The Walthour-Moss Foundation Post Office Box 978 Southern Pines, NC 28388 Foundation News A PUBLICATION OF THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION

VOLUME NINE MARCH 2013 THE MISSIONOF THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION - “TO PRESERVE OPEN LAND,

TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT, ANDTOOFFERAPLACEFOREQUESTRIANPURPOSES”

REMEMBERING OUR LEGACY DONORS

MARTIN M. O’ROURKE – A LIFE-LONG HORSE ENTHUSIAST -KATIE WALSH THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION IS A 501 (C)(3) NON PROFIT CORPORATION. How can you describe a character as colorful as a The Foundation News is available on-line by email. painter’s pallet? People who knew Martin M. O’Rourke well tell memorable stories of a man, To be added to the email list log on at [email protected]. small in stature, but larger than life. Sometimes outrageous, always full of vitality, he was like a character in a novel, so much more than the mere facts of his life.

Born June 25, 1922, Martin was the only son of From: Martin Thomas and Kathryn Donahue O’Rourke. The Walthour-Moss Foundation Young Marty was an asthmatic child, unable to play Board of Directors President Emerita sports like other boys his age. This worried his Virginia Walthour Moss s father, who felt athletic activity was important for a NANCY AND MARTIN O’ROURKE, CIRCA 1950 boy’s development. Like many parents of children Dan Butler Dennis Paules Chairman Emeritus his age, the O’Rourkes paid an itinerate David Carter Cameron Sadler Richard D. Webbs photographer to take Marty’s picture in cowboy attire on a pinto pony. Responding to his son’s enthusiasm for the little pinto, Martin Thomas O’Rourke decided the manly equestrian sports Alan Dretel Neil Schwartzberg would suit his son. Jim Granito L. P. Tate, Jr. Stephen Later Virginia Thomasson So directed, Marty began a life-long relationship with horses and a love of pintos. He rode and Richard Moore Katie Walsh competed in horse shows from an early age. The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette on June 16, 1934 Mark Packard Caroline Young included 12 year-old Martin O’Rourke in a list of young riders competing in a local horse show. Dominick Pagnotta The first sixty or so years of his life, Martin lived in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1946, Executive Director he married Nancy Henkel from Long Island, New York. They had four children: Martin, Kathryn, Landon Russell Deborah and Kevin. MARCH 2013 PAGE 2 MARCH 2013 PAGE 3

Daniel Lenehan. On occasion, his wife Nancy and the children joined Marty in Southern Pines to fox hunt or ride through the pinelands.

A few years after the initial introduction to Southern Pines, Marty bought land on Youngs Road. In 1981, he completed “Hurry Back Farm,” which he owned until his death. The farm was so named because after working all week in Pennsylvania, Marty wanted to hurry back to his Southern Pines farm.

Craving more of the gracious Southern Pines THE O’ROURKE FAMILY, (L TO R) KATHRYN, MARTY, MARTIN, NANCY, DEBORAH AND KEVIN equestrian lifestyle, Marty eventually sold his trucking business and retired permanently to Remembered as a shrewd businessman, Pennsylvania in all three divisions in the same Southern Pines. He filled his farmhouse with Martin was the owner of O’Rourke Storage & year. fine art and antiques and his nine-stall barn Transfer Co. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His with sleek show horses. father started the business using horse-drawn Subsequently, fox hunting became a passion. trucks. Martin brought the business into the Jane E. Freund in the Campbell Gallery of the MARTY, OUT FOR A DAY WITH THE SEWICKLEY HUNT If you were his friend, Marty would open his twentieth century. Under his management, Sewickley Academy featured Marty’s picture in farm to you. A complete hunter course and a the O’Rourke Storage & Transfer Company a 1983 exhibition of photographs. The In addition to Sewickley, he hunted at Rolling complete jumper course were permanent became the second largest trucking company exhibition was a modern day documentary of Rock and other hunt clubs in the area. An fixtures at Hurry Back Farm. Favored in Pennsylvania. Through his necessary the citizens of Sewickley, a residential suburb Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer in a neighbors were welcome to use the courses for dealings with the Teamsters Union, Martin of Pittsburgh. The description in a January 23, September 10, 1971 article entitled “Riding to practice and lessons with their trainers with developed a reputation as a tough negotiator. 1983 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article on the Happiness: Hunting Means Family the stipulation that when it was time to repaint He served on the board of directors of United exhibition labeled Martin O’Rourke a Togetherness,” featured the O’Rourke Family the jumps, they would help. And they did. Van Lines for many years. “stalwart” citizen of the community. together at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club’s annual show. The article states “The Marty installed a large Tahiti style swimming Trucking made his living; horses made his life. The photograph entitled “Martin O’Rourke of O’Rourkes go to horse shows every other pool at Hurry Back and lined the decking with As an adult, he owned and showed saddlebreds the Sewickley Hunt Club” shows a handsome weekend and have been coming to the Chagrin lounge chairs. That pool was a local social with the children. They all rode weekends and 61-year-old O’Rourke, sitting tall on a grey Valley Hunt show since 1963.” He is quoted as scene on hot summer afternoons. Marty usually attended Sunday Mass in riding horse, with right hand on the reins and left saying “There is no other sport in the world invited neighbors and their children to cool off clothes, arriving late and leaving early. hand on his hip. Martin is dressed in hunting which allows for as much family togetherness after their morning equestrian activities. He tweeds with ascot; his black velvet hard hat, as hunting and showing hunters.” had learned to swim on a dare, but was never At 40 years of age, Marty developed an pushed slightly back, exposes full dark very comfortable in deep water. So the pool interest in jumping horses. He competed in eyebrows over twinkling eyes. He is looking Martin also traveled yearly to Ireland to fox was only three feet deep in the shallow end and Confirmation, Working Hunter, and Amateur slightly left, down at the photographer with a hunt. Indeed, it was hunting that first brought five feet in the deep end. Perfect for his Owner divisions on a horse named Cool grin and an air of a man sure of his virility. Marty to Southern Pines in the 1970s at the collection of large and small schnauzers that Harbor. He was Champion of Western suggestion of his hunter-jumper trainer, MARCH 2013 PAGE 4 MARCH 2013 PAGE 5

decade later, his daughter Kathy O’Rourke Bennett won championships on the mare’s foal, Winning My Way.

A special kind of horse is needed to hunt the hounds over rough countryside. High Cotton and Marty’s favorite, Kind of Spiffy, were two that Marty hunted with the Moore County Hounds. June Bug, named after L. P. Tate, who sold him the horse, was another memorable hunt horse. He jumped that fearless horse over an enormous gasoline barrel that was an obstacle in hunt country. Marty had a reputation for trotting all the MARTY AND MUNCHIE, MOORE COUNTY DRIVING jumps, no matter how imposing. MARTY ABOARD ONE OF HIS SADDLEBREDS MARTY ABOARD WINNING WAYS CLUB SHOW discipline trained the horses for competitions. Even as an octogenarian, Marty rode and enjoyed the pool right along with the lovely any social occasion that could possibly arise. Marty bought a lesson pony, Munchie, from competed. Friend Diane Tate of Southern ladies and their offspring. His turnout was impeccable, on and off the Kevin Lenehan that had bucked off all the Pines was at the Roanoke Valley Horseshow horse. children and dominated pasture mates. Giving when a Salem, Virginia newspaper listed Marty Though it seems incongruous with his love of him a chance, Marty sent him to Jack Goodwin as the oldest competitor that year. Marty was parties and colorful reputation, Marty was a In addition to his wardrobe, O’Rourke traveled to see if the pony would drive. Munchie was a in his eighties and not happy about the Catholic who rarely missed Sunday Mass, to shows with an entourage of staff to manage great driving pony. He became a fixture in the recognition. He was as secretive as a beautiful, whether at St. Anthony’s in Southern Pines or the horses and entertain guests in style. He Southern Pines countryside with Jimmy Kerns aging woman about his actual age. when traveling away from home to horse always had a bevy of pretty ladies and sporting driving around to local farms. Marty loved to shows. gents around the buffet he hosted from under take family and friends on adventurous rides, Every year he hosted his own birthday party at the awning of his travelling van. He was a racing around at top speed. This love of speed Hurry Back Farm. One year, before his annual At home or on the road, Martin entertained in wonderful host at a garrulous social scene. won Munchie first places on the obstacle celebration, without Marty’s knowledge, a style. He was, in fact, stylish in every way. He Food and drinks were abundant, no expense courses in pleasure driving competitions. prankster posted a sign on his driveway with drove a black Cadillac with a white top, later a spared. However, it was S. S. Matthew, Marty’s Marty’s actual birth date visible to all of the Mercedes and then a Jaguar. Riding clothes, hackney pony, also trained by Jack Goodwin arriving guests. breeches, and boots, were made to measure. No expense was spared on the O’Rourke and June O’Connell, that won at shows like His tweeds were bought in England. Each horses either. He bought the best he could Middleburg, Moore County, Walnut Hill and Hilarious as it was, it points to a deeper reality. jacket had a matching tweed cap. Rather than afford. And they were winners. He accented was Champion at Devon Horse Show. Only very good friends can poke fun and trade a stock or necktie, Marty wore silk ascots with his home décor with red, blue and yellow insults. Marty had friends who loved him for casual hunt attire. In fact, he was a proponent spreads, curtains and pillows created from Marty often competed on Running Cool in his very human qualities. of the ascot and encouraged other men ribbons they won at shows. hunter shows. His most talented hunter, a hunting with the Moore County Hounds in chestnut mare trained by Maryann Steiert, L. P. Tate was Marty’s best friend. Though Southern Pines to wear them as well. When Jimmy Kerns, who became one of Marty’s called Winning Ways, won the International welcoming to newcomers, they and their wives traveling to horse shows, he carried luggage closest friends, managed the Hurry Back barn Hunter Futurity in the late 1990s. More than a or companions were part of the inner circle of containing a complete wardrobe to wear on and horses. Top professionals from each MARCH 2013 PAGE 6 MARCH 2013 PAGE 7

really good friends do. MARTIN O’ROURKE LEGACY WINTER BUSHWHACKER DAYS ARTICLE FIRST IN SERIES An advocate for the preservation of land, Thank you to the Bushwhacker Club for two Martin O’Rourke left an important legacy. He This issue of Foundation News features the wonderful work days this winter. served on the Board of Directors of first of several articles recognizing our Legacy The Walthour-Moss Foundation for over Donors. Legacy Donors are those who have Club members volunteered at the end of twenty years before becoming Director benefited The Walthour-Moss Foundation by January to clean out 80+ bluebird boxes for Emeritus. way of their estate plans. the spring nesting season. Club members then met a few weeks later to work at Moor Martin O’Rourke was important in the These generous donors have enabled the Meadow. Encroaching trees were removed preservation of the North Country, because it Foundation to make huge strides towards from the meadow and restoration work on the was his idea in 1993 to buy the 209 acres of the paying down the debt from the Land vineyard completed. We are looking forward Johnson Land that is now Moor Meadow. In Preservation Campaign of 2004 when 250 to the Bushwhacker Club meeting again in order to preserve more land for equestrian use, acres were purchased in the North Country for September and October 2013! members of the community initiated the over $3,000,000. This article on Martin campaign to buy the land in May 1993 and O’Rourke is the first of a series highlighting L.P. TATE AND MARTY O’ROURKE, MOORE COUNTY Bluebird Box Volunteers completed the campaign in the autumn of the HOUNDS HUNT BALL our Legacy Donors. Janie Boland same year. After the purchase of Maxwell Terry and Charlie Cook Forest, the Johnson Land was the second friends that dined, partied, and hunted REMINDER: ANNUAL Babs and Norm Minery parcel of land acquired for The Walthour-Moss together. They met every Sunday evening for AIVER ROGRAM Dominick Pagnotta Foundation’s “North Country” W P dinner and stories. In later years when Marty’s Landon Russell health was failing, L. P. called Marty first thing The Walthour-Moss Foundation continues to Neil Schwartzberg Marty gave generously to buy the land and every single morning with a “Just checking.” collect waivers from both our local and out of encouraged others to do so. With faultless town users. The waivers are necessary to Moor Meadow and Vineyard rationale, Marty told newcomers to the hunt After Marty’s death in January 2010, his maintain our insurance and keep our Restoration Volunteers scene that they needed to give the same friends gathered again in his honor. They met insurance rates down. Ron Baldwin amount of money to The Walthour-Moss at Ashten’s Restaurant to remember their Larry Best Foundation that they gave to the Moore friend. In honor of the occasion Ashley Van We thank those of you who have returned your Wendy Good County Hounds for the simple reason that you Camp cooked Marty’s favorite meal, corn beef waiver and ask everyone to please help us in Doug Jackson could not hunt locally without the land to on and cabbage, with popsicles for dessert. They this effort. Eldridge Johnson which to hunt. traded stories and celebrated the life of their Susan Lindamood “one-of-a-kind, larger-than-life, colorful If you ride or drive or are planning on riding or Antonio and Marlon Martinez Marty was also one of the first to promise a friend. Southern Pines would seem a much driving on the Foundation, please sign and Fred McCashin legacy gift to fund the endowment of duller town without him. return your waiver as soon as possible. Norman and Babs Minery The Walthour-Moss Foundation. He kept his Randy Sabatino word. This article is a testament to his Two years later, L. P. Tate passed away. He A copy of the waiver is available at Sverre Schiotz generosity and his vision. and Marty are buried adjacent to each other in www.walthour-moss.org, the Equestrian Road Neil Schwartzberg The Walthour-Moss Foundation Cemetery, entrance to The Walthour-Moss Foundation or Angie Tally Photos for this article courtesy of Kathy perhaps still kidding and trading insults as by calling the office at (910) 695-7811. Todd Wilkerson O’Rourke Bennett. MARCH 2013 PAGE 8 MARCH 2013 PAGE 9

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