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“...1976, after only two days illness at the age of 91. She was one of the younger ones of a C.I.M. family of about 8 children all of whom attended the school at Chefoo in the 1890’s. We of the C.S.A. in Toronto made contact with her only in the last two years of her life, and came to know her as a friendly person who, though hard of hearing and almost blind kept a lively interest in her present as well as her past. Though she lived llone she was blessed in having friends -ind relatives who kept in close touch with her, and her courage and cheerfulness made a visit with her a pleasure and a tonic. G.J.H.
DAVID WOOD HANNA:
Was born of C.I.M. missionary parents on Feb.19th ’09 in Yunnan, S.W.China, and died Sept.22nd ’76 in London, Ontario. He attended Toronto Bible College and later served many years with the Children's Aid Society. At Chefoo 1915-25 he was my best friend. We were in the same form and gang (the War Arrows of course!). We shared a garden plot and joined in keeping pets -rabbits,...”
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“...MAY ISALEN HARDING:
May Harding who will be well remembered by all who were with her at Chefoo, died in July, 1976. Her indomitable courage and keenness to enter into everything, including sport, were characteristic of her school life, where she completely ignored her severe physical handicap.
Worn out by suffering from an extremely persistent and severe attack of shingles during the last two or three years, we can only be thankful she is now at peace, and taken to be with the Lord she loved and served for so long, her faith undimmed.
Coming later than most to the Girls’ School, she was allowed to count out the years missed earlier in an Orthopaedic Hospital in England, and the form she was with have kept a "Round Robin" regularly circling the globe to-day. Though a model of good behaviour she could be delightfully mischievous , and her cheery nature was known by all.
After leaving Chefoo, she went to teach in the Ruling "Redcroft" school where Kathleen (Davies) Moore and Contie Stark were...”
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“...Thanks to Hostel House Parents and others we have news from some of our youngest Chefusians(who have finished their second- ' ary education)
GRACE ABRAHAMS - is in her 2nd and final year of a ’Catering and Hotel Management’ course at the Oxford Polytechnic.
MICHAEL ABRAHAMS - is leaving school in December and will be due to begin a Natural Science degree course in Oct.1977.
MIRIAM CAMPBELL - paid a surprise visit last May to the Chefoo School in Nanae (which she attended). She was then in her 1st year at Sophia University in Tokyo.
BETH CARLSON'S address is - Box 154
Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa.15010.
DAVE COX - is a student at Columbia Bible College, Columbia, S.C. 29203(P.0.Box 16327)
ELIZABETH COX - has graduated from Wheaton and is currently at 336 N. Austin,
Oak Park, 11.60302.
PETER COX - is with his parents at:-314 College Avenue, Elizabethtown Pa.17022
JOY DAY - is training as a physiotherapist in London. Her address is:-
c/o 1 Old Rectory Court Coggeshall Road, Marks Tey,...”
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“...A reunion was held in TUNBRIDGE WELLS on September 4th 1976.
You who lived and worked at "CHEFOO"
By the sea or other places
Listen to the tale of those who
Met at Tunbridge Wells and Cornford.
First a "Chow Mien", chopsticks clattering To the sound of joyful meetings.
Then to Cornford where the aged, and less aged joined in welcome.
Raymond Joyce showed us his pictures Of Chefusians in Canada at their own reunion outings.
After tea a prayer for all who were, or are now Chefoo scholars, and the Shepherd’s Ps;" and Anthem -Tunes known to us, who went there.
Now our thanks to all»who worked hard That we might enjoy each other Edith Staines and Margaret Weller,
The Misses Stark and David Parry.
In the list below there must be
Those whom you have known in childhood When you learnt/taught, three R’s and
Swimming,
Scripture, Drill and Haiwatha.
Come next time from near and far off -We will joy again to see you.
G. I. J.
Those present at the reunion were -Olive Botham, E.M. Broomhall, Doris Briscoe...”
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“...when she was in London for a short visit. It was good to meet again and to catch up on news, though we had met three years before - at that point we had not been together since I left Chefoo in September 1937.'
ELSPETH(WILLS)CHRISTOPHER - is now living at 28 Inholmes Park Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex where -her husband is minister of the United Reformed Church, and writes: "FREDA SHIPWAY, my sister has now retired to Worthing and has a nice flat near the sea. She has a small car and we often see her. Recently we had a visit from WYN(ANDERSON)LAMBERT and her husband, also IRENE(DARLINGTON)HOARE, whose husband has now retired to Hassocks. Wyn brought a 'tape' of the recent reunion at Cornford House and we were able to listen to the 23rd Psalm. It was indeed a mini-reunion. Irene and I had not met since Chefoo!
NORMAN CLIFF - has moved this year from Rhodesia to England and had a Locum Tenens in a United Reformed Church in Sunderland from August to the end of November and he hopes to be settled...”
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“...ANNE EDWARDS, on the Chefoo staff in Malaysia ('61-’ 72^nd the Philippines ('72-75) writes from the U.K. on Nov.16, 1976’as from O.M.F. Jalan Let Jan Suprapto 28, Cempaka Putih, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia' ...’Petra University in Surabaya Indonesia still is hoping that I can begin teaching English there at the end of January 1977.
I am booked to fly to Singapore on 3rd December. As soon as my visa application has been lodged with the embassy there, I hope to go over to Jakarta on a visitor's visa. Hopefully my long term visa will be ratified in Singapore before I move down to Surabaya(500 miles from Jakarta) to start teaching at the end of January.
Last May I took an excellent course on the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, a good preparation for teaching English and Religious Knowledge in this Christian based school-university complex. It will be a marked contrast to my previous 15 yrs ministry, teaching primary age expatriate children in the relative cool of the Malaysian and ...”
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“...what happened to ARCHIE HUTSON, with whom I started life in Chefoo, and whose name I have never seen in the Mag. Archie left Chefoo School about 1916, he continued his education in England, finally went on to Cambridge, where he graduated in law.
He spent most of his adult life in India, working for the Bombay Co. During the last few years before his retirement he was made a director of the company, with headquarters in London, England.
Archie is now 74, and he and his wife have retired and are living on a farm in -Somerset. They have two sons and several grandchildren.
MRS JOHN('SHEILA')MILLER has had to return to Britain for a few months for health reasons. She writes in Sept./76 - "Here I am at home having been instructed to leave my Chefoo research behind in Malaysia plus my teaching, entertaining, leadership of the ladies' Bible Group and other responsibilities. I am hoping to regain enough strength to make it back to 'Chefoo' in January."
The members of the G.B. Branch will be interested...”
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“...In writing to a classmate (Stan Olsen) CHARLIE BUTLAND - Route 2, Box 32,
Union Grove Wise.53182
says - ’It is hard to believe that it is nearly sixty years since we left school, and fifty years since I saw you last In Toronto. I have always had a soft spot for the C.I.M. for allowing our family to go to Chefoo, and I can still recall your father and mother inviting me to tea at the San....My life has been more or less divided equally between China and the U.S.A.
After leaving school I spent 21 years with the Asiatic Petroleum Co., in China, and left at the end of 1938 to avoid the Sino-Japanese War. Since then I have lived on my farm in Wisconsin, and I expect I shall stay here to the end.. I am still quite active, although it is no use pretending that I do as much as when I was younger. Fortunately, large farm machinery and the use Of share and custom work, has enabled me to continue to raise corn, oats, wheat, barley, hay and also to keep some cattle.
My wife came from this part, and...”
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“...- 1906-1916 .
9, Graham Street, Grahamstown, E.C.P. Republic of South Africa writes - ’Am still in South Africa but have been staying at the Hotel Victoria in Port Alfred with a view of a hazy Indian Ocean, not like our Chefoo sea.
I met a DR. TENANT(n^e MacNAUGHTON) whose brother attended Chefoo. DR. JO FARQUAHAR MacRAE is port doctor here. I am not sure of his years at Chefoo. He was afterwards a missionary at Ichang. My son CALVIN, who left Chefoo in 1941 is Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at Rhodes University.
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“...LUTHER is with Carbide in Texas, ATHENE is married to a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, based in California. Our other two boys never had the chance of Chefoo.
MRS. ELLEN B. EVANS(Widow of Leslie Evans) 701/4100 Lawrence Ave., E., West Hill Ontario Canada MIE 2R9
Writes - ’How the years slip away! I am now 76. I have eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all doing well, thank God for His goodness. I have three beautiful loving daughters, again, thank God.
ELSA LOGAN - 1909-15.
61, Stuart Road, Churchville, N.Y.14428.
In March ’76 writes - ’A great joy came to me as a result of the January '76 ’Mag.'
I saw the letter from OLGA(THOR)PETERSON -the first time I'd ever seen her name in all these 55 years. I was going to write her but she got ahead of me, and wrote a long letter about her life, and sent me a number of photos of Chefoo, and of our family, and one of her and me that I'd never seen, taken in 19131 Olga was one of my best friends and I am overjoyed to get in touch with her...”
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“...of bread and peanut butter - Ed.)
Oct.26. - Went with Mr. Chalkley to the Bluff by bus. We walked the sandspit and some went to the top, others to the temple. Nov.12. - Paton v. Livingstone House Match resulted in one all after a good fight. I swatted most of the afternoon(for end of term exams., some of his results were pretty good, averaging 80%.)
Nov.28. - (When the 2 month Christmas Holidays started) Packed and left school at 10:45. Had tiffin on the Shuntien and left Chefoo about 1.0’Clock. Very rough outside Chefoo and I didn't have any supper.
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“...STAN G, OLSEN - 1908-1917
357, Rusholme Road, Apt.810,
Toronto, Ontario M6H 2Z4
"Horatius at the Window" (A tale of old Chefoo)
It was a sultry day in June. 'Z' was vainly endeavouring to instill into his Upper III pupils the finer points of 'Recitation’. The 32 boys in his class were struggling with the well-known poem 'Horatius'. Their delivery was humdrum, and lacked emphasis and enthusiasm. Besides, the weather was too hot to waste unnecessary energy.
'Out spake the brave Horatius The Captain of the Gate'
(the class recited in monotone)
'To every man upon this earth,
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better Than by facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?
'Come, come boys', said the impatient "Z" 'Let's have a little more emphasis in the right places - some more FIRE in your reciting. Let me show you how. 'He was wielding his favourite malacca cane, and was standing with his back to the french windows...."OUT spake the great Horatius'...”
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“...Translators in Mexico undergoing Jungle Training, and will eventually end up in the Philippines.
(How’s that for one missionary family’s ’’statistics" ? Ed.)
BERTIE TAYLOR - 1910-1919
1221 Daly Rd., Wheaton, II. 60187.
gives us the 'genealogy’ of the James
Hudson Taylor family as follows:-
James Hudson Taylor I - Founder of the CIM
There was no James Hudson Taylor in the
next generation,
James Hudson Taylor II (Chefoo 1900-1910) was third generation, and my brother. He is now 82 (living at 136 Boadway Spring Arbor, Michigan 49283,) and was known as 'Jam pot’.
James Hudson Taylor III Chefoo & Weihsien, 1936-1945 - 4th generation. President of China Evangelical Seminary - Taipei Taiwan James Hudson Taylor IV - 5th generation is now at Morrison Academy in Taiwan.
MARGARET WELLS - 1911-1917
1350 15th St. Apt.4C, Port Lee, N.J.07024. Feb.’1976 - ’It is fun to read the magazine, and to recall familiar names and to remember friends among them. Recently I had a friend who met OLIVE JOYCE who lives in...”
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“...painters led by Tom Thomson. There we had lunch before viewing the paintings and prints and a splendid show of Eskimo carvings. Lilian Nodwell had given her recollections of days with the Group of Seven as we drove along in the bus. In our Chefoo group were some who had come from the ends of the earth just in time to be there. There was Barbara North of O.M.F. Taiwan (en route to furlough in Great Britain) there were Mr & Mrs Gordon Martin (recently arrived from Britain,)
Mr. Beard, aged 82, from China and N.Z., on his way round this planet, Gertie(Gibb) Jones and her husband Ewart on furlough from the Argentine, and Margaret Bunting just back from Australia. Margaret brought us scenes from down under and memories of friends of earlier days in Chefoo, INA (TRUDINGER)MEARES, HUSTON & KITTY(WATERS) EDGAR, ELSIE EDGAR, PEGGY(LYONS)ROBERTS, KATHLEEN(DAVIES)MOORE, MAGGIE(BURGESS)WYLES JACK BURGESS.
Plans for afternoon tea at Terra Cotta were shelved in favour of the joy and pleasure of coming...”
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“...hearts growing fonder & fonder.'
Chefusians present were :-
Ruth Bevis, Margaret Bunting,
Hugh Coulthard, Josephine Coulthard,
Titti Coulthard, Donald Gibson,
Vivian Gonder, Bruce Hanna, Mrs.Cora Hanna, Jessie Jennings, Gertie(Gibb)Jones ,
Raymond Joyce, Mrs Conrad Lagerquist,
Mr & Mrs Gordon Martin, Marie(Davis)Martin, Lilian(Ferguson)Nodwell, Stan Olsen, Rhona(Quelch)McCoppen, Mrs. Averell Robinson, Irene Rouse, Marion & Isabel Taylor, Walter Tyler, Bill Tyler.
(We were sorry that Carol Budge(Chefoo Malaysia c.1960) who hails from Australia and was visiting her uncle in Barrie, Ont., was unable to come to this reunion as she had hoped. Ed.)
ARTHUR B. & DOROTHEA(FOUCAR)ALLEN
1903-1915. (Rt.8 Box 1118, Asheville
N.C.28806)
Dec.1976 - Our daughter Grace(Gyori) and family went through the Guatemala earthquake, then drove up to be with us for a month and returned later to their missionary work in Guatemala. They have 4 teen age children. While Grace was with us
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“...genteel southern style.
MARGARET BUNTING - 1913-23
126 Lawton Blvd., Toronto, 0nt.M4V 2A4 ’This past March-June my dream of a life time, and very much a Chefoo dream, came true - a visit to Australia and New -Zealand. Of my Chefoo "set" of 7, four were Australian. My 'trip' included travel by 16 aircraft, 6 trains, 7 buses, and uncounted limousines from air ports to motels and vice versa, and accommodation in 26 motels and 7 private homes.
It was no conventional conducted tour, but a 3 month safari on my own - Australia (5.1/2 weeks), New Zealand (2 weeks) and en route to or from these countries, Fiji, Samoa & Tonga (not the trite Tahiti and Bali), Vancouver and the Rockies with rail both ways across this continent.
I realised that my Toronto friends felt I was a complete fool to expect to pick up these 50-year old friendships. They knew not Chefoo. 1^ knew it would be all right. However I too was wrong. It was 10 times as all right as I had expected.
Just try it yourselves one day......
First...”
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“...Upfield, whose local colour ELSIE and HUSTON EDGAR assured me was correct.) For New Zealand one could quote Ngaio Marsh, Katherine Mansfield and Sir Edmond Hilary...
Chefoo highlights were visits in Brisbane with MARGARET(LYONS)ROBERTS (Peggy to us) and KATHLEEN(DAVIES)MOORE; in Adelaide with INA(TRUDINER)MEARES; and in Melbourne with KITTY(WATERS)EDGAR, and ELSIE EDGAR.
I had to omit a planned visit to CONNIE (KNIGHT)AMOS in Tasmania, as she unexpectedly left to visit a married daughter in Rhodesia. In Brisbane, three days and long evenings of do-you-remembers, Chefoo ph otos conjuring up long forgotten incidents, and first political discussions, interesting since both Australia and
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“...evening discussions Huston talked interestingly on Australian history and politics, and Chefoo. I also met his brothers CORDON and PAT. In Melbourne too there was a call on BETH(HERBERT)EATON, a Chefoo evening at DORIS(ANDERSON) HOGARTH'S where I saw ALISON(PIKE)BUTLER, RUTH(PORTEOUS)BAILEY, CHRISTINE(PORTEOUS) CALICUT and also JEAN GARDINER, home on furlough from the Leprosy Mission. Jean stayed with me this summer after I got back. ANNABELLA(MacLEOD)PARSONS drove us one day to the Dandenong nature preserve and park, with sculptures of Aborigines grafted in the most amazing way on to rocks. At the request of Toronto Chefusians I telephoned MARGARET(BURGESS) WYLES and ALEC ENTWISTLE.. Other non-Chefoo highlights of those 5.1/2 weeks Australia were visits to the Barrier Reef, Mt. Isa, Alice Springs and Ayers Rock. In Cairns (near the Barrier Reef)
I was entertained by MARGARET ROBERTS'
Son and his charming wife and three well behaved little girls. At Alice Springs, dead centre of Australia...”
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“...you must be spared, but on any trip to Australia it must be included. Also reluctantly I shall pass over Fiji,
Samoa, and most reluctantly Tonga, rightly called the jewel of the Pacific. In Vancouver I enjoyed a Chefoo afternoon with EDITH HUTSON THIRKELL. And so home again to Toronto, where it was difficult to settle down after finishing the dream of one’s life time, and a little more tired than I had realised!
Margaret Bunting with characteristic hospitality entertained a few Toronto Chefusians to meet Jean Gardiner in July, while she was here for a short visit.
Then in October there was another small Chefoo luncheon party in Margaret's home in honour of MARY(GOFORTH)MOYNAN in town for a day after a T.V. 'appearance' on the 700 Club (The Christian Broadcasting Network)
JOHN COOKE - 1953-54
925, Winter N.E., Salem, Ore.97301.
Nov.1976 - We have two children, a boy three years old, and a baby girl of four months. I am an intern minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church...”
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“...Committee Chairman, VIVIAN GONDER is with his wife Doris on a 6 month stay in East Asia, under the auspices of the Canadian Executive Service Overseas. At present (Dec.1976) they are in Kuala Lumpur (Address Hotel Merlin, Jalan Sultbn Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, Peninsular Malaysia.)
Vivian writes "The people ’work’ 5.1/2 days per week here and I can't let the flag down by Just coming and going as I like...That ties us up a good deal, but we hope to get around the country later (including a visit to 'Chefoo' in the Camerons). On Thursday evenings we have been out to O.M.F. for supper and the prayer meeting and had good times....It is quite cool this a.m. must be in the 70's(Fahrenheit ) of all things. I walk from the Hotel to the office each morning, some 40 minutes for exercise, before things warm up too uncomfortably."
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