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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE
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)
EDITOR
Mr. F. Robert Joyce
The Chefoo Magazine 1058 Avenue Road Toronto, Ontario Canada M5N 2C6
NEWS EDITORS
Australia — Mr. Peter Robinson Europe — Mrs. Annemarie Wesner Great Britain — Mrs. Elva Nicholson New Zealand — Mrs. Mary Howie North America — Miss Isabel Taylor
CHEFOO
Japan
Chefoo School Nanae
Philippines
Chefoo Homes Manila
Malaysia
Chefoo School Cameron Highlands
Singapore
O.M.F. Hostel Singapore
"Floreat Chefoo!"...”
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“...VOL. 79, No. 1 JUNE 1986
“Chefoo Memories” by Debbie Peskett 2
“Chefoo in 1983” by H.H. and S.G. 2
"Nostalgia” by Linda Marr 5
“Destination Chefoo” by Gordon Martin 6
“The Great White Throne” by Walter Pike 11
The Girls’ School Song (1924) 12
Chefoo: Malaysia 14
Japan 18
Philippines 19
Singapore 20
Reunion Reports (Toronto) 22
News: Australia 27
Europe 29
Great Britain 31
New Zealand 34
North America 37
In Memoriam 54
“Return to China” by Mary Ruth Howes 57
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“...I was very full of activity, espec iaIly at Half-Term. The staff went around with guarded looks. We children were bursting with suppressed excitement. AlI the events were so well thought-up and planned. It refreshed me for the rest of the term.
Chefoo is embedded in my memory, like a word chiselled on meta I . Its memor i es and exper i ences will last a I i fet i me.
"CHEFOO IM 1983"
Coming up to Chefoo in the year 1983 to spend the summer there, I was asked if I had ever been before, and remembering my five years at school, nearly fifty years ago, I launched into reminiscences, and told all I could recol lect of the dear old place.
Just then, our conversation was interrupted by the conductor calling "Chefoo in five minutes", and sure enough, we cou Id see the c i ty ly i ng just ahead , but I cou Id not recogn i se it. We landed on a flying ground constructed where the sand dunes of the West Beach must have been in our time.
The f i rst bui Id i ng to confront me was a large Hote I ;...”
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“...Days.
The business section of Chefoo extends from second to fourth beach, and the large office-buildings such as McMullan & Co. and each departmental store, have a landing-field for aeroplanes, on the roof.
A rai Iway, which was laid behind the hi I Is, connects Chefoo with Weihaiwei and all the northern cities. The hills are no longer bare and rugged, for a lovely residential section has come into being and extends far up their sides, and buses and trams, not to mention aeroplanes and rockets, make transportati on to these beautiful homes quite easy. Ail the once vile-smelling creeks have been transformed to fragrant courses, and altogether "Chefoo is the most wonderful city of the Orient," to quote one enthusiastic fellow-traveller.
— H. H. and S. G.
(Thanks to Hilda Briscoe and David Parry the Chefoo Magazine is able to reprint the above article found in a 1933 copy of the Chefusian (a magazine put out by the staff and students of the C.I.M. Schools at Chefoo during the 1930's). To whom...”
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“...The city of Yantai (Chefoo), China in 1986...”
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“...distant shore,
In a land we see no more,
Was a school and home as well
Where boys and girls and staff did dwell
Summer sun shine, summer heat,
Winter snows beneath our feet,
Skies so clear and sea so blue
In the bay we called "Chefoo".
Lessons done what fun we had
In trunks and swimming costumes clad,
Second beach with cats eyes neat,
Hot sand for our feet,
Light house Island picnic thrills,
Monastery among the hills,
Summer outings to the Bluff;
Of these we never had enough!
Mule Road and Ninghai Gate,
Jubilee and Summer Fete,
Then came Coronation Day,
Naval ships out in the Bay,
Teachers all so kind and true,
Instructing us in what to do.
Now scattered far we all do roam,
Calling many countries "home".
Our prayers to God we daily send
Receiving blessings without end.
"Chefoo", you taught us with our might
To serve our God and do the Right,
Always striving to the end
To call all men and women "Friend".
— Linda G. (Sergeant) Marr [1935-38
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“..."DESTINATION CHEFOO"
(an autobiographical sketch)
— S. Gordon Martin —
(1929-51 Staff]
My parents were married on January 1st 1901....For their honey-moon they travelled from Hankow to KuIing , the lovely mountain resort where the Chefoo School had its last four years in China. My parents travelled by cheap fare, Chinese class, according to the Spartan standards of the China Inland Mission. Many years later my mother said to me, "I think we might have allowed ourselves some indulgence on that occasi on."
When Heather and I got to KuIing in 1947, we found a retired Methodist missionary, William Rowley, living there. I told him once that my parents had had their honeymoon on KuIing in 1901, and he said he thought he had met them; two young missionaries came walking up the ascent, and he asked them to have tea with him at a teahouse. "I knew they were newly-weds," he said, "because she asked him whether he took sugar in his tea." I related this story to my mother later on, and she emphatically...”
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“...had many free periods which we wasted in playing chess or less worthy games, until I grew tired of this; so with Michael Foster (who afterwards became a student of Christ Church at Oxford) I started to read Book III of Herodotus; Michael had an annotated text of this and I had my grandfather's complete text; so we read that together, and Herodotus became one of my friends for life.
I had that same small volume of Herodotus in my pocket in the winter of 1950-51 when I was acting as Headmaster of Chefoo School in KuIing ; the Communist authorities let us know they wanted a contribution from us rich foreigners for "winter protection against the Chiang Kai-shek bandits;" they intimated that one mi 11 ion dol lars would be an acceptable contribution. I think that this amounted to about £40 sterling. So with one million Chinese dollars under my arm I went up to the Foreign Affairs Bureau; when I arrived, they said they were too busy to attend to me; I must wait. So I sat in a sheltered ditch in...”
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“...her hands it tel I fu I I on her white si Ik blouse and made its mark.
With the Mission house next door and young men destined for China in our house, China was a constant background to our lives. Among the young men were numbers whose sons and daughters I afterwards taught at Chefoo; Ernest and Harold Weller, Frank Learner, Yorkston, Thompson, Gilbert Vinden, Douglas Robertson, and others; some too who joined the staff at Chefoo, Pat Bruce, Reg Harris, Harold Chalkley, Reg Bazire and Gordon Welch. So it was easy for me to feel that God's call for me was China.
I think I knew by the age of twelve that I was meant to be a teacher; and by the time that I was 16 or 17, I felt sure that I was meant to teach at Chefoo. I felt that I had had all the benefits of a missionary upbringing without any of its attendant hardships, living in a foreign land, often separated from parents and grandparents, perhaps suffering an inferior or interrupted schooling, exposure to disease and danger. Instead of...”
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“...were not tor the Chefoo School which cared tor their children and ensured that parents and children met tairly frequently. In the late Twenties when China was suffering from the War Lords, travel was d i ff icu 11 and some fami I ies d id not get together even once a year. Then I heard someone say, "The heart of the C.I.M. is there in Chefoo." So I saw that the staff there were much more than class-room teachers; we had to be pastors and friends and substitute parents. This was no school where the students were present in term-time and absent in time of holidays; the teachers were not on duty from 9 to 5. I felt afraid as I looked forward; and I remember expressing my fear at a C.I.M. Prayer Meeting at Newington Green. But the Lord gave me an encouragement from II Timothy 1.7; "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
The day came when I left England, sailing by a P. & 0. steamer from Tilbury dock... .Trave I I i ng by P. & 0. was in some...”
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“...leave at once for Chefoo. In Kansu there was a famine emergency and George Findlay Andrew who was teaching at Chefoo was summoned to help with Famine Relief work, and I must fill the gap he left. Andrew was really much better equipped to organise and direct and pay ten thousand coolies on relief works than to teach English literature. So I did three weeks' work in 24 hours, wrote my examination and caught a river steamer to take me to Shanghai .
From Shanghai I travelled on a Butterfield and Swire steamer with Frank Parry to Chefoo. I had known Frank and his brother Bob in years past; I had known their father and before long I was teaching the next generation of Parrys at Chefoo. It was such previous contacts which made me feel that Chefoo was the place where God meant me to teach. I was a son of the C.I.M. and found myself at home in this schoo I for chi Idren of the Mi ssi on.
So the two-day journey was soon over, stopping at Weihaiwei and then into the harbour at Chefoo; and I had arrived...”
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“...A SCHOOL SONG (To the C.I.M.G.S. Chefoo.)
1924.
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“...to thy Laws each day.
Refrain (for all verses.)
0 Chefoo School, may God defend Unstained thine Honour to the end!
2. School that we love,—thy Motto true Imprint on every heart anew,
God’s Word, of Wisdom is the Source, Who drinketh there gains vital force.
3. School that we love,—for others' weal Our parents toiled with selfless zeal, Oh teach their children now to be Loyal, Chefoo, to God and thee.
4. School that we love, — in work or play Our utmost may we do each day;
Not for our own, but for thy fame Enable us to "play the game."
5. School that we love,—when forth we go May thy Faith in our hearts still glow, That, as in Life our part we play,
Thine ideals still may guide our way.
6. Chefoo, in lands both near and far Thy many scattered daughters are— Present and Past alike, to thee Still turn with changeless loyalty.
(The words and music for the above "school song" of the C.I.M. Girls' School at Chefoo are reproduced from the Chefoo Magazine of June 1925 (Vol. XVI, No. 1). Mary Nico...”
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“...CHEFOO MALAYSIA
(CHEFOO SCHOOL, CAMERON HIGHLANDS)
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“...Ten of this year’s Chefoo students were to graduate at the annual ceremony on Friday May 30 with Brian Michel I, OMF's Malaysian Area Director, as the graduation speaker.
CLARE BRIFFA (U.K.) - Clare has only recently returned from furlough and will proceed to Dean Close Junior School in England for further education. Her father is the Area Secretary for O.M.F. in Bangkok.
JOY COLLINS (U.S.A.) - Joy’s future schooling arrangements are uncertain at this point in time. Her parents are working in I ndonesi a.
BETHANY FIETJE (Canada) - Going to the Chefoo Homes in Manila for schooling at Faith Academy. Parents working in church planting in Central Thailand.
ANNA HAZLEWOOD (U.K.) - Going to the Chefoo Homes in Mani la for schooling at Faith Academy. Parents involved in church work in I ndones i a.
KIRAN HUTCHINSON (Australia) - A non-OMF student whose parents have been working in Indonesia. Kiran returns to Australia with her fami ly for future school ing.
SHARON MACQUEEN (U.K.) - The Macqueens...”
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“...CHEFOO SCHOOL
Students at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (1978-79)
Bottom row (left to right)
Chri stopher EI Iard
Jenny Conway
Nicola Dunn
Marti n Bow ley
Gordon El lard
Jonathan Pag Ii nawan
Rachel Webb
Eric Fewster
Dawn Bevington
Sarah Pickard
Fiona Trelogan
Jonathan Newquist
Sandra Roberts
Second row
Esther Dykema
Pippa Belstead
Carol Crabb
Hannah Robinson
Lloyd Sutherland
David Knight
Peter McNulty
Jonathan Smith
She I ly Harri s
Adrian Dunn
Norman Buntrock
Ki ren McNu I ty
Vaughn Collins
Andrew Fewster
Danny Poynor
Th i rd row
Timmy Simpki n
Rachel Guy
Anna Beth Purne I I Richard Herbert Mark Smales Matthew Pickard Ruth Dykema Mary Chambers Steven El lard Scott Roberts Marti n Davi s Andrew Hi I I ier Michael Herbert Christine Dillon
Left of sign
Carol Bevington David Poynor
Right of sign
Naomi Pickard Li sa Guy
Tamara Tyler Street Lisa McNickle Andrew Huntley (Unknown)
Tricia Hi I Ii er Joy Simpkin Nick Conway
Fourth row
Rosann Col Iins (Unknown )
Jenny Di I Ion Jackie Buntrock Ali...”
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“...CHEFOQ JAPAN
(CHEFOO SCHOOL, NANAE)
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“...CHEFOO PHILIPPINES
(CHEFOO HOMES - MANILA)
Homes for O.M.F. high and middle school students at Faith Academy
Home for O.M.F. elementary school children at Faith Academy
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“...CHEFOO SINGAPORE
(OMF SWISS/GERMAN HOSTEL)
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“...Faith Academy and a Summer Institute of Linguistics (Wycliffe) schooI i n the Philipp ines. Of the other five, Alan Gr i ffi ths and my brother Jonathan Fuller were at Chefoo Malaysia at different times; Jon and I were at Chefoo Philippines i n Calapan, and David (my older brother) and I were at Chefoo Philippines in Baguio City. And, Robyn Michel I went to Chefoo Japan at Nanae. So, you see that no more than two of us ever attended the same Chefoo School, although six of us lived in the Chefoo Homes - Manila whi le attending Faith Academy (of whom four are grads). My fami ly had met Alan in the Philippines before, but because he is now studying in London, Ontario, we rarely see him. But what a wonderful time we had!
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