2007 Call.qxd - Camp Mowglis

David (‘79) and
Ian Concannon
I am in heaven. I have to say that going 100+ MPH across
a narrow dirt road, and traveling sideways around corners
should be on everyone's list of things to do before you die.
Hope to hear back. Kerry
Richard Morgan ('68) has a significant behind-the-scenes role at
camp year-round. Richard provides technical advice and
support for the camp’s computers and telephone system.
Although he volunteers his services, the ever-willing
Richard is on call virtually around the clock and has been
seen past the hour of midnight trying to solve problems
caused by lightning strikes in camp, telephone outages and
computer system crashes. Richard has always been one of
our more active alumni, and has appeared at camp almost
every Sunday for the past 29 years to play his trombone in
the Brass Choir at Chapel.
Randy Beckford (‘86) writes,
“Dear Mowglis: Since I
completed my
Appalachian Trail hike
last year at this time, I
worked for a short time as
a Latin teacher in the northern Piedmont of Virginia but
then decided a career change to being a librarian was
necessary. I was fortunate to find a position as an
Information Assistant at the Fairfax County Public Law
Library just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C.
However, the 30-mile commute from my place in the
country near where I used to work was killer, and I have
recently secured a new residence which is only a 10minute
walk from my new job. My address is: 10412
Darby St., Fairfax, VA 22030 (My phone is the same: 609-468-4322). I am very excited
about my new living situation, although I will of course greatly miss the quaint horse
country village atmosphere I relished since getting off the Trail. This new job and residence
puts me in a better position to eventually earn a master's in library science.
Perhaps after this degree is obtained, I can choose a more personally enjoyable region to
live. Nevertheless, if you ever find yourselves in the D.C. area, please do not hesitate to
contact me. I am strategically placed between Dulles International and Reagan National
Airports, and less than a 30-minute Metro ride to the Smithsonian! Randy”
Ben Murphy (Staff 2004, Watermaster 2005) writes "Hello Mowglis! I am writing this from
Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. It is the British school holidays, and being a teacher I have
six glorious weeks of freedom ahead in which I am traveling to Australia via Hong Kong
on the way there and via San Francisco on the way back. If I can, I will send you a photo
so those who remember me can see how aged and unhealthy I look. Only joking, I am still
in good health, but nowhere near the health you get spending eight weeks swimming in a
lake every day and climbing a mountain once a week. That is another thing I miss...being
in the best shape of my life (so far). I am a math teacher working in a school in Codsall,
England. I have just bought a house, so I expect to be poor for a long time to come. I hope
everyone is well, the mosquitoes aren't biting too much and that Mr. Bengtson is still
doing the campfires on the Saint-Saëns composition about the animals.”
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Jim Kingsley (‘65)
Cub Parent, 2006 and 2007