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“...boy home to school in England).
As Christmas and the summer holidays approach, life grows more and more hectic. Most of my girls go on to the Girls’ Boarding School here, and many of them have brothers at the Boys’ Prep School (shades of Chefoo !) Some families have children at all three schools, so our end-of-year functions have to be arranged carefully to avoid a clash. This means that the first two weeks in December are one wild series of sports days-, concerts, school plays, and prizegivings, to say nothing of the teacher’s contemporary effort of marking exam papers, buying prizes, and preparing speeches.
At last the final day arrives. I mount the platform with the Vicar (Chairman of the School Committee), the President of the Parents’ Association, and the Guest of Honour who is to present the prizes. I exhibit surprise and pleasure each year at being offered a beautiful spray of flowers by the smallest child in the school; I listen to speeches and make my own report; I read out the...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association
Presidents :
Mr. F. McCarthy. Rev. P. A. Bruce.
Vice-Presidents :
Miss L. Blackmore Mrs. L. Clinton Miss X. A. Craig Miss D. Trudinger
Bishop F. Houghton Mr. H. G. Judd Mr- J- B. Martin Mr. W. D. Mudditt
GENERAL COMMITTEE
(Acting also as the Committee for Great Britain Branch').
Chairman :
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex. General Secretary :
The Rev. J. Beresford Weller Emmanuel Parsonage, 36, Lingfield Road, London, S.W. 19.
Treasurer :
Mr. D. F. Parry,
107, Southdown Avenue, London, W.7.
Editor :
Miss D. Rouse,
36, Grovelands Road, London, N.13.
News Editor :
Miss K. Strange,
82, Oakfield Road, London, N.4.
Secretary for Great Britain Branch :
Miss E. Preedy,
“ Norbury ”, 24, Woodlands Road, Redhill, Surrey.
Mr. J. S. Green. Mr. T. P. Welch. Mr. D. Clarke.
Mr. R. J. Pearce. Miss G. Bobby. Mr. D. Vinden.
Miss M. Hoyte. Mr. J. S. Hirst.
NORTH AMERICA BRANCH.
Chairman :
Professor L. Carrington Goodrich,
640 West 238th Street...”
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