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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
1058 AVENUE ROAD TORONTO, ONTARIO
DECEMBER,
1940....”
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“...Newsletter No. 26
DECEMBER, 1940
Chefoo Schools Great Britain
Association % Branch.
Editorial.
For those of us in Great Britain—and especially for those of us in the London area—the war has now become more directly a domestic concern than ever. It has invaded the intimate commonplace of civilian sleeping and waking. To some Chefusians it has already brought loss and bitter bereavement. We would share with them not only their sorrow, but the unquenchable hope of our common faith, first kindled, perhaps, at Chefoo: that the Great Lover and Sufferer will shape even pain and evil to His purpose.
This, the third war-time number of “ Chefoo ” is again almost exclusively a news-letter. Once more, we apologize for its shortcomings, such as the absence of new pictures; but we appeal for our readers’ continued co-operation in collecting news, which is after all, the most important thing.
Our list of Old Chefusians serving in the Forces has been somewhat extended ; but we shall welcome further additions...”
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“...issues in quite the same style owing to paper rationing, etc., but we shall certainly endeavour to publish some form of Newsletter in order that Old Chefusians may be kept in touch with each other and with the Schools. In spite of the many difficulties with which we have to contend in these days we shall continue to do our best to make the Association serve a useful purpose.
For our Winter Re-union we propose to have a Chinese Chow again as this was so popular last time. It will be held at the same place, Young’s Chinese Restaurant, 180 Wardour Street, (Oxford St., end), London, W I., at I p.m., on Saturday, January 4th, the charge being 2/- per head. As our opportunities for meeting each other are so scarce now I do hope a splendid number will attend and enjoy a really good Chefoo Chat together. Those who hope to be there are asked to let me know before Thursday, January 2nd, and to bring their 1941 subscriptions with them.
I do not think we ought to publish a new Address Book under present...”
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“...Military Medal for bravery. For a time Douglas was a student missionary at Holborn Central Parish, Aberdeen ; and after being assistant minister to Old Parish and St. Michael’s Churches, Cupar, he accepted a call to the West Parish Church, Crieff, where his work was characterized by enterprise, energy and kindness. (From the ” Aberdeen Press & Journal ”, September 24th, 1940.)
■ HOWARD B. TAYLOR
The following obituary notice is taken from “ The Christian ”, of September 19th, 1940. (Howard left Chefoo at the end of 1903 and finished his education at the City of London School.)
“ Many will learn with sorrow of the death, on September 6th, of Lieutenant Howard B. Taylor, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor, and grandson of the Rev. J. Hudson Taylor. Lieutenant Taylor, who was 52 years of age, met his death as the result of an accident, while taking part in manoeuvres. He was called to the Colours, as an officer-reservist, in June last. In the war of 1914-18 he served with distinction in...”
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“...School Certificate with seven credits and Matric. exemption before leaving in 1938. In his last year he made his mark in all sports, as a forward in Soccer, as a lefthand bowler at cricket and on the water as a strong swimmer and as Captain of Boats.
Returning to England about the ” Crisis ” time, he took a business course in London. After a few months he joined the R.A.F. and before long he had his commission as Pilot Officer. The same qualities of modesty and good-nature which marked him at Chefoo won him friends in the R.A.F. He was very popular with his fellow-pilots, one of whom refers to him as ” a very keen and enthusiastic pilot who will be missed by all of us.”
He is, indeed, sorely missed by all who knew him. It is one of the cruelties of war that it robs us of young and promising lives. All Chefusians will join in expressing sympathy with his family, feeling pride that the first Chefusian to lay down his life for King and Country, while still among the youngest of those serving...”
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“...Old Chefusians’ Reunion at the Chefoo Club.
(Contributed by the youngest Chefusian present.)
Groups of laughing and chatting people were standing on the Club terrace on Monday evening, August 28th. The common bond was the fact that each was either an Old Chefusian, or had the privilege of being married to one.
After receiving a ticket everyone went into the Club Ballroom where an excellent Buffet Supper was arranged. After coffee Mr. D. F. R. McMullan rose and started the ball of reminiscences rolling by telling of “ the good old days ” of Mr. Alty whose pet abomination was ink wells, and of Mr. McCarthy, known to many as “ Ires.” Then “ Chicken Minor ” or Mr.W. A. Allen, gave his memories of the old days when Mr. Alty appeared in an amusing light, and Mr. Harris was not “ all there ”.
Mrs. Murray spoke of the days when sedan chairs were the conveyances to school, and how Staff ragging was very common. Then Mr. Conway told how red herrings were drawn across Mr. Alty’s path in class time...”
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“...himself, but to Mrs. Harris, Miss Irene Rouse and Mr.Welch.
So ended the first really large reunion at Chefoo. It was a great success and everyone of those assembled hopes that there will be others just as enjoyable.
The following were present :
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Harris, Mr. G. B. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Murray, Mr. and Mrs.W. E. Harle, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Welch. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. R. McMullan, Mr. J. C. McMullan, Mr. J. Silverthorne, Mr. E. Polverino, Mr. and Mrs. W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. G. Conway, Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Boxer, Miss D. Stark, Miss I. Rouse, Miss O. Rouse, Miss K. Rouse, Miss T. Taylor, Miss H. Arendt, Miss B. Miller, Miss C. Murray, Miss P. Bruce, Miss C. Battistuzzi, Mr. J. Mann, Mr. J. Lanning, Mr. E. Battistuzzi, Mr. P. Murray, Mr. B. McMullan, Mr. D. Hayman, Mr. Torjesen ; Mr. A. E. Polverino.
Other Chefusians in Chefoo unable to be present were :
Mrs. H. Howie, Mrs. G. B. Jackson, Dr. D. Irwin, Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Eaton, Miss...”
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“...grounds, on foot, by waggon and in the miniature railway. Beside watching penguins, sea lions, monkeys, prairie dogs, llamas, and other animals, we tackled every type of swing, slide, Catherine-wheel and see-saw there was in the place —and that was going some.
By this time, it was early evening ; and as several had no small journeys to make, we thanked each other for coming and wished the best to all Chefusians, broke up into small parties and made tracks for home. • T.J.H.
Toronto Reunion.
A Chefoo Reunion was held in Haddon Hall, Toronto, on May 2nd, 1940. Fred Goforth very kindly consented to show his excellent moving picture films which he took a few years ago in China. The “snap-shots” of daily life among the Chinese people were exceptionally good and some of them very humorous.
Unfortunately there was not a very good turn out, but among those present were :
Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee, Fred Goforth, Arthur Parry, Mr. and Mrs. Morrison Taylor, Mrs. Kenneth Evans, Barbara Broadfoot, Miss Fishe...”
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“...News from Chefoo.
It is heartening to read, in the September number of the “ Chefusian ”, cheerful accounts of the normal doings of the Summer Term. Earnestly we hope that the shadow of war may remain happily remote from Chefoo.
The ” School Chronicle ” summarizes the term’s activities, which are then described more fully in separate articles. The Foundation Day celebrations in June seem to have been notably successful. The Senior boat-race provided an excitingly close finish : a three-foot victory for “ Hero ”. Some days previously the Girls’ First Crew had shewn its prowess by challenging and out-rowing the Masters ! The traditional cricket match with the Visitors gave the School its first victory for ten years, by 122 runs to 105. The tennis tournament produced international repercussions : for the first time, not houses but countries were represented. Australia and Canada divided the honours, at the expense of the Celts, England and the U.S.A.
On July 17th, the School held Open Day...”
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“...will not be able to set up house for the present. Kitty has had a job as assistant caterer on an aerodrome
for the past seven months. On the aerodrome, one day, she bumped into JOHN WATSON, a Flight Lieutenant, who had been at Chefoo. They had a good laugh at meeting in such a place so many years after.
EDWARD BROMBY is now getting on well as a clerk with some Public Works Contractors and Asphalt Manufacturers.
PETER BROWN, upon receipt of a cable from his Father to return immediately, went back to Shanghai at the end of June and arrived safely on the 29th July. Fortunately, he could get back into the Boys' School, Chefoo and is up there now settling down nicely. His grandmother writes that Peter was sorry to leave England but glad to be among his old friends in Chefoo—“ There is something very attractive about the old spot, isn’t there ? He found the School just the same, a little less strict perhaps I ”
JOHN CAMERON is at Edinburgh University. He hopes to take Honours in History.
SUSAN and...”
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“...yet for war work, they think of doing.
ELEANOR FORD has passed her State exams., and is in charge of a ward in a war hospital in Surrey and seems very happy in her work. When she last wrote, they had been very busy with a convoy of sick, not wounded, Tommies.
HALLIN FORD and his wife and little daughter recently returned from a furlough in New Zealand. They are living in one of their Company’s (A.P.C.) houses in Shanghai.
DR. GORDON GILLISON sends news of his brother and sister (both erstwhile Chefoo pupils) in Hankow. They are carrying on their work (Union Hospital—joint Mission Hospital of L.M.S. and W.M.S.) but find themselves somewhat hampered by the refusal to grant them the use of the city’s electricity supply— so they have had to supply a generator for themselves for lighting and X-rays. The terrific rise in prices of coal and food and other commodities are also making things difficult.
DR. KEITH GILLISON’S letter mentions that Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jones, C.I.M., “ grand old veterans...”
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“...outbreak of war. He is still training but has not been mobilised yet, to his great regret. He is a Sergeant.
MURRAY McCarthy is still in Australia. He is a Lieut, in the 4th Garrison Battalion, in S. Australia.
TERENCE MCCARTHY is Lance-Corporal in the 48th Highlanders of Canada, stationed in England just now.
MR. and MRS. GORDON MARTIN are rejoicing in an addition to their family a son, Richard William Cooper.
J. A. F. MacLACHLAN (grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Orr-Ewing connected with the C.I.M. and Chefoo) has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
FARQUHAR MACRAE is Resident Physician at the Livingstone Dispensary in Edinburgh.
W. D. M UDDITT is, for the duration, at 8, Bath Road, Reading, not at Monkswood. His former home has been rather badly damaged and Monkswood slightly so, and his offices in Pudding Lane have suffered from blast ; but the family is safe and well.
FRANK MUDDITT, who is a 2nd Lieut. R.A., is at present stationed at Aldershot. He does not expect to be at Aldershot after...”
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“...Chefusian, who sends greetings to all of her day.
JOHN ROBERTSON is in the Edinburgh University starting a four years’ course for B.Sc. (pure Science). He says the family are all in Edinburgh together. His Sisters are attending George Watson’s Ladies’ College. “ Edinburgh has, so far, proved to be a very peaceful and unwarlike locality —relatively, of course—and the Scottish air is keeping us all very fit. Once a week at meetings of the Edinburgh University Evangelical Association, I see DOROTHY WALKER—and now and then, at a ‘ Chefoo Reunion ’, under the auspices of MR. GRAHAM BROWN, I meet with a number of old Chefusians, more, indeed, than I ever dreamt were living in Edinburgh.”
MISS RICE, we are sorry to hear, is very unwell and is at present being nursed at the C.I.M. Home in South-borough, Kent. Old Chefusians will join with us in wishing her a speedy and complete recovery.
ALISON STEWART is in her third year at Aberdeen University. She is President of the Aberdeen branch of the Student...”
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“...there were plenty of Air Raid ' Alerts ’.
ELEANOR FUNNELL is having a quiet time at Clarendon School. She mentions having had one air raid warning ! Her family has moved to Bedford where Mr. Funnell joins them for week-ends. Their home in London is only slightly damaged.
KENNETH FUNNELL spent the summer helping on a farm in Bedfordshire. He has now returned to Cambridge, but may soon be called up.
VICTOR FUNNELL has gone up to the Senior School at Monckton.
JANET GREENING’S sister held a small Chefoo Reunion at her home in Winchester. HELEN, MARJORIE and ARTHUR SMITH, GERALDINE LACK, and Janet and her sister, were there and had a very good time. Janet has been very busy with private nursing.
GWEN HARRIS Is in North Curry, Somerset, where she went for her summer holiday. She had hoped to start at the Clapham and Streatham College in September, but the college didn’t open. It is re-opening now in Guildford. Gwen has been teaching evacuees in the village hall at North Curry.
HELEN HEAL’S home...”
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“...canteen for the troops several evenings a week, and hopes soon to join the Red Cross. Her school in London has been destroyed, but there were no casualties. Gene has volunteered for overseas evacuation service.
ISABEL SINTON is getting more than her fair share of bombing at King’s College Hospital, but may be moving to Leatherhead soon.
ROBERTSON SINTON is at the Northern Fever Hospital at Winch-more Hill. It is an emergency hospital connected with the London Hospital.
WILLIAM SINTON arrived from Chefoo, via Canada, in September, and is now at the City of London School evacuated to Marlborough.
BARBARA STURT has been accepted by the Dohnavur Fellowship and was hoping to sail for India in the middle of October.
MRS. PETER TAYLOR evacuated from Glasgow to the Isle of Man a year ago. Alice and Elizabeth are attending the Douglas High School for Girls.
TOM THOMPSON is now married to Marjorie Greenacre. He is in the R.A. doing anti-aircraft work.
DAVID THOMPSON has been training as an R.A.F. pilot...”
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“...Haywards Heath. He is very happy in his work and, so far, his firm’s premises and factories have escaped serious damage. His parents have retired from the C.I.M. and are now living in Vancouver with his aunts. OLIVE is busy in her work in Honan under the C.I.M. She spent August in Hiang-cheng, the home of her childhood, to which place HENRY GUINNESS and his wife were expecting to be appointed. RAYMOND and his family are still at Cheng-Kiang, Yunnan. They would like to spend some months next year at Chefoo but this may be impossible under present conditions. DOROTHY (Mrs. Cousins) is still living near Burton-on-Trent and has 5 daughters. Her husband is now in the Merchant Service and assisted in the Dunkirk evacuation.
NORTH AMERICA.
P. BROOKS KELLY, who has a medical practice in Plymouth, Mass., has a First Lieutenant’s Commission in the Medical Reserve, so there is a chance that he may be called up some time.
JOSEPH R. DUNLAP is a Library Assistant at the College of the City of New York where...”
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“...Aluminium Co., of Canada— “ The only Chefusian I have seen is BOB McCRAE who called on me on his way to England—with a cheerful group of mutual friends—to join the R.N. or R.C.N.V.R.—I think the latter.”
MARJORIE BROOMHALL is spending most of her furlough in Toronto.
AILSA CARR AND DORIS ANDERSON passed through Toronto on their way to China, Ailsa returning to the Prep School, and Doris as a new C.I.M. candidate. MRS. NICOLL entertained in their honour. Among those present were the following Chefoo girls :
Marjorie Broomhall, Josephine Coulthard, Marjorie Lawson Lugsdin, Barbara Broadfoot, Marion Taylor, Marjorie Tull, Jean McCrae, Edna Rist, Myrtle Ludbrook and Marion Harris.
MYRTLE LUDBROOK has a position in the office of the Isaac Pitman Company, Toronto.
EDWARD BANNAN has a position with the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland. He is married and has two children, Teddy and Richard.
Many Chefusians will be interested to hear that MISS CARPMAEL and MISS CLARKSON have bought a lovely piece...”
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“...Chefusians have recently arrived in North America :
ANN BRYAN is attending Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
DONALD GIBSON is studying towards his M.B. at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
ROBERT F. MILLER is taking a Civil Engineering Course at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
JEAN SPENCE is living with relatives at Pinefalls, Manitoba (near Winnipeg). MARGARET SPENCE is taking a business course in Winnipeg.
MARION HARRIS, eldest daughter of MR. and MRS. R. F. HARRIS of
Chefoo, is taking the Honour Mathematics and Physics Course at the University of Toronto.
PRISCILLA and MARGARET FISH are living in Toronto, but their courses of study have not yet been decided upon.
MARIE DAVIS has a nursing position in the Preventorium at London, Ontario.
ROBERTA RUTH HAZELTON is finishing her schooling in Los Angeles, California.
JOHN S. HARRIS has left Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and is now living in Los Angeles, California.
PAT and JOAN TILBURN are attending school in Vancouver as...”
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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION.
Presidents:
Mr. & Mrs. F. McCarthy.
Vice-Presidents :
Miss L. Blackmore. Mr. F. H. Rhodes.
Mr. D. E. Hoste. Mr. H. G. Judd.
Rev. W. H. Aldis. Miss E. Rice.
And the Principals of the Chefoo Schools :
Mr. P. A. Bruce (Boys’ and Girls' Schools).
Miss A. Carr (Prep. School).
GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH COMMITTEE.
Chairman :
Mr. W. D. Mudditt,
Monkswood, Forest Way. Woodford Green, Essex. Hon. Secretary :
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
c/o Farm Gate, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
After January 15th, 1940 :
Brook Crettage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Hon. Treasurer :
Mr. B. B. Burnett,
59 Lenmore Avenue, Grays, Essex.
Editor :
Mr. J. G. Weller,
14 Lichfield Road, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey. News Editors :
Miss Mary Weller,
Llanfair, High Trees Road, Reigate, Surrey.
Mr. T. J. Hirst,
104, Roehampton Vale, London, S.W. 15.
Mr. D. Barling. Mr. j. M. Slimmon.
Miss G. Briscoe. Mr. S. D. V. Weller.
Mr. J. S. Green. Miss E. J. Williamson.
Miss W. G. Rouse.
Scottish Secretary :
Miss M...”
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