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“...should reach the Editor by May ist.
K. Jean Pearce.
IN MEMORIAM
Muriel Briggs (nee Southey:
CHEFOOITES of the last decade of the nineteenth century will remember Muriel, who was a pupil in the Protestant Collegiate School (as The Chefoo School was known in those days), from 1891 to 1899. Amongst contemporaries were Ella, Effie, and Daisy Reid, Lily Cranston, Esther Andrew, Lily Parry, W. D. Mudditt, Tali Clarke, etc.
The daughter of the Rev. John Southey in East Szechwan, and later
Home Director in Australasia, Muriel remembered well Hudson Taylor. After training as a nurse she married a surveyor who pioneered in the Northern Territory of this great continent. Muriel shared fully in the hardships of the life. Three brothers who had their early education in Chefoo took surgical and medical degrees.
For many years now Muriel has lived in Melbourne where she has shown a keen interest in, and affection for, the C.I.M. She was ever a lover and servant of the Lord. Many regret her Home-going on...”
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“...T^AR from our homes in wild Yunan,
In Szechuan or in Hu,
from brigand-fested old Honan.
And far off Kansuh, too,
Across the wide plain of Sian We flock into Chefoo !
We travel all the ways we can Except perhaps canoe.
Raft, litter, cart, or luggage van.
Most anything will do.
Train, motor, steamer and sampan All help to reach Chefoo.
Our lives here, quite a lengthy span,
Are limited in view.
To us its more important than London and New York too !
Really, we don’t see how you can Be asking, " Where’s Chefoo ?
Though small upon the map, you scan The spot that marks Chefoo,
Within the heart of many a man And many a woman too.
It’s larger in proportion than A Continent or two.
And when we reach life’s rubican And take a backward view,
There’ll be few memories that can Outshine those of Chefoo !
A Chi too Resident,...”
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“...C..S..1. MAGAZINE
no means to cool it down, and had to wash as best we could. The baths were galvanised iron tubs, and I never remember washing them out ! 1
believe we emptied the water into a drain running round the edges of the room. I do remember the cold concrete floor with perhaps a mat beside the tub, or having to use your towel for the purpose. In summer, the sea must have washed us to a certain extent, I suppose !
Of course, the sea at Chefoo was the best thing about it. Its ever-changing moods, its continual “ shush ” as the waves broke on the shore; the wonderful sunsets it reflected, and its quiet peace when we had prayers at the Rocks. The chorus, “ Wide, wide as the ocean, High as the heaven above,” always brings back to me those prayers on the Rocks.
The greatest joy was Register Holidays, when we took sandwiches and did no work at all, but spent the day hiking up in the Hills. I remember Mr. Martin’s efforts in this connection (as also in the case of birthday parties in his...”
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“...GREAT BRITAIN Reunion at Maxwell House, September 2nd, 1961
Great Britain really must be hard put to it when they have to ask a “ Canadian to write up an account of their Chefoo Reunion for them ! Don't tell Margaret Bunting please, for I never did it for her in Toronto !
This was my first Reunion since coming to England eighteen months ago, and I must say I enjoyed it immensely. As 1 arrived I could see various folk I knew sitting out on the lawn enjoying a cup of lea, but as we had driven across from Hereford, and were already late for our lunch, I was ushered inside to have it. On coming out again I met a real cross-section of Chefusians. There were past members of staff; parents—old and young; C.l.M. friends; as well as Chefusians past and present. As the afternoon went by more arrived whom I had not seen since Chefoo or Weihsien clays.
Peter Williamson soon had the younger fry making some weird noises on the lawn, with some “jolly good” team games. Some of us “ old ” Chefusians enjoyed...”
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“...entering Bible College this fall. RALPH went to the States to work on a farm this summer, and is now back taking grade i i.
Further jottings from the youngest generation. Wheaton news. This is very much in abbreviated note form. Anyone wanting to contact any of these people could no doubt secure addresses from RICHARD KRAFT, 416 Ellis Ave.. Wheaton. 111., U.S.A. “ Am president of this year's Chefusian group at Wheaton College. I have been designated to fill you in on the activities of former Chefoo and Kulingites. Our Wheaton group is made up of NANCY and STEVEN HILLIS, GEORGE and DICK KRAFT, DONALD and DAVID ROCKNESS. DAN KUHN. BETTY BAEHR. JULIE WHIPPLE, MARGARET STEED. JOHN ADENEY. HUBERT MARKEN and BOB and JOHN JEFFERY.
News from former Wheaton Chefusians; CHUCK CRAPUCHETTES is spending his second year in Alaska, using his plane to fly missionaries and supplies to and from out-of-the-way places. BRUCE CRAPUCHETTES is in his second year at Dallas Theological Seminary. MARY (CRAPUCHETTES)...”
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“...moved to Toronto. ROSE finds her time well filled supervising and renting five apartments in their six-apartment building. (Completely unsolicited and completely free advertising. Any takers for most superior apartments with most superior landlords. ROSE will be furious. Secy. )
MARGARET BUNTING had a dinner gathering of the Chefoo clans in October for ISABEL TAYLOR prior to her sailing for Japan for another term of service. Included were some McMaster contemporaries, but Chefusians present were: ISABEL and MARION TAYLOR. GRACE (TAYLOR) HARRIS, JOSEPHINE COULTHARD, Mrs. BROWNLEE, MARJORIE (LAWSON) LUGS-DIN, MARJORIE TULL. The planned entertainment, i.e., soliciting Chefoo news, or writing this, was a complete failure, though a little appears elsewhere, but it was fun to rehash old times—the “ Do you remember ? ” gambit.
STAN OLSEN, who is on the staff' of Sunnybrook Military Hospital in Toronto, reports that EDWARD CECIL SMITH was a patient there for some weeks in October.
JOHN CROFTS reports:...”
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“...and enjoyed an hour or two in her home that evening, when we got good advice from her husband about interesting places to see in the Maritimes.”
BETTY (JEFFREY) VANDER ELS is living in New York with her husband, who
is a doctor. Their baby son arrived on September 4th, a few hours before Betty’s parents arrived to say farewell before leaving for the Philippines. They were also able to visit BARBARA in California, where her husband is attending Seminary. BOB and JOHN are in Wheaton.
AUSTRALIA
Chefoo Chinese Chow, Sydney, October 10th, 1961, at the Tai Ping Cafe, Hay Street. Present: Mr. and Mrs. Yorkston, JENNY LAMOND {nee PETERSON , FAITH LEDGARD (nee HUTTON and friend. RIDLEY SMITH and wife Florence, ALFRED PIKE. MARGARET OLESON, Mr. OLESON, MARGARET NORGATE, Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN Mc.INTOSH and Lesley, and JEAN GARDINER.
MARGARET NORGATE is teaching at school in Sydney.
LEON NORGATE is at the Sydney University in his second year of Science.
MARGARET OLESON has an excellent job as personnel...”
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“...BUTLER. The other day we were at the Public
Library and I picked up J daughter of Han by IDA PRUITT. You can imagine my interest when I found it was the life story of one of the G.S. Amahs.
ELSIE (EDGAR) is coming home on furlough next month and we arc looking forward to seeing her. She will find Adelaide a bit different with three aunts no longer with us—Aunt Clara, the matriarch. Aunt Edith (Mrs. McCulloch) and Aunt Dora (Miss DORA TRU-DINGER of Chefoo Prep school days), who passed away just recently. She was teaching Religious Instruction in schools up to the end of last year, though well in her Bo’s.”
NEW ZEALAND
DAVID BEARD. After an extended furlough David and his wife and Frankie expect to return to their missionary work in Malaya in November.
LA W R E N C E B R O C K. Co n gratula-tions to Lawrence on attaining his F.R.C.S. degree in London this year. JOAN expects to return to New Zealand shortly after the recent holiday in England.
STAN CONWAY recently had a business trip to the U.S...”
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“...Chef00 Schools Association
President:
Rev. P. A. Bruce
Vice-Presidents:
Bishop F. Houghton Mr. J. B. Martin
Mrs. L. Clinton Mr. W. D. Mudditt
Miss I. A. Craig
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:
Mr. A. R. Parry,
“ Ardennes,” Avenue Road, Bray, Nr. Maidenhead. Berk:
Treasurer:
Mr. D. F. Parry,
107, Southdown Avenue, London, \\. 7.
Editor:
Miss K. J. Pearce
John Astor House, Foley Street, London. W.i
News Editor:
Miss J. B. Houghton C.I.M., Newington Green, London, N.16
Secretary for Great Britain Branch:
Miss R. Lea
13 Manor Road, Beckenham. Kent iss 1). Rouse 1)r. T. P. Welch Rev. J. II. Livef
Miss E. Preedy
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'
126, Lawton Boulevard, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Mr. William Tyler {Membership)
C.I...”
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