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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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“...other local colour. The Reunion proper, however, started at 4.15 p.m. in the Hall at the C.I.M., Newington Green, which had once again been kindly placed at our disposal. How shall we tell the unfortunate mortals who were not present, and best remind their happier school-mates who were, of that genial atmosphere ? We hailed old comrades with fervour, and exchanged news ; we played the good old Chefoo games and a few new ones ; we were convulsed over the “Balloon Scrum” and racked our witless brains over competitions ; we were entertained by Mr. Willett’s Lantern Pictures of Chefoo, we had a Chefoo General Knowledge Paper, set by Miss Harman ; and then we all sat down, over a hundred of us, to supper. If you could have looked round that room, you who were not there, and seen many a wiseacre nodding solemnly in conversation with some kindred spirit, gaily bedecked in paper cap all jauntily inclined over the left ear, you would have shared our merriment! Then came speeches and the prizegiving—and...”
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“...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 University, Scotland, working for the Arts Degree with Mary Peill. Christopher Fairclough works...”
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“...side of things, and has been able to find a young Swiss girl who is exchanging lessons with her.
Miss Harman is helping in the Editorial Department at C.I.M. Headquarters.
Theodore Hirst is taking a three years Architectural Course at the Brighton Art School, and also at the Technical Institute. He passed the College of Preceptors Examination in December.
Dr. and Mrs. Hogg and Grace are living at South Croydon, quite near Howard Joyce, and with Mr. and Mrs. Bird also living
nearby there are many Chefoo teaparties exchanged 1
Dorothy Joyce (Mrs. Kenneth Cousins) has returned to England with her small daughter, Ruth, and is hoping to take up poultry farming with her husband, near Lewes, Sussex.
Howard Joyce is very happy at the C.S.S.M. Headquarters, where he is in charge of the work in connection with the Seaside Services and Camps, and acts as Accountant for the Mission. He is also a sidesman and on the Church Council at Emmanuel Church, South Croydon, He quite enjoyed having his tonsils taken...”
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“...work there in connection with the B. and F.B.S.
Mary Sturt writes : “I am at school in Yeovil for a year, working for Senior Cambridge, which I hope to take in December. It is quite nice to be back at school after a year and a half’s rest—the school is quite nice, though not a quarter as nice as Chefoo! My sister Barbara is living in Birmingham with relations and is taking a six months’ dressmaking course with dress designing, until she can go to Norlands to start training as a Child’s Nurse.”
Kay Taylor is a District Nurse in Southborough, Kent, where she lives with her mother.
Gladys Warren. “I came home via Canada, and spent three months in Toronto, where, of
course, I saw a lot of Old Chefoo-ites, and went to the November Reunion. Now I am studying for Matric., and after that I’m not sure what I’m going to do.” Ernest and Jack Weller are still ‘schoolboys’ at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey. The former is dabbling in Chemistry, Higher Maths, etc., with his eye on the “concrete...”
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“...home to Edinburgh at thebeginning of June.
CHINA.
Most of us lately have probably been watching with some anxiety the recent events in Shanghai, and we are most thankful that those whom we know out there have been kept from any serious harm. Gladys Evans writes to say that things are not exactly pleasant in Shanghai, but in spite of this the Chefoo party got away safely at the end of the Christmas holidays. Miss I. E. Phare arrived at Shanghai at a thrilling moment, when a squad of Japanese aeroplanes were circling round the boat. They finally shelled and destroyed the Wireless Station at Woosung.
Miss Pyle has got back safely to Chefoo from furlough, and is now taking charge of the G.S. in the absence of Miss Rice.
Mildred Lawton Smith (nee Stevens) lives in Shanghai. Her husband is with the Standard Oil Co. of New York. She has four bonnie children, aged 14 to 6 years.
Amy Wilson is at the C.I.M. Hospital in Paoning.
Warren Knight is a Medical Missionary in China under the C.I.M. He has...”
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“...Robert Hockman intends to get married this summer, and expects to go to Abyssinia. He is at present an intern, at a Chicago hospital. Kathleen Hockman also expects to get married this summer. She is engaged to a Minister in Chicago.
Mary MacLeod has come to Toronto from Chicago, and is at present attending the Toronto Bible College.
Maybeth Judd is attending Three Hills Bible School, Alberta.
Our ranks have been swelled recently by fresh arrivals from Chefoo. Mary Nicoll is attending Victoria College., Elmore Hanna the Central Tech., William Thomas is in the Imperial Bank, and William Tyler, who came over a while before these, is in the Dominion Bank.
Aileen Andrew is now attending the University of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, after a six months stay in Toronto, left for a visit to England on their way back to China.
Irene Rouse is now attending the Toronto Bible College.
We hear that Dr. Robbie Cormack has become engaged. Marjory Lawson is now in Toronto, and is engaged to Mr.
Ross Lugedin...”
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