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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,
154 Castle Hill, Reading, Berks.
Hon. Secretary :
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
Brook Cottage, 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,
Dr. S. D. V. Weller,
Llanfair, High Trees Road, Reigate, Surrey.
Mr. D. Barling. Mr. J. M. Slimmon.
Miss G. Briscoe. Miss E. J. Williamson.
Mr. J. S. Green. Miss W. G. Rouse.
Scottish Secretary :
Miss M. Findlay,
c/o 72 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh, 9.
China Secretary:
Miss I. Taylor,
C.I.M. Girls' School, Chefoo.
New Zealand Secretary :
Mr...”
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“...Newsletter No. 28
DECEMBER, 1941
Chefoo Schools Great Britain
Association % Branch.
Editorial.
In wartime it is both more difficult and more necessary than in days of peace to keep in touch with one another. Surely now, if ever—amidst the manifold stresses of a world at war, perhaps in loneliness or danger—we learn the deeper value of such a fellowship as that which binds us to Chefoo. More than ever do we find strength in each other’s sympathy and cheerful encouragement, in the sharing of each other’s griefs or joys, in the assurance of each other’s prayers.
For such reasons, we are glad to be able to issue this, the fifth war-time News-letter ; and we gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of so many Chefusians in sending us what must be a record volume of news. This heartening evidence that the news-letter meets a real and growing need justifies (we feel) its continued publication for as long as paper-rationing allows.
On behalf of Chefusians everywhere, we should like to express deepest...”
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“...hoped that the Treasurer, who is extremely busy these days, will find time to supply reminders for insertion with this issue for those who are in arrears, and these members can show their loyalty to the C.S.A. by immediate response thereto.
Addresses. Each issue that is dispatched brings its aftermath of envelopes returned “ Gone away—no address ’’ etc. I have already pleaded with members about this and will say no more— verb. sap. !
The Chefusian. Those who wish to take this Magazine of the Chefoo Schools for 1942 should send me their subscriptions— 2/3—before January 1st.
With best wishes for Christmas and 1942.
Your Secretary,
HOWARD F. JOYCE.
Please note postscript on page 20.
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“...was never silent of the click, click of good old bamboo chopsticks.
So this was a “ re-union ”—incomplete, however, until hearty voices singing the twenty-third Psalm threatened to raise the roof.
I remembered the times we used to sit in the dayroom and talk about the future, and laugh at the old school photographs, poking fun at the maidenly grace of frilled pinafores, high tightly-laced boots, flouncy bonnets and pigtails ! Oh yes, times and fashions change, but there’s something about that “ Chefoo ” feeling that always leaves you warm inside, that makes you want to meet other Chefusians. Re-unions?—let’s have more of them ! M.W.F.
Among those present at this Re-union on April 16th, 1941, were :
Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee ; Mr. and Mrs. A. Preedy ; Miss Craig ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore ; Margaret Bunting ; Priscilla and Margaret Fish ; Patsy Bruce ; Marguerite Dickie ; Ina Martin Brooks ; Mrs. Bevis ; Ruth Bevis ; Myrtle Ludbrook ; Marion Harris ; Buchanan MacMillan ; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rhodes...”
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“...Anti-aircraft. Lieut., R.A.
Lieut., R.A.M.C. Australia.
Instrument repairer. Flying Officer (medical). Accountant.
Flight Lieut.
Paymaster, R.C.A.F. (Pilot in training) Australia.
R.N.A.F.
Flight Lieut.
Wireless Operator.
Hatfield, Herts. Surrey.
Egypt-
Fife.
In Memoriam.
Word has just been received of the sudden death of Willi® Windsor from a car accident in Kweichow, China. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his wife (Connie Brock) and their two children, Marjorie (in school at Chefoo) and Helen, to his Mother, retired in Chefoo, and to his sister, Joyce Windsor Roberts of Burlington, Ontario.
Willie Windsor has been for some years Superintendent for the China Inland Mission of the Province of Kweichow. Perhaps some may remember that his father was also a missionary under the C.I.M. in Kweichow. Willie Windsor used to speak of “digging again the wells of water they had digged in the days of his father . . .”— an attitude which surely showed the fineness of his Christian character.
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“...News
OF OLD CHEFUSIANS
GREAT BRITAIN.
MRS. ALTY writes from New York: “ We are both well ; we have our bad days but are, I think, better than we were in London. Margaret has two lovely children who are a great joy to us.”
DAVID BARLING. We sympathise with David Barling in the death of his father who passed away at Chefoo on August 3rd, from typhoid and pneumonia.
David was bombed out in September, 1940, and moved to Whetstone where he became an A.R.P. Warden. He joined the R.A.F. last April and is now an instrument repairer attached to a station in Kent. He has been moved several times and finds life very interesting. He has met CHRISTOPHER FAIRCLOUGH and ELIA PARADISSIS.
2nd Lt. G. M. BATEMAN is in the Second Punjabis, Indian Army.
MARY BIRD recently cycled from Beckenham to Southborough and paid a surprise visit to Miss Rice.
MISS BOND writes : “ For myself, I am at Newington Green and likely to continue here during the suspension of our training of women recruits. Correspondence with...”
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“...London School.
AILSA CARR is carrying on at the Prep. School, Chefoo, where conditions are by no means easy.
MORRIS is in the R.A.F., busy looking after the health of R.A.F. men and W.A.A.Fs. He is in charge of the Officers’ Mess and becoming quite an experienced housekeeper I
EULA SYMONDS (nie Carr) has now got a working knowledge of Swahili and is able to help her husband by taking classes in his boys’ school. They have a son, Timothy.
ELSPETH CHRISTOPHER (nee WILLS) had a baby daughter, Helen, born to her on the last Chefoo Foundation Day, June 15th, 1941.
MR. AND MRS. J. J. COULTHARD recently had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. and Mrs. Hogg when the latter came over from Swanage to spend a day with the Misses Baker.
WALTER was married to Florence Vernon at Wolverhampton on October 1st.
ADA COLES, who taught in the Kuling School until that building was destroyed by fire, and was then transferred to the Prep. School at
Chefoo, has come to Bournemouth with her mother. They are living at...”
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“...members of the family, we extend deepest sympathy.
KATIE GRAHAM is still District Nursing in Streatham where she works in connection with two parishes.
JACK GRAHAM and his wife are back in China as missionaries.
JEAN’S husband is a lieutenant in the Army. They are at present living in Farnborough, near Camberley.
JOHN GREEN has let his house in Muswell Hill and moved with his family to St. Albans where they are living next door to his parents.
MISS HARMAN (our kind hostess for our Chefoo Week-ends at her schools at Watford and Shoreham) is now in the Midlands. She took her scholars for a trip to the seaside in August.
J. S. HARRIS is to enter the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
DONALD HAY served in H.M.S. Cornwall until June, 1941, and was with her when she sank an armed German merchant raider in the Indian Ocean. He is now taking Sub-Lieutenant’s courses at Portsmouth.
DAVID HEAL is now in the Lower Vth at the Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys. He is a Lance Corporal in the...”
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“...boon ; he is now in the Cyclops.
MISS FLORENCE HERBERT is living near Aldershot, nursing her invalid sister. The church she attends is very interested in the work of the C.I.M. She has met. HAROLD LEDGARD and KEN HAMMON there.
LOUISE HUNNEX is on the Civil Nursing Reserve. She is working on behalf of the India North West Mission, seeking particularly to interest children in missionary work.
I. M. HUTCHINSON is in the Indian Army.
ROSS JUDD who, with Fred and Edwin, made up the three original Chefoo boys, is living in Toronto and has reached his three score years and ten.
FRED is in the C.I.M. as Medical Superintendent in China and is continuing to be regarded as “the beloved physician
EDWIN is in the Engineering Department of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough.
CHARLIE is doing the work of about three people in looking after C.I.M. interests in Vancouver and surrounding States.
CECIL is in an Accountant’s office in Glasgow and very active in the Salvation Army.
HAROLD, Controller...”
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“...the beginning of this term for quite a while before I discovered that he was JACK WEIR whom I had not seen or heard anything of since he left Chefoo in 1931 ! He is an M.Sc. and now doing the second year of his theological course. We are both taken up with Scouting engagements and Boys’ Club and Settlement work occupy what remains of my spare time.”
FARQUHAR, who was appointed to Ichang under the Church of Scotland, sailed in June and after a rather adventurous journey round the Cape arrived safely at Rangoon. There, according to our latest news, he still was,waiting fortransport upthe Burma Road and probably occupying his time by helping in some hospital.
DOREEN McCAMMON is working for the Ministry of Information in Belfast.
KATHLEEN is taking her Diploma of Education at Queen’s University and also teaching several periods a week in two schools.
MAUREEN is in the first year of her Froebel training.
■ EILEEN is still at school.
MARJORIE and IRENE MADELEY are at Birmingham. Irene is a keen...”
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“...STANLEY ROWE, who is stationed near Hull, and would like to see any other Chefusians who find themselves in that neighbourhood.
From a Chefoo letter written in July it appears that MISS PYLE has retired from her life of active administration in the Girls’ House at Chefoo and is now living in the house which MR. and MRS. FAERS occupied before their retirement. Her plan is “that she may have more time and place to offer girls who would otherwise not be able to learn and to enjoy the service of a home. Already two little girls who had not been home for some time had spent a week-end with her and had had the experience of picking and cooking vegetables from the garden and discovering how good eggs tasted that had been fried by the consumer.” The letter describes a linen-showerand house-warming held in her house by 17 out of the 19 Old Girls now living in Chefoo. ISABEL TAYLOR “ spoke of Miss Pyle’s tireless giving in long years of service to us and to the school ; of her patience with the un...”
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“...to call at her home.
IAN ROXBURGH has passed his Higher Leaving Certificate and hopes to become a chartered accountant.
JIMMY is attending Milngavie Public School ; last term he was first in his class and School Sports Champion.
HAZEL SAWYER has joined up in the W.R.N.S. and is training as a writer or general clerk ; she enjoys her work very much. Before leaving home she met MARJORIE SMITH in Winchester.
LINDA SERGEANT is now a prefect at the Perse School, Cambridge. She hopes to take Higher Schools in July. She has met several Chefusians— MISS MacNAIR in Cambridge last February, JOAN PAILING, DAWN KING, and DOUGLAS and JOAN EMMOT.
DAVID is still at Epsom College and is taking School Certificate at the end of the year.
MISS E. A. SHEPPERD is living very quietly in Darlington with her widowed brother. She keeps in touch by letter with a number of Old Chefusians.
FREDA SHIPWAY has just obtained her Teacher's Certificate after two years at St. Gabriel’s College and has a post in Morden. She...”
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“...considerable publicity in the press ; and he was (amongst other things) the guest of honour at a luncheon of the English-Speaking Union, presided over by Mr. H. G. Wells.
REV. and MRS. T. GEAR-WILLETT are living with the Misses Vinden who have a niece and nephew at Chefoo.
MISS AMY G. WILSON is in charge at The Chalet, Bidborough.
IRENE is in London still working in a hospital which has been twice badly damaged through enemy action. She is also an A.R.P. Warden.
RACHEL and NELLIE are living in Tunbridge Wells.
CECIL is a busy general practitioner in Bideford.
THEO lives at Watford and spends his days at business in town and his evenings at Home Guard work.
IAN and TERRY WRIGHT went to Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh, on leaving Chefoo in 1936 and TERRY still has three years there. Last season he was in the First Cricket XI and he now plays Rugby. IAN started work on October 1st of last year as an apprentice mining engineer and is enjoying his work. His apprenticeship will last for four years...”
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“...following is a copy of the letter received from the Mission :
“ We wish on behalf of the China Inland Mission to thank the members of the Chefoo Schools Association of Torontoforthe enlargedframed photograph of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Helmer, which Rev. Bernard Rhodes brought last Monday afternoon as a presentation to this Mission Centre from the Chefoo young men and women of this district.
” It is a lovely and life-like likeness of our dear mutual friends, yours and ours, and we need not assure you that we deeply appreciate this expression of your loving remembrance of your good friends and our beloved fellow workers. The picture has been hung jn the Mission Home and we trust
you will one and all come and see It often.
“ Again thanking you all on behalf of our C.I.M. in Toronto, we are
Gratefully yours,
(Signed) Edith Brownlee.
E. A. Brownlee.”
A Chefoo Re-union was held in San Francisco early in September, 1941, at MR. and MRS. P. T. HOLLANDER'S home.
As North American members of the...”
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“...was in Iceland, wearing a great coat day and night to keep warm.”
From ROBERT McCRAE :
" I am writing to thank the Chefoo Schools Association for the very kind parcel which you sent. I think people in the Forces get very much the same sort of pleasure out of receiving a parcel of different sorts of edibles as a school boy does. At any rate I seem to since I joined the Navy. I have just arrived at my present base to take up a new appointment as First Lieutenant on a ship (H.M.S. Pointz Castle).
From WALLACE GOFORTH :
” Your box of cakes reminded me of the old ‘ Sunday cake ’ four o’clock hours on Sundays at Chefoo, except that your variety was much tastier and there was more of it ! ”
ALBERT WHITTLESEY writes : “ For the past eleven years I have been associated with The Pennsylvania Company, one of the largest bank and trust companies in the State of Pennsylvania and, for that matter, about the twenty-fifth largest bank in the United States. Next month I am going back for my fifteenth re-union...”
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“...watch (Elgin make) that was presented to me in Chefoo in 1927 is still going strong and stands up very well to hard work. I use it all the time here, riding on horseback up rocky creeks and round the mountain trails, and wouldn’t be without it at all.”
In reply to the cable sent by Toronto Chefusians to MR. AND MRS. MCCARTHY at the time Belfast was bombed, the following was received : “Thanks for Cable Appreciate message and greetings Both safe unharmed Psalm twenty-three fulfilled. Mc-Carthys.”
JOHN S. HARRIS writes : “ Since I graduated from Central Collegiate, Moose Jaw, Sask., I spent two months on a prairie farm and then came down here and graduated from High School for the third time. For a time I was a brush salesman with a. heavy
sample case and a very light wallet. Now I have a position in one of the large department store offices in Los Angeles.” DAVID HARRIS joined his brother in Los Angeles this summer, having finished school at Chefoo in 1941.
EDWARD WELLS attended a conference...”
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“...that subscriptions (2/6A) should be sent to the C.I.M. at 64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. New Zealand. Payment to the N.Z. Secretary. China. These may not be practicable now but I repeat them in case they can be followed. Members in the C.I.M. should request the Treasurer at Shanghai Headquarters to pay their subscriptions for them annually and this should be done by those who do not find a 1941 receipt with this issue. Other members whould pay the equivalent of 2/6 to the China Secretary at Chefoo. All enquiries re subscriptions should be sent to the Treasurer.
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“...2574615, No. I Coy., 7 L.S., 3 Corps Signals, Home Forces. PREEDY, Mr. and Mrs., (for the winter) 86, Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, N.I6. SMITH, Neville Dansey, c/o Dr. O’Reilly, St. Anne’s, Bridge Street, Chep-
stow, Monmouthshire.
SMITH, Adrian Dansey, 2nd Lt., R.A.S.C., 113, Petrol Depot, R.A.S.C., Iceland (c) Force.
TOONE, Evelyn, Mildmay Mission Hospital, Bethnal Green, E.2.
Additions :
BATTISTUZZI, Candida E., 24, The Broadway, Chefoo, China.
CLAYTON, Faith M., St. Paul’s Parsonage, Cheeloo University, Tsinang, Sung, China.
MURRAY, Peter L., Stranraer, Field Lane, Chefoo, China.
Addresses Required (See also recent issues) :
BLACK, Margery and Sylvia ; BROMBY, Edward ; COOK, Arthur ; FULLER, Miss A. M. ; THOMPSON, Eric ; WILLIAMSON, Evelyn and Marion.
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