Larry Ballin, Rebecca Courser Join Telephone Museum Board

Press release

The Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Telephone Museum, located in Warner, is pleased to announce the election of Larry Ballin and Rebecca Courser to their Board.

Larry Ballin also coaches at Proctor and serves on its board.
Larry Ballin also coaches at Proctor and serves on its board.

Larry Ballin is a farmer, an educator, and a leader with a passion for New Hampshire and its environment. He has a long career in agricultural production, as well as many years seasonally in the ski industry. He has also created a parallel career of service to the community in the area of education, youth development, arts, planning and economic development, and policy development and implementation.

Larry graduated from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) at Durham, TSAS, with an Associate’s Degree in Animal Science. He was the owner-operator of Greenfield Farm in New London for 20 years before becoming the herdsman at the Sanctuary Dairy Farm in Sunapee. He is currently working at Proctor Academy as the Ski Patrol Director and Coach.

Larry currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Proctor Academy and has participated on a variety of committees as well. He is a member of the UNH Cooperative Extension – Merrimack County Advisory Council. He served on the Board of Directors of Muster Field Farm Museum in North Sutton, many of those years as board chair, and was involved in fundraising, event planning, and strategic visioning.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the Center for the Arts in New London and served on numerous boards and committees for the Town of New London. In addition, Larry served on the Municipal Advisory Council of the Local Government Center in Concord and was a member of the State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Council.

Larry and his wife Annie live in New London and have three children and a granddaughter.

Rebecca Courser

Rebecca Courser's grandfather worked in the telephone industry for 44 years.
Rebecca Courser’s grandfather worked in the telephone industry for 44 years.

Rebecca Courser has committed more than 30 years to the Warner Historical Society. She is currently the executive director and produces various exhibits and programs for the society. She loves research and writing about the local past.

Rebecca has served the Town of Warner on the budget committee, trustee of cemeteries, supervisor of the checklist, and the Odd Fellows committee. She was employed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for several years in various capacities, including the membership department, volunteer coordinator, school tour coordinator, and museum store manager. She has served on the board of the former Kearsarge Visiting Nurse Association and is currently on the outreach committee for the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust.

Rebecca is the granddaughter of the late Elmer Bartlett, who worked in the telephone industry for 44 years. Elmer’s son-in-law, Dick Violette, was the founder of the Telephone Museum. She resides in Warner with her husband, Richard Cook, daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren.