Clary Cory

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

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown: by the late 1940s, in the family's own photographs
First worked here: February 1948, on the Great Falls Ski Club's nominating committee
Years at Showdown
Positions: 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
Publicity chairman, Great Falls Ski Club, 1964–65
Columnist, Great Falls Tribune — her column carried Kings Hill news in 1970 and 1973

What they did

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23 July 1942Married Harlan Cory, later president of the Great Falls Ski Club; they were married sixty-six years
February 1948Named, as Mrs. Harlan Cory, to the club's nominating committee by its president, Andy Farago
18 April 1953Mistress of ceremonies at the Skier's Spring Fling, the club's dinner dance, the evening Harlan was installed as president
1964-65Publicity chairman of the Great Falls Ski Club
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
29 October 1973Her column named Joni Phillips as Showdown's office secretary
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