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“...MISS E. M. HARMAN
who died suddenly on January 15th was a wonderfully generous friend of the C.S.A. away back in the 1930's. Many Old Chefusians of the Great Britain Branch in those days will remember her with sincere gratitude for the "Chefoo Week-ends" which, at her kind invitation, were held at her girls' school.
After all these years my memory is a bit hazy but my photo album has served as a happy reminder of those very enjoyable occasions of which there appear to have been four - in 1933, 1934 and 1935 at the Grove School, Watford and the last in 1937 when Miss Harman had moved to Shoreham on the South Coast. Not only did we have plenty of fun and games - tennis, rounders and also hockey when Chefoo took on ( and I believe conquered I) the World, represented as far as I can remember, by the Watford Crusaders, but we also had times of happy fellowship when we met for family prayers and discussion on things that matter. To lead ,and help us in these we were privileged to have some splendid...”
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“...CLARKE
KENNETH WIFFEN TAYLOR, described by a member of
Canada's Ottawa Press Gallery, as "one of the finest practising Christian gentlemen", was also Canada's (and, as far as this writer knows, North America's) most distinguished Chefusian. "Distinguished" is in this context a carefully chosen word.
He was born in Takutang, Kiangsi, China, in 1899, and attended Chefoo from 1907 to 1915. He died after a prolonged illness in 1975.
Even as a pre-schooler, my father and others of his generation foretold for Kenneth, with his massive 5-year-old brain, a distinguished future; then they "saw" him as a General Director of the C.I.M.
In Chefoo this brilliant brain early marked him out even among a number of rather remarkable contemporaries, which included Henry Luce and Thornton Wilder. Urged by the North American editor of the Chefusian, Kenneth once wrote an article on these contemporaries in the Chefusian of July 1957. You may remember his comment on Thornton Wilder, that he, Thornton, preferred...”
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“...Horace between the goal posts. Unconventional of Kenneth but evidently he put first things first for Thornton! Kenneth was understanding, kind and had a delightful, quiet sense of humour.
He went through McMaster University in Toronto with equal distinction as at Chefoo; was overseas with the Canadian Army in the first World War; did graduate work in Chicago and the Brookings Institute in Washington; and then returned to McMaster in 1925 on the Faculty of Political Economy for 14 years. During this period he was appointed a Canadian delegate to the Imperial Economic Conference in 1932 and the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Australia in 1938. By the time war broke out in 19-39 he was head of the Economics Department and Assistant Dean of Arts at McMaster, but a longdistance telephone call from Ottawa the day war was declared took him to Ottawa, and in succession he served as Secretary, Food Administrator, Deputy -^,*1 Chairman and Chairman of the War-Time Prices and Review...”
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“...little money, a breakdown seemed to loom. A Chefoo McMaster friend, unknown to this graduate, told Kenneth about this and next week came the most unexpected, and thoughtfully understanding letter complete with the gift of a cheque (which became a loan) and was sufficient to stave off all breakdowns. Since then, Kenneth Taylor, has been that Chefusian's rather distant, but favourite hero.
H.M.B.
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ING, BERTHA CASSIDY, BRUCE CLINTON, HUGH COULTHARD JOSEPHINE COUTHARD, TI-TI COULTHARD, MURIEL EVANS, Mrs. LESLIE EVANS, Dr. ED FISH, ELLEN FISHE, LILY (GRAINGER) FRIER, JONATHAN, ESTHER & DAVID FULLER, DR.. DONALD GIBSON, D. VIVIAN GONDER, ALLISTER GROSART,' MRS. HANNA, DAVID HANNA, BRUCE HANNA, ROXIE (HANNA) BOUDREAU,
GRACE (TAYLOR) HARRIS, JESSIE JENNINGS, RAYMOND JOYCE, Dr. BETH (LUTLEY) LEACH, MARJORIE (LAWSON) LUDSDIN,
ALEX MacLEOD, MARIE (DAVIS) MARTIN, DAVID MICHELL AND FAMILY (ROBYN - the oldest- attended the Nanae Chefoo), DOUG MOORE, LILIAN (FERGUSON) NODWELL, STAN...”
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“...CALLING ALL CHEFUSIANS
(1) We trust each of you has received a copy of Mrs. Sheila Miller's questionnaire 'So You Went to Chefoo' (and that you've answered it!). If you didn’t receive this questionnaire contact your Branch Secretary and you will be sent one. Replfes may be mailed direct to Mrs. Sheila Miller, O.M.F., Newington Green, London N16 9QD, England.
(2) Pads of 'Chefoo" stationery (100 sheets per pad) with the Consular-Hill-Breakwater-Bluff letterhead (as on Page 1 of this magazine) are available for $2.00 a pad (post paid) from Chefoo Schools Association, 1058 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5N 2C5.
CHEFOO TODAY
From Nanae, Japan
One of the teachers writes, "Somehow I get more out of my depths theologically with children than adults ...as when one small boy asked 'Is prayer like a telephone call to God?' I began expounding on the ’hot line' to heaven when he cut in, 'Oh, that doesn't bother me. I want to know if all the other guys up there listen in.'
MARY WELLER, the...”
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“...American continent from England in order to have a visit with their youngest sister and her husband, MURIEL & BILL LAPPER, now living in the Virgin Islands. On -their way there WYN and DORIS saw a number of their friends in the United States, including LOIS GLASS, ELOISE (GLASS) CAUTHEN, RUTH (DILLEY) SIMS, MURIEL (DILLEY) CHERNEY, and LENA (KAUDERER) RIVITUSO. On the earlier of Wyn's visits to Toronto MARGARET BUNTING, with characteristic hospitality arranged a get-together of some of Wyn's Chefoo friends - including RUTH BEVIS, MURIEL EVANS, JESSIE JENNINGS, Helen (MRS. AVERELL) ROBINSON, GRACE (TAYLOR) HARRIS, MARION & ISABEL TAYLOR.
From Toronto WYN started on her 'homeward' journey to Australia, stopping off in Vancouver before taking the flight to the Southern Hemisphere. She may be contacted through the O.M.F. Melbourne Office (14 Grange Rd., Victoria 3101, Australia).
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“...Hertford, to preach twice the next day on the occasion of The World Leprosy Sunday, the 27th, they were tempted to break their journey in London and so had this happy experience. It was a strange sensation, on arrival, to see quite a number of greyheads amongst the gathered company, forgetting one was also grey-headed! It only required a little mental adjustment to realize he was a full generation ahead of the eldest Chefooite present - he was not quite a "Rip van Winkle" after all, since his Chefoo dates were only 1896 to 1906. Soon the stalwart form of HOWARD JOYCE our President (whom he had known well in the 1940's as a patient in South Croydon, and recently as a fellow resident in Haywards Heath) gave him considerable reassurance, and soon he and his wife were mingling freely and finding numerous old friends and acquaintances. Here are some notes supplied by ELVA NICHOLSON, the editorial secretary, with a few comments. DORIS BRISCOE & JEAN PEARCE (whose father he had passed medically...”
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“...showed the slides of her and her husband's visit to Hongkong and New Zealand. MARGARET DICKSON and INA McLACHLAN showed slides of the present Chefoo schools in Japan and the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. DAVID PARRY (my nephew) was open to receive subscriptions and donations.. EDITH (BRUCE) STAINES spoke about the distribution of the magazine, checking up on addresses. ELVA NICHOLSON asked for people to write to the magazine about their experiences. JOSEPH LIVERSIDGE conducted the brief Annual Meeting just before tea while his wife Betty played the piano for the singing of "The Lord's my Shepherd" and "Lord of all power and might"; then HOWARD JOYCE our President led in prayer at the end.
The present writer was greatly impressed by the worldwide peregrinations and distribution of old Chefusians, evidenced here by these pictures and by perusal of the Chefoo magazines. He recalled that in the intervening years God had taken him and his former wife to China on the Tibetan border for 8 years, nearly...”
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“...viction came to him and his wife separately that this meant that her father should fly to New Zealand immediately. That "fact is often stranger than fiction" is a much quoted proverb, but the almost incredible factual statement of how all the complicated travel and financial arrangements for this were accomplished very quickly and smoothly, once more proved its truth. He left Heathrow on the 11th February and arrived in Auckland in the night of the 12th (N.Z. time).
This contribution to the Chefoo magazine, though requested at the Reunion, was written a few days later "Down Under" and further illustrates the world-wide wanderings of Chefooites. Praise the LORD!
R. C. (BOB) PARRY
Those present at the Reunion included: DORIS BRISCOE, Nan Clelland, AILSA CARR, MARGARET DICKSON, ELSPETH (WILLS) CHRISTOPHER, DORIS EMBERY, STEWART and JEAN (BRUCE) GOODWIN and two children, BERYL (WELCH) GOOD-LAND, JANET GREENING, HOWARD JOYCE, R. W. HOYTE, GODFREY HIRST, JOSEPH and Betty LIVERSIDGE, GRACE LIVER-SIDGE...”
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“...down (very politely) a similar thing he had produced for children. He hopes they will be kinder this time - as do we all'. He has many chances of lecturing on China.
MARY (RICHARDSON) RANKIN from New Zealand has been spending a few months in this country. We were glad to see her in Tunbridge Wells one day before Christmas and then again at the Reunion in London in January. Her relatives in Scotland have also claimed some of her time. Her Aunt, Miss Mattie Forrest who lived for a few years in Chefoo lives in Aberdeen (65 Dunbar Street, Old Aberdeen, AB2 1UB)
MARGARET (GIBSON) NASH (47 Whitethorn Avenue, Coulsdon, Surrey, CR3 2PQ) gives news of her family. Her husband retired four years ago. Their son Keith is in his third year at Bristol University studying Law. He has fixed up to do his articles starting next year with a firm of solicitors in Coulsdon. After two years he hopes to be a fully fledged solicitor. Brian is at the London Polytechnic and starts in the Autumn with a firm of Chartered...”
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“...daughter MAYBETH and her husband Ian Roberts are with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Thailand. Recently in spite of precautions, thieves broke into their house at night and stole their motor cycle, a very vital and necessary item in their work. They have two small children. ELSPETH and her husband Mike Robinson live in Auckland. She has not been too well of late.
STAN AND MERLE CONWAY's son Lynton and his wife Annabell, with their three children have been accepted for a four-year term at the Chefoo School in Malaysia. He is a teacher with special musical gifts and his wife is a nurse.
MARGARET DEWDNEY (n/e JACKSON) and her husband Captain Dewdney of the Church Army are on a trip to Britain via Canada and U.S.A. visiting the various branches en route. They expect to be away 6 months. We hear MARGARET met a number of Chefusians in Toronto at a special gathering arranged by MARION & ISABEL TAYLOR. There were 12 at the party. MARGARET (or 'PEGGY') and her husband John, AGNES (BELL) ROSWELL...”
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“...just before Christmas and was with Margie and Don when their second baby arrived in January.
Kathryn is a nurse and is most likely to do midwifery training in May. MARION is married to a medical student now in his sixth year at Auckland University.
They have one daughter ( 2 1/2).
PHEMIE (YOUNG) MILLS lives at Main Road, 6 Lane,
Hawkes Bay, N.Z. She has 4 children and 3 grandchildren.
The Spring 1975 issue of the Leprosy Mission’s quarterly 'In Action' has a news item from Dr. PHYLLIS TAYLOR ('Chefoo' in Ruling 1948-50), reporting that in her department in the Karigiri Hospital, South India they had last year 45% more inpatients than in the previous year, and there is a steady emphasis on helping people to move out of the hospital to make room for new admission. On the same page as this paragraph is a picture of Phyllis with a leprosy patient taken from the Leprosy Mission's latest film, 'Twenty-six in a Thousand', featuring 'Dr. Phyllis' at work in Karigiri.
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“...(JUDD) GRAY spoke of what her own long personal friendship with Bill and Vera had meant to her. After other speeches,
Bill and Vera made suitable replies. And fittingly, David, the Incoming Director, offered the closing prayer.
On May 27th in Spring Garden Baptist Church, Toronto, there was a Commissioning Service for DAVID MICHELL, when he took office as Canadian Home Director of the O.M.F. David's wife, Joan, and their 4 children were all present and the two older daughters, ROBYN (who went to Chefoo in Nanae for one year) and HEATHER sang a duet, their voices blending beautifully. Once again VIVIAN GONDER was Chairman. BILL TYLER gave the charge to which DAVID responded.
ED FISH was among the O.M.F. Council members who went to the front of the church to share in the Prayer of Dedication as David was commissioned to his new office.
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BEN ADAMS 1911-1914 (523 Cresap St., Apt. 3,
Lakeland, Fla. 33801) who lost his wife Phyllis in 1973 was happily remarried last December to Corinne...”
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“...AT 73. Last October my wife and I took a hurried vacation to California, to see relatives, including our daughter RUTH BILLINGS (Chefoo 1942-50), and family on furlough from the Philippines. Our other daughter, DOROTHY CARRIER (1948-50) and her husband and 2 year old Louie see us every week; they live in Seattle.
Last month GORDON ALLEN (1944-50) and his family moved back to the West and now he has a job as Med. Lab. Tech, in Portland. DAVID ALLEN (1940-50) also works as Med. Lab. Tech, in Chelan Wash. Attending classes in Creative Writing and preparing articles for magazines keep me from mental stagnation. Scanning through my father’s diaries (1883-1933), 50 lbs. in weight, may take one year to read and research for a forth-coming biography.
DR. EDITH JEANNE ANDREWS 1933-38 (5517 Pulaski Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19144) In January 1975 my brother JOHN (Chefoo 1921-26), my nephew Peter (age 9 1/2) and I went up to Lammermuir Home in Lancaster, Pa. to celebrate Mother and Dad's 50th wedding...”
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“...tions, are most active. My sister HENRIETTA (Chefoo 1933-36) is about to publish the 1st N.T. in the Otomi (Mexican) Indian tongue, a task which has challenged her for many years, as putting an original tongue on to paper is a tedious chore. EGBERT and his wife are still in Formosa, working much too hard as the harvest is ripe and laborers, in their town, few.
RICHARD H. BAIRD 1910-1913 (1420 Santa Domingo Dr., Duarte, Ca. 91010) "In January we shall leave Berkeley, after 26 years of residence, and head for Westminster Gardens, the retirement home for foreign missionaries of the United Presbyterian Church.
There we shall join many friends - fellow missionaries in Korea and South America and seminary classmates who have also served overseas. A door is opening to a new period in our lives. The departure from Berkeley will be a wrench. My work as manager of the Homes, and my wife's many years of teaching at Ann Head School for Girls have brought us into contact with many people who have become...”
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“...Victoria, B.C. V8X 3X9. As noted on P.40 of the December 1973 Chefoo magazine, HAROLD GONDER (5085 Lockehaven Dr., Victoria) and MARGARET (THOMSON) BROWN (1147 Quadra St., #713, Victoria) have been most helpful in settling Anne's affairs since she had to move from her own home several years ago. OLIVE JOYCE has also been faithful in visiting Anne regularly, and she has written us of Anne’s latest move. In writing to Olive and Margaret about their going to see Anne perhaps once a month Hal Gonder says, "I hope that visits from good friends like you two will help to brighten Anne's days. I'll depend on you to let me know if you think Anne lacks anything that I may help to provide."
MARGARET BURKWALL 1913-1921 (1420 Santo Domingo, Duarte, California 91010) My older sister, EDNA, and my younger brother, MORRIS, both of whom .
attended school in Chefoo, died in recent years. My older brother HERMAN finished his schooling in Chefoo in 1920 and worked at Temple Hill Hospital until July 1921 when...”
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“...ministration. I am still living in Westminster Gardens of the United Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. and work in the Gardens Rest Home as needed. Last summer I had lunch with ANNA MILLER formerly of Korea and Chefoo and Park College (Parkville, Missouri).
Her address is 2096 Williams St., Palo Alto, Ca. 94306.
CHARLES BUTLAND ('Toby Major') 1907-1917 (Route 2,
Box 32, Union Grove, Wisconsin, 53182) writes in January 1975, "It still amazes me that after a silence of nearly 60 years I have been able to start such a delightful correspondence with HUGH COULTHARD ... In Sulzberger's new book he says Shantung is one of the principal provinces of China's oil production. Maybe they are pumping it out of the G.S. hockey field."
DAVID M. CAMPBELL 1909-1912 (3777 45th St., San Diego, California 92105) "Nothing particularly noteworthy in 1974 to report — no disasters, no exploits, no problems! Come to think of it, maybe that's noteworthy. However, I did have a nice visit with Dr. WILL HUNT, down...”
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“...political office, a 6 month term as Senior Intern for a congressman. We plan on some travel soon. From Feb. 26-28 we are to attend a conference in Bellingham's Fairhaven College, on studies of Post-
Secondary Education for the mature adult of advanced years. We prize correspondence with at least 10 former students of Chefoo."
MRS. BAKER J. CAUTHEN (ELOISE GLASS 1915-1926)
3904 W. Weyburn Rd., Richmond, Va. 23235
"Our Chefoo Class Round Robin still travels around the world - almost 50 years later."
DAVID B. COOKE 1928-39 (242 W. Lynn, Tulare, Ca.
93274) My wife Letha and I have 4 children: Allyn (23) is in Athletes in Action on the West Coast wrestling team, has many opportunities for witnessing. Carolyn (20) taking nursing at Seattle Pacific College, Cynthia (18) and Barbara (16) are High School students. We attend the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church where I teach S.S. and am on the executive Board. My wife teaches in Release time with grade school children, a religious teaching...”
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“...in Alaska. 1959-1960 I had one year in Africa, general travel, and helping to build Chezera Bible Institute in Zambia. While studying in Paris at the Sorbonne (1965-1966) I met and married my French wife, Francine, and now have 2 boys, Jean-Marc - 7 years - and Dominic - 5 years. One month ago we adopted two Vietnamese girls - Michelle - 4 years and Natalie -3 years. I have quite a few pictures of the Ruling experience, if that will help. (We said 'Yes, certainly, if you can spare them for the Chefoo Archives' - Ed.)
JOHN T. CROFTS 1909-1916 (9520 S. Hamilton, Chicago, 111. 60643) .. My sister VERNA (1509 Twigg St.,
Palatka, Fla. 32077) was with us at Christmas, helping to celebrate our 40th anniversary. After Christmas, we chatted with a lady who asked if I knew BERT LUTLEY; giving me an address in Cambridge to which I have written. Last summer we had dinner with BEN ADAMS who was attending a convention.
VIRGINIA (COOPER) DAVIS 1934-37 (514 Shuttle Meadow
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“...after school here in my home. With church activities, Sunday School teaching, Girls in Action leader, and helping in the church library I seem to have plenty to do - but I love it.
RUTH (HEWETT) FAIRHOLM 1917-1927 (240 Day Rd., Duncan, B.C. V9L 3K1) It was good to meet WYN EMBERY and KATHLEEN (DAVIES) MOORE with OLIVE JOYCE at an O.M.F. prayer meeting. OLIVE had someone take a picture of us!
JAMES H. FIDDLER 1918-1928 (1708 Midwickhill Dr., Alhambra, Cal. 91803) My 3 brothers and I all went to Chefoo. DAVID and 4 children and many grandchildren, and REUBEN with 2 children and 7 grandchildren live close by here in Southern California. Brother JOHN died 6 years ago in Wisconsin and his widow and children and grandchildren live there. My wife Jewell and I have 2 children, both married, &
3 grandchildren. There are no other Chefusians that I know of in the vicinity, but we'll be happy to see any that may come our way. Good luck to you all
ROGER (REUBEN) FIDDLER 1912-1924 (730 Highland St., Escondido...”
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