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“...No. 3.
APRIL 1932
Chefoo
Schools Association
GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH
NEWSLETTER
EDITORIAL EFFUSIONS !
WE SINCERELY HOPE THAT YOU WILL
BE PLEASED WITH THE FORM IN which our Newsletter is now published. That we are able to make this improvement is a proof that the affairs of our Branch are no longer causing us sleepless nights !
Not only has there been an increase of membership during the last two years from about 100 to 175 members but the efforts to re-establish the financial position of the Association have been most successful.
The deficit on the General Fund, which at the end of 1929 was over £20, has now been practically wiped out. This has been almost entirely due to the splendid support of our own members, and the Committee are very grateful to you all.
We are now able to look forward with real confidence to a bright and happy future for our Branch and we feel sure that you will all do your bit to help the Committee by enlisting new members, paying your subs, promptly and sending news...”
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“...We also hope that you will appreciate the result of our efforts to fill this Newsletter with news of real interest to all old Chefooites, and we are relying on your help in maintaining this standard.
In the general affairs of the Association we welcome the continued support of Old Chefooites in Canada, and it will be splendid if the hopes of re-establishing C.S.A. Branches in China and Australia are realised this year.
Our links with the Chefoo Schools have certainly been strengthened by the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce to this country during the Christmas Holidays, and it was a great pleasure to greet them at our Winter Reunion, which was another record-breaking event ! The happy spirit shown there was indeed a splendid tonic for the New Year ! Such occasions really do make one feel how grand it is to be an Old Chefooite ! !
The new experiment of having a proper “sit-down” supper appeared to be universally popular (especially to the younger B.S.O.C.’s !), and although it involved a lot...”
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“...lives in Purley. She has two boys, David and John, aged 8 and 6 years.
Olive Copp is secretary to a playwright in London.
Edith Coulthard is teaching Geography in the Girls’ County School in Bishop Auckland. She is Secretary of the Bishop Auckland Geographical Association, and also “runs” a Junior Branch of the League of Nations Union. Mrs. Dansey Smith has now arrived in England. When in N. America she spent two pleasant days in California with Mr. and Mrs. Murray. She also saw Duncan and his charming American wife, and she visited Mrs. Larsen (nee Emily Horne).
N. Dansey Smith writes : “I left Chefoo in August, 1931, and travelled home by way of the U.S.A. After two weeks in England I was accepted by the Medical Missionary Association, and am now doing my pre-medical year (rabbits, frogs, leaves, volts and nitric acid, etc.) at the East London College. I am also rowing for the College second Eight. I also help at the Bethnal Green Medical Mission Sunday School.” Inez Davidson is at St. Andrew’s...”
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