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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE, No. 64
Jl'I.Y. !<)(>«
IN MEMORIAM
Reg Squire
rT',HE sudden death of Reg Squire the day after Christmas brought to an end a friendship which has extended over nearly fifty years. Reg left
Chefoo in 1913 and proceeded to Glasgow where he served his apprenticeship in marine engineering, after which he returned to China and worked on the China coast and up and down the Yangtse. In spite of his training he had no love for the sea and this tended to a succession of jobs of one kind and another until he left China about 1930 and moved to Africa, where he served the Baptist Missionary Society for some time in charge of their river transport on the Congo. He later returned to China so as to be near his parents to whom he was particularly devoted and followed them to England when they retired, spending some years caring for them and watching their welfare.
Reg was of a particularly shy and retiring nature and did not make friends easily but he was always ready to do something to...”
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“...('.'..S'..I.
Chefoo Schools' Association
Fifty Years 1908 to 1958
I WAS born in 1907. I have lived to know I w as father of seven children.
I know' also I was lucky to be at Chefoo, educated by Christian teachers, broad-minded enough to interest me in acquiring knowledge, appreciating value of sports and accepting the importance of Christ in our lives. Possibly I should have understood more about the sexes, perhaps I should have been tutored to realize the difference between capitalism even as demonstrated by missionaries, in contrast to communism or socialism as practised by others. And certainly from my present point of view I believe it would have been useful to have had discussions concerning a great area of no man's land where morals and social mores are involved such as movies, the theatre, tobacco smoking and drinking in moderation, perhaps even Roman Catholicism, a point of view’ somewhat conservative of Evangelical Christianity.
Even so after fifty years I was all for a celebration...”
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“...®ljr Itynlij Wanii
' I ’HE Holy Land holds for all of us brought up in Chefoo a tremendous -*• fascination. Its history was instilled into us at home and later in the Sunday services in the Boys’ School, and after 1922 in the Memorial Hall in the Bible Class and the C.S.S.M., and not least in the classrooms where we studied the lives and preachings of the prophets; the wars and alliances of the kings; the journeys and exiles of the children ol Israel, as well as the acts and journeys and writings of the apostles. Above all these, the land was made sacred by our Lord Who trod the hills of Galilee, the plains of
Jordan, the city of Jerusalem—Gethsemane, Calvary and Olivet.
To me and my wife it gained yet another meaning, for we were married in Jerusalem; three of our four children were born in that city and in Nazareth, and our very first home for five years of the war was in Hebron. Later, after a period in the Aden Protectorate, we returned again to “ The Land ” this time to Galilee.
During...”
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“...and railways. Modern diesel trains have completely replaced coal trains. Air-conditioned passenger and cargo vessels ply the seven seas. Forests are planted on all the erstwhile rocky hills. Valleys and plains are irrigated by ever-revolving sprinklers. Honey dew melons from Mt. Carmel and oranges from Sharon may be found in all fruit shops in Britain. Schools, universities and hospitals second to none are being extended and built. The maternal and infant mortality in our own hospital in Tiberias, where 1,500 babies were born annually, equalled the most favourable rates in Britain and the U.S.A., and our standard was the common standard of the country. Certainly everything is not so rosy. But indeed, if you want really good roses in winter, you can buy them in London. They were picked the day before at Kinneret, a settlement on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and brought overnight by Israeli “ Britannia ” ’planes.
There is a stirring and dynamic among the Jews which is like the stirring...”
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“...careful to keep away from his feet as he had recently had an operation, though he very courageously took part in the games, j
It was a real joy and special pleasure to have Mary Nicoll with us, on her way to Canada from Malaya. She kindly showed us transparencies of the Chefoo School in the Cameron Highlands, and the new building which has just been purchased. Again we were made very aware of God's overruling and answer to prayer in many ways.
Mr. Mudditt led our prayers. It was interesting to know that he had been at Chefoo sixty-five years ago, and we were glad to hear that he has made a wonderful recovery after a very serious illness.
It was stressed at the Reunion that there is a real need for the younger ones of the Chefoo family to join with us and a warm welcome awaits them. M.L.
Chinese Chow
Those present :
D. M. Baker, Olive Botham, Mrs. Bruce (nee Cranston), Olive and Rhoda Callis (nee Grainger), Ailsa Carr. Agnes Clarke, Janet Greening, May Harding, Dr. Hoyte, Robin and Elizabeth...”
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“...to date on the activities of the “ new ” Chefoo. Mary explained that the Cameron Highlands “ Chefoo ” meets the needs of the Mission’s children in the fields of Malaya, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. At present there is an enrolment of some thirty-five children with a staff of four teachers. Present premises are now inadequate for present needs, and in view of the expansion programme, a new site has been secured and building operations commenced, thereby giving promise of partial occupation by August i960. Mary showed some excellent slides of the various activities, illustrating the fact that the Chefoo spirit still lives on. As we sat listening to Mary, we remembered those days . . . twenty, thirty, forty, and even sixty years back !
Re-visualizing Chefoo history brought the solemn realization that this is the first Toronto C.S.A. Reunion since the home-call of Mr. R. F. Harris, whose name and
memory is so indissolubly linked with that of Chefoo. His memory abides with us and will be cherished...”
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“...affected her indomitable spirit. At our house little of note seems to happen. We see very few old Chefooites and them infrequently; for which I am sorry. There is an immeasurable gulf of furious history between the Chefoo of 1913 and the world of 1960’s. No one now living, I suppose will know a staid and placid order of society again.”
Apologies to ” Cheshire ” Dreyer. I'm sorry you did not like the secretary’s excerpts from your letter. loo modest.
I turned up the magazine to check why. We, of your vintage, all remember your athletic exploits and I suppose I took it for granted everyone would. Sorry. Cheshire adds, “ My son, who is named Cheshire, is a graduate chemist and a patent lawyer. He has three children made up of two boys and a girl. I have bumped into nobody from Chefoo since I saw Victor Logan.”
JOE DUNLAP supplies New York news items. “ I hear from CHALMERS BROWNE, one of the Temple Hill group. He married a missionary’s daughter from Brazil and has been there as a Presbyterian...”
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“...missionary work. PRISCILLA and Ewan seem to be busy loo in their station in Malaya. ”
BETTY (MOSELEY1 FARINELL writes: “ I have two daughters. Beth Ann, sixteen, and Nelle Marie, thirteen. My husband is a minister and we have served churches in Detroit, Michigan, Ohio, and now have been in Clawson, Michigan for thirteen years. My brother BOB MOSELEY teaches at Nyack, N.Y. Daddy, Dr. Thomas Moseley, passed away Dec.
17. 1959. My mother lives in California. We should be delighted to hear from any Chefoo friends.”
From Mrs. HORACE FULTON : “ My beloved husband, HORACE H. (“ Holly” FULTON passed away in Los Angeles. He leaves his widow in Los Angeles, a son Donald R. Fulton with Pacific Telephone Co. in San Francisco, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Milligan, Jr. of Flint-ridge Cal., and five grand children.”
VIVIAN GONDER : ‘‘ Nothing special. We became grandparents last August.”
Our North American Chairman, CARRINGTON GOODRICH, reports: “ Last June I was given the honorary degree of Litt. D...”
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“...Taylor IV. MARY still has her bright eyes, not so mischievous as when I remember her in transition or Lower I back in 1940 or’41, as well as her blonde hair. My sister FLORA NELL who never quite got to Chefoo, except as a three year old visitor to our transition class, is in her first year of nurses’ training at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She will stay on and work there for a year after she graduates. I’ve also enjoyed seeing Mr. Arthur Rouse, and his daughter IRENE several times in the last eight months during their visits to Philadelphia in connection with the Scripture Union office which has opened here. 1 also see Mr. and Mrs. H. E. V. ANDREWS quite often—for all their eighty some years—they are still very active. Mrs. ANDREWS still teaches a class in the candidate schools every year. FERN GRIFFIN works for the Bell Telephone Co., here in Philadelphia. I see her occasionally.
BARBARA HULSE who has been on the staff of the Toronto Public Library for a number of years, left...”
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“...activities at Hamilton. Gordon is President of the Hamilton Missionary Association and May is Crusader leader at the Girls' High School and is having wonderful opportunities among the girls.
1 hey are also the C.I.M. representatives at Hamilton and recently much enjoyed the visit of the last group of C.l.M. recruits including ALAN KNIGHT and DAVID MICHELL. two old Chefusians. MAY-BETH is in 6A at High School and ELSP-ETH has just started H.S.
ALAN KNIGHT and DAVID MICHELL (both sons of C.I.M. Home Directors ! left N.Z. in April for the language school in Singapore which opens in May.
JOYCE Michell is also working in Malaya. She and David hope to have a short holiday together before school opens. JOAN is in her second year at B.T.I.
JEAN LYNESS is a doctor in practice with her brother in Whangarei. She has now joined the C’.S.A. and in writing gives a little news of herself and others since leaving Chefoo: ” Mv memories of Chefoo are a bit vague ! 1 was there when aged nine
until twelve and a half...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association
President: Rev. P. A. Bruce
Vice-Presidents:
Bishop F. Houghton- Mr. H. G. Judd
Mrs. I.. Clinton Mr. J. B. Martin
Miss I. A. Craig Mr. \V. D. Mubditt
Miss I). Trudinger
GENERAL COMMITTEE
iActing also as the Committee for Great Britain Branch .
Chairman:
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
General Secretary:
Mr. A. R. Parry,
Bi, Burnham Way, London, W.13.
Treasurer:
Mr. D. F. Parry,
107, Southdown Avenue, London, W.7.
Editor:
Miss D. Rouse,
36, Grovelands Road, London, N.13.
News Editors:
Miss J. Pearce Miss J. B. Houghton
Maxwell House, Chislehurst, Kent. 58 Coniston Road, N. 10.
Secretary for Great Britain Branch:
Miss E. Preedy,
“ Norbury,” 24, Woodlands Road, Redhill, Surrey.
Miss E. M. Broomhall Dr. T. P. Welch Miss M. Hoyte
Rev. J. H. Liversidce
NORTH AMERICA BRANCH
Chairman:
Professor L. Carrington Goodrich, *
640, West 238th Street, New York City, U.S.A.
Secretaries:
Miss Margaret Bunting (News and Magazine)
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