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“...••• C * CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION / ? ■ ioaa ?a.4n...”
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“...Newsletter. No. 8. DECEMBER, 1933 Chefoo Schools Association Great Britain Branch A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our members and Old Chefusians everywhere. Included in this greeting are all those at the Chefoo Schools who will be Old Chefusians one day, and the Staffs of the three Schools. This is also the time of year in which we extend a hearty welcome to the latest editions of Old Chefusians who are joining us after saying good-bye to their old school days at Chefoo. We can assure them that we are looking forward to having them at our various gatherings. Then we wish to second the warm invitation given elsewhere in this issue to all Old Chefusians in China to join our Branch of the C.S.A. Finally, we would like to shake hands with our splendid contemporary, “ The Chefusian,” at this time ! May we both flourish ! 1...”
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“...SECRETARY’S JOTTINGS. i_______________________________________________________________I Our Chefoo Week-end. Anticipation—Realisation, and now Retrospection—and all exceeding our fondest expectations ! In other words, it was Chefoo at its best ! The fact that we had Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy with us is sufficient explanation—we also had that marvellous peanut butter for which we do thank Mr. Willett. Very many thanks, also, to our Hostess, Miss Harman of the Grove, Watford, whose kindness made our week-end possible. Another next year ? We do most sincerely hope so ! Our Winter Reunion. Thanks to the kindness of the China Inland Mission, this will be held again at Newington Green on Saturday, January 13th, 1934. Particulars are being issued to our members in Great Britain. Our Newsletters. Please send news for the next issue to our News-Editor before March 5th, 1934. Chinese Chow and Chefoo Chat. The next one will be on the morning of the Winter Reunion, at 12.45 p.m., at the Nanking Restaurant...”
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“...(Elma Copp) ; Mrs. Lindsay (Grace Copp) ; Rudland Weatherhead; Neville and Adrian Danse y Smith ; David Landsborough ; Murdoch Slimmon ; Mary and Janet Macpherson ; Arthur Moss ; Caroline Mann ; Ernest, Jack and Beresford Weller ; Mabel Forcey ; Freda Shipway ; Elspeth Wills ; Joy Guinness ; Peggy Harris ; Reg Mungeam ; Mrs. P. Taylor (Kay Broomhall) ; Miles Broomhall; Kenneth Price ; Christopher Fairclough ; Jecca and Josie Broomhall; Howard Joyce. THE CHEFOO WEEK-END. July 28th to 31st, 1933. Can anything beat a Chefoo Reunion ? Yes, a Chefoo Week-end. If you haven’t tried one before, make up your mind now to come to the next. If you live at Timbuctoo and can’t afford the fare, start saving up now, or decide to follow the valiant example set by our Scottish contingent, and begin practising in the art of coming under your own steam ! 3...”
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“...Pedersen, A. Smith, R. Walker, B. Walker, W. Olesen. C. Stark, M. Harding, Vi Polhill, M. Sturt, R. Weatherhead, K. Broomhall, B. Weller, D. Kirk. G. Bobby, C. Mann, M. Preedy, M. Polhill, B. Sturt, J. Pedersen, G. Warren, R. Lewis. H. Joyce, Miss Blackmore, Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs. Houghton, Mr. Houghton, M. Broomhall, M. Slimmon. We had bathing, a tennis tournament and a treasure-hunt, not to speak of sardines ! The Grove School is ideal for this. With its labyrinth of passages and rooms, Chefoo honour to prevent you switching on the lights, and false sardines continually cropping up, it is quite impossible to find the original affair, but quite the best way to have a colossal amount of fun. When Sunday dawned, something else dawned, too, in some of us. With the chance of talking with one and another, and reviewing the past year, and memories of former years, thoughts came thick and fast. Our own Sunday morning service, led by Mr. Houghton, the informal discussion in the afternoon on...”
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“...living with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Houghton in Highbury. Connie Williamson has taken her First Class Certificate in Commerce at Pitman’s and hopes to complete her course by the end of the year. She and Evelyn will both return to China with Mr. and Mrs. Williamson early in February. Beatrice Stark has come home to England on furlough, and arrived in London in November with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parry, David Parry and Jean Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Chalkley are returning to Chefoo in December. Miss Priestman left England on her return to Chefoo on September 9th, and was travelling via N. America. Bob Parry has sold his practice in Hampshire and has gone into partnership with a doctor in South Croydon, thus swelling the contingent of Old Chefusians in that neighbourhood. Howard Joyce spent a day in Edinburgh with Wilfred Olesen early in September, on his return from Camp at Braemar. He is hoping to go out to Switzerland after Christmas with the Swiss Winter Sports parties he is arranging under the auspices...”
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“...(a cousin of Howard Joyce’s). Irene Darlington, Morris Carr, Molly Payne and Miss E. C. Jones have also announced their respective engagements recently I Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to them all ! IN MEMORIAM. Rowley Evans gave his life in the service of his country on the North West Frontier of India, where he was serving as a Captain in the Indian Army—September 8th, 1933. Chefoo has lost another of her very best sons. He was quite one of the best athletes ever produced by Chefoo, but it was his splendid Christian character, above all, which endeared him to those who were boys at Chefoo with him. He was married only last year. We extend to his loved ones our very sincere sympathies. NORTH AMERICA. We regTet that no North American news has been received from the Canada Branch, but we have been able to collect the following items :— Marion Taylor, we hear, is now Secretary of the C.S.A. in Canada, and Walter Tyler is acting as Treasurer. Maud Hudson has taken her B.A. and her...”
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“...visitors in Chefoo. The Girls’ Conduct Prize this year was presented by the Old Girls in Australia, and was won by Hilda Briscoe. The Boys’ Conduct Watch was won by David Parry. C.S.S.M. Services were held again in Chefoo this summer, and Henry Guinness was one of those helping Mr. Leslie Lyall. New Buildings. The foundation-stones of the New Preparatory School and of the Co-Tuition Building, were laid by the Rev. G. W. Gibb, the China Director of the C.I.M., on April 4th. FredH. Judd, one of the oldest of Old Chefusians (!) was among those who took part in the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Houghton, to whom we give our heartiest congratulations on the arrival of a little daughter, will be leaving Chefoo during January for furlough in England, and Eleanor Ford and Stanley Weller will be coming with them. Olive Joyce has now left Fukow, and is working at Taikang with Mrs. King. Mrs. Findlay Andrew left with J. Mervyn Andrew for Canada in October. Mervyn Andrew has finished school at Chefoo. Peggy...”
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“...Institute, Shanghai. Alice Stevens (Mrs. Boxer) was at Chefoo this summer, with her family. Mr. Boxer is on the faculty of the Hong Kong University. Daisy Tomkinson and her sister Lily are back in their house on San Lane, Chefoo. Ina Trudinger spent her honeymoon in China, and is now back in Raboul, New Britain. She married a Government Official out there. Isabel Taylor was at Chefoo during the summer, and had the pleasure of invigilating for the Oxford Exams. ! Doris Rouse returned home to Chefoo in August, after a year’s teaching in Wuhu. C.S.A. BRANCHES. In our April number we printed an article entitled " The C.S.A.,” which reminded our readers of what is being attempted by the General Committee under the present Constitution. Reference was made therein to C.S.A. Branches, and it is felt that the present position regarding these Branches should be made clear to our members, and especially to any Old Chefusians who have recently left Chefoo. There are at present only two official Branches...”
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“...Secretary & Editor : -. M.r. 11. F; Joyce,-: Gwynear, 9, Hurst View RpaChefoo Secretary,: . ’ v:-„ Miss E M Broomhvl, -:-G-G’-'a -. •; ' (. I ,M. Girls’ School, Ghefoo. ■ s. , J ' China Secretary. , y ■ G.'G ,G G-G-.e-i .W ■■ Miss Gladys EVanS, C/o Asiatic Petrojcuhi Co., P.O. Box .No. 266, Shanghai...”