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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
1058 AVENUE ROAD
C.S.A. Magazine No. 41. TORONTO, ONTARICJULY> 1948
M5N 2C6
The General Committee Notes
HERE we are once again ! and naturally when Old Chefusians collect we can always add—“ All good friends and jolly good company ”.
Presentation to Rev. and Mrs. Bruce. It was with great pleasure that we presented to Rev. and Mrs. Bruce, at the London Winter Reunion, a token of our admiration and gratitude for all that they have done for the Schools. Our Chairman, with a few chosen words, presented them with a cheque for £37/8/6, contributed solely by the G.B. Branch members. Rev. P. A. Bruce, or “ PA ” as he was affectionately known at Chefoo, thanked all for their generosity and said that he enjoyed every minute of his time as Headmaster although the task was not always easy.
A further gift of £9/12/9 from the North American Branch was later received and forwarded to them.
Magazine. Our thanks are again, due to the Editorial Staff and to all who have contributed...”
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“...hunger, and unharmed by care.”
Such was the seer’s great vision to empower each human eye To penetrate the densest gloom, and view the brightest sky.
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Three years have passed ! Appears more clearly to our gaze The stature of the sponsor of the free.
So in our island’s very heart we now upraise A lasting monument that all may see That in our hearts and minds we now enshrine till Time shall end Humanity’s great champion, and our Commonwealth’s true friend !
Edward Bromby.
A History of the Chefoo Schools
WE hope to publish the first instalment in our next issue. In the meantime, however, Dr. Judd is particularly anxious to hear from anybody and everybody who was at Chefoo during the following years of his own absence :
1889 to 1923 ; 1927 to 1932 ; 1937 to 1942.
All official records to which he has referred are necessarily not very complete and he would like to fill in the gaps from the personal knowledge of those who were present and can report first hind. So if YOU can remember anything at...”
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“...coloured lights, flags, streamers, and the spread before us. The wide open windows overlooking the harbour and letting in the cool night air or an occasional fresh sea breeze made us feel as good as a million dollars. In other words, everything added to the effect of the exhilarating feeling of having reached the climax of our school career.
Little did we realize the significance of that evening both in our own lives and in the history of Chefoo. With the clutches of war tightening around the schools the future was a great unknown. It was just as well that we did not know then that the graduating class of 1942 would be the last to finish its course on the shores of Chefoo. But more important at the time seemed the significance. of the event in our own personal lives. “ I have reached my first great mile-stone,” one girl stated, and she was speaking for us all. That night in our speeches we all took stock of the past, summarized its effect upon us and then proceeded to delve into the great...”
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“...those things are liable to happen and will go on happening until something is done to turn the little horror into a mannerly sensible person who knows what she is about. Left to herself, if she’s cute, she may try a spot of self training which in the past has accounted for the number of supercilious young salesladies that have ornamented some of the larger stores.
To take the problem of general education first, the Staff Trainer can arrange for school leavers to go to day continued education schools for a half day or a day a week. Th^t the children—and their parents—require a good deal of persuasion in this, is a matter all educationalists will sadly appreciate. Learning still has to be
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE
made attractive in our schools, and our thanks go to all those teachers struggling against very great difficulties. The older members of the staff can go to evening ' classes and my own firm, like many others, very willingly helps with the fees. Within the shop many Staff Trainers arrange for play-reading and debating groups and elocution classes which are none the less popular because they are held after hours.
1 One of the Staff Trainers’ functions is to see that the sales recording system operates smoothly. To this end she gives individual training to all newcomers and arranges extension courses for more senior members of the staff. Without constant checking, five hundred people doing the same thing day after day can become five hundred people doing five hundred different things in an incredibly short space of time.
Besides learning system, the salesgirl should be something of a specialist in the goods she is selling. For one thing that increases ..her usefulness to the...”
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“...first stop on the Australian National Airline happened to be Sacramento, as a storm prevented us from landing at San Francisco. I remember asking the hotel shoeshine boy whether he had a car yet, and in an aggrieved tone he told me that his father would not let him have one till he had taken his High School Cert.
The next hop was to that cosmopolitan pleasure island, Honolulu, populated by Chinese, Japanese, Samoans, Phillipines and Americans but hardly any Hawaiins. Everybody attends the same schools and the system seems to work very well. The Islands are now so prosperous that the biggest sugar refinery was closing down as the cost of labour made cane cutting uneconomical.
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“...what a pleasant surprise it was to meet four at a Students’ Intercollegiate Christian meeting about two months ago. They were : ELSPETH WALKER (studying for an arts degree) BETTY CHALKLEY (nursing), PETER MURRAY (Bible Training Institute) and JIMMY ROXBURGH (medical student). I see something also of my cousins the DUNACHIES from time to time. In the Easter vacation Mother and I went up to Edinburgh one day, and met JOHN ROBERTSON, who is studying there. I am now teaching in one of our poorer schools in Glasgow, and although the work is hard, I do enjoy teaching my forty-two pupils !
“ I have left the best news to the end— that is, that my sister BETH has recently got her L.R.A.M., and hopes to go to training college next October, prior to teaching music in school.”
NOEL TAYLOR has just passed his second M.B. and has started his clinical course at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. EVELYN is leaving Malvern Girls’ College (where she has been teaching) in June, and hopes to go to South Africa.
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“...living with his parents at Summer Hill, not very far away from “ the Shop ”. JEAN is battling to obtain her final discharge from the Army in order that she may continue her profession as a masseuse.
THEO HAYMAN, with his wife, in the Bush Church Aid Society, is minister to about 175 families in a district of 2,600 square miles. There are eight preaching centres and one church with Sunday School. Most Sundays are filled with five services, travelling over eighty miles. During the week, out back schools are visited ; one, for instance, entails forty miles travelling for two boys. The country is dry, dusty and sandy. He has just announced a new arrival to his family, Rosemary Joy, born in April. DAVID is still in Japan, and sends, home very interesting descriptions of his experiences there. It is very difficult for a Christian to maintain his principles in such surroundings but he is standing up well. JOY is teaching at the Sydney Baptist Business College. ANDREW is continuing with his apprenticeship...”
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