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“...responsible for the main functions of the Association: (z) General Purposes: Chairman, General Secretary, and Treasurer. («) Editorial: Doris Rouse, Kathleen Strange and John Hirst. (tit) G.B. Branch Activities: Edith Preedy (Branch Secretary), Gwen Bobby, Kathleen Strange, Dick Vinden, David Clarke. 2, Reconstruction Fund As there are no very definite signs at present of permanent ‘ Chefoo ’ Schools being set up in any of the new C.I.M. fields, the General Committee has decided that the C.S.A. Reconstruction Fund should be disposed of for the benefit of persons closely connected with the schools at Chefoo and Kuling, each Branch being left to take such action in the matter as it thinks fit. The G.B. Branch, through its Reconstruction Fund Secretary, John Green, has handed over to the C.I.M. the sum of £238/10/8 for equipping Maxwell House, the hostel for O.Cs. We are most grateful to John Green for all his work in connection with this Fund. 3. Released All O.Cs. will have rejoiced to hear...”
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“...position continues to be favour- able due to Great Britain Branch Life Subs and subs paid in advance. D. F. PARRY, Hon. Treas. Old Chefusian Colours The new stock of Pin Badges has now been received and orders will be welcomed. Orders in Great Britain should be sent to the Treasurer, the prices being: Ties ... ... ... 12/61/. each Pin Badges ... ... 3/- ,, Payment with return postage should be sent with orders. Members in N. America and Australasia should order through their Branch Secretaries. CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Balance Sheet at 31st December, 1952 (incorporating General Fund and G.B. Branch Accounts) ACCUMULATED FUNDS ' REPRESENTED BY THE FOLLOWING ASSETS £ £ £ £ GENERAL FUND— Cash at Bank, in hand, and in P.O. Surplus at 1/1/52 26 Savings A/c ... 231 Surplus for 1952 6 34 Stock in hand on Colours A/c Debtors : N. America Branch ... 8 13 COLOURS A/c—(G.B. Branch)— N.Z. Branch ... 6 Surplus at 1/1/52 23 — 14 Profit for year 1952 ... 1 — 24 258 GREAT BRITAIN...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE A History of the China Inland Mission School at Chefoo, China By DR. F. H. JUDD Chapter X THE last chapter, in the December, 1952, number, brought the Schools out of their compound. Now we record their experiences while interned in the American Presbyterian houses on Temple Hill, Chefoo, and later in the premises of the same mission in Weihsien about 170 miles to the west. For this we are indebted to Rev. G. Scott’s book “ In Whose hands ?” from which we now quote. The triumphant exit from the School buildings strengthened more than one member of the staff for the final farewell. One lingered by the Prayer-room; on the foundation-stone she read again the simple inscription: “To the Glory of God”. Was it to the glory of God that all this should be handed over to the enemy ? The science laboratory, the craft-room, the art-room—each the dream of years— must all be left behind ? The contents of the book-room and many of the books in the reference library had already been sold...”
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“...framed verses in praise of the schools beside the sea and on the green hills of Kiangsi. It was in the short service of dedication that we were told the story of this wonderful provision, and of the washing machine too that might have been a refrigerator ! (Bought with the money given by the C.S.A.— Ed.) Mr. Gaussen also gave a testimony of how he and Mrs. Gaussen were led into taking on such a large family. Miss Agnes Clarke, one of the oldest Chefusians present, reminisced of her pranks at Chefoo and of pacts signed in blood ! But the Saviour she had found there had ever since been her faithful Friend. We all joined in singing the praises of the One Who had so marvellously provided, and listened to the symposium of praise read by Mr. Mitchell, the Chairman, with hearts full of gratitude to God. Tea was a time to renew old friendships before setting off on a tour of the house. 6...”
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“...match play was possible. But the impression every visitor took away was of the great good fortune of the children, who were now privileged to regard Maxwell House as home, and the rest of heart for parents in the tropical heat of the Far East in knowing that their children were so well provided for in such a home. L. & K. LYALL. ATY dear C.S.A. friends, -L’-L I want to thank all of you for so kindly contributing to the very generous cheque for nearly£32, which was presented to me at the last Chefoo Winter Reunion, and I know of no better medium than the magazine. It was more than a surprise as I never expected such a thing, and it was kept exceedingly dark (at least from me) until the actual moment of presentation. I have decided to use it towards the purchase of a refrigerator which will be a great boon to Mrs. Mudditt and the household in general as well as being a constant reminder of you all. I need hardly repeat that my years of service in and for the Association which we all love...”
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“...badges, they brought the spirit of our age - into this ancient ceremony. Suddenly, I was carried back through sixteen years and across eight thousand miles. There, on the Boys’ School Playing Field, stood the Royal Marine band and contingent from H.M.S. Danae. In that sun-drenched scene, as the flag burst open at the mast head, a cloud of white bianco almost obscured the Marines, as, with a smack, they presented arms. What pride they evoked in us as they marched through Chefoo streets with all the rag, tag and bobtail of Chefoo running behind them ! Back to London: a rain-drenched road, white gloves and helmets sodden and not very sparkling, uniforms clinging to the men: but the same immaculate, measured tread that spoke of service in far countries and over wide seas; that spoke of Empire and Commonwealth. Cheer after cheer rose for unit after unit. The womens’ forces, the almost mythical Mounties, the colourful regiments of India and Pakistan, the tough little Gurkhas, soldiers, airmen, b...”
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“...moved into that greatest of the world’s processional ways, the Mall. The lightest of rains refreshed us as we wandered into space, into a many-coloured milky way of unsurpassed beauty, beneath the four brilliant constellations of the triumphal arches. High above, balloons, like ephemeral moons, sailed off into the outer spaces of the night. As we moved through this timeless, limitless scene, I was transported once more across the years, across the world, to the Coronation of King George VI, to Chefoo. There in the wide bay, all the ships, headed by H.M.S. Danae, were dressed overall in lights. There in the China sky flashed the same fireworks. There, too, the searchlights probed the darkness to pick out the familiar landmarks, the Bluff, Lighthouse Island, Consulate Hill. And in the magic of that moment even Bottle Rock was caught and become an enchanted spot, a last lone outpost of the world that celebrated the crowning of an English King. Now we were in front of the floodlit palace. A few...”
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“...the old pattern. In the morning we met in the school room for a service, when some of the friends joined us. Mr. Kennedy, who led the first part, told us that he was perhaps the only person who had been in all the places where the school had operated: Chefoo, Kiating, Kalimpong, Shanghai and Ruling. His last visit to Chefoo was in 1946, after the war. David Hayman, who brought the message, spoke on a verse very familiar to many Old Chefusians, “ Remember Jesus Christ ”. We had planned a hike in the afternoon, but the weather was not suitable, so after games in the schoolroom, Mr. Kennedy showed us some films. One of these was appreciated more by the Old Chefusians present than by the children. It was one taken on Foundation Day, 1936, in Chefoo, by Mr. Dunachie. Exclamations of, “ Look, there’s Mr. and Mrs. Martin ! ” or the names of different ones as they jumped off the long benches that used to provide a dry footpath out to the boats, punctuated the picture, which brought back memories of...”
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“...and Mr. Street. Mr. Kennedy showed us his film again, and we joined in the singing of Chefoo songs. The songs with which you were familiar were one indication of a person’s vintage ! There are other Chefusians in Japan besides those mentioned above. Dr. Gwen Wedderburn is practising in Tokio, and John Quimby is there too, with Midmissions. Lois Glass is in Fukuoka, in Kyushu, the south of Japan, teaching in a school run by the Southern Baptists. In the last Chefoo Mag., which arrived just yesterday, I see that David Pearson is in business in Tokio too. Perhaps there are others we haven’t heard of. Then the arrival of two more among our number up here occasioned another reunion a couple of weeks ago. Mary Weller and Stephen Metcalf are both here in Karuizawa slogging away at the language. This time we located a restaurant run by a Chinese man from Shantung. What more could you ask for as a place for a Chefoo reunion ? And what more could you ask for in the way of menu than a bowl of soup and...”
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“...Clarence down to the Chefoo School and was the Lord. Undoubtedly the experiences in the internment camp at Weishien made big demands on her physical strength and since the death of Mr. Faers in 1951 there has been a steady physical decline. At midday on Monday, January 5th, aged 83, while on holiday at Winchester she heard the voice saying, “ The Master is come and calleth for thee,” and alone in the quietness of her room the spirit of Lucy Faers went in to see the Lord she had loved and served in China and in England these many years. G.P.W. , AUSTIN A breakdown in health combined with home claims cut short Miss Jones’ tenure of office as Mistress of the Robes, but her work lives on. “ Did you ever meet a Mrs. Austin at the Abergele Prayer Conference ? ” a friend of the C.I.M. was asked. “ Oh, yes, we used to have long talks. She taught my daughter-in-law to sew, you know.” As Prayer Companions to Miss Marjory Broomhall, Mr. and Mrs. Austin were linked with the Chefoo school right to its...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE REUNION REPORTS London, 3rd January, 1953 To a visitor from the other hemisphere, a Chefoo Reunion in London is quite an event. It was a chilly winter’s day when I found my way to a Chinese restaurant in Piccadilly. As always seems to happen to a stranger, the wrong end of the street presented itself first, and all the numbers appeared to play hide and seek. However, when located, the aroma of Chinese cooking, coupled with the interest of looking for contemporaries unseen for years, over compensated for the previous hunt. After tucking into an excellent meal, all who could went on to Newington Green. The Hall had been decorated with pictures —art and souvenirs—of Chefoo and Ruling. As more and more people arrived the buzz of chatter increased. At the right moment David Clarke took us in hand and encouraged all to join in various games. Also John Sturt introduced one from New Zealand, apparently to support the popular, if not always correct, theory that women talk more than...”
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“...with Rob and Margery, Conrad and Mrs. Lagerquist, Mimi Logvinoff, Brian McCarthy, Margery McLorn, Mary McLonnan, Lawrence and Mrs. Olsen, Bernard and Mrs. Rhodes, Eleanor Condor Richardson, Mary Ririe, Averell and Mrs. Robinson, and Tom and Brian, Mrs. Seaman and Doris Seaman, Gardiner Taylor, Isabel Taylor, Mrs. Tyler (Sr.), Walter and Mrs. Tyler, and Ronnie, William and Mrs. Tyler, and Gordon and Maybeth, Roxie Hanna Wilson, Helen Windsor. Grace Taylor Harris. Adelaide. 11th April The Adelaide Chefoo Reunion was held on April nth at the home of Mrs. A. G. Nicholls. An enjoyable evening of games and competitions was spent, organized by David Michell and Val Nicholls. Mr. Willas Middleton entertained everybody with his reminiscences of Boys’ School days. At the close Harold Eaton led short devotions and we sang “ The Lord is My Shepherd ” and “ Lord of All Power and Might ”. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. W. Blyth (n4e Evelyn Binks), Mrs. Binks, Mr. and Mrs. Longden...”
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“...leaves her with one at home and three at school. REV. R. V. BAZIRE is now Rural Dean of Battersea. AILSA CARR may still be found at the old address and this is more wonderful than it sounds, as the house has been slipping and has had to be underpinned to a great depth all round. MRS. CARR was ill during the winter, but has recovered, and now she and Ailsa and the house are again ready to welcome visitors. DAVID CLARKE will be married on July 11 th and at the service is having Psalm 23 sung to the Chefoo tune. After a continental honeymoon they will live in a flat at the present address. He had lunch with HENRY LACK who had just arrived from Australia, and JOHN HIRST, when the talk was all architectural shop. David’s brother ARNOLD CLARKE, and his wife were due to arrive in the United Kingdom on May 27th, and his parents were due on May 4th. RUTH CROCKETT is at “ Christ’s Hospital ” in Hertford and is looking forward to a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester to the school. Her brother...”
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“...work with the C.M.S., on May 7th. BERTRAM BUTLAND (Toby IV) c/o California Texas Oil Co: P.O. Box 26, Taipei, Taiwan, Formosa, has heard from J. BOLLING REYNOLDS, 2, Rockbridge Nail, Yonkas, N.Y-., U.S.A., who mistook him for an elder brother of his. J.B.R. also writes: “CARRINGTON GOODRICH is a Professor of Chinese at Columbia University, N.Y. I teach mathematics at City College of N.Y. Hugh Fitch is also teaching there ”. B.B. has also heard from JOHN G. KAUDERER who writes: “ After leaving Chefoo I came to the U.S.A. and attended Colgate University; since graduating I have been in the banking business, and am now the Assistant Chief, Bank Examination Dept. of Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y. Married 1929, daughter Janet, nineteen years, son Jack, 22...”
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“...Sergeant) was married in Cambridge on 11th August, 1951 and after a honeymoon in North and West Scotland settled down in Cambridge where she and her husband are teaching. They are having their own house built and are hoping to see it started this June. Linda writes of several Chefusians. EVELYN PARNWELL {nee Taylor) who was married in S. Rhodesia in August 1951. She has settled in Johannesburg from where her husband runs sight-seeing tours. In July, 1951 Linda was very thrilled to meet her old Chefoo friend, VIRGINIA DANS {nee Cooper) again when she was visiting Europe. She and her husband and children live in New Britain, Connecticut. They have two boys and a girl, Randall, Deborah and Donald. Virginia’s brother GEORGE is married. Her sister was in business in New York and her younger brother JOHN was in the Navy. SARAH ERWIN {nee Bryan), her husband and children, Frances and James, were living in Dallas, Texas. JOY SIMMONDS is very happy in her third term at the London Bible College. She...”
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“...for her nursing finals in October. JOAN is in her fifth year medicine. NORTH AMERICA SAM ARENDT writes: “ There is nothing new in our family, except that my brother JOHN is getting married to Miss Ethalwyn Hughes. Should we succeed in having a Montreal Chefoo reunion, I will send an account ”. Apparently they didn’t. A mixed bag of BELL news. GEORGE BELL is assistant minister to Rev. G. W. Brown at Runnymede Baptist Church in Toronto, while pursuing his studies at the Central Baptist Seminary, of which Dr. Brown is Dean. He is engaged to Miss Gwen Taylor, also at the Seminary. RUTH graduates this spring from O.C.E., the Ontario high school teachers’ training college. JACK is teaching at Western Technical School, Toronto. A wedding of Chefoo interest was that of CHRIS COSTERUS to Miss Grace Worling, at Forward Baptist Church in Toronto, on May 16th. The ceremony was performed by BERNARD RHODES, who also, in a quietly witty speech proposed the toast to the bride, but somehow a good deal about...”
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“...talking to JIM FIDDLER in Los Angeles last summer. In London, England, MR. CHALKLEY, CHRIS FAIRCLOUGH and I had a happy Chinese feed together just off Piccadilly. WALLACE GOFORTH tells not about himself, but about another distinguished Chefusian. (More will be heard on this subject from the same source in the next number. Now Wallace, does that tie you down ?) “ It is hoped that the next issue will give due note to the appointment of KENNETH W. TAYLOR, head prefect and top honours student at Chefoo, 1915. (He seems to have developed the habit early.) He is now Deputy Minister of Finance in the Dominion government— in other words, the gent who decides what income tax we shall pay, and to whom it is now almost a pleasure to pay it. This is the crowning achievement of a devoted and brilliant career in academic, business and public life. Having known KENNETH since boyhood, and also having had to work with government officials in several capitals, I have found none who has so consistently and...”
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“...home, having returned in December from a year in Korea. KATHRINA (Mrs. Jay Schlaikjer) is the proud mother of Stephen Allan Schlaikjer, born December, 1952. She expects to leave for California soon to rejoin her husband who has been with the navy in Korea since August. Mother and I had a pleasant visit with CALVIN COOK and his wife Patricia in Princeton several weeks ago ”. BOLLING REYNOLDS writes: “ I was at Chefoo from 1905-1909 or thereabouts. I taught school in Korea from 1916-1929. Since 1931 I’ve been teaching mathematics at the City College of New York. There are three Chefoo men here, HUGH FITCH, JOE DUNLAP and myself. CARRINGTON GOODRICH has sent me copies of the magazine from time to time, and I have greatly enjoyed them ”. (Now he’s getting one himself.) Of the RIRIE family, MARY reports: “ There does not seem to be much news-. HAROLD has his own insurance company in the new Board of Trade Building in Chicago. BILL is still one of the company doctors for the large Kennecott Copper...”
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“...Wilmore, Kentucky. MARY TAYLOR, Chefoo 1939-45, graduates in June. She was mentioned in Who’s Who in U.S. Colleges. Has done good work in intercollegiate debating. JOHN TAYLOR, Chefoo 1939-45, also, is in his junior year of college, in a pre-medical course. My brother, HERBERT, is with the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and has been moved from New York to Toronto.” Extract from the New York Times, November 14th, 1952: “MRS. HARRIET GRACE CORBETT WELLS, for forty-five years a Presbyterian missionary in China, died on Wednesday at her home in Caremont, Cal. Her age was 73. She was the wife of Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Wells, who became chairman of the China Christian Council. Born in Chefoo, Shantung, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hunter Corbett, pioneer missionaries in China, she was a graduate of the China Inland Mission School in Chefoo, and Wooster College, Ohio, in 1902. After her graduation, she was named a missionary under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church...”
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“...were quite a number of Chefooites and Kuling-ites. It seems strange to think that the two families living at the hostel are children of Chefooites. HELEN AMOS now has her midwifery certificate and she is at present nursing in the country. She intends saving up for a trip to England. WINIFRED HUMPHRIES (LACK) flew over to spend five weeks in the Eastern States—two weeks in Sydney and nearly three weeks in fyfelbourne. WINIFRED spent some of her holiday with CONNIE CORDEN (WEBSTER). Some of Win’s Chefoo contemporaries gathered at Con’s home for a chin wag. Win has two children—a girl aged seven years and a boy aged five years. MARY MATHEWS thoroughly enjoyed her holiday to the Barrier Reef, and she came back to Melbourne armed with a wonderful collection of shells. MARY was very pleased to have word from Hong Kong that her sister-in-law and niece (aged three) had been released from Communist hands, and were in Hong Kong waiting for passages to America. ARTHUR is still in China, and we sincerely...”