Celebrating Judge's First Century

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Celebrating Judge’s First Century

1920s

1921 Judge Memorial was established at the old Judge Mercy Hospital, when Catholic Grammar School and Cathedral High School were combined under the direction of The Right Rev. Glass, 2nd Bishop of Salt Lake City.

1925 First graduating class includes 10 students

Among those is Robert Dwyer, first native Utahn ordained as a priest in the Salt Lake Diocese. He went on to be a parish pastor and then took charge of the Cathedral in 1946.

1929 School renamed after John & Mary Judge, a gererous mining family who donated the Judge Mercy Hospital building to the Salt Lake Diocese.

1927 First female student leader elected, Emma Anselmo ‘27

1910-1918 Judge Mercy Hospital opens in 1910 under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy for miners suffering from black lung. Although it closed in 1915, it was used to house the victims of the 1918 flu epidemic.

1926

The Right Rev. Mitty becomes 3rd Bishop of Salt Lake City

1929 Stock Market Crash

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1930s

1931

Judge placed under patronage of Christ the King

1937 Students deliver a bronze plaque to Jordan High School to express the condolences after a bustrain accident killed 24 Jordan students

1929-33 Great Depression

1932

Most Rev. Kearney becomes 4th Bishop of Salt Lake City

1935

Music offerings are expanded with a band and orchestra

1937

The Right Rev. Hunt becomes 5th Bishop of Salt Lake City

1939

Two alumni pass the Utah State Bar, prompting a school official to say: “Judge Memorial makes no idle claims to superior scholarship, but stands on her record”

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1940s

1940 13 graduates for the Class of 1940

Judge is accredited by the Northwest Association

1943

$10,000 fundraising campaign begins to bring athletic field to regulation length and cover with turf

1948 First football state championship led by Coach Moran

Sketches for a new athletic field are shown

1949

Students put out first yearbook, The Basilean

1941-45

World War II

1944 First of eight Judge alumni is lost in World War II

1948 Plans for first Catholic grade school are revealed (Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School) which will change Judge to a high school

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1950s

1951 Two Spanish- American students serve as football team co-captains and another becomes Homecoming Queen

1954 Gymnasium completed and dedicated

1958 First baseball state championship

1953 The Judgeonian newspaper made its debut, a four-page edition. The paper retained that name until a 1980 student vote changed it to the Bulldog Press

1956

Sister Mary Leo Anthony named first female Judge Principal

1959 “Million dollar” campaign begins for the construction of a new school building

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1960s

1962

Chapel is added to the school

1960 Construction completed on the new Judge school building

Some classes divided into girls & boys sections. Girls entered classrooms on one side of the hall, boys on the other.

1964 Female students move to the all girls school, St. Mary of the Wasatch and Judge becomes an all boys school

1966

Original Judge Mercy Hospital structure is taken down

1961

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales become adminstrators of the school

1965 Gil Cordova ‘56 starts as football coach and Jim Yerkovich ‘61 as basketball coach

1967

Two Judge alumni die in the Vietnam War

1964-75

Vietnam War

1960

The Most Rev. Federal becomes 6th Bishop of Salt Lake City

1963

President Kennedy is shot and killed

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1970s

1970 ”Catholic” added to the school name

St. Mary of the Wasatch closes and Judge becomes a coed school again

First boys tennis state championship

1975 50th commencement celebrated

Soccer, gymnastics and a ski team added

1978

New library dedicated by Most Rev.Bishop Federal

1974

First girls tennis state championship

1976 Bicentennial of the Catholic Church in Utah

1978 Pope Paul and Pope John Paul I both die

Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years

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1980s

1980

Completion of new football field

First boys basketball state championship

First hockey state championship

1987

First boys soccer state championship

First girls cross country state championship

1989

First girls track & field state championship

1980

The Most Rev. Weigand becomes 7th Bishop of Salt Lake City

1983 Recognized natonally for excellence in private education

1988

Auditorium completed

Recognized natonally for excellence in private education

1989

Berlin Wall comes down

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1990s

1990

First boys cross country state championship

1995

Computer teachers establish the first Internet stations around the school and train teachers and students on its use

First boys lacrosse state championship

1997

First boys golf state championship

1993

First girls swimming state championship

1996

First boys swimming state championship

1991 First Gulf War

1995

The Most Rev. Niederauer becomes 8th Bishop of Salt Lake City

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2000s

2001

Three weeks after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 67 Judge students, faculty and parents visit a New York fire station that lost people in the attack

2003 One of a few high schools in the U.S. allowed to stage a “school edition” of “Les Miserables”

2005 Club Interact first high school group to be awarded a Rotary Club charter membership

State title at the National Mock Trial Championships

2008 First Alumni & Student Art Show

2002

First girls soccer state championship

2004

Literary magazine Catharisis earns highest award from the NCTE

2006 New McCarthey Stadium dedicated

2009 Bulldog Press named best 1A-3A high school newspaper by the Utah Press Association

2001

Terrorist attack on World Trade Centers and Pentagon

2002

Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City

First boys track & field state championship

2007

The Most Rev. Wester becomes 9th Bishop of Salt Lake City

2008

Barack Obama elected America’s first black president

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2010s

2010

Named Volunteer School of the Year by the Utah Food Bank for the Open Hands Helping Hearts Program

2015

Named a PBS Newshour Student Reporting Lab

2017 Gymnasium named after Coach Yerkovich ‘61

2019 Named Utah’s 2018 Most Challenging School by the Washington Post

Black Student Union and ALLIES Club established

2016

JudgeMent Call Robotics team wins Utah Regional First Robotics competition

2018 First school wide Christ the King Day of Service

2020

Moved to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2017

The Most Rev. Solis becomes 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City

2019

COVID-19 pandemic begins

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