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“...DECEMBER 1932.
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“...No. 5.
DECEMBER 1932
Uli Chefoo Schools Association
GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH
NEWSLETTER
EDITORIAL EFFUSIONS !
HE TWENTY-NINTH OF JANUARY, 1933, is an important C.S.A. date, for on that day our Association will be twenty-five years old ! It is very pleasant that this event should be preceded by
one of the most succcesful years that our Branch has ever experienced.
To close this year with over two hundred members is an achievement of which we are justly proud, for we reached this mark at our very enjoyable Summer Reunion. We are even prouder of the happy family spirit that prevails in our Branch.
With this pleasant state of affairs we welcome our twenty-fifth Anniversary, and intend to celebrate it in real Chefoo fashion. Our Winter Reunion in London on January 14th next is to be a really special one— that is, if it can be more special than our usual Reunions ! —and we hope that the attendance will break all previous records.
We are also hoping to make our next Newsletter a special "Silver...”
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“...SCOTTISH REUNION.
Saturday, November 12th.
Our Reunion in Edinburgh went off very well, there being eighteen present. Mr. Graham Brown and Miss Brown kindly provided tea for us on our arrival, and after tea we talked and sang some of the Chefoo songs. In between the talking and the singing we played a game or two, the chief being that in which the party paired off and took up positions on opposite sides of a bowl of salted peanuts. One of each pair was given a pair of chopsticks with which to feed his partner, the pair consuming most peanuts in half-a-minute winning. Then the order was reversed. Some had forgotten their ancient ability with the chopsticks, and so their partners had to lie prone and have the peanuts pushed up the bowl and in ! The competition was very keen. Then when we were making ready to go it was announced that further refreshments were waiting, so we ‘ ‘fell to” again and did our best to clear the decks, and did not absolutely fail ! Then, after expressing our thanks...”
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“...our Chefoo Secretary, with us at our meetings while she is on furlough.
Our Newsletters. Special arrangements have now been made for obtaining news from our members, who are asked to do their bit when called upon. News for the next issue should reach Dorothy Kirk, "Cathay,” Great North Way, Hendon, N.W.4, before March 5th. Remember it will be the "Silver Jubilee” number !
Our Winter Reunion. This special function takes place on Saturday, January 14th, 1933, at the China Inland Mission, Newington Green, N.16, from 4.15 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fuller particulars are being sent to our members.
"A Chinese Chew and a Chefoo Chat" go very well together ! This double attraction is suggested to all Old Chefooites who would like to see each other more frequently, for on the second Friday of alternate months we are hoping to meet at 6.30 p.m. at the Nanking Restaurant, 4, Denmark Street, (a turning off the east side of Charing Cross Road, W.C.l). The Chinese Chew costs only l/6d. each, but the Chefoo Chat...”
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“...another old Chefoo boy, is working in the same Company but in a different department.
Mabel Forcey writes cheerfully to say that she is still in an Advertising Office in Fleet Street. Her home is at Up-minster.
John Green has settled down with his wife and two little girls in Giffnock. His brother Stuart, now engaged to be married, has got a job in Glasgow in connection with some building estate. Catherine Harlow is in the Civil Service at Birmingham, and seems to be getting on very well.
Grace Harlow gained her General Schools’ Certificate in July, with distinctions in History, but is staying on another year at Sevenoaks to try for her Matric.
Peggy Harris is still working in Lloyd’s Bank, Threadneedle Street. She became engaged to a Mr. Kenneth Robertson about a year ago. (Best wishes to them both 1).
Miss Herbert is living at Fleet, Hampshire, with her sister, and is concentrating on a Commercial Art Course. Her nephew, Major G. A. Herbert, has just been made Consul at Chefoo.
Theodore...”
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“...months of the year works in a Nursing Home in Liverpool, doing chiefly orthopaedic work. She hopes to revisit Chefoo in 1934 ! Dr. and Mrs. Landsborough and Jean had a splendid holiday in Scotland this summer, and have now returned to Formosa, though Jean, of course, returns to Chefoo.
David Landsborough is in the London Hospital, doing his second year medicine work. He enjoys the anatomy and physiology, etc., very much, but says that "there’s a frightful lot to learn ! ” Betty Lewis recently started work at the School of Needlework, Kensington. She enjoys it all very much.
Jack Lewis is in his fourth year of medicine at the London Hospital, and doing extremely good work.
Rachel Lewis is showing what Chefoo can do in the Nursing World. After winning the Gold Medal at Barnardo’s Hospital, she proceeded to come out top in the Preliminary Training School exams. Her grounding at Chefoo in Anatomy and Physiology has evidently been a good help to her. She is now at University College Hospital,...”
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“...for Inter. Science. This he hopes to take next summer.
Jack Weller has got through his Inter. Arts exam., and is hoping to have a shot at a Cambridge and various other scholarships. (We hope that he’ll leave some behind for other people 1 ).
Miss White is now having a well-earned rest from Chefoo Hospital duties and is on furlough in England.
Connie Williamson is becoming domesticated at home.
Evelyn Williamson is going to school in Highgate.
Marion Williamson is well on in her second year at Somerville College, Oxford. She writes saying that she enjoys both the life and work very much indeed. Ethel Woulds (nee Squire) has two little sons, aged 2j years and 12 months, respectively. She is living at “Chefoo," Upper Norwood, and sometimes comes across Dr. Duffy (“Mamie”), who lives at Thornton Heath.
Here is some more news of our Scottish members:—
Joy McWhirter has completed her course in Domestic Science at Edinburgh, and has gone to live with her parents in Ireland.
Jenny Pedersen is helping...”
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“...She very much enjoyed being able to see Helen Best and Jean Orr, as they passed through on their way to America this summer.
Percy Moore is in the C.I.M., and has been designated to Lioyang, in Shensi. Mrs. de B. Robertson is teaching at the B.S., Chefoo, while her husband has been asked to superintend the building of the new Prep. School and Co-educational Buildings. They have three children.
Dorothy Stark is feeling much stronger, and hopes after Christmas to take on a full-time job again at Chefoo. She simply loves being back there, but says that the changes are enormous.
Reggie Squire is in Ichang with his parents.
NORTH AMERICA.
Irene Bannan is at College in the U.S.A. She passed her Senior Oxford exam, last July.
Helen Best left Chefoo this summer, and is now at College in America.
Annie Burgess is a nurse at Strathroy Hospital, Ontario, and acts at times as the Superintendent.
Muriel Dilley has -started her second year of College life at Wooster, Ohio. Charlie Hunnex has a pastorate...”
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