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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION 1058 AVENUE ROAD C.S.A. MAGAZINE NO. 43 TORONTO, 0NTAiW-Y, 1949 M5N 2C6 The General Committee Notes T am sure that at this time many of our A thoughts and hearts will be directed towards China, as that country of our birth is going through sore trials. We know that God’s purposes are always right and that He knows all that is happening there. May He keep all our friends in safety and give to those in authority in the Chefoo Schools (Ruling) wise guidance and peace of mind. New Vice-President. I am sure that most of you will be glad to know that Bishop Houghton—Director of the China Inland Mission—and one who ^ias interested himself in the C.S.A., is now one of our Vice-Presidents. It is a great privilege to. have him in our company. Membership. I would like to point all members to the Treasurer’s Report, which shows a decline in membership, especially in the G.B. branch. If we are to try to reduce subscription fees, we must have a lot more members. If you know...”
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“...C'.i'.A MAGAZINE Treasurer* s Notes Accounts for the year 1948 A summary of the audited accounts is given in this issue. (a) General Fund The surplus is smaller this year owing to a reduction in the Special Gifts. The number of members increased in both the N. America and Australia Branches but there was a decrease of 24 in the G.B. Branch. The General Committee have offered to revive the annual prize from the C.S.A.-to the Chefoo Schools and are awaiting suggestions from Ruling. The cost of this prize will be charged to the General Fund. (b) Magazines Account This account unfortunately shows another loss this year but we have now obtained lower quotations for the 1949 magazines and thus hope to balance the account in future. (c) Colours Account—G.B. Branch This account is in respect of sales of items by the G.B. Branch and shows a small profit once again. (d) Great Britain Branch Account A copy of this account will be on view at the next Reunion and will be sent to any Branch member- on...”
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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Balance Sheet at December, 1948^ (Incorporating General Fund and G.B. Branch Accounts) ACCUMULATED FUNDS REPRESENTED BY THE FOLLOWING ASSETS general fund— (. t Cash Balance at Bank, P.O. ,Savings a/c and in hand ... £ £ 141 Surplus at 1.1.48 .. 12 Stock in hand on Colours a/c 7 Surplus for year 1948 .. IO Debtors: N. America'Branch ... ... 15 — 22 New Zealand Branch 1 COLOURS A/c—(G.B. Branch) Sundry ... 1 - 17 Surplus at i.r.48 ... •• 15 165 Profit for year 1948 • ' 3 18 Less : Liabilities— GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH A/c— Subs, received in advance Life Subs,—G.B. Branch 22 79 Surplus at 1.1.48 ' ... .. 22 Creditors-^—Australia Branch 3 Excess expenditure for year 1948 . 7 Sundry 6 - no . — 15 £55 £55 1 1 GENERAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31/12/48 GENERAL FUND Expenditure £ Income Sunday Expenses, post, etc. 2 Branch Levies at 6d. per member— Magazines—loss ... 6 Great Britain 314 members Surplus for the year ... 10 North...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE A History of The China Inland Mission School at Chefoo, China. By DR. F. II SCHOOL opened in February 1886 with Mr. Herbert L. Norris as Headmaster, joined now by Mr. J. R. Douglas who had recently arrived, and Miss L. E. Hibberd as Matron and Housekeeper. This brave little lady, who was nearer retiring age than youth when she came to Chefoo, did valuable service in the boys’ school and then in the girls, in spite of the difficulty of acquiring the language and adapting herself to the people, to say nothing of lively youngsters. The writer, who for some time acted as her interpreter, had pleasant and occasionally amusing experiences. “ Now Da-Sze-Fu (Cook) you must understand, o-men (we) chintien (to-day) iao chih (wish to eat) mincepies.” Hers was not common pidgin English, but dignified bilingual ; and Cook understood. Later, when she failed to understand some chair bearers she said, in Chinese, “ You must not speak your patois ; speak Mandarin ; Mr. Yu teaches me Mandarin...”
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“...boys, disparity in age, and very undersized playing field prevented the development of real cricket and football. Recreation and pleasure were found more frequently in Prisoner’s base, Dog in the manger, and especially in Hare and hounds or Paper-chase over the surrounding hills and gullies. “ Duty ” at that time, coming as it did on alternate days, must have been no sinecure, though the scholars were much fewer in number. During 1887 Mr. Norris was joined by Mr. Frank McCarthy who arrived in Chefoo on March 1st. He was the eldest son of Mr. John McCarthy, an intrepid pioneer of this Mission ; and became, under God, the one who did more than any other person to make the School the success that it was. At the end of the summer term 1887, Miss Ada E. Knight and Miss Louisa K. Ellis, who had arrived in May, took over the Girls’ School from Miss Seed and Miss Whitchurch, releasing them for work among the Chinese in Shansi. This Miss Whitchurch continued to do till 1900, when, with scores of...”
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“...the Japanese navy on July 25, 1894. As a protection to Chefoo a rough stone wall was built along the crest of the semi-circle of sur-• rounding hills, and a fort erected on the headland between the second and third beaches to the East. The dilapidated remains of these are still in existence and form landmarks in the district. “ While the . settlement was guarded hy Britishj German and French marines day and night for weeks, the British consul could offer no adequate protection to the schools, which were more than a mile away on the danger side. During the period of greatest excitement he even advised them to come into the settlement. Thousands of troops passed along the highway immediately behind the school compound, 15,000 sok diers were encamped within .five miles of the premises, and 5,000 defenders of Weihaiwei on their retreat, passed the very doors. On January 29, 1895, the forts at Weihaiwei, about forty miles east of Chefoo, were stormed, and by February 3rd the first batch of wounded...”
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“...that big timbers were required for the Mission School in Chefoo, brought them from Shanghai at a nominal price, and gave special orders that all needful help should be given, Remarking ‘ Your people were kind to our wounded during the war ’ Owing to this war the southern boys and girls had a term in Shanghai while Mr. Hunter and the remaining staff carried on with those who were in the school. On March 17th, 1895, Mr. Frank McCarthy, who during his absence for health reasons in Canada had been united in marriage to Miss E. Webb on October 20th, 1893, was appointed Principal of the Boys’ School. This position he occupied with occasional furloughs till the summer of 1930. * The same year, 1895, was the beginning of another scholastic institution. The need for the education of children under the age suitable for the Boys’ School led to the establishment of the Preparatory School. It was situated at Tongshen, a village to the west of Chefoo, about two miles from the Settlement and three from the...”
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“...visitors mingle in social intercourse. Refreshments are served and enjoyed till four o’clock when the tennis tournaments commence: Visitors, staff and scholars crowd the terrace and Jine the two sides of the court. The winners of the mixed doubles are awarded the racquets presented by the Chefoo Schools Association. A match between Past and Present ends the tennis, but not the festivities, for after supper a Concert of vocal and instrumental items is presented, either in the open “ Quad ” or in the Memorial Hall. The Doxology at the close concludes the Day with praise to the Bounteous “ Giver of all good things Having mentioned boating this would be an opportunity to call attention to some other amenities of Chefoo. For bathing and swimming the sandy beach so close vto the schools presents obvious facilities. This in recent years has sadly deteriorated, owing to changes in the beach itself and the crowds of he terogeneous folk who gather there. Though sharks have been seen and even captured at...”
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“...“Chefoo Tributaries” School-master : “ What is a tributary ? ” Little Boy : “ A little tribute, Sir.” QNE lesson I failed to learn at Chefoo in spite of the abundant efforts of my preceptors is that whilst “ speech is silver, silence is golden ”. Apparently I was satisfied with silver (or was it sounding brass) ? We were turning over the pages of the Chefoo Magazine for December, 1948, when my eye fell upon the caption, “ Foundation Day, 1948 ”. Thoughtlessly I remarked, “ Oh I remember Foundation Day 1898 ” ! “ Do you,” the Secretary replied, “ then perhaps you will write about it for the next magazine Thus I must reap whatd have sown, it is but my desert. The very first corrective administered to me in Chefoo was whilst I was six years of age and was because I had talked “ out of my turn ”. W.H.B. was a partner in the crime. “ Write out your names fifty times.” Poor me ! My name included those of the founders of Methodism and of the China Inland Mission, and totalled twenty-five letters...”
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“...MAGAZINE A Letter from Chefoo September 27, 1948 Dear Mr. Editor, In one of the back numbers of the “ Chefusian ”, there is an entertaining article which imagines the return of an Old Boy to Chefoo in 1980. It pictures Chefoo as having grown to many times its former size, of vast aerodromes having been constructed, of mighty highways running across the town, of small office buildings converted into skyscrapers—I think there were even bridges connecting the mainland to the Bluff. Alas, how un-prophetic this vision has proved to be. For allowing for the fact that three decades more remain for the realisation of such a dream, it must be sadly admitted, that for the last ten years, the trend has been in a completely contrary direction—instead of progress and growth, there has been retrogression and decay, and instead of increased contentment and prosperity, there is more misery and stagnation. Even as the vessel bearing the homecoming Old Boy (or Old Girl)—and to many Chefoo was home —steams into...”
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“...were pulled down to furnish the material needed for the construction of countless pillboxes, and other engines of war, which now dot and disfigure the crests of all the hills round Chefoo. To see the few grim, scorched walls that remain to-day and the ruin and destruction all round, one would imagine that the Boys’ School had been the stronghold of a suicide squad of Japanese who had to be bombed and shelled into submission. It is hard to believe that all this is the work of wilful and deliberate destruction, but so it is with these and with all the other ruins of Chefoo. There is not even anything heroic or dramatic about them as there is with the ruins of London and other war-bombed cities. I entered the C.I.M. Compound and visited the buildings, together with an Old Girl, who has however since left Chefoo, shortly before it was occupied by the present military and closed to inspection. At that time the work of pillage was in full swing and soldiers could be seen removing T3...”
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“...Prep. School and found that magnificent building in a similar condition to the Co-Ed, but not being familiar with it, I cannot give further details. Going up the Compound towards the Girls’ School, I noticed a small new building on the right side of the road, opposite the Girls’ hockey field, which my companion informed me, had been built by the Japanese but I forget to what use they had put it. The whole Compound had been the headquarters of the Japanese during their temporary occupation of Chefoo, but be it said.to their credit, none of the present damage there, was due directly to, them. Nearing the Girls’ School, we observed soldiers emerging carrying doors and other articles of wood, and as we could see numbers of them within, deemed it wiser not to enter. But here too, there were unmistakable evidences of damage due to looting, such as missing doors and windows and a bare interior. The San. which we also viewed from the outside only, was in a similar damaged state. Since the date...”
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“...the plague of war, and conditions are again normal, we hope the Schools will not be slow in taking the step—which we are sure is the right step—of returning and becoming re-established in Chefoo. We feel Mr. Editor, that Chefoo is their home, that it is to Chefoo, not Ruling, that they owe nearly everything, that Chefoo has first call on them in its hour of greatest need, not to be abandoned to its fate. We love and honour and are grateful to our Old School, but we have a loyalty and affection for the Schools in Chefoo, which we cannot feel for them while they are in remote Ruling. We hope and pray that they will one day return to the Town with which they will always be associated in the minds and hearts of its Old Boys and Girls, and as in years gone by, play their part in rebuilding and restoring Chefoo to the place it was before. I am, Yours, etc., Stefanos A. Paradissis: Note.—By the special request of the author, the last paragraph of his letter has been left exactly as it was written...”
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“... Lea sometime of Chefoo?.” Me : “ Yes indeed.” Voice : “ Do you remember a tall lanky boy, whom you called the Unhappy Fowl ? ” Me : “ I cannot say that I do, I only know that the term is quite a favourite of mine. I apologise for the outrage.” Voice : “ No need for that, I rejoice in the title which still sticks to me. My name is Dickie.” Me : “ Cowan Dickie ! Why yes, where can we meet ? ” So it came to pass, we met in London and soon I had a pressing invitation to go to his wonderful mansion; Beacon Lodge, Highcliffe, not far from Bournemouth, where he is manager and his wonderful wife manages him and it too. It is a dream place right on the Sea cliff in 20 acres of ground with a Cricket Pitch, used sometimes for County games, all on the estate. Cowan, who came through the first war, probably the most wounded survivor of all our dear lads, does some fine Christian • testimony work in the neighbourhood, with every spare moment occupied. He told me to tell any Chefoo-ites of his pleasure...”
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“...Miss M. Stuart, Edith Staines (nte Bruce), Kathleen and Beryl Strange, Mrs. Dansey Smith, Freda Shipway, John Sturt, Margaret Trickey, Margaret and Dick Vinden, Miss Willoughby, Dorothy Waldron (nte Kirk), Mr. and Mrs. Welch, Sylvia, Beryl, Theodore and Bernard, David Welch, Stanley and Margaret Weller, Ethel Woulds (nte Squire). ‘ Tunbridge Wells. 16th April. • What a strong link Chefoo has ! and what a marvellous idea these homes for retired C.I.M. missionaries are in Tunbridge Wells, because the next generation, visiting parents and relations, or minding the aged, find themselves able to have minor Chefoo reunions ! This Easter Joy Guinness, visiting Mrs. Howard Taylor at 17 Boyne Park (where Amy and Irene Wilson minister so nobly to the saints), Alice Taylor recuperating there, Margaret Weller (who nobly ministers to the saints in the rival establishment up the road !) and Joy and Irene King whose mother presides so graciously over the latter, were all able to meet Dorothy and me on...”
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“...nic. We couldn’t find the particular woods we were looking for, but flowers and blossoming trees by the roadside, the lovely spring sun and the familiar company of Ghefusiaqs all gave us a very happy afternoon, which a broken thermos, a wet shoe and the strain of trying to keep up with the two amazons, who insisted on riding up all the hills, did nothing at all to mar. Th(e best primroses were on a railway bank, but even our Chefoo consciences did not prevent us from picking them, for how could we be trespassing when the railways now belong to us ? / ' Contie Stark. Toronto. 23rd March. The theory that Chinese food will bring Chefusians on the run was again proved. The Toronto Bible College was the locale and the tables in the large dining hall were soon filled by eager gourmets of all ages— Old Boys and Girls and their progeny— and reminiscences were exchanged as we awaited and then were served a delicious meal, catered for by the Shanghai Chop Suey House of Elizabeth Street. Anyone found...”
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“...were with us for the last time, and each gave a word of testimony and farewell. Kari Torjeson expects to return this summer to Norway while Alvin Desterhaft is looking forward to seminary next year. Ruth Glittenberg gave a word concerning the additional “blessing” the Lord has■ brought into her life, and the group moved unanimously that Bill Starr, the “ blessing ”, be accepted as an associate member of the Chefoo Association. The evening was concluded with devotions led by Mrs. Graham. Each returned home with greater thanks and appreciation to God for the wonderful days spent at Chefoo. Kathryn Kuhn. Those present were : Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Jack, Mrs. Graham, Jack and Enid, Mr. John Fiddler, Edward and Eleanor Glazier, Ruth and Milton Guttenberg, Richard Philips, Rhoda Jeanne and David Thomas, Winnifred Englund, Alvin Desterhaft, Kari Torjeson, Kathryn Kuhn. New Vork. 13th May. To the Port Arthur restaurant in the heaTt of Chinatown the Chefusians of this metropolitan area gathered in the...”
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“...surprises the Government has in store for us. This new appointment entails the keeping of books connected with water rental and water fittings. Need I add that having been brought up in China, one is the cause of considerable amusement and sometimes incredulity ! Though somewhat restricted physically, I am receiving encouragement and satisfaction in Sunday School work. It is in such work that one is ever indebted to the sure and certain foundations in Christian doctrine and training received while at Chefoo. “ May I offer a very warm welcome to any who at any time might be near these parts ? ‘ The house may be small but the welcome is big ! ’ ” MISS BLACKMORE writes : “ Those of you who remember MRS. SIDNEY CLARK will be interested to know that last September she suddenly arrived in a car at my gate ! It was good to chat over old times,. Word has come that she was called Home recently. She was a wonder at 92 years of age, and interested in everything.” Last November JESSICA BROOM-HALL went out to...”
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“...Crusader Classes and find many openings for preaching and youth work. JULIA DRAY (nee Siryk) writes from io Croham Mount, South Croydon : “ I have long since lost touch with everyone from Chefoo and haven’t the slightest idea where to begin. I have two boys who keep me well occupied, one eight and the other fourteen months—just the age for mischief! NIX is still in the States, a typical Yank, having been naturalised a long time ago and having served in the American Air Force during the war.” JOHN GREEN writes of visits from several Old Chefusians, among whom were: AUBREY JONES who is at present resident in the Channel Islands, KENNETH TAYLOR, on a visit from Canada, PERCY MOORE who is on furlough from China where he is Superintendent of the C.I.M.’s work in Sheiisi province and COWAN DICKIE who was at Chefoo with John and had not seen him since 1915. Cowan and his wife are in charge of a Co-operative Society Holiday Home at Highcliffe near Bournemouth, and would be pleased to see any O.C.’s...”
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“...have had the sad news of the passing of JIM SILVERTHORNE, an old Chefu-sian, and for years a resident in Chefoo. He •died from pneumonia last November in Tsingtao.” MILDRED PORTER spent the beautiful Easter week-end with her sister ALISON LOYD and then they both went to GWEN HARRIS’S wedding in London on April 19th. Mildred met KATHARINE (BROOMHALL) PRESTON one day in an Underground station and spent a split second with her before diving for the train ! MONICA PRIESTMAN is doing her nurse’s general training at Acton Hospital and finds it very interesting. She hopes to take State finals in October. MISS H. M. PRIESTMAN writes : “ Something has indeed happened, since I last wrote, for I have had the great joy and privilege of being at the reunion for retired workers at the C.I.M. Headquarters. It is amazing what a large proportion of the C.I.M. personnel is connected in some way with Chefoo. Out of the more than fifty staying in the house, I knew nearly all either personally or through their...”