Alumni Sharing Their Stories Judge Memorial and St. Mary of the Wasatch alumni were asked to share their story including how Judge/St. Mary influenced them as a person or in their career, and what lasting impressions Judge/St. Mary had on their lives. They were also asked to give advice to our graduating seniors. We are pleased to include some excerpts from some of the alumni stories we received.
Stanley Thomas Myles Class of 1964 My time in Salt Lake City was brief -- only three
the school logo and pleated
in my senior year we won the state
skirts for the girls. We were
championship in football.
the first high school in Utah to wear a uniform.
Ironically, the comfort I felt at Judge from my sports activities contrib-
years, 1961-64. My
Having come from Texas,
uted greatly to my improvement in
family had come from
not only was I the new kid in
academics. My teachers, whether
Texas because my father
town, I was especially an odd-
the Oblates, the Holy Cross nuns,
was doing work for the Kennecott
ity because of my Texas twang. I
or the lay teachers didn't make life
Copper Corp. Nevertheless, because
struggled to fit in, and it was sports
easy for us. We knew that we were
I attended Judge Memorial and ben-
that provided me with a needed
getting a good education, but I
efited from its rigorous academic
opportunity. In middle school I had
didn't realize how good it was until I
and spiritual excellence, those three
served as a scorekeeper in youth
went to college and found that I had
years were the most crucial for my
baseball leagues, and so, in March
worked harder at Judge.
success in life. Simply put, Judge
1962, I was invited to join the base-
was the best school I ever attended.
ball team as scorer. Suddenly I had
When I arrived at Judge for my sophomore year, the school was already 40 years old. In anticipation of the coming increase in students as a result of the “Baby Boom,” the Salt Lake diocese had built the current school building and had invited an order of teaching priests and brothers, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, to come from their headquarters in Philadelphia to run the school and to expand its faculty. The Oblates brought along the traditions of East Coast Catholic education, including uniforms. My junior year the new administration required dress shirts and ties for the boys, and white blouses and ribbons for the girls. The next year we went to a full uniform – blazer with the school logo on the pocket, tie, and slacks for the boys. Tunic with 8
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a place in something that everyone
Unfortunately, the generally warm memories of my three years at Judge are marred by
at the school cared about. Moreover, I was popular with the baseball players because I “modernized” the statistics operation by the use of a rotary slide rule, which allowed me to get the
Simply put,
a truly horrific event -- the assignation of
Judge was
President John Kenne-
the best
year. It was something
dy during my senior
school I ever
I will never forget
attended.
school was crying when they heard the
batting, fielding, and all the other stats of the day out to the players more quickly than they had seen before.
since everyone at the
news. It was personal – President Kennedy had visited Salt Lake City earlier in the year and had met with representatives of our
At the beginning of my junior year,
school. He was the first Catholic
the coaches asked me to become
president and a huge role model for
one of the football managers for
us in Utah.
the coming season. Following that season I also became the scorer for the basketball team. For two years I traveled with the team in all three sports. During this time all three teams went to the state playoffs;
After graduation, I went back to Texas for college but I never forgot my experiences at Judge. Judge had prepared me well for college, and then (after military service) for grad-
