1930 - 31
The Year
A drive was launched to raise money for a new facility with an auditorium, gymnasium and cafeteria.
Judge was placed in a newly formed league, the western (Jordan) division of Region II, which included Grantsville, Cyprus, Bingham, Murray and Tooele. The football team went 0-5 under new Coach Herbert Dewitz, who was a star halfback at the University of Nebraska from 1921-23 and played professionally for three seasons with Kansas City and Cleveland. After Judge, he became a stockbroker. Phil Purcell was captain. Joe Cronin was a key player on a 23-boy team.
There were 29 graduates on June 1.
General Excellence Award: Joseph Miller.
Medal for Christian Doctrine: Rosemary Bennett, St. Ann’s School.
The class included Andrew Brennan, later a state assistant attorney general and clerk to the U.S. District Court; and Walter E. Cosgriff, who succeeded his father (James E.) as president of Continental Bank & Trust in 1937 and became a leading philanthropist in Utah. He died in 1961. Walter’s widow, Enid, took over his duties. She was dedicated to advancing the interests of the Salt Lake Diocese (besides owning the Salt Lake Bees baseball team). She put two daughters through Judge. Pope John Paul II made her a Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. She died in 1997.
Fellow graduates: Loretta O’Donnell, Helen McQuaid, Edna Sheya, Mary Ellen Bircumshaw, Helen Young, Ruth Tavey, Eudora Billings, Eleanor Downey, Margaret Ann Clark, Katherine Ottenstein, Margaret Moshier, Margarita Varela, Susie McFall, Bernice Curley, Dorothy Darnell, Margaret Ottenstein, Marie Donnell, Ann Gibbons, Maurice Mulcahy, James Vaughan, Stanley Pittman, Robert Thompson, Bernard Laramie, Phillip Purcell, James McCann, Joseph Miller, John Brennan and William Conrady.
Walter Cosgriff was interviewed by the Judgeonian in May, 1958, just before the graduation of his daughter, Lynn, the school newspaper’s editor. He remembered the football team having tough times – “it would have been nice if we had won a few games” – and playing tennis at BYU. Back then, “everyone was obliged to join the Glee Club,” he recalled, praising his Judge years. “At Judge I was given a good training in morals and scholastics, for the nuns showed an interest in everyone.”
