Old Missoula

Ambassador Andrew Vincent Corry -1904 – 1981

Born in Missoula 1904

Graduated Carroll HS 1922 – Helena

1922 – 1924 – Carroll College, Helena

1924 – 1927 – Harvard – A.B. 1926

1927 – 1930 – Oxford England – A.B. 1929, B.Sc. 1930,

1931 – Montana School of Mines, Butte – M. S. 1931

1930 – 1933 – Instructor Montana School of Mines, Butte

1934 – 1936 – Instructor, Eng. Lit. Montana State Univ., Missoula

1936 – 1937 – Assistant Geologist and Researcher in mineral economics U. S. Govt.

1938 – 1940 – Geologist in charge, Armine Ltd., Buenos Ayres

1940 – Hired as a consultant on minerals for the Price Stabilization Unit of the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense.

1942 – Joined State Department as a consultant in the Division of Cultural Relations.

1947 – 1954 – Special Assistant to U. S. Ambassador in New Deli, India.

1958 – American consul-general Lahore Pakistan

1961 – 1964 – Coordinator of the Foreign Service Institute seminar on foreign policy for the State Department

1964 – 1967 – Ambassador to Sierra Leone

1967 – 1970 – Ambassador to Ceylon

Retired from U. S. Foreign Service in 1970

A highly regarded mining figure who went to school at the Butte School of Mines, Plato Malozemoff, had some high praise for Andrew Vincent Corry, in his book, A Life in Mining: Siberia to Chairman of Newmont Mining Corporation, 1909 – 1985.

After graduating from Butte School of Mines, Malozemoff became the CEO of Newmont Mining Corporation which, under his guidance, grew from a modest mining company to an international corporation valued at more than 2 billion dollars in 1986. Malozemoff struggled in Montana during the early depression years of the 1930’s, as did Andrew Corry.

The following is a quote from Malozemoff’s book:

“The other formative experience in Butte that influenced my later life came about through my acquaintance and later life-long friendship with Andrew V. Corry, an instructor in geology at the Montana School of Mines. Born in Montana, his father being a mining engineer, Andrew had his university education in geology and liberal arts at Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford for two years, and then got stuck in Butte in 1931 because he was unable to find a better job elsewhere. Andrew Corry was a true intellectual with encyclopedic erudition about everything, it seemed; he had a keen appreciation of music, was a singer, and had a searching, original mind that caused him to study all his life. These attributes, combined with a warm and intense interest in people around him, made him an ideal teacher, sponsor and friend to whom I could confide my innermost thoughts. My association with him immeasurably deepened my understanding of literature, philosophy and music, and encouraged me to have a practical and positive outlook on life and its foibles. He was a true renaissance man, and I became his disciple. If I have any wisdom, I owe its beginnings to him. I am flattered that he thought as well of me as I did of him.”

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