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Page 16, Viewpointe June 2020

Halli’s Comments

Welcome Back To The in the area. When Lou began working for the Chamber of
Beside the shows, I was writing for several newspapers
Viewpointe Of Boca Pointe Commerce of South Florida, he had a business meeting
with Mindi Rudan, publisher of Boca, Delray Life
By Halli Moore Publications Magazine when she mentioned that two of
her writers had quit. Lou said, “My wife is a writer,” and
Boy am I glad you are Mindi asked him to ask me to come there. “I’d like to meet
back. I, like many others her and perhaps she would like to write for us.” I met with
have missed you. I’ll her several days later, brought my portfolio of columns
explain! From the day I and she smiled saying, “Could you do two columns a
graduated from college, I’ve month?” “of course, I can,” I said. That began five years
been writing for either a of one of the most exciting times of my life. I covered the
newspaper or a magazine. Breast Cancer luncheons at Boca West, several other very
The day I first learned to Countess & Halli important shows at Boca Center and the most sad one at
write, whenever I heard a the Marriot Hotel, which was the story of the Armenian
word I didn’t understand, I for a small-town newspaper in Great Neck Long Island. Genocide, which made me cry at the horror of what the
would write it down and look it up. My family could not One day a friend of mine called and said there was a singles Ottoman Turks did to the Armenian men, women and
afford to send me to college, but I always knew I would dance at Maud Craig’s restaurant in Great Neck. Since I children, killing them in the streets. I met the Countess
somehow be able to go. worked there, I wasn’t anxious to go back at night, but de Hoernle, Cristine Lynn of Lynn University and many
My mother was a dance teacher, taught at night and she convinced me. I lived on the South Shore and Great other people who give so much for those less fortunate.
worked another job during the day. How she learned to Neck is on the North Shore. I felt awkward and walked Beside tennis for many years, Lou has been involved
dance I really, never knew, but from the time I could walk, up to the bar for a glass of wine when a man approached as President of the Palms Board, Vice President now;
she taught me. I also like to sing and in high school and me and asked me to dance. And, that was Lou Moore. We Vice Chairman of the Boca Pointe Country Club board,
college, I was in the choral clubs. When I graduated from spoke for hours and he asked for my telephone number. an arbitrator (because of his law background) and
high school, I got a job in the garment center in New York The next day he called and that started a romance that Senior Vice-President of the South Florida Chamber of
modeling knit clothes. I saved money and started taking one culminated in a wedding at the Plaza Hotel in New York Commerce.
or two classes a semester at Adelphi University in Garden and a honeymoon in Paris a year later. I’ve written for the Boca news, Our Town News, Boca
City, Long Island. Lou sold his house and I sold a co-op I had bought when Delray Life Publications Magazine and several out of
I married a short time later and after my children were my husband passed. We came to Florida and stayed at the town papers that I have sent columns.
born, I continued going to college on a part time basis. Marriot Hotel for over a week looking for a house. I loved Lou and I traveled the world. Every year we went to
Once my children finished their educations, I went to the model of our house in the Palms in Boca Pointe and a different country usually visiting three cities in that
school full time and graduated in 1982 with a degree in the builder was putting up what was supposed to be a spec country. Australia was my favorite. I would go on about
English and journalism. I’ll skip to the future by telling house. It was the last house on the lot facing the Hillsboro our travels, which I miss, but that would have to be
you how I wound up in Boca Pointe. River which separated Boca from Deerfield. There were no another column.
After my first husband passed away, I got a job writing homes next to us or across the street. Of course, in a short
time people started buying and the Palms was completed. Halli Moore is a resident of The Palms. 
Lou and I became tennis members, met a lot of people
and life was good. Arnold Steinberg, President of the Boca
Pointe Country Club at the time and a very accomplished
musician also played his one-man band at the main pool at
the club on weekends and I sang with him a few times. When
Arnold decided to do a show at the club, I auditioned and
he asked me what I wanted to sing. I said I wanted to dance
and was in several numbers, one solo and two with others.
That first show was Mash; we even had a helicopter fly
overhead. I didn’t know that Seymour Wolfe, a businessman
and also a dancer was in the audience the first night we
did the show and called the office asking for my telephone
number. They took his number and gave it to me. I was
curious and called him. He told me he would like to dance
with me in future shows and we agreed to meet. That began
a wonderful friendship between two dancers who became
friends including my husband and Seymour’s wife. Dance number in Mash

Seymour and Halli

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