Clary Cory

Pie in the lodge on Sundays, then the club's publicity chairman and a Tribune columnist

Legend of Showdown

Born: 1921, Great Falls
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: 16 February 1948, named to the Great Falls Ski Club's nominating committee
Years at Showdown
Positions: In charge of refreshments, with Harlan, at the Great Falls Ski Club's meeting, announced December 1947
Nominating committee, Great Falls Ski Club, February 1948
Sunday food concession in the lodge, with Betty Hasterlik, in the early years
Mistress of ceremonies, the Skier's Spring Fling, 18 April 1953
Named mistress of ceremonies for the club's dinner-dance, Meadow Lark Country Club, 28 April 1956
Publicity chairman, Great Falls Ski Club, 1964–65
Columnist, her own Monday column, 1967 to about 1974, in the Great Falls Leader and then the Tribune — it carried Kings Hill and Showdown news from 1969 to 1973

What they did

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23 July 1942Married Harlan Cory, her Great Falls High classmate and later president of the Great Falls Ski Club, three days after the Army accepted him. They were married sixty-six years
15 December 1947Named with Harlan to run the refreshments at the Great Falls Ski Club's meeting at the YWCA, a week after the club's lodge opened
16 February 1948Named, as Mrs. Harlan Cory, to the club's nominating committee by its president, Andy Farago, with Judy Birch as chairman. All three had finished Great Falls High together in 1939
18 April 1953Mistress of ceremonies at the Skier's Spring Fling, the club's dinner dance at the Hotel Rainbow, the evening Harlan was installed as president
28 April 1956Named mistress of ceremonies for the club's dinner-dance at the Meadow Lark Country Club, to introduce the 1956-57 officers and the retiring president, Dr. Earl Hall
1964-65Publicity chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club
1967Began a Monday column under her own name, in the Great Falls Leader and later the Tribune
1 December 1969Her column told of the Bennett family's first weekend of the season at the King's Hill ski area
4 May 1970Her Tribune column reported that Patti and Jim Thompson were to go to Zurich in May as guests of the maker of the chairlift Kings Hill was installing that summer
22 June 1970Her column reported Fritz Schmutz of Boulder in Great Falls as the engineer for the lift Kings Hill was installing that summer
25 January 1971Her column reported that Gene Oliver had sold the most Great Falls Ski Club memberships, forty, and won a ski weekend at Whitefish
6 March 1972Her column reported the Ski Bums home from a week in Canada on Bob Steel's charter bus
29 October 1973Her column named Joni Phillips as the office secretary at Showdown, the new name for the Kings Hill ski area
With her friend Betty Hasterlik, ran a food concession in the lodge on Sundays in the early years — pie and doughnuts, sent down from the parking lot in a box on a pulley, as her daughter Marcia Cory Storer remembers it