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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE Vol. 78, No. 2 — December 1985 Published twice a year by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION (founded in 1908) PRESIDENT Mr. Howard F. Joyce (U.K.) VICE-PRESIDENTS Mr. L. Carrington Goodrich (U.S.A.) Mr. S. Gordon Martin (Canada) Mr. John J. Miller (U.K.) And the Principals of the Chefoo Schools: Miss Judith Spear (Japan) Mr. Barry McKessar (Malaysia) ED I TOR Mr. F. Robert Joyce The Chefoo Magazine 1058 Avenue Road Toronto, Ontario Canada M5N 2C6 NEWS EDITORS Australia — Mr. Peter Robinson Europe — Mrs. Annemarle Wesner Great Britain — Mrs. Elva Nicholson New Zealand — Mrs. Mary Howie North America — Miss Isabel Taylor CHE F 0 0 Japan Chefoo School Nanae Malaysia Chefoo School Cameron Highlands Philippines Chefoo Homes Mani la Singapore O.M.F. Hostel Singapore "Floreat Chefoo!"...”
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“...Chefusians who do remember the triumph experienced through it alI. JOHN J. MILLER, VICE-PRESIDENT At the invitation of the President and the Committee of the Great Britain Branch of the Chefoo Schools Association, Mr. John Mi I ler has agreed to become a Vice-President of the Association. Mr. Miller wrote in reply: "I am honoured to be asked to be a Vice-President and I am very happy to respond positively to that. Chefoo and its people have come to mean so much to Sheila and myself, so our continuing link with them through the C.S.A. would indeed be something that we would want to agree to." Mr. Miller was the Headmaster of the Chetoo School in Malaysia from 1970-79. We too are honoured to have him as a Vice-President, so in keeping with the tradition of other past Principals of the Chefoo Schools, such as Messrs. McCarthy and Bruce of the Boys', Misses Craig and Rice of the Girls' and Miss Blackmore of the Prep, who similarly maintained just such a connection with our Association over many...”
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“...I his plaque is presented by the Cl M Chcfoo Schools Association i<> Commemorate with deep gratitude I lie 40th anniversary of the liberation of 1400 prisoners, ineluding about 500children, from Wcihsicn Internment Camp by 7American GIs on August 17, 1945, at the end of World War II. The last resting place of Eric Liddell, Olympic hero of "Chariots of Fire," who died in the camp February 21, 1945 Mary H. Broughton John M. Hoyte David J. Michel 1 August Y1, 1985 * 1945^ 8 £ I 4OO£03g S£j500£jLS) E + “^^’’"Chariots of Fire," (1945^ 2 3 21 a ag-ttt 15, RR • H • ^$$5 • j • 1985^8 S 170 Presented to the Second Middle School at Welfang (Welhsien), China on August 17, 1985 3...”
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“...internment. The bell tower in the middle of the building was mostly gone but the rest of the building looked much the same except more d i I ap idated . Mr. Wei, the principal, invited us to the staff room where Mr. Wong, the vice principal, and an interpreter joined us. As we sipped Chinese tea and ate watermelon, the principal told us something of the history of the school and then when it was our turn, we spoke a little about our experiences during the war and presented on behalf of the Chefoo Schools Association the plaque that we had prepared to commemorate the day of our release from the Japanese armies and also to commemorate the last resting place of our camp hero, Eric Liddell. They sensed the significance of the visit for us with our sons, particularly as we were there exactly on the 40th anniversary of the day the seven GIs parachuted down to free us. We wished Jimmy Moore, an Old Chefoo boy who was one of the parachutists, could have been with us but we realized he had come out a...”
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“..."A HISTORY OF THE SCHOOLS' INTERNMENT AT TEMPLE HILL AND WEIHSIEN CAMPS" (1942 - 1945) The first news of the Pearl Harbour "incident" was brought to the Schools on Monday morning, December 8th [1941], by boys who had been spend i ng the week-end with Mr. R, McMu 11 an . The Japanese evidently soon got word, for the youngsters In their Primary School behind the B.S. opened fire with stones. During the forenoon a party of Japanese entered the compound, officially informed the residents, and posted guards in several places and at the main gates. Wireless sets were taken away — "temporarily" they said. Before noon next day Messrs. P.A. Bruce, Arthur Rouse and R. McMullan, and other leading men in the port, were put into custody by the Japanese in the Astor House Hotel, and subjected to nocturnal awakenings and severe interrogations. Though permitted to go home for Christmas Day they were detained in custody till the end of January. Mr. McMullan however was kept, and later died of sickness in...”
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“...carry on till half term, and then was obliged to hand over the co-tu i t ion building. The Authorities offered to the Schools for their occupation the Cathay Hotel, situated on the sand between the road and the sea near to The Rocks. It was ill built, unsanitary and altogether inadequate, and was occupied by sick and wounded soldiers. "The intervention of the International Red Cross Representative was, under God, the means of this plan not being carried out." The offer was not accepted. Mr. Egger, the Swiss Consul in Tsingtao, tried to arrange for the School's evacuation. Efforts were made to secure premises in Shanghai. The suggestion to remove the School to South Africa was seriously considered, but none of these plans materialized. "The British Embassy did not regard the evacuation of the School as practicable, and the Authorities strongly urged not to attempt it." The Schools Evacuated to Temple Hill The end soon came. The P.S. was the first to be requisitioned. About the middle of October...”
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“...and Mrs. Buzer played the Moonlight Sonata it was really two cats. There is a stove where the Lower Ones have there class and the Transition and Upper One. Two Wendsdays A-------comes over from her compound and sees me and I go over from my compound to see her but I dont go two times. With love from B-------" . A time soon came, however, when the channel for even these uncensored letters closed; thereafter correspondence was at the mercy of whimsical commandants and unscrupulous guards. The Schools Moved from Teeple Hill Compounds to Weihsien Camp The summer was almost over. It had been a summer tinged with a merciful coolness unusual on the east China coast, and in Chefoo the mellow autumn days could be counted on to hold at bay the rigours of the northern winter for another two months or longer. Then...? But any anxieties concerning a second winter in the 14...”
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“...the camp was worse than others — in fact it was more Christian than most town communities. Most of the leading men and women were upright and excellent people; throughout the camp there was a spirit of willingness to work for the general good; children and the sick received special care, and the changing-room conversations were almost entirely free from profanity and obscenity. Even so, the standards were not those which the boys and girls had been wont to take for granted . Boys' and Girls' Schools Moved to the Hospital Building (Block 61) on Foundation Day A time came when the staff faced a corporate consciousness that, as a school, they were losing out. The multiplicity of new interests, new temptations, in a new and strange environment, all played a part In breaking down the family feeling with which they had arrived In Weihsien. Most grievous of all was the growing awareness of a spiritual loss. Such a need could only be met in humiliation and prayer. A family with a small room, which...”
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“...Ps. xlvi. i, 7. God is Our Refuge -S'. Houghton CAMP CHORUS At the beginning of the Summer Term, 1942, the Headmaster of the Chefoo Schools, Mr. P. A. Bruce, conducted the school service. He took for his text the opening verses of Ps. xivi and the refrain, “The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.” Never had the meaning come home to me with such power, in view of the presence of the Japanese and the uncertainty of the future. I wrote this chorus almost immediately as the expression of my deep feeling, and throughout our internment we sang it constantly. Stanley Houghton. 27...”
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“...of the house got painted and the windows. Now everything looks beautiful! We love our home more and more! With Rolf-Peter Bernstein, our new first-grader, and Nicola and Philipp Burtzlaff back from furlough we had a group of 17 ch i Idren, six attend i ng the German School, n i ne goi ng to the Swi ss School, and the two youngest ones at home with Mami . Because the two schools are now so near to each other we drove everybody to school with our two vans. Picking everybody up at the right time wasn't an easy task, a chart helped, and now things run smoothly. We drove to the schools about five times per day! Both schools had many new teachers, the Swiss School even got a new headmaster....In the middle of term the Swiss got one full week autumn holiday, which they enjoyed tremendous I y... .An outstanding event was the opening of the German School, that took place in early November. After an official program with songs, poems and folkdances of the children and speeches of different VIPs,...”
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“...lovely ceremony in Parry Sound in June. He and Marilyn are living in Toronto, Ontario {64 Wasdale Crescent, Apt. #3, M6A 1W8} where Jon is busy with ’Spectrum" (I.V.C.F.) and Marilyn teaches in a Christian School in North Toronto. ESTHER, DAVID, STEPHEN and SHARON, are settled with their parents (David and Beverly, on home assignment from the Philippines as Deputy Home Director for Canada) in a house not far from Jon and Marilyn. They have all been working this summer and are attending nearby schools. — {487 Drewry Avenue, Willowdale, Ontario M2R 2K9} ED GLAZIER [1937-42] — "We moved from Waupaca, Wisconsin, to Broken Arrow, all right in March 1985. On August 17th we had a family reunion in Wheaton, Illinois, when the four original siblings met with many of the children and one grandchild. My wife Betsey and I came from Tulsa-Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. My son and grandson came from Chicago, and my daughter from Dallas. Our daughter Ruth had to work so couldn't come. My sister ELEANOR MAST [Chefoo...”
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“...Dunlap's "The Di-Fang" is poignantly nostalgic for those of us who knew Chefoo as home as wel I as school, and Suzanne Dunant's took me to the years with the new Chefoo Schools in Japan, Malaysia, and the Phi Iippines. One song that didn't get into the collection of Songs and Verse was the old Girls' School song, "School That We Love," I expect it died a natural death when Co-Ed came in, but there are a good many of us who sang it year by year on Exhibition Day. 1 It is planned for the next issue of the Mag to carry the words and music. -Ed]." — {P.B.I ., Box A, Three Hills, Alberta, Canada TOM 2A0] ELIA PARADISSIS [1929-38] — "My family and I are very well and busy. Our two chi Idren are at McGi!I University and wi I I soon be graduating, we hope. My brother, sister, and mother are in Athens, Greece." — {62 Aberdeen, Westmount, Quebec H3Y 3A7] MARTHA PHILIPS [Staff 1937-43] — "This summer I am in Bible Memory Association Camp again, teaching Missions. I've had two weeks in the Louisiana...”
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“...the four flats are for retirees, the five houses are for missionaries on furlough, and so are constantly changing. OSWALD [Kuling 1947-51) and his wife and young son are over in Washington, D.C. He phoned only today to bring us up to date on his programme of meetings and conferences and the book he is writing on the Church in America. Actually he will be back here for five or six days at the end of Apri I as he has promised John Stott four lectures in one of his schools of Contemporary Christianity in London. I have occasional preaching engagements and prayer meetings of one kind or another, either OMF or on China, besides a good deal of Church involvement in the village, and Mary has all kinds of ladies Bible studies, prayer meetings and other activities." — {20 Harding Close, Redbourn, Herts, England AL3 7NT) DOROTHY (MRS. STANLEY) HOUGHTON (Staff 1930-51] writes: " JOSEPH I HE [ 1942-511 was here for th i s last week-end. We had both received letters from FELICITY 11940-491, so we were...”
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“...God to the mission field. She met a number of O.M.F. Missionaries, read O.M.F. books, and through her contact with Vera (Mrs. Bill) Tyler was led to apply to O.M.F. Following O.M.F.'s advice she finished her university studies at Gordon College in Boston, Mass., and then had a year at Missionary Internship in Detroit. She went to East Asia In 1969, and had one term of service In Central Thailand. (At designation time the O.M.F. directorate in Singapore had asked her to go to one of the Chefoo Schools, but at that time she was unwilling.) Six months before her first furlough she was asked by the Mission to go to Chefoo Malaysia as a "dorm auntie" - this time she said "Yes." She wrote about her experiences in a chapter of the O.M.F. book, When God Guides, (testimonies of 27 O.M.F. missionaries). "Right from the beginning," she says, "my reservations about a boarding school were torn to shreds. The children were happy and it was a loving, caring, united community. To my surprise, my health improved...”
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“...a prolonged illness, on June 22, 1985. Both he and his wife were enthusiastic In their interest in the C.S.A. and were among the most active of our Associate Members, sending us cheerful news items regularly. They rejoiced in their growing family including 11 grandchildren and an equal number of great-grandchi Idren, and in all God's goodness to them through the years. Mrs. Kidder, in informing us of her husband's passing away, wrote: "We have many happy memories of our association with the Schools in Chefoo and appreciate all the School did for our four boys." MARJORIE (LAWSOH) LUG SPIN [Chefoo 1915-231 — Marjorie had unquestionably the most brilliant mind of any of her contemporaries at Chefoo or at McMaster University here in Toronto. But with this she combined common sense and understanding kindness. . At the Girls' School this was so evident that at one point she did two years in one, thus finishing Chefoo before she was 16. The same brilliance shone at McMaster where in addition to...”