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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. Miss G. Briscoe. Mr. J. S. Green.
Mr. J. M. Slimmon. Miss E. J. Williamson 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. 29
JULY, 1942.
Chefoo Schools Great Britain
Association X Branch.
Editorial.
The tragic extension of hostilities in the Far East has affected Chefusians perhaps more deeply than any previous event of the war. Our prayers and our love are with friends, school-fellows, relatives, now in Japanese-occupied areas or in the immediate zones of war ; above all, with the children and staff at Chefoo itself. However long communications may be severed, whatever event of privation or peril may lie before the Schools, we shall all keep them in constant and affectionate remembrance.
Once again we are grateful for the response of many Chefusians in sending us news. We hope you will all make a habit of keeping us so well informed ! Our thanks are due, also, to those who have written articles or reports for the News-letter—and not least to Marion Taylor, who rattles her type-writer in defiance of the U boats and contrives to send us, with unfailing regularity, her North American News-budget...”
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“...remember the “ E ” for Effort as well as the “ V ” for Victory.
We hope to produce another issue in time for Christmas and news for it should reach Mary Weller by November 5th, but I expect she will write to remind you !
We had a grand Reunion Chow in January and it was a real tonic to see so many O.Cs. at their favourite pastimes ! We have just arranged a Summer Reunion to meet “ Our ” Bishop and his good lady who, of course, is an O.C. To see them again will bring back happy memories of those Chefoo Week-ends at which they so ably acted as our “ Grandpa and Granny ” and made us feel so much at home. This Reunion will be at the C.I.M. on Saturday, July 4th, at 3 p.m. and notices are being sent out in good time as this issue will only just be in the last stages of publication at that date.
The response to the reminders of Subscriptions owing has also been very good, and in December and January last the Treasurer was kept quite busy. Those who have not yet paid for this year are asked to do...”
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“...the meals to be “corker.” (Thank you, cooks). But you should have heard and seen the cook serving Sunday morning’s breakfast-in-bed in true G.S. sickroom style, though the quality and quantity consumed bore no relationship to a sickroom. Girls, do you remember the “ ssshhh ” ?
Walk : Ten to fourteen miles for half a day was not out of the way. The scenery was magnificent, but the company . . .
TALK ! We didn’t stop except for a few necessary hours at night ! Reminiscences and impersonations of Chefoo indentities— native and foreign—were the order of the day. Scraps of old cantatas and songs were also revived, with The Lady of Shalott and John Gilpin in the foreground.
From among the week-end’s highlights : Can you guess ? . . . Who put her pink woollen singlet in the oven to dry off and eventually brought it out a not-so-delicate brown ? . . . Who was the authority on Government House etiquette, and heard about it ? . . . Who said “ mind your heads ” and then threw her bone out of the window...”
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“...HONGKONG : Mr. S. Mulholland (of Belfast) and his little boy, Mr. Binks (Australia) and Mrs. Binks (England), Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Metcalf and child, Miss Day and Miss Edwards (all from Australia).
In MANILA : Mr. Clarence Preedy (England), Mrs. Preedy (U.S.A.) and two children and Miss Gemmell (U.S.A.) Your prayers on behalf of these friends are greatly desired.
Chefoo.
From a letter from Mr. J. B. Martin.
‘‘The following news has been received through a friend in a newspaper office which has received it by cable. It is the latest information that has reached this country regarding Chefoo. ‘There has been no direct news recently from Chefoo where there are 207 children, but it is known that the school Principal, Mr. Bruce, is free from internment. All were well according to the last direct letter dated December 26th.’ ”
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“...From a letter from Mrs. Preedy.
“We have had news indirectly from Chefoo up to March ; all well ; a five mile radius was allowed for the compound folk ; mild rationing of food, fuel and clothing becoming more problematic ; but it was hoped that postal communication might be allowed between parents and children all over China. All had to wear identity armlets—even the ten-month old Howie baby !” Oxford Results.
Out of twenty-four entries for the Oxford Senior Examination 1941, there were twenty-three passes, fifteen with Exemption from Matriculation. Margaret Seaman came first with eight credits, then Norman Cliff with eight and John Bell with eight.
Mr. and Mrs. George Findlay Andrew are in Tsingtao. We are deeply sorry to hear that Aileen, who had been recently married, died in Chefoo after an operation for appendicitis. Leslie was in Hongkong ; no news has been received of him.
In Memoriam.
ROWLAND HOGBEN.
Chefusians will already know of the sudden and tragic death of Mr. Rowland Hogben...”
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“...News
OF OLD CHEFUSIANS
GREAT BRITAIN.
MR. H. J. H. ANDERSON. Principal of the Anglo-Chinese College in Amoy, where W. E. MURRAY taught when he left Chefoo, died early this year.
LOIS BARLOW WHEELER has been in the Middle East for nearly two years.
HENRY BISHOP is still doing full-time Civil Defence work in Surbiton and studying in his spare time.
GWEN BOBBY has been transferred from Hatfield House, where she has been nursing for eighteen months, to Bath Military Hospital.
HELEN BROWN is taking a course in occupational therapy at the Astley Ainsley Institute, Edinburgh. ELISABETH is in her last term at school in Dumfries and hopes to start medicine at Edinburgh University in October. She and Helen hope to join the Land Army during their summer vacation.
MRS. MARY BRUCE (nee CRANSTON) is in Scotland with her twin girls aged seven and a half years. Her eldest daughter is in the W.A.A.F. and eldest son in the Navy. Her husband and other son are still in London. She writes from Grove House,...”
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“...DOUGLAS EMMOT and ARNOLD ROWLANDS, both evacuated there with Eltham College ; and COLIN AND ALAN CLEMENTS, living with Mrs. Clements near the School. She kindly invited me to tea one Sunday last term to meet the four.
DOUGLAS MOORE (Lieut. Royal Regiment of Canada) looked us up in Tunbridge Wells at the end of the Christmas holidays ; he was stationed not far from there. Fortunately we had some P.N.B. which was a good reminder of Chefoo appetites.
I saw MISS RICE last week at the Chalet, Bidborough.
MR. AND MRS. R. S. PRATT, our good friends at the Consulate in Chefoo around 1930, are now living near Tunbridge Wells. I met him one morning and they invited me to tea. One of their daughters is nursing at the hospital where STANLEY WELLER took his studies (University College Hospital), and knew him.
ROSEMARY EARLE is taking her Intermediate Examination this summer and hopes to be able to continue working for her degree in Dairying.
MONICA was planning to come home from Antigua this summer, but...”
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“...from the Intelligence Corps to the Royal Corps of Signals.
HAZEL SAWYER is enjoying life
as a Wren attached to the Royal Marines.
JEAN SHAW writes : “ I’m still a F.A.N.Y., though I’m doing it in Edinburgh instead of Aldershot. I imagine there are lots of Chefusians knocking around here, but I don’t know where they are. The only other Chefusian I have met is JOHN COOTE who is a Sub-Lt. in the Navy. We met quite strangers and I found out in course of conversation that he had been to Chefoo.”
Rally round, Chefoo ! Jean’s temporary address in Edinburgh is 25 Drummond Place.
GENE SINTON has taken a course on infant teaching at Rachel MacMillan Nursery School, Kemsing, Kent. She enjoys being within reach of London after her eighteen months exile in Cornwall.
ISABEL is about to sit the first half of her S.C.M. (State Certified Midwife) and will spend the next six months in Reading doing district and hospital work in preparation for the second half.
WILLIAM has been at sea since March 1st as a...”
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“...time on the Staff of the University of Nebraska Hospital, has returned to Morgantown, West Virginia, where he has taken up private practice.
FREDA LANGMAN FALLON’S husband is very busy in defence work on the Pacific coast. Her two children are now quite grown-up—a girl eighteen, and a boy sixteen.
MRS. E. A. MURRAY is Chairman of the American Red Cross Chapter for “ knitting and crochet ” in Pacific Grove, California.
CARRINGTON GOODRICH sends us the following news of HENRY C. FENN who was in Chefoo from 1907-1908. “ Henry Fenn’s new address
is 3467 Jackson Street, San Francisco. He has left Lincoln School, New York City, to become Principal of a private school in San Francisco.”
ANN AND SARAH BRYAN are both attending Baylor University in Waco, Texas. It is Sarah’s first year. Ann being in her Sophomore year and ' majoring ’ in Art. JOHN BRYAN is in his first year at Baylor Medical School.
BRYAN GLASS has joined the Air Corps and is at Kelly Field in Texas. GERTRUDE GLASS is living in Nashville...”
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“...for which he is really grateful.”
The following letter was received from DAVID HUGHES who was one of the survivors from a freighter torpedoed off the Nova Scotian coast in January 1942—(this was his third experience on a torpedoed ship).
“ I should like to thank you very much for your kind letter and the old School tie, together with the New Testament and the box of chocolates which I received this morning. It was a wonderful surprise to hear from someone connected with Chefoo at last, as I wrote to Mr. Bruce in Chefoo some months ago, as yet receiving no answer, no doubt due to the Japanese.
” It was good hearing about Old Chefusians in the magazine as it is quite a time since I received any letter, the difficulty being that parcels cannot be sent to foreign ports where those on our job are most of the time. Contrary to the statement in the Old Boys and Girls news, I am in the Merchant Service with the Blue Funnel Line, and not the Navy, although I should like very much to join the latter...”
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“...planning to do post-graduate study at Cornell if he could not return.
MARGARET ALTY JOHNSON and her husband have been over in the United States for three years and are living in New York. Her father and mother are also with her. She has two sons, John Samuel two and a half and Frederick Russell one year.
Many Chefusians will remember MISS CARTER who had charge of the Deaf and Dumb School in Chefoo. She is at present in New York for medical treatment.
MARY GOFORTH MOYNAN is President of the W.M.S. of Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto and also Secretary-Treasurer of the Presbyterian Ministers’ Wives Association in Toronto—besides managing a home for five boys.
ANDREW HAZELAND is married and living in Montreal.
Some faithful members of the C.S.A. in North America seem to find it impossible to give any news of themselves, so we are just listing their names and addresses.
DAVID R. FARIES (1900-03), Los Angeles.
H. NORMAN SIBLEY (1907-12), New York.
RUTH WHITTLESEY SPENCER (1908-16), Franklin, N.|...”
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“...STOP PRESS !
A CHEFOO HOLIDAY ?
Miss E. M. Harman, our hostess of many Chefoo week-ends in the happy past, has just written to suggest a “ semi-camp ” holiday for any Old Chefusians and friends at her school at Evesham from about August 1st. The cost would be approximately 35/-per week for a period of 7-10 days. It is possible that we might be able to organize something though the time is short and there has been no opportunity before writing this to sound a few members about it. Any who are interested, however, are asked to write without delay to the Secretary.
C.S.A. COLOURS.
The following items can be purchased from the Secretary by members in Great Britain and N. Ireland.
The prices include purchase tax ; postage must be added for mail orders.
TIES........ 51- (One coupon to be sent with order.)
POCKET BADGES 2/6 METAL BADGES I/-
The stock of Ties is very limited and cannot be repeated until the end of the war.
Printed in Great Britain...”
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