1932
"Horizons," the hill-top home of WarrenHallamore, in Henniker, N. H., was written up as the "House of the Month" in the March 1953 issue of New Hampshire Profiles. This ultramodern home, recently completed, sits atop a thousand-foot rise overlooking Mount Washington and the Presidential range to the northeast, Mount Kearsarge and the Sunapee range to the northwest and the Monadnock section to the southwest. The author of this very interesting article, which is well inter- spersed with photographs of interiors as well as exteriors of Warren's glass-panelled house, comments about the Granite State's summer folks, etc.:
"There is a growing number of these part-time residents, however, who are finding it harder and harder to leave New Hampshire's countryside for the more mundane affairs of city life, even during the stormy winter season. They invent excuses to come up for weekends and before they realize what has happened, they are living here year round and wondering why they didn't do it long ago!
"Among these New Hampshire enthusiasts is Mr. Warren S. Hallamore, formerly of Boston, Mass., who has built a delightful small house for himself high on a scenic hill in Henniker and firmly declares his roots are squarely planted.
" 'My love of this state probably developed back when I was a student at Dartmouth,' he (Warren) reflects. living in Hanover, I kept wanting to return.'
"Warren Hallamore discovered his hill while vacationing in nearby Hopkinton. The more he saw of it," the more he thought about it and the spectacular views of distant mountains from its summit. The hill was part of a haying field and the farmer who owned it agreed to sell the top, providing hay could be cut each summer as al- ways. ...
"The house at first was not intended to be quite so large. 'I did not think a bachelor like me needed much room,' he recalls. But as architect Campbell (David R., director of New Hampshire's League of Arts and Crafts and a gifted graduate of Harvard School of Architecture) progressed, it seemed sen- sible to add a bit here and there to increase ap- pearance and facilities. There are five rooms, a bath and a terrace, besides a car port and work- shop. .. . .«%>• t t . -1 1-1 L_ ■
"Since he seems to be absorbed bv an ever in- creasing number of interests and activities, and since he has a flair for interior decoration, he has naturally collected a rep-esentation of art that comes far from deserving his appellation. Tables of antique value stand beside mode n pieces of svelte design. Warren Hallamore credits a former professor with his liking for all foms of art. He declares, 'Professor Lathrop at Dartmouth who taught in the Fine Arts Department developed in me an awareness of the background of art through the ages.'
"Bern and brought up in Brockton, Mass., Halla- more held a position in the New York office of Little, Brown and Company following his gradua- tion from Dartmouth College. Durinu the last war he was commissioned into the United States Navy, Aviat'on branch, serving four vears wifh combat squadrons in the Atlantic and Pacific. Released in Janua*y of 1946, he became Direcfor of Admissions at Northeastern Unive_sity in Boston until ;s resignation last fall when he decided he 'couldn't stand coming to New Hampshire only for week- ends."
.. Mr. Hallamore is a co-leader of the Great Books Course in Conco-d.
"An outdoor enthusiast, he finds skiing, tennis, golf and swimming all D-acticallv a' his doo-sten. During the last two months he has done some sub- stitute teaching in Hillsborough. At the same time he has been attending a school course in Counsel- ling given by Tohn Radasch in WVner. which offers him further opportunity to study a phase of one of his favorite pursuits, social service work.
"Products native to New Hampshire also appeal to this Henniker resident and he is forever buying pottery or other objects indigenous to the region. During a recent luncheon date at the Hallamore menage we found the table service to include forks, knives and spoons partly fashioned from Granite State applewood by a local craftsman.
"An intellectual with a mind that never, stops functioning at top speed, Wa-ren Hallamore de- scribes his unusual house and its tasteful furnish- ings as the result of the skill and talent of others. 'My interests are more appreciative than they a-e creative,' he declares. Among the talents he has ad- mired are those of the accomplished French painter, Marie Laurencin, and anonymous Haitian artists, whose works depict primitive scenes of vivid color."
Congratulations, Warren, on the demonstra- tion of your good taste in houses, exterior and interior, as well as of your couratre in doing at such an early age what so many of us in our College days dreamt of accomplishing some time during our lifetimes, namely, returning to live among the hills and nature's bountiful gifts found only in New Hampshire.
In two brief, but welcome, notes from AlexChristie, I have the following information about Alex and Texas to pass along:
"Though there are quite a few Dartmouth men in and around Houston, I believe I am the only one from our class. I'm still hatting the ball for Sears, Roebuck and Cos. here in Houston and enjoy living down here very much. I also do YMCA work play handball there twice a week!
"I could tell you a lot about Houston (wonder- ful cityl b-it that would take too long. If I knew anything about oil 1 wouldn't be working for a living. My work with Sea-s is interesting land moderately profitable) to me but would no doubt be quite boring to most people in other lines, so that leaves only the vital statistics: Same wife, Helen, and same daughter, Sha'on, now 16 and a junior in high school. Incidentally, we are quite p-oud of Sharon and her Texas education, for last month she took the College Entrance Boa-ds just for practice, as she is only a junior, and she wound up in the top percentage group in the nation. Brother, there's nothing wrong with Texas! Re- gards, Alex."
To assure you readers of the breadth, even international coverage, of this column, I am happv to report the receipt of a letter from A If McLaughlin, who resides at 307 Waterloo Street, Winnipeg;, Manitoba, Canada. Just to refresh your recollection, back in 1928 Alf journeyed to Hanover from Winnipeg: Canada, to present himself to President Hop- kins for matriculation. Before saying goodbye to Hanover as a student, Alf, as you may also recall, gathered up a C.E. degree from Thayer. His marriage to Mariance Blatchley, at Meri- den, Conn., on July 1, 1933, and his work as an engineer for the Metropolitan Water Bu- reau of Hartford, Conn., and subsequent en gineering assignments with Connecticut Light and Power Company and United Aircraft, were sufficient to keep Alf in this country un- til 1947, when he returned to his native land, our sister country on the north. His endeavors there have been in the capacity of engineer with Western Gypsum Products, Ltd. Alf and Mariance have three children, Diane Carol, who is married and has a daughter, Alfred Jr., age 13, and Jeffrey Andrews, age 4. Alf comments in his letter:
"We are jusf through an unusually mild winter and seem to be starting on a cold spring. We have had two snow storms in the past week more snow than we have had all winter. However, yesterday and today have been warm and we played a few holes of golf this afternoon.
"We seem to keep occupied with work, our six-month old granddaughter, curling twice a week during the winter, and my cub pack. This summer we hope to get in some golf haven't played since the early '3os, but hope to get some fun out of it. "We seem to be off of the beaten path and have not seen any classmates. We do get down to Min- neapolis once in a while. Saw a piece in the Minne- apolis paper recently about Dr. Shell Reed and his study at the University of Minnesota on Heredity. "Am sending my contribution to the Alumni Fund to Hanover today.
"Best regards to all the gang." Parenthetically, Alf's good example of send- ing his contribution to the Alumni Fund is one which those of you who don't have so far to send your contribution should follow. To emulate Alf will cause Jim Corbett at al., in- cluding Dr. Modie, much less loss of sleep and mental anguish.
Another good doctor in our class, Joe Ben-nett, and his wife Betsy recently spent severaldays in New York and environs. I think Joecan best recount his experiences, as he hasdone in the following letter:
"As you know, I returned from that Mecca of all civilization, The East, a week ago. It so hap- pened that I was accompanied by my bride of some 13 summers, which didn't cramp the style one small whoodle. Anyhoo, we debarked in that fabu- lous village and finally found our way to Darien, Conn., where we spent some time with old drinking pals from Lake Forest. While there, Bets and I managed to drive up to Bridgeport, Conn., and there to have a joyous vocal and social evening with my old roomie from Dartmouth Med. School, Milt Lieberthal, and his ever so charming wife Naomi. Cocktails at the Stratfield Hotel seemed to be in order and by the time it was time to have 'one for the road' we had covered the situation from stem to gudgeon. Milt is his same slap-happy self with a sober moment or two for the practice of gastroenterology in his local den (and doing real well, as one would expect him to do) and we discussed people while Bets and Naomi lied about their respective kids. Milt and his family are won- derful people and it's too damn bad that we can't see them more often. It's always a great and heart- warming pleasure to be with them.
"Later in the week I find myself forced to go in to the Big City to meet the bride at dinner but I am having to kill an afternoon prior to same. So who should I pan myself off on than the perennial Esquire of our class, Jay C. Whitehair. Inc. Jay, gracious host that he is, put up with me and one of my fishing fellows for a short lunch of two and a half hours at Longchamps. The food was won- derful and could have been devoured in good taste in about 15 minutes. But with Whitehair at the helm, you know what happened. Stones poured out of that wonderful guy, each one better than the other. And when we got on the subject of fisbing, the very dead, and very expertly cooked, scrod on my plate looked up at me and winked. Among other things, Jay reported that his two wonderful boys are in good shape and that his lovely wife Janet is also.
"Driving later on in the week to friends, also old fishing and heisting pals from Lake Forest, over in Verona N. J., I couldn't help but have a twinge of nostalgia when a sign post said 'Union City this wav ' Shades of Modarelli. I could feel his vibrant resence e'en on the highway. If the Butch would onlv open a subsidiary office on the turn-pike, I am sure that he could look forward to retirement at an early age. , , ,
"'Back to work on Monday, and the honeymoon was ended, and how. The roof fell in on me and I have been, shall we say, gainfully employed ever since."
Rod Hatcher, London representative of the National City Bank of New York, has been commissioned to cover the Coronation for our class through this column. Ready yourself for Rod's report.
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