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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
Presidents :
Mr. & Mrs. F. McCarthy.
Miss E. Rice. Miss I. A. Craig.
Vice-Presidents :
Miss L. Blackmore. Mr. H. G. Judd.
Mr. D. E. Hoste.
The Rev. W. H. Aldis.
Arid 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,
182, Maldon Road, Colchester, Essex.
News Editor :
Miss Mary Weller,
University College Hospital, Nurses’ Home, Huntley Street, London, W.C.I.
Mr. D/ Barling. Mr. J. M. Slimmon.
Miss G. Briscoe. Miss E. J. Williamson.
Mr. E. H. Weller Miss W. G. Rouse.
Scottish Secretary :
Miss M. Findlay,
c/o 72 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh...”
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“...Newsletter No. 33
JULY,. 1944.
Chefoo Schools Great Britain
Association % Branch.
Editorial.
These words are written just a week after the opening of the assault on Western Europe. Comment on such swift and incalculable events would be out of date almost before the ink had time to dry. If only we could know what every Chefusian was doing even at this moment—and, if there were no need of censorship—what notable volumes might be added to the few pages of news we are in fact able to print ; but suppositions such as that are of little profit. We are left with many uncertainties about one another’s welfare. Yet the one unchanging certainty through it all is God—the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If God is our hope and strength, if we know ourselves judged and redeemed by His love, if His will is our peace and the steadfast purpose of our lives—then nothing can divide us or make us afraid. And a greater victory is assured us than the victory of the Allied cause : we may share the victory...”
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“...the Chinese were greatly ill-treated by the Japanese.
These conditions grew worse when the Japanese came in and started pulling down all the trees. They built stables and a series of garages. Then we heard that the Settlement people had been given an hour’s notice to pack their clothes and leave their houses, to be interned in some Presbyterian houses about two miles away. A week later we were sent off, too. There were three compounds. The settlement and business families were in one, and the Schools in the other two. Each house held an average of sixty people. In ours there were ninety-one, but our house was a long, low bungalow type.
For the first three or four months we had the military over us. We were confined to the limits of the compound and we had no communication whatever with the other compounds. The only Chinese allowed in were the men with food and they always had to be accompanied by one of the Japanese. During these months we heard practically nothing from outside. On Christmas...”
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“... which was meant when a devotee spoke of “ My Miss Bailer.” Even after her marriage Mrs. Stooke came back and forth to the School and rendered most valued and efficient help ; and her Art Classes were always most popular and appreciated.
She had a real gift as a speaker, and though her retiring qature would have caused her to remain in the background, yet she stedfastly set herself to overcome that and was greatly blessed and used on the occasions when she was asked to address the assembled Schools. Her comrades on the Staff felt the inspiration of her fine and upright character. Everything she touched had to be, like her hand-writing, as perfect as she could make it, and such a spirit could not but be communicated to the scholars who were privileged to come under her influence. Her Bible talks at the Staff Prayer Meetings were a great help every time she spoke, for her supreme desire was to be entirely at the disposal of her Master. One little talk she gave on " The
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His influence on the compound was a spiritual force. Whether in meetings or in social intercourse one felt that here was a man who walked with God. In later years I found how faithful was his remembrance before God of old friends who were in special need.
Miy Mrs. Willett be comforted and upheld in her great loss.
Margaret L. Smith.
One very practical claim (amongst many others) which Mr. Willett has upon the gratitude of all Chefusians is that it was he who introduced peanut butter to the schools.
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“...food you sent on behalf of the C.S.A. Soldiering is a hungry business and all the good things to eat have certainly been appreciated . . .”
HAROLD GONDER writes : “ Thanks so much for the parcel sent by the Chefoo Schools Association. It reached me last evening (Christmas Eve)—a perfect delivery record! — and its contents are certainly appreciated, not least because most of them are edible ! . . . I have not barged into any other old Chefooites, even through coincidence ... I finished my tour as A.D.C. last August and am now back on regimental duty and hope to remain with my battalion until the whole show is over.”
MISS IDA A. CRAIG, for so many years Principal of the Girls’ School,
was unanimously appointed by the Executive in Toronto as Vice-President for the Chefoo Schools Association in North America. Even a blizzard did not keep her from attending the last Chefoo Reunion on February 12th.
DOROTHY LOOSLEY writes : ” I am now doing defence work in a local shipyard First Aid station and...”
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“...JACK BELL is taking an accountant’s course with the firm of Clarkson, Gordon, Dilworth and Nash in Toronto. His work often takes him to Windsor, Ontario, where he has met MYRTLE LUDBROOK who is in the middle of her nursing course there at the Salvation Army Hospital.
HAROLD WARREN is working for the Canadian Government as an architect and has recently been in Nova Scotia.
Nine or more of the younger children from the Chefoo Schools repatriated on the Gripsholm are living in a hostel near the C.I.M. in Philadelphia and attending one of the Philadelphia Public Schools.
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