Dwight Newcomb came to Mowglis in 1960 and 1961, unusually, as a member of the Junior staff beginning with John Adams pioneering Yearling program that has restarted again at Mowglis as a means of creating a transition year between camper and staff status at Mowglis. Dwight was close friends with Jim West who was also a Yearling at Mowglis and the two of them paddled a canoe together on a long river trip from the Connecticut Lakes region all the way to Maine on the Saco River.
https://soundcloud.com/wayne-king-999726539/ep-33-mowglis-memories-dwight-newcomb
errata: Dwight mentions in the course of this podcast that WahPahNahYah (Dick West) played football with Jim Thorpe. Dwight undoubtedly spoke with Chief West about Thorpe but the two were not contemporaries and did not attend the same college. - wdk
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