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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE No. 48 DECEMBER, 1951 General Committee Notes (AN behalf of the General Committee, I would like to wish all Old Chefusians God’s richest blessings, health, happiness and prosperity for 1952, the 43rd year of the C.S.A. Briefly, I would like to report on the A.G.M. held in London on 29th December, 1951, at which over 110 members were present. 1. Chefoo Schools. I feel sure you will read Mr. S. G. Martin’s article on the closing of the schools after seventy years with nostalgic memories, and I hope it will instil into each member the absolute necessity of continued C.S.A. membership -and the urge to win every Chefusian for the C.S.A., as without any further increase in entrants from the schools, membership in time must decrease. Everyone must therefore do his utmost to obtain fresh members. I cannot add any further remarks to those of Mr. Martin, but I feel sure all of us greatly regret the necessity of closing the schools down and wish all those who ever taught us the Lord’s...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE Old Chefusian Colours These are obtainable from me at the following prices ; Ties ... ... 7/6d. Badges ... ... 2/6d. Payment, with return postage, should be sent with orders. Members in North America and Australia should order through their Branch Secretaries. . Existing stocks are getting low and it is very doubtful whether present demand will justify the outlay of funds in purchasing new stocks which will probably be considerably higher in price. It will be a pity for the Chefoo Dolphin tie to disappear, but I fear this will happen unless more support is forthcoming, particularly from members in North America. H. F. JOYCE. eifal OTTAWA was at its best for the Royal Visit—-a bright October sun and sky, just a touch of frost in the air, and the tree-lined parks and avenues throwing a brilliant scarf of gold, brown, crimson and evergreen around the city and its Parliament Buildings. A hundred thousand people lined the royal route and another 25,000 crowded Confederation Square...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE A History of the China Inland Mission School at Chefoo, China By DR. F. Chapter VII T^HE rapidly deteriorating Preparatory A School building, now probably sixty or more years old, and its inconvenience for modern educational and residential standards called for new premises. New and more up to date classrooms and rooms for art and crafts were also required for the senior scholars. It was also decided to adopt co-education or cotuition. Work on these began this year, 1932. After many consultations with Mr. D. de B. Robertson, the architect, it was decided to place the P.S. on the west side of San Lane, inside the compound, and the co-ed between the new P.S., and the Boys’ School, parallel with the main road and beach. This necessitated considerable levelling of the ground, during which it was found that the clay could be used for making the bricks, as in building the B.S. in 1896. It also meant the removal of the Gingerbread House, a. little bungalow which had been used as...”
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“...for many years. Central heating was installed in the central parts of the G.S. and B.S., and the south verandah of the B.S. glazed in. An extensive epidemic of cholera broke out in Chefoo this August, but about 500 persons in the schools and compound were inoculated by the school Medical Officer and no cases occurred. A Shanghai Reunion of Old Chefoo-ites was held on October 24th. At this it was agreed to form a China Branch of the Chefoo Schools Association, and Miss G. Evans was elected as the Shanghai representative. On the following January 14th (1933) at the 25th Anniversary, of the C. S.A. in England it was decided that the title “ Old Chefusians ” was more acceptable than “ Old Chefoo-ites ” and it was forthwith adopted. The Bethel Band, a small group of Chinese Evangelists who spoke English, visited Chefoo in March, 1933, and addressed the scholars. It was an outstanding spiritual event, and made a deep impression on many. So did the Shantung Revival in the following year. The Children’s...”
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“...could not be present. Another large crowd of staff, scholars and friends welcomed them in Chefoo on February nth, all apparently well and none the worse for the exciting adventure. The event was important enough to raise questions and a debate in the House of Commons. Miss Kendon had meanwhile escorted the Hongkong party to Chefoo on another ship. (The above description is chiefly compiled from an account written by Mr. Duncan:) At Easter a combined choir of girls and boys, trained by Mr. Chalkley, gave a beautiful rendering of the Cantata, “ From Olivet to Calvary ”. This year, unfortunately, was characterized by much sickness. A big epidemic of influenza in the spring and scarlet fever in the autumn caused much inconvenience and interference with the holidays. The “ Stunt ” at the school Christmas party this winter took the form of a cleverly designed and beautifully constructed panorama of Chefoo and its harbour. Junks and steamers actually moved across the blue paper sea while the lighthouse...”
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“...Robert Walker, who had left the school in 1930, played for the Scottish International Hockey Team, and again years later after a term as a missionary in Nyasaland. He was probably the school’s first International but not the last. In July, Mr. P. A. Bruce left for furlough and Mr. R. F. Harris took over his responsible position. Dr. S. Hoyte’s presence in Chefoo this summer relieve^ Dr. Judd for a holiday in Peitaiho, and then Dr. F. E. Dilley, the senior surgeon in the American Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Dilley’s illness necessitated his leaving suddenly for America, where after a few months he died. His and Mrs. Dilley’s departure from Chefoo was a great loss to the Schools and Community, for, apart from his professional skill he was greatly respected for his life and character. Mrs. Dilley also as a missionary and musician rendered much service and pleasure in the Settlement. Dr. Hoyte on his departure for furlough said that he had complete confidence in the Chinese surgeons in that hospital...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE The Kalaupapa Settlement C EVERAL readers of the Chefoo Magazine have probably read the engrossing book by Betty Martin, Miracle at Carville (1950), or its condensation in the Reader's Digest for February, 1951, telling of the author’s successful twenty year fight against leprosy, or Hansen’s disease. Ever since, as a boy of nine, I saw at Chefoo my first leper, begging for alms outside the old San.—he might have stepped right out of the pages of the Old Testament, he was so typically disfigured—I have been interested in the problem of leprosy'control. Hence my desire sometime to catch a glimpse of the famous Kalaupapa Settlement on Molokai. I had the good fortune this year to be invited to teach in the six weeks’ Summer session at the University of Hawaii on the island of Oahu. Part of my family accompanied me. They studied (and played) while I taught (and also played some). My job and their courses concluded, we turned tourist and saw all we could of the four other principal...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE Some Goodbye Lines for a Goodbye Party RULING, JANUARY, 1951 ’T’HE sequel of this day unsolders all J- Our fellowship of labour and delight. So hear once more the sort of stuff I write, And hear it patiently whate’er befall. Goodbye Chefoo, Goodbye to School and Staff, Goodbye to friends with whom we’ve loved to laugh, To work and pray, to eat such welcome teas, * To feast by night on fruit,juice, cake and cheese. Rich we have been, and years will not undo The happy memories of bleak Chefoo, The Bluff at sunset, full moon on the cup Of hills all round us, still seas lighted up With phosphor lights in evening bathes, the sea For swimming, boating, sailing : glad were we ! These riches gone, some better thing God’s granted Here in Ruling to which we’ve been transplanted : And as we say Goodbye to Ruling soon, We know there lies ahead some better boon. Meanwhile from testings may we learn to be That which we pray for others constantly : God make us patient, sympathetic, gentle...”
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“...we’ve had,' What memories to make us rich and glad. Someone has said, “ The finest team in China,” And (hang the rhyme !) I’ll never know a finer ! Goodbye, ’tis true. To be forgotten ? Never ! For Christians live for ever, love for ever : We cannot part for ever. All that’s good In our society, shall be renewed And glorified : yes, all that I admire In you, I’ll see again, transmuted higher ; And what we must, forgive, and all that’s rotten, Shall be wiped out, by God and us forgotten. What a Chefoo Reunion, last and best, In Heaven we’ll have with Him whom we’ve confessed. These days will pass, and some day soon, we’ll say, i He led them forth by His own perfect way ’. S. G. Martin. * Evening feasts are not the Staff’s usual practice. During the latter weeks in Ruling, exhausted nature heeded a little something before bed. 0 \ Adventures of n B.C. Red Cross Nurse ABOUT my California holiday? Well •*Vit seems to have been fairly completely covered in the last magazine, as far as names of...”
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“...3hc Cast Six Ttlonths at JCuling 'T’HE last term of our Seventy Years— A the Autumn Term of 1950—was a good one and went .right through to a proper conclusion. The End of Term Concert on November 30th was the end of seventy years from December 1st, 1880, when the names of Dr. F. _H. Judd and two of his brothers were entered on the Chefoo Boys’ School list. (This record book brought up to date and completed as far as we could with the names from the G.S. list, I have brought home. It starts with many pages in the venerable script of Mr. Alty : then come the diverse hands of Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, Mr. Houghton, Miss Broom-hall and myself.) After End of Term came hopes of holiday travel for about half the school. For a long time preparations had been in hand ; parents and other escorts were travelling to Hankow. Then for ten days permits were delayed. At this time the Yunnan and Kweichow children had to be told that they could not go : travel beyond Chungking was too...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE In ^trtnnriatn MR. A. H. FAERS TpEW men in and around Chefoo have been better known by the missionary and non-missionary community than Mr. Faers. Few men have had such a variety of activities and done them more heartily and thoroughly. Mr. Faers came from Gloucester, and in his youth was led to Christ and benefited by the ministry of Rev. J. J. Luce. When he applied to the China Inland Mission his acceptance was doubtful on health grounds, but Mr. J. Hudson Taylor accepted him, and his long and useful life proved the wisdom of this decision. He came to China as one of The Hundred in 1887, escorted by Mr. J. J. Coulthard, another stalwart now living with his son in Canada. In the spring of 1888 he went to Chungking and was put into secretarial work but soon started a boys’ school—a line of work which he delighted in and continued in Suifu and Chefoo. In 1890 when Mr. T. G. Willett relieved him he took the oversight of the spiritual work. The following year he was united...”
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“...sister of some Chefoo contemporary ; others were recognized only after a second or third glance had overcome the varied changes of the past decade ; with others the name only was familiar from an old magazine, an Honours list in the schoolroom, or perhaps a pillar at the Bamboo Temple ; whilst all too few were “ the same as ever'”. Games, limited to indoors by the wet weather, were organized by Dave Clarke and Dickson Vinden. In one we guessed certain well known Chefoo characters by a process of “ yes ” and “ no Ruling scholars did nobly when machine-gunned with questions about people well before their time. In another game we dashed round in teams, collecting names of Railway Stations from under flower-pots and behind pictures. Refreshments were next on the programme, tea being served by the ladies. During the afternoon’s reunion one’s thoughts were taken back to old scenes in school life. A foursome of girls at table tennis reminded one of winter holiday games at Chefoo ; when talking...”
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“...Fraser though it was only till 8 p.m. We missed Mrs. Bailer who seems unable to meet with us any more. The old game “Jenkins says” was enjoyed by young and old, and the results of the “ tear-outs ” in the dark were both amusing and creditable. A number of photos were taken during the evening by Vern and Keith Draffin. An opportunity was given to Jack Burgess to tell of the Chefooites he met while in England, Canada and U.S.A. After that Stephanos Paradissis, whose father is still residing in Chefoo, told us what the dear old place looked like when he visited it himself during the last twelve months ; a desolate place indeed. 18...”
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“... CALVIN COOK’s fiancee, Pat Harcourt-Baldwin stayed with us just before she went to California to be married. Calvin has another year at Princeton. GORDON WELCH dropped in on his way to a Conference in Herne Bay, and we ran into THEODORE WELCH at the Festival of Britain Missionary Exhibition. I’m teaching again, Scripture, 500 girls, and hoping to do all or part of my London University Dip. Theology ”. HOMER H. DUBS, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D., Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford, who was at Chefoo around 1900-01, was married on 20th June to the Hon. Grace Dorothy Lowry Lamb, daughter of Lord and Lady Rochester. CATHERINE FRASER was just back from a Student Campaign in Scotland when she wrote. She had had a wonderful time and was all ready for her third year at St. Andrew’s University. DONALD and ELIZABETH GIBSON are now installed as candidates in training at the Church Missionary Society Training College in Blackheath, and enjoying the work. Donald says : “ I was in trouble after my last...”
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“...but is completely cut off from the garden of 17 by a high privet hedge. She says : “ It is delightful being here, as one meets so many C.I.M. friends. Most visitors at * 17 ’ come to see the ‘ outstation ’—my residence ! ” ALISON LOYD {nee PORTER) writes: “ I have two outstanding items of news, one happy and one sad. On the 5th June, 1951, our second son Patrick was born. I.was interested to find that the Sister-in-Charge of the Maternity Department at Haslemere Hospital knew quite a lot about Chefoo and China through her sisters, Mrs. Sturt and Mrs. Hillier (the wife of Dr. Hillier). “ Last Sunday (31st August) we held a Civic Service in the Parish Church at St. Cuthbert’s, Chitts Hill, in connection with the Festival of Britain. During the sermon, which my Father was preaching, he collapsed and had to be helped from the pulpit. He was brought back to the Vicarage where. he died very peacefully on Monday, 1st October. On September 29th, he completed thirty-six years in the Ministry. My Mother...”
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“...coming home, we have not done anything of note apart from spending a very pleasant Whit week-end in St. Leonards with JOYCE (REILLEY) WARNER and her husband. For the rest, I am just being a normal housewife, kept fairly busy with my three little girls, Jennifer (5J), Sallyann (4I) and Lysbeth (2). DR. and MRS. SMITH (nee BALLER) spent a delightful holiday in Devon, ending up with a week-end with ADRIAN and family in Chichester. On their way home, they called at Tunbridge Wells and saw several Chefoo friends — DAISY and LILIAN TOMKINSON, MISS SHEP-PERD, MRS. FAERS, MISS WALLIS and JESSIE JENNINGS. EVELYN TAYLOR was married on August 17th in Bulawayo to Peter (“ Safari ”) Parnwell of the Transvaal. They seem to enjoy life in Johannesburg. NOEL TAYLOR is at present House Physician at St. Mary’s Hospital, Eastbourne. W. R. O. (REGGIE) TAYLOR with his wife, are at Underriver Vicarage near Sevenoaks. Passing Chefooites please note ! KATHLEEN is still at Maidenhead. MARGARET VINDEN is now teaching...”
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“...to Brighton, the Wilsons were at Eastbourne. Whilst there they had some illness in the family, but are thankful for renewed health now. Cambridge Will all Chefusians in or near Cambridge please note that JOSEPHINE WAKE-LING {nee BROOMHALL) is prepared to arrange a Chinese meal and Chefoo Reunion early in the New Term ? If interested, please get in touch with Mrs. Wakeling at ia Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, as soon as possible. NORTH AMERICA DR. EDITH JEANNE ANDREWS writes : “ So much in last few issues, that I’m completely out of news. Looking forward to seeing a few of the Toronto Chefusians again while there for Hospital for Sick Children, ‘ Homecoming ’ and Acad. Ped. meetings in October. Shades of old Chefoo—Miss ISABEL TAYLOR was the last speaker I heard at the C.I.M. prayer meeting in Toronto before leaving for U.S.A. She stressed the loss Mr. Houghton had been, but how others had been strengthened to ‘ take over 5 so that the school went on ‘as usual ’. Working eventually for a job...”
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“...as a gift for little Prince Charles. (What price Chefoo handwriting ?) RUTH BEVIS, formerly with the community chest of greater Toronto, is now doing publicity work, as assistant manager for the Canadian Adequate Wiring Bureau, an organization sponsored by the Canadian Electrical Manufacturers Association. CHRIS COSTERUS graduated from the Toronto Bible College last spring. During the summer he had a summer pastorate in the Laurentian mountain district in Quebec Province. There he had charge of two Baptist churches, Rivington and Avoca. His sister HELEN finishes her nursing course this coming March. JOHN T. CROFTS writes : “ I visited SAIMA last Christmas at her wilderness chicken farm in Florida. Alfred is busy on a history of the Far East, and enjoying his third child, and namesake, born in January, 1950. VERNA often lectures on Japan with her many beautiful coloured slides taken while she was with the occupation. We are all well, Chefoo seems astronomically remote ”. EDITH DRYER was recently...”
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“...she saw a number of Chefusians, among them AILSA CARR and BEATRICE STARK. ISABEL is now doing some temporary teaching in Branksome Hall, a girls’ private school that has extensive Chefoo connections. Her sister, GRACE TAYLOR HARRIS, has been a teacher in this school for some time, and a number of Chefusians have in the past attended Branksome, among them HELEN COSTERUS and MAIDA HARRIS. AUSTRALIA Having visited Chefoo during the past twelve months STEPHANOS PARA-DISSIS has come to live in Melbourne. We have been glad to see him at the C.I.M. and at the Reunion too. He gave us a picture of Chefoo which proved to be a sad one. It has changed -a great deal, but the “piggy-walk” and the vineyard hill are just the same, and the mules travel along the high-way as of yore. Stephanos’ father is still residing at Chefoo, though he is the only foreign resident apart from a few priests and nuns at the Catholic Mission. He is naturally loath...”
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“...to leave as he has been at Chefoo for fifty years. Mrs. Paradissis and her daughter are in Greece, and ELIA is at Alexandria, as Head-master of St. Andrew’s Boys’ School. JIM CUNNINGHAM is with an air-conditioning firm in Melbourne. HELEN AMOS is down in Melbourne nursing at the Intermediate section of the Austin Hospital. PAUL AMOS is now working at Olympic Cables. CON AMOS {nee KNIGHT) is moving to Geelong where her husband will take charge of the Baptist Church at Belmont. Her brother WARREN KNIGHT has been over on the main-land from Tasmania for a good holiday. When they came over from there he and his wife had tea at the C.I.M. Home, and enjoyed a bowl of rice with us all. Their daughter DOROTHY hopes to start nursing at the Hobart Hospital in January. GORDON EDGAR is working at Carba Dry Ice, and likes his job. It is now over twelve months since VERN DRAFFIN went back to work at the S.E.C. KEITH hopes to go to Canada, via England, next year for electrical experience. He is sure to...”