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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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“...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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