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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
Presidents :
Mr. & Mrs. F. McCarthy.
Vice-Presidents
Miss L. Blackmore.
Mr. D. E. Hoste.
The Rev. W. H. Aldis.
Mr. F. H. Rhodes. Mr. H. G. Judd. 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,
26, Berkeley Court, Coley Avenue, Reading, Berks.
Ex-Officio : -Mr. H. F. Joyce.
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Hon. Secretary :
Mr. J. S. Green,
C.I.M., Newington Green, London, N.I6.
Hon. Treasurer :
Mr. B. B. Burnett,
59 Lenmore Avenue, Grays, Essex.
Editor :
The Rev. J. G. Weller,
2a Oxford Road, Colchester, Essex.
News Editor :
Miss Mary Weller,
University College Hospital, Nurses' Home, Huntley Street, London, W.C.I.
Mr. D. Barling. Miss G. Briscoe. Mr. E. H. Weller
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...”
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“...Newsletter No. 31
JULY, 1943.
Editorial.
Here is yet another war-time news-letter, with yet another budget of war-time news, compounded of joys and sorrows—and of much patient continuance in well-doing. Our thoughts are more than ever with the Schools, in their internment at Temple Hill. We are grateful for news passed on to us by Miss H. M. Bond.
For the first time, a consignment of these news-letters (the copies of the last issue, No. 30, sent to North America) has failed to get through. Happily we had some copies in reserve which were promptly dispatched and which (we hope) arrived safely, even if very late, to fill the worst of the gap.
As a number of people have written to suggest that the C.S.A. should express in some tangible way its gratitude to Howard Joyce, it ought perhaps to be said here that we haven’t really let Howard out of our clutches yet. We ‘till hope that his resignation may be only a war-time affair ; but, if it does prove to be final, you may be sure that he will...”
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“...December 19th, 1942.
The Melbourne Chefoo Reunion was held at the C.I.M. Home, Hawthorn, on Saturday evening, 19th December, 1942. There were present :
Mrs. Bailer ; Jack and Rene Burgess ; Handley Entwistle ; Eric and Doris Embery ; Kitty Waters ; Mary Mathews ; Connie Webster ; Christine (Porteous) Calcutt, and Mr. Calcutt ; John and Mrs. Herbert and two sons, Alf and Mrs. Pike ; Beth (Herbert) Eaton and Harold and Ray Eaton ; Eileen Jones; Dorothy and Allan Boxer ; Mary and John Ashe ; Gertrude McIntyre and Jean Lyons.
The evening was spent in traditional fashion—playing Consequences, etc., singing the old School Songs and ending up with the evergreen Dumb Charades, at which the usual talented acting was displayed. (What the stage has missed !)
After supper the Secretary gave news of Chefusians in other States and offered apologies for a number of members, some in the Forces, unable to be present. Mr. W. J. Embery gave the latest news of the Schools, as received from Shanghai or London...”
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“...News of Chefoo.
Letters from Mr. Gordon Martin and the Misses Broomhall, Stark, Woodward and Hills have given us close-up pictures of Chefoo, before and after the compulsory evacuation of our premises. Needless to say, the accounts are both jolly and pathetic, but the prevailing note in each is cheerful courage, deep thankfulness, and a ready recognition of God’s goodness in what were and are hard circumstances. Here are some extracts :
“ For a long time we expected to leave ; one building after another was being commandeered and ' visitors ’ were always coming. We had to pick our way about the compound over new wires, holes, heaps and among buildings going up apace around us.
“Suddenly in the first week of November, sentries, posted at our gates, prevented anyone leaving. The same day, all foreigners outside the compound were ordered to Temple Hill. We thought we should be sent for next day, and most of us kept busily planning and packing, feeling that it would be a question of how much...”
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“...Can you imagine me with a little boy across my knee while I mend the seat of his trousers ? . . . The staff have improvised all sorts of nooks and crannies for sleeping, there are rooms in outhouses which were servants’ quarters, and these make better rooms than many get inland.” “ Greatly to our relief we can now get laundry done out. The man comes to the gate, where we hand it to him, as we are not allowed outside the compound, but exercise by strolling round the garden.”
“ You who remember Chefoo classrooms, would grieve to see forty boys, and a few girls seated on lockers in a two chien room in the servants’ quarters without blackboard, desk, or convenience for writing,—but the room has been whitewashed. A stove and the south aspect keep it warm, and teaching goes ahead. At present the teaching is admittedly a makeshift affair, at least for the senior school ; we hope we shall do better after Christmas.”
♦
“ News of the outside world leaks through to us and occasionally we get B.B.C...”
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“...with them both.
MR. E. MURRAY.
Dr. Arthur Taylor writes : “ The news of the homecall of Mr. Ebe Murray, on April 2nd, 1943, while not at all unexpected, came as a great shock. For some time he had been in ill-health and for months bore with that patience and fortitude, characteristic of him, the suffering due to his illness. Somehow it was not easy to picture him as unwell, weak and inert. Mr. Murray at Chefoo was always the one who personified health, strength, and resiliency, and with the happiest of dispositions was an ideal school master for the China Inland Mission. The Chefoo Schools owe him more than is realised. He was a “ tower of strength ” on the Staff of the Boys’ School where he taught from 1888 to 1914 and of which he was a kind of Vice-Principal ; and twice, when the Head of those days, Mr. Frank McCarthy, was on furlough, he acted as Principal. He was a splendid disciplinarian, an excellent teacher and a true lover of boys ; indeed his whole life was wrapped up in the welfare...”
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“...which we all share, for while they have lost a husband and a father, we have lost a great friend.”
Chefoo “Oxford Results,” 1942.
No. I. 2.
3.
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8. 9.
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Clarke, David Howell Pettifer. Cooke, Calvin Wight. Desterhaft, Wallace E.
Hayman, Andrew William. Howell, Guy Beaumont.
Hoyte, Robert William.
Jenkins, William Andrew Joseph Absent.
Allan, Jean Macmillan.
Harle, Edna Mabel Elizabeth. Harris, Isabel Gertrude.
Jordan, Phyllis Ruth.
Lack, Jean Beatrice.
Liversidge, Grace Mabel. Seaman, Doris Eva.
Absent.
Torjesen, Kari Marie.
Trickey, Irene Muriel.
7 Credits.
8 7 5
7
8 5
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8
7 6
8 7 6
Matric Exemption.
Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption.
Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption.
Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption. Matric Exemption.
6 ,, Matric Exemption.
7 „ Matric Exemption.
Oxford was unable to send out papers to Chefoo for 1942, but unseen previous papers were used, and some were set by members of staff not actually...”
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“...News
OF OLD CHEFUSIANS
DORIS ANDERSEN is working under the C.I.M. in Honan with OLIVE JOYCE.
DAVID BARLING was married in February to Miss Enid Crondace. LORDEN TRICKEY was best man.
JOHN BARNES, who at one time did coaching at the Boys’ School, is in the Army in Northern Ireland. His brother. PAUL, who was at Chefoo, is at school at Monkton Combe.
2nd Lieut. G. M. BATEMAN, who was reported “ missing, believed killed ” a year ago, has now been reported to be a Prisoner of war in Malaya.
MARY BIRD is taking her Midwifery at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Gold-hawk Road, London, W.6.
Miss BLACKMORE has been for some months with Miss UNWIN in Wantage, Berks. She has recently met GRACE (FREDA), MARJORIE and IRENE MADELEY.
DORIS BRISCOE is living at the China Inland Mission, Newington Green with her parents, who were repatriated last summer. She is working very hard at the Admiralty, and is also Lieutenant to a Guide Company and Mate to a Sea Ranger Crew, both in Bethnal Green.
HILDA BRISCOE is...”
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“...America and the Panama Canal. Lapper writes : “We would like to take the opportunity of saying, through the medium of the Chefoo, Goodbye and Good Luck to all the old China hands whom we know and who know us ”, Lapper’s father is interned in Tientsin and his mother and two sisters are in Sydney.
EMMIE has finished her nurse’s training with distinctions and is now engaged to be married.
JIMMIE LARSEN is a Pilot Officer in the R.A.F.V.R. in India.
LESLIE LAUGHLAND has been serving with the Royal Ulster Rifles since September and is thoroughly enjoying army life. He hopes soon to go to an O.C.T.U.
The Rev. H. A. H. LEA, who was on the staff at Chefoo 1906-1916, is still Rector of Edgware where he has been for the last 17 years. The parish has grown considerably and he has had to raise £16,000 to enlarge the Parish Church and build two Church Halls. He continues, as in Chefoo days, to mend clocks and watches in his spare time, when he has any. A newspaper cutting headed ” Rector is handiest man...”
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“...north. There is a medical Library and his time is fully occupied with study. He would like to hear from Chefoo friends. His address is PG47, PM3200, Italy.
HILDA MACDONALD (nee EVANS) has recently been married. Her name is still Macdonald ; her husband is in the R.A.F.
NORMAN MACRAE has sailed under the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and has arrived in Calabar.
FARQUHAR MACRAE is engaged to Jean Russon of Dudley. Worcs. He is now in Free China studying the language and helping in medical work.
DAVID MANN’S wife, Joyce, writes : “ I’m afraid I have had no
news of David. Seven months have passed now and it seems a long time waiting for news. All the same I have by no means given up hope and each day finds me looking for some news of him.
CONNIE has passed her State Finals and will be finishing up at Christmas at the Westminster Hospital.
CARRIE is well and safe at Chefoo, although they have to work extremely hard and are rather short of food.”
DOREEN McCAMMON is now a Sergeant...”
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“...Nottingham.
ELISABETH is in her second year at the School of Domestic Science in Aberdeen. She enjoys her work very much, but finds coupons a great drawback to dress-making. .
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have been repatriated from Manchuria and are now settled in Edinburgh.
The Rev. J. HOWARD STOOKE writes : “ At the end of March I
resigned from the pastorate of the Victoria Park Baptist Church, Bristol, after nineteen years’ ministry. I am now the Secretary of the Bristol and District Association of Baptist Churches, an association of about eighty churches situated in the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. This is calculated to keep me more than busy.”
EVELYN TAYLOR missed the Winter re-union, having had to leave for Bedford two days before. (She is in College there).
Flt./Lt. W. E. COWELL TAYLOR is Senior M.O. at an aerodrome in Wales.
KATHLEEN TAYLOR (nee BROOM-HALL) and her two daughters returned to Glasgow from the Isle of Man just before Christmas.
ALICE has a clerical position...”
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“...from a l«g wound and soon returned to his job with the Eighth Army. He has a baby son, Robin Moray, born on March 10th, 1943. Robin’s mother says he is incredibly ugly and exactly like his father I
MARY is now nursing at University College Hospital.
MARGARET has left Northampton, where she won the Midwifery Prize for her year, and is now enjoying life immensely training as a Queen’s District Nurse in W. Hampstead.
MISS E. R. WHITE has had a Red Cross Message from MISS BURN of Chefoo.
MARJORIE WIGHT has completed her Children's Training at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is now taking her General Training at University College Hospital.
JOHN WILKIE has another term at school and then hopes to join the R.A.F.
HAZEL YOUNG, who was at the Prep. School, is now in her fourth year of Medicine in Edinburgh. At present she is in Dublin at the Rotunda doing her maternity work.
NORTH AMERICA.
(News dated May, 1943)
North American Executive.
The Rev. F. H. Rhodes: Vice-President
L. Carrington Goodrich...”
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“...had the pleasure of having h(m in our home nearly every week during his stay in America.
“I am still with the Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America, and we live just a little way out of New York, so we would be glad to see or hear of any old Chefoo boys or girls who may be visiting New York or vicinity. My home address is 5, Clinton Avenue, New Providence, New Jersey—’phoneSummit6-l244W, and my office ’phone is Market 2-6000, Extension 752.
“ I had the privilege of visiting with MR. and MRS. ALTY in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. He has aged considerably, but his mind is still very clear regarding Chefoo, and he loves to talk about the School.
” My elder brother, JAMES, who, with his wife and baby are in Free China, have four children at Chefoo.
“ ALFRED, my younger brother, is in Shanghai with his family, and my sister, BELLA, was last heard of with her husband when the Japanese took Singapore. My brother, CLEMENT, is in Camden, N.J.,—he has two boys in the American Navy. My sister, EVA...”
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“...of whom are stationed at Camp Borden).
A CHEFOO PRAYER MEETING is held in Toronto on the second Tuesday of each month at the home of different Chefusians. PRISCILLA FISH (326 St. George Street—Kings-dale 1408) will be glad to give any information to those interested.
AUSTRALIA.
(News dated 30/12/42.)
FLORENCE ALDERSON is a trained nurse, doing private cases in and around Sydney.
ERIC BIRD (now M.B., B.S.) married Kathryn Hercus a few months ago and is living in Orange, N.S.W., where he is a resident at the District Hospital.
MRS. BRIGGS (nee Muriel Southey) is giving a good deal of her time to helping at Everyman’s, a Welfare Centre in Melbourne for the troops, run by the Campaigners for Christ.
PETER BROWN is at the North Shore C. of E. Grammar School, Sydney.
RENE BURGESS will be through her nursing at the Prince Henry Hospital, Melbourne, by the time you read this. She was recently married to Arthur Mitchell, a Master at Scotch College, Melbourne.
ANNE BURGESS has been doing private...”
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