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New Zealand. We are also grateful to Lawrence Brock for acting in a similar capacity as Secretary for New Zealand.
Membership. We are still anxious to increase our numbers—(if only with the ulterior motive of keeping down the cost of the magazine !) If TOU know any O.C’s who are not at present members for any reason, please encourage them to join by putting them in contact with the Branch Secretary.
Finally, I should like to thank all those who help, us voluntarily in keeping the Association alive and in complete harmony.
Best wishes to everyone ; and to G.B. members, I hope to see you at our Reunion on the 8th January (.3 p.m.) at Mildmay.
Yours sincerely,
DAVID BARLING....”
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“...decided to form an Association, those present to A represent the boys, with A. B. Randle as Secretary. He was asked to invite the co-operation of three ladies to represent the Old Girls, viz. Dorothy Lloyd, Fanny' Riley and Voilet Adamson.
The first Committee meeting was helc} on the 4th March, 1908 at my house, , there being present three girls and four fellows,. ’This first committee meeting was. opened with prayer and each one held; since has been opened or concluded in the same way. . ;
The first officers were then elected and were :
Chairman of Committee.'. W. D. Mudditt.
Hon. Treasurer : E. S. Elliston,
Hon. Girls' Secretary : Lily Parry.
Hon. Boys' Secretary : A. B. Randle. •
The. next Committee meeting was held on May 6th, 1908, by kind invitation of Miss Elliston (the Treasurer’s aunt) at her, flat at 56, Chancery Lane, and for some time afterwards this venue was used. At this meeting a skeleton constitution was drawn up and the name “ Chefoo Schools Association ” was adopted. The...”
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“...solvency and keeping in touch with members, the C.S.A. almost expired.
However, on April 26th, 1919, a
Committee meeting was held at Mrs. Scott-Challice’s house and was attended by Mrs. Challice, Rachel and Nellie Wilson, H. W. Hunt, A. B. Randle and myself, and the affairs of the Association
once more ‘‘got going”, and have continued with increasing success ever since. *
It was not until July 1922 that Howard Joyce first became a member of the Committee and there is no need for me to remind members of the tremendous debt we all owe to his past and present (and we shall owe to his future) untiring zeal in the cause of all old Chefusians.
There is no doubt that under the good hand of God, the Chefoo Schools’ Association owes its inception to the invitations sent out by Mr. Marcus Wood for a “ get together ” on January i6th, 1908.
High Street.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The C;I.M. have kindly lent us the block of the Rev. W. H. Aldis and have also given permission to reproduce the double page map by Mr...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE
In Memoriam
REV. W. H. ALDIS A S was mentioned in a stop press note
in - our last Magazine Mr. Aid js passed away suddenly on 16th June, 1948. He had no official connection, with Chefoo,- but he paid two brief visits there at the time of the Revolution in 1911. It was while he Mas" on the London Home Staff of the C.I.M. that he took a keen and generous interest in the affairs of the C.S.A, and all Chefusians generally and was appointed one of the Vice Presidents of the Association.
Mr. Aldis’ sterling" qualities arid outstanding gifts of leadership brought him to the front rank in Evangelieal Circles. He was Home Director of the C.I.M. for many years. He was also Chairman of the Keswick Trustees and perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that the fine world-wide testimony of that great Convention in recent years was, to a large extent, inspired and fostered by him. It was a privilege to know him personally and to receive from his humble and cheery friendli-riess an inspiration...”
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“...for Sunday dinner, and two more for Sunday supper. Not a few of our number look back with fond memories upon these delightful occasions, especially when we were new to Canadian ways and feeling far from our own homes. In those years, Dana Brownlee was one of the cheeriest and liveliest of our Chefoo group, despite despite constant suffering from haemophilia, until he passed into the life that is fuller and richer.
Throughout the years, Mr. and Mrs.
Brownlee’s interest in the Chefoo Schools’ Association never flagged, and often the spacious Mission Home offered hospitality at a reunion.
But we were never thought of by them simply as members of a group ; they knew
us as individuals. Scattered over Ontario are many Chefusians whom Mr. Brownlee placed in their first jobs, and not a few have continued right on from that day with the same firms. Some can even remember his kindly supervision over their first frenzied financial efforts, and how for them he smoothed over the transition from the $i...”
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“...up his Major Scholarship to Reading University. MARY is doing a commercial course at Bromley Technical College before going to Middlesex Hospital to study radiography. ELIZABETH is now at her fourth school and is hoping to take School Cert, at the end. of next year. JOHN is now a boarder at Forest School and takes his School Cert, at the end of this year. He is acting a minor part in Macbeth, which his school is doing this Christmas. Dr. and Mrs. Hoyte are now running the Medical Missionary Association Hostel in Chistlehurst, whlre there are three Old Chefusians besides the Hoyte family—JOHN STURT, TED WYATT and DICK VINDEN—who are all studying at the London Hospital.
WILLIAM JENKINS writes : “As a trainee with the Arnhold Trading Co. Ltd., I have completed a course in the ‘ Codes ’ Department, and have just been transferred to * Accounts ’. Our London directors tell me that March of next year should see me with our head office at Shanghai— and none too soon at that ! ”
A large part of DR...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association
Presidents : ,
Mr. F. McCarthy. Rev. P. A. Bruce.
Vice-Presidents :
Miss L. Blackmore Mr. H. G. Judd
Miss I. A. Craig Mr. J. B. Martin
And the Headmaster of the Chefoo School :
Mr. S. Houghton.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
(Acting also as the Committee for Great Britain Branch'). Chairman :
Mr. W. D. Mudditt,
Monkswood, Forest Way. Woodford Green, Essex.
General Secretary :
Mr. D. Barlino,
Red Dormers, The Crescent, Horley, Surrey.
Treasurer:
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Editor :
Mr. J. S. Hirst,
13, Laurier Road, London, N.W.5.
News Editor:
Miss I. King,
C.A.W.G., Clarence Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Secretary for Great Britain Branch ;
Miss E. Preedy,
“ Norbury ”, 24, Woodlands Road, Redl.i'1, Surrey.
Mr. J. S. Green. Miss D. Rouse.
Mr. C. Fairclough. Miss G. Bobby.
NORTH AMERICA BRANCH.
Chairman :
Professor L. Carrington Goodrich,
640 West 238th Street, New York City, U.S.A.
Secretary :
Miss Margaret Bunting,
382, Cleveland Avenue...”
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