Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-09-25
MONTANA YOUTH
RECORD SCHOLAR
ANDREW v. CORY, INSTRUCTOR
AT SCHOOL OF MINES, WINS
MANY HONORS
Was An Oxford Student from This
State and Has Carried On Studies
Of Geology In Many Parts of World
Under Interesting Conditions.

Andrew V. Cory. Rhodes scholar
from Montana at Oxford university.
England, who was recently appointed
to q teaching fellowship at the Mon
tana School of Mines, brings to the
Butte mining college q remarkable
scholastic record, distinction in sew
eral different fields of knowledge
and a most versatile personality.
The young man was born in Mis-
soula, the son of Arthur V. Cory.
well-known mining g%eologist of Butte.
and the grandson of Andrew V. Cory,
pioneer Montana mining man. He at
tended Butte schools, but was gradu-
ated from high school at Mount st.
Charles college, Helena. afterward
spending two years in the college de-
partment of the same institution.
where he specialized in Latin and
Greek and won the Montana collegi-
ate oratorical contest. He transferred
to Harvard university, and in 1926 was
graduated magma cum laude. receiving
an A. B. degree in English. He became
interested in science and spent a post
graduate year at Harvard studying ge-
ology, in which he is now an expert.
In 1926 he was awarded the Rhodes
scholarship from Montana. For three
years at oxford he continued such a
high standard of scholarship that in
1929 he took his 3. A. degree in the
honor school OF geology and this year
received his B. Sc, a degree difficult to
obtain in England. His tutor, a mar OF
brilliant attachments, was DR.. j. A.
Douglas, whO-with j. r. Thomas, now
auditor of the Montana Power COM
pany-made a geologic structure Sec
ton, before the World war, of the An
DIES mountains, from the Pacific to the
Amazon.
Mr.. Cory, seeking interesting ex-
unusual ways. With q Harvard geo.
logical field party. he helped make a
structure section Of 80 miles Of the
Canadian Rockies. When a collegian
he worked his wav to the Orient as
cadet engineer on a ship which, he
says, he nearly blew up, and as a Sec
ond steward earned his passage
through the Panama canal. On many
occasions he rode east to school / n the
cabooses of cattle trains.
He spent months studying the lead
and zinc deposits near the Mill Close
mine in Derbyshire, Eng. This mine
is especially interesting because it las
been continuously operated for $50
years. says Mr.. Cory. Lead mining
was carried on in that district Of Eng
land before the coming of the Romans.
The stamp of the Emperor Hadrian
was found on an ancient lead bar dug
up near the mine" During vacations
in England, he took a course in geolo-
gy at the famous Camborne School OF
Mines in Cornwall, pedalled 1000 miles
on a bicycle over Great Britain, walked
$50 miles about q week and otherwise
explored and Travelled.
At college he found time for extra
curricular and social activities, and is
interested in many outdoor sports,
both British and American.
Mr.. Cory had a paper on geophy-
steal prospecting read last year before
the American Institute Of Mining and
Metallurgical engineers, has an article
to be published in England this wear
on an unknown mineral he discovered
at the Mill Close mine, and recently
had an essay, THE New Critic" ap-
pear in the Saturday Review OF Liter
allure.
Mr.. Cory is a member of the Amer
lean Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical engineers and of the geological
societies of London and Boston.