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“...Published twice a year by the
CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 147 260 Adelaide Street East Toronto, Canada M5A1N0
GENERAL EDITOR
F. Robert Joyce. MA
Assistant Editor
Esther N. Fuller. B.Sc.
Editor-at-large
Sheila P. Miller
NEWS EDITORS
Australia — Peter Robinson Europe — Annemarie (B&rtsch) Wesner Great Britain — Elva (Cook) Nicholson
New Zealand — Mary (Preedy) Howie North America — Isabel Taylor Philippines — Ruth Dykema
OBJECTS OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
• To operate as an Association for all former scholars and past and present members of the staffs of the Chefoo Schools.
• To sustain interest amongst its members in matters concerning the Schools and in one another.
• To afford means whereby its members are kept in touch with each other and with the Schools.
• To promote friendly relationship between all persons in any way connected with the Schools.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE ASSOCIATION
• All former scholars of the Schools and past or present members of the staffs of the Schools...”
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VQL. 80, No. 1
JUNE 1987
Editor's Comments 2
"Chefoo - A Foundation" by Ruth Dykema 3
To the Little Ones and Tlnies'...u)ith Love....
"At Home" in the 1890s by Margie (Bailer) Smith 4 "Duty-Day" in the 1930s by Kathie (Judd) Lyall 6
"Dorm Aunty" in the 1970s by Em Stewart 8
With Thanks...to the Chefoo "Prep"...I
Principals of the Present Chefoo Schools
[1895-1987] 11
Present and Former Staff of the Present Chefoo
Schools [1895-1987] 12
From the Chefoo Archives:
Chefoo School, Cameron Highlands - 1961 17
Miss Unwin's Transition Form of 1911/12 18
"Books on Weihsien and Other Camps" by Norman Cliff 18
The Chefoo Schools' Bulletins 21
Reunion Reports (Los Angeles, Toronto, Tunbridge Wells) and Register 25
News: Chefoo Homes - Manila 23
Swiss and German Hostels - Singapore 24
Great Britain 29
Australia 35
New Zealand 37
North America 41
In Memoriam 59
Top of the page: The drawing of Chefoo (Yantai] bay and harbour with the C.l.M. Schools' buildings in the foreground is by Helen (Hulse)...”
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“..."Old Chefusian."
Jim, as he is known to so many of his Chefoo friends, attended the Chefoo Schools from 1936-45 at Chefoo (Yantai) and under internment in the Temple Hill and Weihsien Camps. While he himself is also a second generation Chefusian, since his father, James H. Taylor II, also went to Chefoo [1900-10], his Chefoo School roots go still much deeper — indeed, for four generations of Chefoo involvement back to the origins of the Schools. It was Jim’s greatgrandfather, James Hudson Taylor I, the founder of the China Inland Mission, who started the Schools on a visit to Chefoo back in 1879. Further, Jim's grandfather, Herbert Taylor, was only the second teaching master to join the new "Chefoo School" in the first year of its operation as the co-ed Protestant Collegiate School in 1881.
But Dr. Taylor's interest in the Association also looks to the future; his personal and frequent visits, simply as "Uncle Jim," to the present Chefoo Schools and OMF hostels are well known and remembered...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
CHEFOO — A FOUNDATION
Chefoo
A sanctuary
A paradise
A world within a world A place A school.
Chefoo was to me
A bit of everything
All tied up in one neat package In a small green valley Of Malaysia.
Laughter mixed with tears And triumphs with failures These all made Chefoo What it was — a home Away from home.
Chefoo was security And friends And life itself When my childish mind Could not stretch beyond That tiny valley.
There I discovered music
And harmony as many children
Tried to live together
With the minimum supervision.
There I learnt to love
The beauty of nature
That surrounded me
In the midst of the jungle.
There I learnt some important lessons That have helped me In the years since.
Chefoo was
The foundation of my life.
It is a memory
I never want to forget.
— Ruth Dykema [77-83]
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
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June 1987
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Almost 100 years have now passed since the founding of the China Inland Mission Preparatory School in 1895. Under the hand of God, that Chefoo "Lower" School still flourishes today in two locations: Chefoo School in Nanae and Chefoo School in the Cameron Highlands. Many Chefusians who attended Chefoo School before the age of 12 remark on how special that period of schooling was and often readily recall the particular joy of those early Chefoo years. For many of them, again, and especially for today's Chefoo graduates, the total Chefoo School experience has been contained in the years before their teens.
The longstanding and ongoing commitment of the China Inland Mission and now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship to provide loving nurture and schooling, these past 93 years, to the "little ones" of the Mission and of many others through the Mission's own junior Chefoo School(s) is unique. The persevering love and dedication of the Chefoo staff...”
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“...which often literally fell to pieces under one's hands! This was a severe discipline for me, but among other things which I learnt from it was the power to get music out of all kinds of uncongenial circumstances — no small gain.
The school grew in numbers both of teachers and pupils, and we had some very happy years at Tungshin before it was decided to move back to East Beach.
Then I spent two years in England in training, as I hoped, for work in the interior. However, I was asked to return to Chefoo, for a while at least, as teachers were needed. My own experience as a child made me feel that it would be a privilege if I could help to spare other families the experience through which mine had passed. Besides,
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“...The Chefoo Magazine June 1987
Chefoo was like home to me, and I loved teaching, so I did not consider it a cross to give up hopes of Chinese work.
Looking back over all these years of connection with Chefoo, I pray with all my heart that its future may be worthy of its past.
Reprinted from: Stanley Houghton, Edith B. Harman, and Margaret Pyle, Chefoo (London: The China Inland Mission, 1931)
"Duty-Day" in the 1930s
Kathie Judd (Mrs Leslie Lyall)
[1915-21; Prep Staff 1932-33]
Do you know where and what the Prep School is? The C.I.M. has three schools at this healthy north sea port of Chefoo, not for Chinese, but for the children of its own and some other missionaries, and when school is in session the Compound is a busy place with its nearly 250 boys and girls of ages 6 to 17, together with the necessary staff of teachers as well as of Chinese servants. In the Prep' we have all the 'tinies,' boys and girls from 6-10 years of age. Don't you long to come and 'mother' them? Have you a heart...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
one Sunday recently I had a Very tiny' one near me and as Luke 2 was read, his lips moved in perfect unison and I got a beaming smile of triumph from him.
But quiet time' over, a long crocodile of Prepites winds down the corridors to breakfast. Do you know the early morning feeling of walking on air' and brimming over with life? If you do, you'll understand what real self-control a Prepite exerts to walk in line to breakfast and the need to encourage that self-control.
Breakfast over, there comes nearly an hour of 'odds and ends’; dispensary-children sometimes have to be rounded up to go to nurse; boys and girls in turn are summoned for daily inspection by the wardrobe-keeper, and there are all the other jobs necessary at the beginning of the day for the smooth running of the rest of it. Then the prayers bell' goes and all the children are seated in their places in the big schoolroom, Bibles and hymnbooks in hand. The Principal comes in to take morning prayers...”
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“... for wisdom, for love and understanding, for strength and for sternness. And it is only when the day ends with the feeling that "the government has been upon His shoulders" that I feel I have anywhere near done my duty.
Reprinted from: China's Millions (April 1933)
"Dorm Aunty" in the 1970s
Em Stewart [Staff 1973-86]
My offer to help at Chefoo was accepted! Within weeks I had left my job and my dear little apartment, and arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the day before my re-entry visa expired! John Miller, our headmaster and leader, was in Kuala Lumpur to welcome me and to assure me of how he believed God was fitting me into His place for me at Chefoo.
The last few weeks at the school before the new term began were filled with questioning, observing, preparing, wondering and even trembling at the new phase of missionary life I'd launched upon. My first assignment was to be dormitory aunty to eleven little girls.
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
Ina MacLachlan with mixed feelings introduced me to each one returning, through their family pictures and little piles of toys and clothes laid out on beds while the dorm was being thoroughly house-cleaned. Six were coming for the first time. As preparations proceeded and arrival dates approached, 1 found myself panicking, wondering how I would handle so many bright little girls all at once. What if they didn't like me? How would I comfort them when they were homesick? As I posted names on beds, I prayed for guidance in the serious question of who should sleep next to whom. Well, the midnight arrival of the first group of children from Thailand was really a thrill. One little girl tumbled out of the taxi clutching the welcome card 1 had sent her. They were soon bathed and fast asleep in their beds. That night began a wonderful vigil over my little girls in dorm seven.
Do you realise that the children are at school with us more weeks of the year than they are...”
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“...for the children they are mutually concerned about.
Being a dorm aunty at Chefoo has been an enriching time in my own spiritual life. I've learned and am learning from the Word and from my fellow staff members, as well as from the children.
Adapted with permission: East Asta Millions (Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978)
WTO TO W
The following list of staff of the present Chefoo Schools, back to their founding as the "Prep" in 1895, bears more than mere names. It presents a concrete reminder that those who gave and still give some of the best years of their lives to the "little ones" of Chefoo will always be remembered with affection and esteem. For most of us Chefusians, we cherish the memories of Chefoo as our first school and are deeply grateful to the China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship for having provided Chefoo School for us as our home away from home. We especially give thanks to God for you, our Chefoo School "parents" and teachers, for your love and sacrifice on our behalf during...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
Principals
of the Present Chefoo Schools
Founded in 1895 as the C.I.M. Preparatory School at Tongshen, Shantung, China
Barry McKessar 1985 Malaysia Judy Spear 1977 Japan
Stuart Melton 1979 M
John Miller 1971 M
Margaret Knight 1971 J
David Parker 1968 M
Margaret Dickson 1968 J
Mary Nicoll 1966 J
Margaret Quirk (Mrs G Scott) 1966 M
Margaret Dickson 1960 M
Isabel Taylor 1956 J
Mary Nicoll 1954 M
Anne Friesen 1954 J
Margaret Dickson 1952 B
Mary Nicoll 1951 J
Gordon Martin [Acting] 1950 L
Stanley Houghton 1947 S
Ailsa Carr 1947 S
Frances Williamson 1943 K
Ruth Porteous (Mrs H Bailey) 1941 K
Ailsa Carr 1937 Y
E G Kendon (Mrs G W Gibb) 1930 Y
L Blackmore 1902 Y
B M McOwan 1899 Y
E J Walker (Mrs J J Coulthard) 1895 T
B=Bangkok, J=Japan, K=Kiating, L=Lushan [Ruling] M=Malaysia, S=Shanghai, T=Tongshen Y=Yantai [Chefoo]
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
Present and Former Staff of the Present Chefoo Schools
(formerly the C.I.M. Preparatory School)
[1895--present]
JAPAN [1951 - present]
NANAE [1964 - present!
AYLING Mr Gareth 83
AYLING Mrs Ruth 83
DAVIS Mr Robert M 72 74
DAVIS Mrs Margaret 72 74
DICKSON Margaret E 67 71
DUECK Ruth 78 81
DUNN Jennifer R 77 79
FEARNEHOUGH Mr W 71 72
FEARNEHOUGH Mrs S 71 72
FRIESEN Mr Abe F 70 71
FRIESEN Mrs J 70 71
HAY Mr John E 74 76
HAY Mrs Lesley 74 76
HIGHWOOD Mr David 66 70
HIGHWOOD MrsD 66 70
HIGHWOOD MaxyA 84 86
JORGENSON Ione M 84
KING Glenda A 8184
KNIGHT Margaret J 66 77
LOCKETT Janice M 81 83
LYTTLE Helen E 86
McGINTY Mr Michael 86 87
McGINTY Mrs Rowena 86 87
MORRIS Mr Donald 64 68
MORRIS MrsWinnifred 64 68
NEWSOM Janet 74 78
NICOLL MaryLC 65 68
NOELL Virginia A 79 81
PARKER L Valerie 83 86
PIKE Mr Paul R 79 83
PIKE Mrs Janet 79 83
SEXTON Maureen P 70 73
SPEAR Judith A 77
TAYLOR Isabel J 64 66
TOLLMAN Mr Robert J 76 79
TOLLMAN Mrs Dorothy 76 79
WELLER MaxyE 67 76
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
DICKSON Margaret E 54 65 PARKER Mr David L 68 72
DONALDSON Mr Edwin 70 74 PARKER Mrs Gwen 68 72
DONALDSON Mrs S 70 72 PARSONS Kathleen M 72 73
DOVE Doris M 73 74 PAVEY Miriam Y 80
DUNN Jennifer 81 83 PAYNE Mr Brian WF 79 83
DUNN Pauline A 77 86 PAYNE Mrs Vilai 79 83
EDWARDS WAnne 61 73 PEARCE Dr RAH 57 63
EPP Elvira R 74 PEARSE Anne M 83
ERICKSON Carol J 78 81 QUIRK Margaret J 60 68
ERICKSON Esther F 68 72 RASMUSSEN Donna M 68 76
FERRIER Janet M 72 74 REDEKOP Velora F 77 81
FLEMING Elizabeth M 66 70 REID Sheila 81 84
FORSTER Barbara A 73 79 ROBSON Lesley 82
FORSTER Clare 73 74 SCHMIDT Mr Dwight M 66 67
GOBLE Mr William H 60 64 SCHMIDT Mrs June 66 67
GOBLE Mrs Grace 60 64 SEIDMORE Ruth M 77 79
GOODALL Cynthia M 60 73 SEYMOUR-SMITH Jill 74 76
GUINNESS MrHW 54 56 SIBARY Mary 63 72
GUINNESS MrsHW 54 56 SPEAS Betty S 61 70
GUY Mr Michael W 74 76 STEVENSON Edith M 64 65
HINDLEY Betty F 72 81 STEWART Emily G 73 86
HOGARTH MrH 58 60 THOMSEN Martha E 72 73
HOGARTH MrsH...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
GIBSON Mrs Daphne 70 72
HANSON Mr Selmer B 72 74
HANSON Mrs Sharon 72 74
HEMBURY VT 58 61
HOLDER Mr 60 61
HOLDER Mrs 60 61
LINDER Ingeborg 72 78
LOCKHART Mr J E 58 61
LOCKHART Mrs J E 58 61
LONG D Lorraine 63 65
MAI Maria 79 82
NICOLL Mary L C 61 65
NICOLL MaiyLC 70 73
PETER Ruth 72 74
ROBERTSON Phylis M 72 74
SURBECK MrTheophil 74 78
SURBECK Mrs Rose 74 78
VANSTONE Mr C L 62 65
VANSTONE Mrs Norma 62 65
WEINMANN Doris 73 74
WELLER Mr Cyril F 61 62
WELLER Mrs Doris 61 62
WESNER Mr Joachim 78 81
WOOD Ainslie H 76 78
CALAPAN 11956-57:1968-69]
BROMLEY M Lois 69 69
COOPER Mr Neville 68 69
COOPER Mrs Joan 68 69
FLORY BAnn 69 69
JOHNSTON Mrs A 56 57
NICOLL MaiyLC 68 68
SHERRIFF Rosemarie 68 68
MANILA. 11957-581
COURTNEY MrWW 57 58
COURTNEY Mrs W W 57 58
ELLIOTT E R 53 54
HEMBURY VT 57 58
SMART MY 57 58
TAGAYTAY 11953-56]
ELLIOTT E R 54 56
LOCKHART Mr J E 54 56
LOCKHART Mrs J E 54 56
SMART MY 56 56
TAIWAN 11954 - 611
CHIAYI [1959-611
BOYDEN Jennifer J 59 61
deKOCK...”
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June 1987
JENNINGS JW 48 51 PEARCE Dr RAH 47 47
KANE MrsJH 48 48 PEARCE Mrs RAH 47 47
LOUGHEED LM 48 49 PHARE IE 47 47
LUMSDEN Ewan 49 51 POWELL E M G 47 47
MARTIN MrSG 48 51 PYLE M 46 47
MARTIN MrsSG 48 51 RAND W 47 47
PEARCE Dr RAH 48 51 STARK BM 47 47
PEARCE Mrs RAH 48 51 STEED MrsGM 47 47
PHARE IE 48 51 TAYLOR I J 47 47
POWELL E M G 48 51 THOERING LS 46 47
PYLE M 48 51 WILLIAMS DM 46 47
RAND W 48 48 WILLIAMSON FE 46 47
ROBERTSON MrDdeB ROBERTSON Mrs E 50 51 50 51 KALIMPONG.INDIA! 1945-461
SINGLETON Eileen 50 51 CARLBURG MrEW 45 46
STARK BM 48 51 CARLBURG MrsEW 45 46
STEED MrsGM 48 48 ELLIOTT E R 45 46
TAYLOR I J 48 51 GRAY Isabel 45 45
WILLIAMS DM 48 51 HARRIS Annette 45 46
YOUNG RC 48 51 HARRIS Dr 45 46
APLIN HG 12 15 ILIFF Mr HG ILIFF Mrs H G (THOW) 45 46 45 46
CLINTON Mrs TAP 10 11 JEPSEN Kristine 45 46
COLES AC 13 15 KENNEDY MrAR 45 46
KENDON EG 12 15 KENNEDY MrsAR 45 46
KING Emily 10 12 KNIGHTS Mr Steve 45 46
LINDSAY MrWW 09 15 LEISTER Joy 45 46
LINDSAY MrsWW...”
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“...WILLIAMS Mrs E 0 01 05
FISHE Marian H 01 02 WILLOUGHBY A K 22 28
FISHE NoraE 01 04 WITHERS HEF 27 33
FITZWILLIAM MrsFJ 41 43 WOODWARD D E 40 45
FULLER A 12 17 YOUNG PG 33 45
GALLOWAY PM 36 40
GETGOOD NK 26 40 The Chefoo Magazine is
GODDARD MC 28 31 indebted to the Chefoo Archives
GORDON ME 18 20 for the compilation of this list of
GRAY M 07 08 Chefoo Junior School staff. We
HANNA MrsWJ 39 43 regret any errors and omissions
HEIGH M 21 24 in this first published draft.
HENDERSON HG 33 45 Please send corrections and
HOFF C 96 00 additions to: The Chefoo
HURD AA 28 29 Archives, c/o The Chefoo
JENNINGS JW 42 45 Magazine. Lists of the Senior
JOHNSON RS 27 28 Schools’ staff (Boys, Girls, and
JUDD KS 32 33 Co-Tuition) [1880-1945] will
KENDON EG 16 38 also be published in The Chefoo
KNIGHT CM 33 36 Maaazine.
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
Already 25 years ago!
Chefoo School, Cameron Highlands, Malaya, 1961
Jonathan Shallow Ernest Bromley John Faulkner David Houliston
Danny Ruth Miss Mr. Mrs. Sarah Jackie Ruth
Heimbach Metcalfe Dickson Goble Goble Wuest Bromley- Murray
Miss Miriam Joyce Judv Michael Keith Paul Marilyn Alexandra Sharon Margaret Elizabeth Miss
Quirk Day Longley Lumsden Shallow Hatton Wik Peet Fogden Wuest Ferguson Cox Miller
Miss Ruth Victor Lucy Shirley James Stephen Susan James Norman David Rupert Miss
Goodall Heimbach Houliston Fogden Peet Peterson Longley Garrod Day Lumsden Almond Bentley-Taylor Edwards
David Philip Timothy Murray Joy Isobel Elizabeth Carol Gordon Paul Stephen Paul
Largent Wik Miller Luinsden Scott Nightingale Houliston (.rav Peet Murray Metcalfe Almond
Outside day scholars in italics
Miss Margaret Dickson Headmistress
Miss Margaret Quirk Teacher
Miss Goodall Teacher
Miss Edwards
Miss Miller
Teacher
Nurse
Rev. and Mrs. William H. Goble Houseparents...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine
June 1987
And then some 75 years ago!!
Members of Miss Unwin's Transition Form of 1911/12
C.I.M. Preparatory School, Chefoo (Yantai), China
(Extracted from Miss Unwin's "mark book"
Courtesy of the Chefoo Archives)
Final position in class:
First - Olive Joyce;
Second - Ina Trudinger; Third - Isabel Taylor
Boris Blacher, Theo Coulthard, Arthur Curtis, Marguerite Dickie, William Ford, Gertie Gibb, Stuart Green, Ernest Harding, Willie Harding, David Hogg, Olive Joyce, Svea Lindberg, Alex MacLeod, Duncan McKie, James McMullan, Grade Middleton, Rosie Olsen, Tom Paterson, Doris Rouse, Bertie Taylor, Isabel Taylor, Ture Thor, Ina Trudinger, C. Young, Gretchen Wells, Margaret Wells
The Archives needs group photographs and class lists (and any other memorabilia) from all periods, right up to the present, in the life of the Chefoo Schools. Send yours or write to: The Chefoo Archives, Chefoo Schools Association, P.O. Box 147, 260 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, Canada M5A 1N0
BOOKS...”
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“...the C.I.M. Schools that was Interned at Temple Hill and Weihsien were reprinted In the December 1985 issue of The Chefoo Magazine. (The C.I.M. Emergency Preparatory School functioned in "liberty" at Klating and Kalimpong.)
Myra Scovel, wife of an American Presbyterian medical missionary, writes a vivid story in her Chinese Ginger Jars of life under the Japanese, first in Tsining and then in Weihsien, before being repatriated in 1943 - just as the Chefoo group arrived from Temple Hill.
Then there are a number of biographical books which Include some chapters on the years at Weihsien. [Top of the list is, of course, Norman Cliffs own recounting of the drama of his internment at Temple Hill and Weihsien as a fresh graduate from Chefoo School (Class of '41). Fortunately, Norm's book. Courtyard of the Happy Way, Is still available directly from the author or by writing The Chefoo Magazine. -:Ed]
Elizabeth (Hoyte) Goldsmith's God Can Be Trusted has been widely read in Britain. Mary Scott, American...”
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