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“...most hospitable.
During our last week in Vancouver we had a Chefoo Reunion at Cathie Nicoll’s home. Jimmy Larsen was there, Gordon Savage, Joan Croft and Norah Slade (both the latter married) and Patsy, of course, and others. We had a “ Chinese Chow ”, and a lovely time recalling Chefoo days. We ended with the School Anthem, “ Lord of all Power and Might,” and prayer. It was an enjoyable and interesting evening. Shortly after this it was time to leave for Hongkong.
The Pacific Trip on the “ Oronsay ”
We were joined on the ship by Miss Isabel Taylor, but first we spent a day at San Francisco, going on a trip through the switch back city into the country, through charming scenery to “ Muir Woods ”, where beautiful, tall “ Red Woods ” grow. We drove over all three of the very fine bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge.
Next day we arrived at Los Angeles and went to the home of some C.I.M. friends who had been married at Chefoo and had their wedding cake made by G.S. girls, Patsy being one...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE
another Chefoo friend, Miss Nesland, who was just the same as ever. We all talked of old times and of many Chefusians.
They took us to a wonderful Park called “ The Garden of Rest ”, where there is a striking picture of the “ Crucifixion ” in a hall, built to house it. The picture is shown every half hour—the curtains over it being drawn aside, and the footlights focused on the picture which, if I remember aright, was 150 ft. wide by 45 ft. high. It was painted by a Polish artist. The commentary was largely quotations from the Bible and ended with John 3. 16. It was all a very striking experience. They also took us to a Picture Gallery where there were many original pictures brought from England, including some by Rembrandt and Gainsborough, and they were very fine.
Then after several days we found ourselves in Honolulu, the beautiful islands in Mid Pacific. Here, too, we were met by retired C.I.M. folk, Mr. and Mrs. Leech, who drove us to see the beauties. They live and...”
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“.... . , SOME RAIN MUST FALL
by RUSSELL RIST
DUE to the patient and understanding efforts of my geography teacher in Chefoo, China—to whom I shall be eternally grateful—I acquired at an early age a profound interest in this wonderful world, and in the people that inhabit it.
So it was that on a clear, cold, autumn night in 1959, I found myself boarding an airliner at Montreal’s Dorval airport for Miami, Florida, en route to British Honduras, Central America, to carry on the work in which I am engaged, and also to see still another part of this fascinating world of ours. My vocation is bee-keeping. Among many other attractions for me, my work affords me the opportunity of going to almost any part of the earth to make my living. Such an opportunity arose when the president of the largest honey producing company in Canada, for whom I was working at the time, managing a thousand colonies of bees, asked me if I would start a bee business for him in British Honduras.
From the moment the plane settled...”
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“...menial task. Proud to have been hewers of wood for generations, any other form of labour is thought to be degrading. Wild orchids can be seen growing in profusion in all parts of the country, some species so rare that the law prohibits their removal. Wild life, including peccary, deer, tiger, iguana, armadillo and mountain cow, need fear only an occasional hunter. In this setting I was to commence our bee-keeping venture, a venture that seemed doomed from the start.
To those of you whose only association with bees has been anything but pleasant, and in some cases excruciatingly painful, 1 wish to say that bees are, nevertheless, of great value to man. Commonly known as pollinators and producers of honey and wax, they also produce large cpiantities of royal jelly, bee venom, queen bees, and young larvae, all ol which man uses; royal jelly in cosmetics, and sometimes as a rejuvenator: bee venom, obtained by forcing bees to sting blotting paper, for medicinal purposes; and queen bees, which are...”
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE
CHEFUSIANS
GREAT BRITAIN
ROSEMARY BAKER is still in Canada; she has met several Chefoo friends there.
MRS. BAKER recently met MISS MacNAIR, and appreciated hearing her give a talk at a Mothers’ Union meeting, but thought she had altered little since Chefoo days !
DAVID BENTLEY-TAYLOR writes: “ Owing to my wife’s serious illness we were compelled to leave Java in February 1962, and we do not yet know when we shall be able to get back. We hope to be in Toronto in November. Any Chefusians who find themselves on the Welsh border would be most welcome at Carey Bank, Ballingham, Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.”
CHRISTOPHER FAIRCLOUGH writes: “ I have just returned from a very delightful holiday in Lagos to which I flew on a visit to some friends. There was plenty of swimming and surf-bathing, as well as sailing in the Lagcon. I also visited Ibadan and Jebba on the River Niger, and even had some ‘ mountaineering ’ (3,000 ft.) at Idanre. It was a
great pleasure to meet STANLEY ROWE for...”
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“...Singapore in Insurance, and I last saw him in Hongkong for a few days in 1959. We had Chiao-Tzus in a Peking Restaurant . . . the meat innards must have come from Chefoo by mule. At the lime he was stationed on Okinawa. EDDIE BROWN joined us for a pleasant evening.
NORX’IN ROTHSCHILD'is in an obscure part of Japan making Needlepoint Tapestries for the U.S. ‘ All my own work * trade. His Christmas message read, 1 Great to hear from vou *.
RICARDO BATTISTUZZI is in Brazil. UMBERTO DE BEDIN is in Hongkong, living in a beautiful house near the Chinese border. Mr. and Mrs. Brigola are also in Hongkong.
DAVID PEARSON is in New York as far as I know. An insurance man.
ELIA PARADISSIS is in Montreal in Market Research: STEF in Australia; their parents in Greece, after sticking it out in Chefoo until the 1950’s. By the way, I visited Chefoo by Jeep in 1950; is Lhis a record ? Il had shrunk.
RUTHIE SANDBACH (did she go to the School?) is a Senior Stewardess with
B. O.A.C. WATTY WATTON is with Quantas...”
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“...FISH’S there again next year.
JEAN GARDINER world circumnavigation. Canadian segment. Toronto, being a Chefoo centre, was one of her ports of call. As a result of some preliminary staff work between the English and the North American secretarv, JEAN made her G.H.Q. in MARGARET BUNTING’S spare room, and as this coincided with two weeks of the latter’s holidays, a good deal was crowded in. The Toronto sister of an Australian friend snaffled JEAN for a long week-end in the lovely Muskoka holiday lake country, which would in any case have figured in anyone's ideal itinerary for Ontario. Flic mother of the same friend—a Rosedale dowager (equivalent addresses would be Mayfair or Park Avenue) accounted for some more days amid the more rarified social atmosphere of Toronto’s 400. This took JEAN to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and social columns of Toronto's press. The balance of the lime was Chefoo alternating with the more highbrow as opposed to social Toronto; the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare...”
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“...HAKON is in Laos with the U.S.I.A. HAKON TORJESEN, American Embassy, Vientiane, Laos. My brother TORJE is in business in Minneapolis. MR. and MRS. TORJE TORJESEN, 4012 43rd Ave., S. Minneapolis, Minn. We recently had visits in our temporary home in Manilla from MARY NICOLL and DR. ED. GLAZIER. Grand Chefoo fellowship.”
HAROLD MARSHALL, in poor health, having suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for forty years, writes cheerfully of several Chefoo contacts: “ I believe Los Angeles County now has 109 Superior Court Judges. Judge McINTYRE PARIES is presiding judge. He was born in Shantung province, of parents, missionaries under the Presbyterian Board. I believe that he attended the C.I.M. Chefoo School. Probably the time was brief. I wonder
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“...R S. BI RI) f nee LI LY PAR R Y1. Our svmpathv goes to MRS. BIRD. ERIC, SHEILA and BERTHA, on the home-call of Mr. Fred Bird (aged 90) last July. We hear from Mrs. Bird that SHEILA is expected back in New Zealand by air in October. She has been away for sev eral years in England in connection with her social service work.
GORDON and MAY CONWAY are active in Christian service. GORDON is President of the Hamilton Missionary .Association. He is often asked to conduct services in churches in the vicinity of Hamilton. MAY is Crusader Leader in one of the city High Schools. Their elder daughter, MAYBETH, is a second year student at the Auckland University, doing her B.Sc. This year she has been elected Vice-President of the Evangelical Union. She is at present boarding with MRS. HOWARD CARTER (nee JEAN MUIR) who has just welcomed her first son. ELSPETH is studying for School Certificate exam in November.
JEAN CARTER (nee MUIR). Congratulations to Jean and her husband on the safe arrival on July...”
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“...Chefoo 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, Scrasc Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
General Secretary:
Mr. A. R. Parry,
“ Ardennes,” Avenue Road, Brav, Nr. Maidenhead, Berks.
Treasurer:
Mr. I). F. Parry,
107, Southdown zVvcnue, London, W.7.
Editors:
Miss K. J. Pearce
John Astor House, Foley Street, London, W.i Mrs. Ei.va M. Nicholson (nee Cook’i.
16 Newlands Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
News Editor:
1)r. J. B. Houghton
14a Calvcrley Park Gardens, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Secretary for Great Britain Branch:
Miss R. Lea
13 Manor Road, Beckenham, Kent Miss D. Rouse Dr. T. P. Welch Rev. J. H. Liversidge
Miss E. Preedy Miss Gillian Lyall
NORTH AMERICA BRANCH
Chairman:
Professor L. Carrington Goodrich,
640, West 238th Street, New York City, L'.S.A.
Secretaries:
Miss Margaret...”
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