1938 - 39
Class Leaders
Student Body Officers - President: Mac Williams. Treasurer: Edward McChrystal
During the Summer
Renovations included a complete paint job and development of an “up-to-date nurses room, with hospital cots according to regulation” and daily visits from a public health nurse.
The Year
Faculty: Sr. Theresa Clare, principal and superior for the Sisters of the Holy Cross; Fr. Thomas Butler, superintendent of schools; Fr. Daniel Leahy, religion and Latin; Sr. Zoe, English and speech; Sr. Mercedes Marie, social science; Sr. Scholastica, science; Sr. Agnes Imelda, English and modern languages; Sr. Alice Marie, business; Sr. Mauricita, math; Sr. Hortense, English and history; Sr. Josephus, singing, Glee Club and instrumental music; Rose Naccarato, girls athletics (baseball, basketball and gym) and Pep Club; Walter Morse, U.S. history and boys athletics; Cleon Dalby, band.
The Salt Lake Diocese made a plea for donations to support the Catholic schools. Expenses the previous year were $20,190, “a very reasonable figure,” the Intermountain Catholic reported, contending similar services at a public school would have cost $40,000.
Florence Massara was in charge of preparations for the Freshman Frolic, aided by Betty Smith, James Maher, Jack Hare and William Sweeney. Entertainment was provided by Frenchie Larsen’s Orchestra.
The Judge band was now conducted by Cleon Dalby, a band instructor for 20 years.
After Judge eighth grader Patsy Ruth Regan won an essay contest on the “Intermountain Empire,” the Intermountain Catholic Register boasted that “twice now in less than three months has a student from Judge Memorial earned first prize in essay contests, along with innumerable awards in the past. Accidents happen occasionally, but not with a steady, persistent regularity. The training given by the Sisters of the Holy Cross is a mental, moral and physical preparedness to face the world and all comers and to win in the battle of life. Graduates of the school, even in the rough pioneer days of ’25, ’26 and ’27, never doubted for a moment the superiority of their grammar and high school erudition. They have entered colleges of undoubted excellence and have held their own with the very best.”
The Pep Club introduced with “bright uniforms, rhythmic marching and invigorating yells to add color and zest to interscholastic games. The Pep Club will continue to travel to all games this year.”
Patrick Reeves, Albert Mooney and Dorothy Sewell took part in a Junior Red Cross conference.
The Judge Glee Club traveled up the hill to the Sarah Daft Home on Nov. 6 to perform for the senior citizens living there. Among hymns and readings by Catherine Liston, Rose Mary McGarry, Eileen Murray and Agnes Hinckley was a performance of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” by the instrumental quartet of Joseph Bradley on violin, Jack Bradley on cello, Mac Williams on clarinet and Perry Williams on flute. Kathleen Costello and Mary Catherine Maher provided introductions.
Handling preparations for the Senior Ball were Mac Williams, Hope Toone, Ed McCrystal, Rose Mary McGarry, Kathleen Costello, Jim Argentos, Earlene Tennyson, Ralph Benson, Lillian Davis, Ed Degnan, Mary Catherine Maher, Albert McQuaid, Florence Curley and Peter Leary.
Edward McChrystal won the second-place award in a national essay contest sponsored by Duquesne University, writing about “Science and the Microscope.” The official notice of his award, sent Feb. 25, 1939, got lost in the mail and wasn’t found until Aug. 21, 1998, when USPS Express Mail Representative Thelxi Hauenstein, sent a copy of it with another letter to Judge teacher Linda Simpson. “P.S. Please do not correct and grade this letter,” Hauenstein requested. Of McChrystal’s notification, she said: “I’m sure you’ve looked at the enclosed envelope and asked, “What the heck is this? Well, I’ll explain. This letter was found in the postal mail stream. Note the postmark of February 24, 1939 and the 3-cent first class postage stamps. Yikes!!! No, it hasn’t been floating around the Postal Service for 60 years! Generally, when something like this occurs, it’s a result of someone sorting through memorabilia and the envelope inadvertently ends up with outgoing mail. … The Postal Service tried to contact the addressee but was unsuccessful in locating him or anyone related to him in the Salt Lake area. Our Customer Relations Coordinator thought that Judge Memorial was the only Catholic High School for men in 1939 and wondered if perhaps the addressee, Edward C. McChrystal, might have been a student. She asked me to pass it on to you, as you may want it for the Judge archives. If nothing else, some of your students may like to see a letter that was typed on an actual manual typewriter … no automatic correction … no spell check! It is a true antique.”
The Intermountain Catholic had a feature story about Judge’s “modern, super-sanitary kitchen,” including a picture showing student Earlene Tennyson serving lunch to Theresa Arnone.
“Red Sails in the Sunset” was the Junior Prom theme, organized by James Riley, Mary Hinckley, Matt Petrlich, Ann Doak, Joe Bradley, Billy Mitchell, Geraldine Hill, Laureen Pelly, Robert Flynn, Jack Dugan, Phyllis Sakech, William Wonderlich and Carol Barber.
With his speech on world peace, Larry De Celles won the annual Oratory Contest. Ileene Murray took second and Earlene Tennyson third, while Grace Lundberg, Mac Williams, Sara Bero and William Downey also qualified for the finals.
The senior class chose Regina Neuens to crown the Blessed Virgin in the annual May Procession. Attending Neuens were Sara Bero, Grace Lundberg, Florence Curley, Kathleen Costello, Betty Holland and Anna Mae Quinn. Grade schoolers and Mitzie Swanson carried the crown of flowers while Jimmy Rogers and Sonny Robinson were train bearers.
Plays
“Santa’s Air Line” and “A Christmas Carol” were performed by the Grammar School students, with help from a few Judge students: Fernando Valdez, Robert Harbeke, Francis Brennan, Sylvia Rinetti, Clare Jeanne Little, Mary Harmon and Mary Ellen Murphy.
“Pride and Prejudice,” starring Mary Catherine Maher, Mac Williams, Grace Lundberg, Hope Toone, William Downey, Peter Leary, Ralph Benson, Ileene Murray, Agnes Hinckley, Betty Holland, Larry de Celles, Anna Mae Quinn, Edward Dignan, Jack Bradley, Betty Jean Jensen, Eugene Doyle, Marjorie Hackett, Regina Neuens, Rosemary McGarry, Elvina Kelly, Edward McChrystal, Betty Bogan and Lillian Davis. Music was provided by Joseph Bradley (violin) and Mrs. J. B. Bradley (piano).
Sports
Wally Morse replaced Ken Larsen as head football coach, but posted an 0-4 record. Al McQuaid was quarterback. The team’s most valuable player was Mac Williams, also a tennis star. The team had 22 players, including 11 seniors.
The basketball team finished 2-8, losing its last seven games under Coach Wally Morse. Al McQuaid was an honorable mention All-State forward. Edward McChrystal and Mac Williams were teammates. “Members of Judge Memorial athletic teams, both football and basketball, while not succeeding in taking their teams to the top of the list, have succeeded in showing proof of splendid training both in athletics and in sportsmanship,” the Intermountain Catholic reported. At the year-end sports banquet, letters were presented to 14 football players and seven basketball players.
Graduation
43 graduates on June 10 in the Judge Memorial Auditorium – “one of the largest classes in school history.” Valedictorian: Edward McChrystal. Salutatorian: Mary Catherine Maher. General Excellence award: Edward McChrystal. He also received the Bishop Glass Memorial Award for having the highest GPA over the four years of high school. Holy Cross Scholarship to St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch: Mary Catherine Maher. Kathleen Costello had the second highest girls’ average GPA, while Mac Williams was second among the boys. McGean Award for athletics: Mac Williams. Science Award: Mac Williams.
Graduates: James Argentos, Ralph Benson, Sara Bero, Elizabeth Bogan, Jack Bradley, Linus Brown, William Carter, Terence Conlon, Robert Conrady, Kathleen Costello, Florence Curley, Lillian Davis, Edward Dignan, William Downey, James Doyle, Margaret Flaherty, Joseph De Celles, Marjorie Hackett, Agnes Hinckley, Betty Holland, Betty Jensen, Robert Kroll, Peter Leary, Katherine Liston, Grace Lundberg, Elvina Kelly, Mary Catherine Maher, Charles Edward McChrystal, George McEnany, Rose McGarry, Ileene Murray, Frances Nailen, Elizabeth Nelson, Regina Neuens, Albert McQuaid, Anna Mae Quinn, Norma Ruga, Dorothy Sadler, Robert Scarborough, Earlene Tennyson, James De Vol Timmins, Georgia Toone and Mac Williams. Agnes Hinckley was a flight attendant for Western Airlines before becoming a nun with the Sisters of the Holy Family. Al McQuaid joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and in 1944, as a waist gunner on a B-24, received a Distinguished Flying Cross for “meritorious achievement in aerial flight against the enemy in the North Africa and Mediterranean theater of war.”
By 1939, 14 Judge graduating classes had totaled 333 students, four of whom had become priests: Robert Dwyer, William Vaughan, Jerome Stoffel and Milton Kelly.
