It was taught by Enid Cosgriff.
Bernice Maher and J. Murray Mooney were elected to lead the Girls and Boys Sodality clubs. Joining Mooney in the boys leadership were Leo Kane, Junior Nelligan and Norman Harmon. On the girls side, Maher was aided by Patricia Hession, Nadine McInerney and Dorothy Maher.
The PTA raised $600 through sales of war bonds, funds that were used to provide new furnishings for the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
Leone Small remained in charge of the school lunch program, which again received a federal subsidy.
The Sodality Club sponsored a panel discussion on the San Francisco Conference, a meeting of 50 Allied countries that was important to setting up the United Nations, featuring Utah Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough (a Judge parent), Salt Lake Telegram editor H. F. Kretchman, Salt Lake Tribune political analyst O. N. Malmquist and Paul Sullivan, public relations manager for Columbia Steel Corp.
“Dancing in the Dark” was the theme of the Senior Dance in the Hotel Utah’s Starlight Gardens. An Intermountain Catholic article previewing the event showed dancers Lou Jean Ray, Bob Raterman, Eileen Hinckley and Jack Morrissey. They formed the planning committee.
The 85 members of the Glee Club, directed by Hans Heniot, performed for the November meeting of the PTA and the Christmas program at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. Bernice Maher played the role of the Blessed Virgin in the Christmas pageant. A ballet class directed by Enid Cosgriff also performed.
Otto Sirstins, whose older sister died suddenly in the spring, turned 18 in November and joined the U.S. Marine Corps. His classmates accompanied him to the train that took him to his base in San Diego.
The PTA raised $350 at its Christmas bazaar to buy fluorescent lights for several school classrooms.
Students were actively involved in collecting tin for the war effort.
Lou Jean Ray and Lorraine Smith were awarded certificates of superior merit for the neatness of their notes in an international shorthand competition sponsored by Gregg Publishing.
Organizing the Junior Prom were Jay Mooney, Bernice Maher, Tom Hurley and Nadine McInerney.
Speech students participating in the annual Oratorical Contest were Eileen Hinckley, Colleen Bircumshaw, Walter Miller, Lou Jean Ray, Richard Smith, Patricia Hession, Lorraine Smith and Jack McCormick. A choral group was directed by Hans Heniot, with Frances Bertagnole on piano.
Senior Walter Miller won a “war stamp prize” for his entry in an essay contest sponsored by Business Education World, a magazine for business teachers. Sr. Josephine Marie encouraged her bookkeeping students to enter the contest. Many did, with Miller performing the best. About 10,000 entries were submitted from the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The Fort Douglas Officers Club was the site of the Senior Prom, organized by Norman Harmon, Thomas Cashman, Donna Cameron, Catherine Mark, Frank McCabe, Frances Bertagnole and Evelyn Maher.
The spring recital involved 40 numbers by the Music Department, starting with performances by Bonnie Lee Currie, Susan Connole and Beverly Ann Reed and ending with pieces by Moonyeen Sawyer, Betty Billings and MariJean McCarly.
Plays
“Junior Miss,” directed by Sr. Frances James, starring Eileen Hinckley, Curtis Haire, Lorraine Smith, Lou Jean Ray, Kaye Collins, Patricia Hession, Richard Smith, Colleen Bircumshaw, Earl May, Richard Foard, William Hurley, John Casto, Edward Hill, William Schulte, Walter Miller, John McCormick, Joseph Cronin, Jack Morrissey and Leo Kane. Stage settings were supervised by Walter Miller, Dick Smith, Curtis Haire and Leo Kane.
Sports
Football coach James Powers turned down a chance to work for the Green Bay Packers to stay at Judge. Captain Ed Hill made the Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram’s All-State first team. Joe Cronin made second team as Judge posted its first winning record, 4-3, and was on the top end of a lopsided score for a change, defeating South Summit 45-0. The first game of the season was played at Municipal Park on the southeast corner of 1300 South and 700 East. Judge beat Grantsville 12-6.
The basketball team, also coached by James Powers, struggled to a 4-10 record.
Graduation
25 graduates (15 boys and 10 girls) on June 10 at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. General Excellence award: Curtis Haire. McGean Award for athletics: Robert Raterman; McHugh Award for Christian Doctrine: John McCormick; Science Award: Curtis Haire; College of St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch Scholarship: Mary Tappero; Cosgriff Memorial Scholarship to St. Mary’s: Lou Jean Ray.
“Owing to the inroads of the draft,” wrote the Intermountain Catholic, “this year’s class is one of the smallest in recent years.” Diplomas were presented to graduates Patricia Bartz, Colleen Bircumshaw, John Castro, Joseph Cronin, Katherine Collins, Patricia Hession, Edward Hill, Eileen Hinckley, William Hurley, Raymond Kelly, John McCormick, Margaret McEntee, Earl May, John Morrissey, Walter Miller, Junior Nelligan, Lou Jean Ray, Beverly Small, Lorraine Smith, Richard Smith, William Schulte and Mary Tappero, while they were awarded in absentia to Curtis Haire, Robert Raterman and Leo Kane, who already had enlisted in the military. The graduates gave a check for $600 to Bishop Hunt.
Alumni
George Murphy, Class of 1936, received his medical degree from Creighton University in Omaha; Sgt. Albert McQuaid, Jr., Class of 1939, was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for “meritorious achievement in aerial flight against the enemy” as a B-24 waist gunner in the North Africa and Mediterranean theatres of World War II; Staff Sgt. Edward Shea, Class of 1942, received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters for distinguished service as a flight engineer on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the European theater.
