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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION.
Presidents :
Mr. & Mrs. F. McCarthy.
Vice-Presidents :
Miss L. Blackmore. Mr. H. G. Judd.
Mr. D. E. Hoste.
The Rev. W. H. Aldis.
Miss E. Rice. Miss I. A. Craig.
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,
20, 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,
IB2, Maldon 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...”
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“...Newsletter No. 34
DECEMBER, 1944.
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Chefoo Schools Great Britain
Association X Branch.
Editorial.
This news-letter bears the date December, 1944 ; but we fear that through a combination of circumstances, it is unlikely to appear until well after Christmas. However, we may still exchange greetings in retrospect—and bid one another God-speed for the coming year. Please God it may be the year of the beginning of peace.
We are grateful to all who have contributed articles or news items to this number. One major regret is that we have so little to report about the Schools at Weihsien ; but we continue to pray that there may be blessing in adversity and an undaunted faith, till the hour of liberation.
A Winter Reunion is planned for Saturday, January 6th, 1945 : of which separate notices are going out, as this news-letter will scarcely be in time to announce it. It is to be held (as usual) at the China Inland Mission, Newington Green, from 3 p.m., with Howard Joyce presiding. We hope...”
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“...their subs.
AUSTRALIAN SUBSCRIBERS.
We are asked to emphasise the fact that Miss K. Waters is now C.S.A-Treasurer for Australia. All Australian subscriptions should therefore be sent to her at 25, Clyde Street, Surrey Hills, E. 10, Victoria.
OLD CHEFUSIAN COLOURS.
The following are still obtainable from
HOWARD JOYCE,
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge,
Haywards Heath, Sussex.
TIES—6/- (including purchase tax) and one coupon.
METAL BADGES—I/-
POCKET BADGES—2/6.
Postage should always be sent with orders.
Chefoo News from Weihsien.
Received in an Airgraph from Mr. Sinton dated 3rd November :
Miss B. Stark wrote at the end of July giving news. Mrs. Windsor (senior) died on July 26th, and was buried in the grounds. It had been an exceedingly hot summer with temperatures of 90 to 104° indoors every day for three weeks. The little girls are wearing sun suits made out of old curtains. The boys go shoeless and shirtless. Mr. Houghton wrote that Oxfords had been taken in July.* Foundation Day celebrations went...”
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“...to speak here of the wider service which Mr. Martin has rendered to the Mission and to the whole Christian cause ; but we welcome this opportunity of putting on record the lively and grateful affection which (one may safely say) hundreds of Chefusians feel for him and for Mrs. Martin. What his warm friendship and wise counsel have meant, to generations of Chefoo boys and girls who have arrived in Great Britain to continue study or to begin a career in strange surroundings, is beyond all reckoning. No one could be present with Mr. and Mrs. Martin at a Chefoo Reunion without noticing how deep and unaffected was their love for the Schools (and all connected with them) ; or how deeply they were themselves beloved.
And now, at Pembury in Kent, they are enjoying the leisure they have so richly earned—and are dedicating that, too, to the Royal service. ‘ We are charmed with the little house and all its fittings (writes Mr. Martin in a private letter), but especially the view and the glass covered...”
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“...MRS MALCOLM BURNS (nee GETGOOD).
All Chefusians will be sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Burns, soon after the birth of her second daughter, Elizabeth. Mrs. Burns was for many years on the Staff of the Prep. School at Chefoo, and is remembered with affection by all who knew her, especially by those who were members of her form.
Mr. Burns writes, “ You who have known Norah will realize the privilege that has been mine to have had her love for so long and her companionship and fellowship in marriage for two years. She illuminated God’s Word to me, and I recall some of her favourite quotations: ' The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me ’ (and He has done so, receiving her into His Eternal Joy) ; ‘ As for God
His way is perfect
MERVYN ANDREW.
The news of Mervyn Andrew’s death on May 18th, after a very short illness, came as a shock to many of his friends in Toronto. The funeral was held on Saturday, May 20th. Mr. Brownlee conducted the Service, and the pall-bearers were Douglas Moore...”
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“...leave the whole Brown family were together for the first time in four years all in uniform.
DAVID BARLING who is a Sergeant in the R.A.F. is now in India.
MISS BLACKMORE is at Wantage with MISS UNWIN and gets various opportunities of speaking at Women’s meetings in Wantage and villages near.
GEORGE GRAHAM BROWN writes, “ There is little to say except that I have retired from the secretaryship a year ago and am now rather out of touch with Chefoo and its interests. I would like to say that nothing has given me greater pleasure than the touch with Chefoo both in Glasgow and in Edinburgh. I have very pleasant memories of the Chinese restaurant and some lively meals in it.”
ELSPETH CHRISTOPHER (nee WILLS) and her husband, have now been at Hoddesden a year (her husband is the Congregational Minister) and have settled down very happily. A second little daughter, Janet, was born on July 10th.
LESLIE EVANS is now a Lieutenant-Colonel.
RUGGLES ECKFORD, Captain F. F. Rifles, was awarded the M.C. last...”
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“...the R.A.A.F. in New Guinea, but is now back in Australia. He says “ SANDY is at University and JOHN is nearly engaged. Me—well I’m like I used to be.”
STANLEY ROWE has been with the B.L.A. since D-|-29, and was in Normandy and Belgium. He says “ The good old Chefoo French came into its own : doubtless I speak with a Chinese accent.
I never reckoned for Flemish though ! It will be grand when we can al, get together again and have a colossal reunion, when rice and news are no longer rationed.”
LINDA SERGEANT has been nursing at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, for two months. She is now on night duty in the children’s ward and enjoys it very much. She met K. PAILING fast June.
DAVID is still at Epsom College. He passed Higher Schools in Science last July and is now working for Scholarships at Cambridge. While at a farming camp in Somerset he went to Taunton and called on ALAN CLEMENTS, and MR and MRS DUNCAN.
MALVINA JEANNIE SHIELDS is going to Portuguese Congo under the B.M.S.
MRS DANSEY...”
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“...will bring with it freedom to Chefoo.”
LAURENCE BROCK is now C.S.A. Secretary for New Zealand. He has been attending Auckland University College where he graduated B.Sc. (Maths, and Chem.). Since March of this year he has been studying medicine in Dunedin, the proud possessor of the only Medical School in the country. He has been in camp with the Otaga University Medical Corps.
TONY RAILTON and his mother are in Auckland, and he is apprenticed to an engineering firm, with three more years to serve.
MARGARET and MARY RICHARDSON are both nursing.
MARJORIE is teaching in a Primary School, and IRENE helps at home.
FRANK, who was married last December, is in the Navy and is at present stationed at Auckland.
MR. and MRS RICHARDSON have a house in Dunedin, and the girls are living with them. Mr. Richardson looks just the same as he did in B.D. days, and Mrs. Richardson enjoys better health than she did at Chefoo.
MRS. STOCHER who is well known to everyone from Chefoo, is teaching in a girl’s school...”
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