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“...CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOC1A 1058 AVENUE SCAD J U LY 19 5 8 JUBILEE ISSUE...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE. No. 61 JULY, 1958 REMEMBER TJ EMEMBER is the word we might overhear most often, if we listened in to the different conversations at Chefoo reunions organized by the C.S.A. The Bible tells us that to remember is a good, salutary and blessed thing to do, so I would like to refer to a few of them. “ Thou shalt remember all the way the Lord thy God led thee these forty years ” (Deut. 8. 2). (We can say these fifty years of the C.S.A.) The “ Way ” was by no means easy for God’s people of old, and there have been lessons hard to learn for us also, often because of our stubbornness, self-will and lack of faith. But we remember God’s goodness and patience in keeping us and in restoring us to Himself in spite of ourselves. We can remember times of sickness and sorrow, internment and evacuation, through which the Lord brought us safely, surely often through the prayers of parents, former teachers and old Chefusians: as we look back we praise Him. But some of you who read these words...”
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“...sorrow. Tragic circumstances in China, to many of us the land of our birth, have brought about the end of our beloved schools at Chefoo, and thus the very source from which we used to draw new members no longer exists. Nevertheless, the spirit of Chefoo still lives on in the hearts of many O.C’s: to them the traditions of their old schools are a treasured possession, and for many their memories are grounded on gratitude to God for all that Chefoo still means to them. It is on them that the future of our Association mainly depends, and we hope that, in this Jubilee year, some of them who have lost contact with the C.S.A. will rejoin and help us to preserve for as long as possible the spirit of fellowship which should unite Old Chefusians throughout the world. “ Floreat Chefoo.” Yours very sincerely, Howard Joyce (Chairman of the General Committee.) THE name Chefoo suggests many things, especially to an “ old boy ”, and an American one at that. First there was the trip down from Peking. My...”
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“...first prize in a competition in Glasgow has hung in my home); he was just. When (rarely) he lost his temper one could see the signs coming: the flush reddening his neck and suffusing his face. But one felt he had a right to anger; many were the justifications. He was not perfect. I recall once his saying to us that if one of the masters told us the moon was made of green cheese we must believe him. This seemed to me strangely out of character. I cannot imagine his ever telling us an untruth. The Chefoo Boys’ School was not an easy place in which to grow up; it was no soft spot. Remember those baths in an inch and a half of water once a week in an oblong lead tub ? Or the cold douche in the grey dawn of a winter’s day ? Or taking a duck in the sea in the month of May when there was a drought in the land ? Or the chilblains we all got from the common wash towels ? But most of it was toughening in the right sense. We had to learn our three R’s and our French and Euclid and Bible. We also had to...”
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“...n of these gatherings. We were indeed favoured in having such men of God as Dr. Alan Cole, M.Th., Ph.D., of the C.I.M.O.M.F., and Rev. Lawrence Love, of Florida, U.S.A., to minister to us in spiritual things. The Lord was with us in power and challenged many of us to see the tremendous responsibility and privilege of systematic, persistent and regular intercession on behalf of missionaries overseas. As I thought in retrospect over the years in China, and particularly of our days at school in Chefoo, I realized a little of what we old Chefusians owed to the prayers of faithful intercessors in the Homelands. Rev. L. Love made us see that the Christian life was a warfare, and that the battle against “ principalities and powers ” in heathen lands was won on the knees of prayer warriors at home. We needed “ the whole armour of God ” so that we could “ pray always with all supplication and perseverance with all saints ” (Ephesians 6. 18). Would it not be a grand thing if we who have been the...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE Sit jlUmoriain DR. ALFRED HOGG FAR. ALFRED HOGG was a familiar U figure on the Chefoo Compound forty or fifty years ago. As a family doctor of the old school he attended to the needs of children, staff and visitors. Nor did he confine his duties to the hours of surgery and the daily rounds which often included a walk to “ Iso ” be the weather what it may. In his own home he and his wife exercised a ministry of gracious hospitality for the refreshment of the jaded or the recuperation of convalescents. Later generations of Chefusians accepted as a matter of course the well-built hospital block with its light, airy wards and pretty rest rooms, that could at a pinch accommo- date two patients. Few realized, perhaps, that the convenient buildings which took the place of earlier structures were largely due to the faith and prayers and careful planning of Dr. and Mrs. Hogg and the hospital staff of that period. Many who read this will have remembrances of the kindly doctor and...”
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“...MARIE BARHAM 1VTARIE was born of missionary parents 1 A in west China on September 2nd, 1903. After leaving Chefoo she came to Canada and had a brief business training before entering Toronto Bible College in 1924. Marie was accepted by the China Inland Mission for service in China in July 1928, and sailed in the fall of that year. Marie came to know the Lord while at Chefoo and there was a real change in her life at that time. During her time in Toronto she attended Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and the superintendent of the Sunday School said of her as a teacher, “ I have seen her in several discouraging situations, but never saw her discouraged.” This could be said also of her missionary experience. She worked in Chekiang province during her time in China and then, when the Communists took over, she was one of the first to offer for work in the new fields of the Mission. Marie pioneered the work in Mindoro Island in the Philip- pines, and laboured there for six years. Early in 1957 she...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE 1908-1958 THE JUBILEE OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION jVT O one was more surprised than I to receive an invitation about Christmas, 1907, to attend a reunion of “ Old Chefoo-ites ” at the China Inland Mission, Newington Green, on January 16th, 1908. Whoever first conceived the idea, I do not know, but the letters were issued by Mr. Marcus Wood, who had somehow managed to obtain from somewhere a splendid list of addresses of old boys and girls, then in England, who had been at Chefoo. Of course, I lost no time in accepting the invitation, and what a thrill it was to meet so many who had been my contemporaries during my period at school. So great was the success of this venture, that one of the old boys, E. L. Elliston, asked several others to meet him at his office in New Oxford Street about two weeks later, and H. W. Hunt, A. B. Randle and myself were able to do so. At this meeting, it was decided to form an Association with these four to represent the old boys and to...”
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“...the interest was kept alive. Present members owe these two, and a few others, a deep debt of gratitude for preventing the Chefoo Schools Association from becoming extinct. At the Emergency Committee Meeting it was found that the finances of the Association were in a perilous condition, and the pre-war Treasurer having resigned, the Hon. Secretary undertook to obtain the books of Account and prepare a statement of the exact position, so that the Official Committee could give it close consideration. This took a long time to put together and it was not until October 16th, 1945, that the figures could be presented. Vigorous methods were then adopted and it is a cause of thankfulness to God that the Chefoo Schools Association has continued satisfactorily ever since. I have refrained from mentioning names, except those of the first Committee members, but there are special people to whom the Association owes a very great deal. It is impossible to predict what the future holds for the Association;...”
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“...A Thanksgiving in Retrospect But the sea, Oh, the sea ! There’s no better place to be. CO we used to sing enthusiastically in the summer, in the days when the Chefoo School was “ beside the sea ”, when we could leave the compound by the Main Gate, cross the hot surface of the road, and step on to the warm beach, our eyes screwed up because of the glare on white sand and advancing waves. Though built within sight of the sea, the school had to move away from it during the war to Weihsien, in inland Shantung, and to Ruling, up the Yangtze, after the war. The settings of Chefoo and Ruling had their own compensations, as this description will show, and beautiful memories are a cause for gratitude which we love to express. Even Weihsien was not without its unforeseen delights. The influence the sea had on our activities in Chefoo was not surprising; beside it we picnicked, in it we dog-paddled before we could swim, and on it we rowed. Beside it, again, we held our C.S.S.M’s and in it baptisms...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE ” I’m fresher than you, Sir” By David Bentley-Taylor T)ROBABLY few contributors to this unique magazine were at Chefoo for so short a time as I was, a mere 635 days, and that only as a member of staff, a status secondary to the real thing. I went there fairly fresh from an English prep school, a distinguished public school, and a famous University, yet in my affections and meditations over things past Chefoo beats the lot— largely, I think, because life was so much cleaner there, unsullied by the bullyings, beatings, cheatings and drunkenness which had marred communities where Christ was little known in a personal way. And some of those 635 days are outstanding to me still. There was a day when the whole compound went for a mammoth picnic to Lighthouse Island in two American Navy pinnaces. Each held about 150 persons and carried a crew of three self-conscious important-looking young men, who brought their boats alongside the jetty at maximum speed and then stopped them dead...”
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“...was advisable to keep one eye on Quimby and one on the rest of the school. (And is that a shoe in the aisle equidistant from four desks whose occupants are working so industriously ? Should I allude to it, or not ? And is Billy reading his history book or another book at a slightly lower level ?) Quimby-had a flair for birds too. They perched on his finger, sat on the end of his bed in the sickroom, and flew down from the roof into his window when called upon to do so. It was on that ground at Chefoo that I bowled the last ball of my cricketing life, though I knew it not. It had David Hayman palpably leg-before-wicket and I swung round in a vociferous appeal. The umpire was John Quimby. With a most charming smile he explained that I had followed through right across the line of his vision so that he was quite unable to offer any opinion in the matter—a decision unique in my experience. There was a day when I walked to both extremities of the Bluff and its highest point as well, in company...”
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“...popped over the top of the wall, followed by the master, who took a favourable view of the situation. So I picked Donald Fish up and he doled out tracts to the whole lot from my shoulders. I estimate that in these expeditions we disposed of towards 15,000 tracts. It was all we could do under the circumstances and good seed bears a harvest one day. Eighteen years afterwards I am writing these words in our village home in East Java and the road has led straight through from those trips into the Chefoo countryside. There was a day when Haakon Torjesen, aided by Jackie Fitzwilliam and Gilbert Dunachie, founded the Children’s Magazine. They used to borrow my typewriter and go into a huddle in my room overlooking the sea. My advice was rarely asked. The magazine contained articles, poems, serials (hero up tree—lion at the bottom—continued in our next), Biblical expositions, sermonettes, Bible quizzes, and the like. At ten cents a copy it was a howling success and half the first issue was sold...”
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“...and wearing his winter overcoat. Silhouetted on the skyline for a moment he raised his right hand high in a greeting, the warmth of which cheered us and has remained in my memory till this day. But only a week later we sailed past those rugged Shantung mountains into the world outside and left Chefoo to itself for ever and ever. CHEFOO TO ME (2JHEFOO to me means sights, and sound, and smells; The guardian hills; the ever changing sea; It means long corridors; and ringing bells; And bread and peanut butter still for tea. It means to move in childhood’s wonderland; To skip from rock to rock at the low tide; To search for cats’ eyes in the clean warm sand; In fields of kaoliang to run and hide. Chefoo means youthful feelings, now long gone; Exhilaration from a game well played, A lesson learned, or exercise well done; And, when the last bell’s rung, the last prayer prayed, The secure feeling in a bed at night, With the mosquito netting tucked in tight. E.M.H.T. *9...”
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“...break through the Jubilee chin-wag to get the first game under way. It was David Michell’s “ Down-Under ” game whose logic seemed quite upside-down to the two sporting victims. The fun moved on as Mr. Welch gave us his “ Sputnik Special ”. Cakes of Pears’ soap were soon hurtling round three circles of people. From the walls the excellently made silhouettes of Chefoo and dolphins and streamers in school colours—the work of the three Misses Stark—watched the merry proceedings. The table, too, was festively decorated and its centre piece was a Jubilee cake. Supper followed other games and then came the feature of the evening: “ Chefoo in 1936”, a silent film by Mr. Dunachie. Dr. Dorothy Toop barely managed to beat all comers for the commentary. At the interval the belated jellies were consumed, but not before we witnessed Stanley Rowe in the star-turn of the evening, making the discovery that there’s many a slip ’tween tray and lip. They were “jelly” good just the same. In the absence of our...”
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“...Chefusians to Kulingites has been quite complete. The former are now rarely seen, but always very welcome. We have our club meetings on Sunday nights, periodically throughout the school year. Missionaries and old Chefusians passing through town always make an interesting feature on the programme which mainly consists of singing from “ Golden Bells Standing around the piano with refreshments in hand while singing the favourite old school songs, usually ends up the meeting. The first of our semi-annual Chefoo reunions was on Thanksgiving Day. There were about thirty of us who enjoyed the time.. We are now looking forward to our second on May 23rd. A big Chinese meal and a lovely programme is in store for us. Bruce Crapuchettes. News OF OLD CHEFUSIANS GREAT BRITAIN News of the BRUCE family: Mr. and Mrs. Bruce are kept well occupied taking meetings—and gardening !— and are always delighted to see Old Chefusians. PATSY, in Vancouver, now has two children—a brother for Martin born at the beginning of...”
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“...and I get numerous opportunities to visit Georgetown, the capital, sixty-five miles down river and on the coast. You can appreciate my amazement when I discovered that our agent in Georgetown was an old Chefoo boy, Roy Lucas, 1919-1926. I think he left in about the fourth form. His twin sisters were in Lunghwa internment camp, Shanghai, with me, and one of them had the distinction of being married there. My wife and I, together with three others, have started a Sunday School for expatriate staff children, and at the moment we have about sixty-five children. At Christmas we invited the parents to our Carol Service and fifty turned up. It was a real thrill to us to know of this interest among them and to have the privilege of telling them the Christmas story and applying it to their own lives. Life in a mining community is lived, and at a hard pace, and the addition of a construction outfit makes it even more so. “ We spend our free time at the swimming pool or exploring the jungle and bush...”
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“...Trona, California. RUTH (JACOBSEN) WATSON is in Los Angeles, and has two girls. ELSIE (JACOBSEN) HARDING is living in Chicago, and has five children (one set of twins). She and her husband opened a nursery school for pre-school children. Haven’t heard how they are getting along. We had almost a Chefoo reunion while we were in Chicago. My folks are living in the Mission Home there now, having retired from mission work overseas. JOAN (SWENSON) TOFT had us all over after church one night. In all their were seven of us: JOAN, PEARL (SWENSON) SERGEANT (planning to go back to Japan in mission work), my other sister, WINIFRED (ENGLUND) CHRISTIANSEN, JAKE (ELSIE), and someone I hadn’t seen since Chefoo days, RUTH (GLITTENBURG) STARR, and her^fc brother KEN. He works on some hush-hush job for the government in Racine, Wisconsin, and he is unmarried. The only other Old Chefusian I have seen is PHYLLIS MARY BANNAN, and that has been seven years or more ago. I understand she has recently married, and...”
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“...Seminary in Toronto, has a pastorate in Bowmanville, Ontario. The Lord is richly blessing their ministry, and giving them to see souls truly turning to Him. DOROTHEA BELL graduates from nursing in June, and will finish at the Toronto Western Hospital in September. She plans to take a post graduate course in neurology in Montreal in October. DAVID BIRCH is with the R.C.A.F., and is stationed temporarily at Clinton, Ontario, where he is taking a course in electronics. DANNY BIRCH, who attended the Chefoo School at Kiating, is completing his course at Northwest Baptist Bible College, near Vancouver. RUTH BEVIS is with Cockfield Brown, Canada’s largest advertising agency. EUNICE (BEVIS) COLE has an administrative position in the nursing office at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. Her son, Lloyd, is in his premedical year at the University of Toronto. Susan hopes to graduate from high school and begin her nurse’s training this September. WILSON BEVIS is with a customs broker. His son Adrian...”
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“...(and brainy, Ed.) not only to have his expenses paid on an unexpected trip to England, but also to have three months’ leave of absence from the Toronto Hospital for Tuberculosis. While in Great Britain he hopes to look up any of his old friends from Chefoo days. His daughter Elizabeth is working in the Toronto library, which is becoming an increasingly popular haven with Chefusians.” On ALFRED CROFTS’ writings, current and older, we have two comments: “ DR. ALFRED CROFTS’ volume on History of the Far East is being published in April 1958 by Longmans Green & Co., publishers of most of the texts we used in Chefoo ! It will be distributed simultaneously by the firm’s branches in New York, London and Toronto. A brief account of some scenes from Chefoo life is included in the text.” “ PERCY HOLLANDER, who was hereabouts for several years, now in Florida, showed me an article on the vocabulary in the Boys’ School written for a speech magazine before the war. It was by ALFRED CROFTS, and appeared...”