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“...JULY, 1962
C..S.A. MAGAZINE. No. 61!
General Committee Notes
HE editing of the magazine is now being shared by Jean Pearce and
Elva Nicholson (nee Cook) who has joined the General Committee expressly for this purpose. We are very grateful to these two for sustaining the life of this most important link between our members without which the Association could hardly continue to exist. Their task will be made lighter by our willing response to their requests for articles and items of news.
We reported in the last Magazine that Marjorie Broomhall had resigned from the Committee. The job of keeping us in close touch with the C.I.M. Headquarters in London now passes to Gillian Lyall whom, with Elva, we welcome to the General Committee.
Arthur R. Parry. Hon. Gen. Secretary.
The Editorial “ we ” can now be used with complete justification as you, who are readers of this magazine, have two of us to gather together your articles, news and views. We take up our task with a certain amount of trepidation...”
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“...TREASURER’S NOTES
' I 'HERE are still stocks of ties, pin badges and blazer badges available; for G.B. members apply direct to the Treasurer, otherwise order through
your Branch Secretary.
By means of further economies, including the decisions not to send receipts unless asked for, we have been able to balance our accounts for 1961.
A summary of the audited accounts is given below.
David Parry, Hon. Treasurer.
CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
BALANCE SHEET AT 31st DECEMBER, 1961 incorporating General Fund and G.B. Branch Accounts)
ACCUMULATED FUNDS REPRESENTED BY THE FOLLOWING ASSETS
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“...C.S.A. MAGAZINE
IN MEMORIAM
John Robertson Sinton, 1918-1961
Contributed by G. P. Welch
HE Chefoo School has reason to be proud of many of its sons and
daughters, and Rob (as he was commonly known among his friends) was certainly among this number. He excelled both in the classroom and on the sports field and those who watched him grow up realized that he had outstanding gifts.
From Chefoo he went to the City of London School and there obtained his 1 st M.B. exam., having chosen to study medicine.
During his student days he was taken to hospital and it was discovered that he was suffering from a disease which was going to dog his footsteps for the rest of his life.
Against this background Rob courageously went forward steadily, qualifying in 1944 and in due time getting right to the top of the profession, obtaining his M.R.C.P. and M.D. degrees. His professional work consisted particularly of using his skill and knowledge to help those who were suffering from the same disease that was attacking...”
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“...both at the Toronto Chefoo re-union and contributed the following news item for the magazine:
“ Harold Warren has been elected to the Board of Managers of the Toronto Bible College. He and Doris always have a warm welcome for any visitors to Bethel Baptist Church.”
A very short while later some of us attended his funeral.
Harold was a graduate in architecture of the University of Toronto and had for some years been a member of a large Toronto construction company, the Foundation Company of Canada, which has numbered among its many contracts parts of the new Toronto subway. Many warm and sincere tributes show that he was much respected in the firm.
Perhaps more important, however, was his active membership in Bethel Baptist Church. The Sunday that he collapsed and died of a heart attack, he had been one of the prime movers and organizers of a series of special meetings this church was carrying on. His quiet influence will be much missed in his business, church and Chefoo circles. The news...”
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“...A National Political Organizer
by an anonymous contributor
NUMBER of articles have appeared in this magazine describing
various vocations, librarian, Barbara Hulse; housewife, Marjorie Lugsdin; Deputy Minister of Finance, or something along that line, Kenneth Taylor; in each case from the angle of how Chefoo fitted them for their life work. That angle is missing in this, since it was not commissioned for the series, but in all probability it will be the sole one on national political organizers.
Some two years ago, I sent Alistair Grosart an impassioned plea for a C.S.A. article for this series with some such title as “ How I became the Eminence Grise of the Canadian Conservative Party ”, I got an immediate and delightful reply by telegram, “ Article in the mail, Monday.” Something went wrong with the mails. That Monday has not yet arrived, so here is this instead. As a good staunch conservative (no this is not electioneering, because firstly what is this Eatonswill, or if you are a purist...”
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“...large schoolroom with picture windows looking down across those pine-covered slopes. We are rather like the little one-room schoolhouse of the past generation. This term we shall have classes for five out of the first six grades, with children from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Variety is not lacking !
To keep the wheels running smoothly in the home, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Holder have been our houseparents. Mrs. Holder, as Margaret Vinden, went to school at the Chefoo School in China. When they recently left for furlough, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Weller came to take their place, bringing with them four-year-old Lois and four-week-old Daphne Joy, who will add much to our family life. That very important department, the kitchen, is presided over to everyone’s satisfaction by Miss Margrit Furrer from Switzerland.
We are often asked if the children are homesick, and can honestly say that we very seldom see this. Children of this age live largely in the present, and...”
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“...Secretary, Japan Evangelistic Band
WE were steaming dreamily through the unusually placid waters of the Pacific Ocean off the China coast. The sun was setting and rays of orange light were streaming through the breaks in the heavy clouds which darkened the already sulky surface of the sea. Leaning on the ship’s rail with my chin in my hand, by a rapid calculation I reached the nostalgic conclusion that just a few miles beyond the visible horizon behind the visible rays of the setting sun lay Chefoo.
I had every cause to be in reminiscent mood, for was I not at that moment travelling by China Navigation Company Lines on the 5.5. Anshun? Her black hulk had looked so small in Hongkong by comparison with the passenger liner on which I had been before. Her confined accommodation, the steep companionways, the pokey little saloon and dining-room brought back memories of travelling the China coast twenty years before in Shanghai and Tientsin parties; memories of seasickness and memories of pirates;...”
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“... with Torn, Ellen, Jim, Terry. Brian, Bill, and Mary Anne, Marion Taylor, Bill and Mrs. Tyler, Walter and Mrs. Tyler, *Haroi.d and Mrs. Warren. Rosie Hanna Wilson.
* See page 5 Obituary H.M.B.
Chefoo Reunion at Urbana, Illinois
Some members of the Chefoo School at Ruling had a joyous reunion and pow-wow at the I.V.C.F. Students’ Missionary Convention at Urbana, Illinois, over the Christmas holidays. We spent a couple of hours together chatting and catching up on the news of each other and of other Kulingites. Those present were:
Rosemary Adeney, Rob and Marjory Joyce. Joanne and Bruce Crapuchetter, Ruth Toliver. Robert Hallgren. Tom Springer. Dick Kraft. Elaine Davis.
Two others, “ Tigger ” Green and John Adeney, were at the convention, but did not get to the reunion. The present trend in Chefoo-Kuling vocations seems to be nursing, medicine and marriage.
Ei.aine Davis....”
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“...were members of the C.I.M. Prep. School at Ruling. Chefusians passing through or living near Tunbridge Wells will be very welcome if they call at 1 Mayfield Road. A small reunion of Ruling Staff was recently held at a Chinese restaurant in Tunbridge Wells. Those present were MRS. HOUGHTON, with a friend of FELICITY’S from Chile, MISS PHARE, MISS STARR, MISS JENNINGS, MISS BROOMHALL and MISS DICRSON, just home from the Cameron Highlands, Malaya Chefoo School. After the chow we gathered in Mrs. Houghton’s flat and saw coloured slides of the Malayan Chefoo. Interest was concentrated on the children of ex-Ruling Staff and those of Old Chefusians now serving in the C.I.M.
ALISA CARR is still at Greenhill School, Evesham, Worcs. As long as the walls stand up and the roof stays on and she is at home, any passing Chefusian may be sure of a welcome.
DOROTHY COX has now been promoted to being a theatre sister at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow.
MR. and MRS. HENRY GUINESS continue in...”
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“...leave our present offices in Holborn by the end of September, and I am now engaged on a full scale office hunt. If anyone knows of offices going for a song or has a lovely home to give us which could be used for office work, I should be glad of an introduction. Does the C.S.A. Magazine have box numbers ? It might be useful.
Gordon, who is eleven, has a grammar school place, but we do not yet know which school. He also managed to help his school through into the cup final of the Croydon Primary Schools (soccer)—sadly
they did not win.
NEWS OF THE HOYTE FAMILY: DR. and MRS. HOYTE are busy running a home for old people in Reigate. ROBIN is working as a gardener for a hotel in Coulsdon. ERIC is living with his wife and two children in Seattle, U.S.A., where he has a job as an architect with the University there. RUPERT is still farming in Putaruru, New Zealand. He part owns a farm. He and his wife, Christine, have three boys. MARY recently flew out to Singapore where she has a part-time job as...”
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“...Last summer she was head census commissioner on a British Columbia survey. Most of her time, however, is spent looking after new babies in their homes.
ALFRED CROFTS writes: “ My wife and I travelled through Africa and the Middle East in the summer of 1961. We did not meet any Chefusians, but it was fascinating to walk the streets of Jerusalem, of which one read so much while in Chefoo. Returning through London, we dined with the Rev. Keith Stevenson, my room-mate at the Boys’ School. In New York I revisited EDWARD WELLS, now a vice-president of the Mutual of New York Insurance Company, who was brought up in Chefoo and attended the Bible School as a day-pupil from Temple Hill.”
From JOHN CROFTS. “ SAI MA continues to flourish in Palatka, Florida, and VERNA is still teaching from her...”
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“...GLITTENBERT STARR is 1,239 Elliott, Park Ridge. Illinois. MARIE CRAPUCHETTES WIEBE’s address is 715 North Humphrey, Oak Park, Illinois. GRACE WOODBERRY is Mrs. Alvin F. DESTERHAFT, living at 79 Seventh Street, Turner’s Falls, Mass. JACK FITZWILLIAM and his family are home on furlough from Japan where he taught in the Christian Academy. He can be reached through his mother, Mrs. Jack Fitzwilliam Sr., at 123 North Scott Street. Wheaton. Illinois.” RUTH
encloses a clipping from the local paper about Chefoo football prowess at Wheaton : “ Wheaton’s fighting Crusaders chalked up an undefeated season this fall by winning over all of its eight opponents. Wheaton scored a total of 217 points over its opponents’ 37. Much credit for successful play is due to the co-captains, Dave Iha, Koloa, Hawaii, and GEORGE KRAFT, Singapore, Malaya.”
From Don Fish: “ My wife and I are very happy living in Ottawa. She has a job with the department of national health and welfare, reviewing literature on drugs entering...”
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“...the missionaries are finding both a tremendous need for medical help and a great opportunity for Gospel witness. ROB JOYCE, a son, having secured his B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan, is now in his first year at Toronto Bible College. MARGERY has had one year study at Briercrest Bible Institute, Caronport, Saskatchewan and is now in nurses’ training at the City Hospital in Saskatoon.”
DOROTHY LOOSLEY KAMBES-TAD writes: “I am now living a mile from the Pacific Ocean, just about as close to Chefoo as I can get on this coast ! All I need is a sanpan or junk that can ride the crest of the waves—an Oriental Kon Tiki. Best wishes to all I know.”
CONRAD LAGERQUIST has retired on pension from the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. in New Toronto. He is an active member of the North American Gladiolus Society, and now has more time for such a hobby.
EMILY HORNE LARSEN apologises for negligence about fees, but makes it up handsomely with news. “ Here are a few items that may be of interest for our magazine...”
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“...Anders is from Chefoo. I have worked for Dr. Crabtree, who is in the same building as her husband, Dr. Anders, for years.*’
ALEX A BROADFOOT SALONIUS and ELEANOR GONDER RICHARDSON had an evening of Chefoo reminiscent chat when their sisters from Toronto. BARBARA BROADFOOT and IVY GONDER MILDON, visited them in Peterborough, Ontario. For a small town
like Peterborough, that was a very respectable Chefoo nucleus. Any Chefusian passing through Peterborough to the Kawartha Lake summer holiday country could keep these Chefoo names in mind.
BOB SMITH gives his address as 142 St. George Crescent, Chateauguay Centre. Que., near Montreal. He is employed by the Bell Telephone Co. and has three children. MARJORIE SMITH’s address is 608J North Burlington Street, Fergus Falls, Minn., U.S.A. She works for the State Dept. of health as supervisor of the district. DONALD C. SMITH lives in Providence, R.I., U.S.A., at 286 New York Avenue. He sells insurance for the American Automobile Association.
“ Incidentally...”
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“...part-time surgery and research at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He has a flat at Kidlington, near Oxford. His sister, JOAN, has returned from her visit to U.S.A. and England, which she enjoyed very much. She is an Assistant Librarian for Post Primary Schools in the Auckland area.
JEAN CARTER (nee MUIR) now lives in Auckland and is teaching at kindergarten. Her husband, Howard, has begun his Theological course at the Auckland Baptist College. They have a fiat at Mt. Roskill.
LEN GOOLD. Recent news from Len is that he is much better. He has made a good recovery from the serious eye trouble he had last year and is now busy doing deputation work for his Mission in Italy.
DORIS HOGARTH (nee Anderson) and family have been unable to return to the “ Chefoo ” School, Malaya, on account of their children’s education, and have now settled at Otahuhu, Auckland.
MAUD HULLAH has successfully completed a course in Orthopaedics. She is working as a sister at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland.
GRACE LIVERSIDGE visited...”
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“...peacefully away in Toronto—our sympathy to his daughters.) Mr. and Mrs. Davis of Honan ( parents of MA REE. MURIEL and JANET) were in charge of the “ Retired ” Home, where MRS. CLINTON (aged ninety), Mrs. Olsen (aged ninety-three). Dr. Fish and Mr. and
Mrs. Tyler, Senior, are living. While visiting the Home, DOROTHEA FOUCAR called—she is Matron of Ben Lipper School in N. Carolina. Miss Twidale also mentioned that Mr. CHARLIE JUDD (brother of DR. F. JUDD who were among the first scholars when the Chefoo Schools were foundedj had married again and was living in tht-States near his daughter (MAYBETH) at Ivyland (C.I.M. Children’s Hostel . Philadelphia.
AUSTRALIA
CHRISTINE CALCUTT {nee PORI -EOUS) has been in Sydney for the last few months playing in “ Oliver ”, which is having a good run here. Christine’s home being in Melbourne, this has provided a good opportunity for seeing old school friends, including MARGARET OLE-SON. JENNY LAMONI) (nee PETERSEN) and JEAN GARDINER.
PAUL DAVIES, who has been...”
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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 T. 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. Berks.
Treasurer:
Mr. D. F. Parry,
107, Southdown Avenue, London, W.7.
Editors:
Miss K. J. Pearce
John Astor House, Foley Street, London, W.i Mrs. Elva M. Nicholson [nee Cook),
16 Newlands Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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 Miss D. Rouse 1)r. 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, U.S.A.
Secretaries:
Miss Margaret Bunting (News...”
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