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“...IAN GRANT 27 Little Ave Ba^’ONL4N4M7 (705) 726-9677 THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE SUMMER 1993...”
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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE [Est. 1908] Published twice a year by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Edited By Dorothy Cox 34 Pirie Road West Bergholt Colchester Essex CO6 3TA UK THE CHEFOO SCHOOLS (Founded in 1880) Chefoo was established by the China Inland Mission at Chefoo (Yantai) in Northern China to provide an education for the children of missionaries and the business and diplomatic communities. In 1951 the school left China to relocate in South East Asia. Two Chefoo Schools are currently operating as junior schools in Japan and Malaysia under the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION (Founded in 1908) 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...”
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“............. 3 Gunning for Business................................................. 4 Christian Connections in Communist China 1992 - David Clarke......... 5 The Past in a Foreign Country - Kathleen (Strange) Foster............10 The Younger Set in Australia - Theo Hayman...........................12 Extracts from Chefoo Diaries - David Bentley-Taylor...................14 ‘Hungry1 Students are Tops............................................19 Book Reviews..........................................................20 When and Where was This Taken? .......................................22 Reunions .............................................................23 Present Day Chefoo....................................................24 Morrison Academy......................................................26 Football Team Winter 1939-40 .........................................27 News of Chefusians ...................................................28 The Last Days of Rev. Henry Stuart Ferguson...”
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“...Crucifixion’ at Danbury Parish Church. We had a wonderful time and it brought Chefoo days very close. Josephine took with her, her father's score which had all his comments in the margins. You will be pleased to know that our conductor agreed with most of them! I enjoy an annual breakfast time visit from JEAN PEARCE and MARY and MARGARET WELLER on their way on holiday to Norfolk. Also RUTH (CROCKETT) GREEN, and her husband Tony, visit when Ruth is overseeing a course at Flatford Field Study Centre. We all have so much to talk about it’s a wonder we have time to eat. As my consultancy work has dropped of recently I have started a correspondence course on Garden Design with the Open College of the Arts. I have also gained half an overgrown allotment. I didn’t realize that they were still measured in rods (poles or perches). Whatever happened to metrication! In the last issue Norman Cliff asked if George Irwin had been at Chefoo. He was - from 1935-40. A few months ago I went to speak at a local church...”
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“...CHRISTIAN CONNECTIONS IN COMMUNIST CHINA 1992 (or, 10 Years of Christmas Services) By David H Clarke - Chefoo 1932-42 My wife, Margaret, and I have returned from three weeks in China. We were part of a small group, all of whom had previously been in China and most of whom were connected in some way - except Margaret - with the China Inland Mission’s Chefoo Schools, in Shandong and Jiangxi Provinces. Most had actually been bom in China. The CIM now goes under the name of Overseas Missionary Fellowship and is engaged in missionary work throughout most of the Orient. Our travels, or perhaps our pilgrimage, took us to places which had been home, school or civilian P.O. W. camps pre-1949, as well as to the tourist cities of Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Xian and Guilin. Among our most interesting and emotional encounters were with Chinese Christians and seeing the effects of underground Christian witness in China generally over the years of the Communist regime. On our arrival at the Sara Hotel...”
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“...1945. For a short while both Gil (Gilbert Lindberg), another member of our tour group whose parents had been missionaries in Qingdao, and I, had spent some months at the out-porters collection centre of the Columbia Country Club before he was repatriated to the U.S.A. and I was sent to Lunghua. Close to the old Club was the small home of Mr Ni, a Christian gentleman well in his 90’s. The Qius wanted us to meet him as he had been managing the Fairy Glen Hotel in Guling, Jiangxi Province, when the Chefoo School was there in the late ‘40’s. Mr Ni was a man of undimmed vision - he was still looking forward to the day when he would be able to fly to North America to persuade the Chinese Christians there to invest in a Christian Retirement Home in Shanghai! The nextday was Sunday when we hadourfirst emotionalconnectioninthe whole 3-week trip. We had been due to fly from Shanghai to Xian mid-morning (to visit the Tang Dynasty terracotta army discovered in 1974) which would have meant that we had to...”
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“...beside the sea’. As the taxi driver wormed his way through the clogged Shanghai traffic towards Nanjing Road the words of the Book of Common Prayer came to my mind, ‘There is one Body and one Spirit; There is one hope in God’s call to us, One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism; One God and Father of all.’ ‘THE PAST IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE’ Quotation from ‘The Go-Between’ by L P Hartley Kathleen (Strange) Foster (1937-45) After attending the centenary celebrations of the Chefoo Schools in London, I came home and wept. Feelings of loneliness and unimportance that had been suppressed as a child, overwhelmed me for days. I had not grieved when my parents left me, aged seven, in the care of teachers. I was excited, they had prepared me well. Three years later they returned with my sister Beryl and I was called to see them in the ‘day Room’. I was embarrassed and having said hello and been hugged, I asked to go out and play again. However they won me back and we had a wonderful...”
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“...training as a counsellor. Chefoo existed for the children of missionaries and religious faith was central to our lives. God's love was preached but it was not always easy to see it in action. I did not feel loved or important, though I believed in what my parents were doing. I learnt to avoid trouble by being inconspicuous, even now when I’m feeling low people pass without seeing me. I learnt not to care too much. In case of loss. I learnt to be responsible for my own feelings and to keep them to myself. It did not occur to me for a long time that my husband might be interested in what I felt. I have had to learn to allow myself to be vulnerable and allow others to help and support me; that is still a hard one. Because my mother and the therapist valued me I learned to value myself and believe I was lovable. This learning has come late in life, mostly in the twelve years since 1981. Perhaps for me the centenary marked the end of an illusion, the loss of a dream. Chefoo had its good and exciting...”
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“...worked through many of my feelings connected with my childhood, I am content. Counselling others is a rewarding experience; out of my pain has come understanding and enrichment. THE YOUNGER SET IN AUSTRALIA by Theo Hayman Following the exodus of foreigners from China in 1951, ‘Chefoo’ schools were begun in Malaysia and Japan, with ‘Chefoo’ hostels in Singapore and the Philippines. Most of the children are of Primary age. They go on to other schools for higher education, which school association they remember most. One school which does include older scholars is Faith Academy in the Philippines. At a recent reunion of Faith Academy students in the USA, it was found that a handful continued in Christian involvement. Most no longer ‘followed the Lord’ and many were described as broken people. This, the report said, can mainly be put down to one thing, bitterness. Some may feel they have been wronged by being sent to a MK school or even in being taken overseas. Other feel their own ‘home’ ...”
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“...EXTRACTS FROM CHEFOO DIARIES 1939-1940 By David Bentley Taylor Part 4 THE SECOND FORM February-March 1940 Problems of discipline and keeping order arise quite often. I suffer from a tendency to sympathise too much with the boys, so I frequently see extenuating circumstances fortheir misdemeanours. Repeatedly I feel that if I had been more skilful in the management of things then opportunity to transgress would not have occurred. When it does, it seems rather hard to penalise the boy, so I am generally inclined to err on the side of leniency. Since the New Year the boys have increasingly gravitated to my room, which is right amongst their own bedrooms. They drop in at all hours of the day. Some of them are handy at making things, which they bring for me to inspect. I keep a book list for each of them, so they come to tell me the titles, and often the contents, of books they have read. Better still, they drop in purely and simply to read the Bible and pray, dressing as fast as possible and...”
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“...formers were all in bed, I used to go round the rooms, sitting on each boy’s bed talking to them and telling them stories. They loved it and it probably did a little bit to give them that touch of home denied to them, which they did miss, for they were only small. EASTER AT CHEFOO Late March 1940 Early on Easter Saturday many of the second form boys gathered in my room for our prayer meeting. Soon after breakfast I joined them in the quadrangle and for two hours we played all manner of games till everyone was exhausted. At noon I packed a suitcase and moved over to spend the weekend with Gordon and Eva Welch and their four children. Soon after lunch the second form arrived in force and I tramped with them up the hill to Adam's Knob, where we played what they called ‘Austrian Hide and Seek' for another two hours. After tea I took Bunny Welch, then aged three years old, for a stroll around the Compound. We sat on a low wall and watched all that was going on. The Prep School children in blue...”
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“...the few really unpleasant ones I have met with at Chefoo. Rugged up in scarf, mittens and dressing gown, I was none too warm. April 11. The very opposite, warm and windy. The great south winds have started, strong blows which don’t refresh you much since they have come off the dusty land. We seem to have taken a sudden leap towards the heat of summer. April 23. I imagine that some stranger finding himself on the school compound during the Easter holidays would think he had landed in another world,a very lovely one too. The sun shines away all day long, gardens and field are green, spring is in the air and the place abounds in children. A delightful atmosphere of The Golden Age seems to pervade the scene. Then a familiar, bent figure appeared, old Herbert Taylor, eldest son of the founder of the CIM. “Would I do him the great favour of coming to his house and trimming his beard for him? Yes, I would.” April 29. Sunday morning: brilliantly sunny and peaceful. I strolled down to the beach...”
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“...THE SERVANTS’STRIKE Early May 1940 Last week was made memorable by an experience unusual for Chefoo Schools, a servants’ strike. With more than 300 children on the compound, there are a considerable number of employees. Their position is not easy in these uncertain times with the city occupied by the Japanese army. With the cost of living constantly increasing, the few brought irresistible pressure on the majority and at midday on Thursday, 2 May the servants in all three schools walked out. It being holiday time, the children buckled to with relish and we had an unsalaried army of helpers in no time. Marvellous talent for cooking was discovered. Jobs were found for all and the compound became an excited hive of activity. I was given the task of supervising the water supply at the Boys’ School and the Prep School. This involved organising gangs of boys to carry water from the well at fixed hours, specially in the early morning, and sometimes the work was heavy. I was also made sanitary...”
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“...of Chinese culture and art. Of Oxford he writes, ‘What luck to be a member of a place with such beauty, such history, such devotion to learning for its own sake.’ His career was shattered by the Japanese invasion of China and more still by the Communist takeover. The book falls into 3 periods: early life (school and university in England); Chefoo School (1928-1951); teaching at Bristol Grammar School, followed by retirement in the English village of East Knoyle, then in Canada. The last chapter is an intriguing philosophical review of his whole life. I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it, together with the other two books of his trilogy: Chefoo School (1881-1951) £5.95 St Paul’s Tabletalk and other Papers £3.50 All three are available from Merlin Books Ltd 40 East Street Braunton Devon EX33 2EA The prices include U.K. postage. David Landsborough page 21...”
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“...Chinese feast. The Chefusians were not all, of course, from Chefoo, China but were also from Baguio, Calapan, the Cameron Highlands, Nanae, Kiating, Kuling and Shanghai. The earliest of us went to Chefoo in 1910. After the meal David Michell showed us slides of present Chefoo and Weihsien, whetting our appetites to return to much-changed scenes. Jon Fuller then gave an inspiring talk on the influences of Chefoo in the Phillipines on both himself and his children. It had installed convictions that had proved their worth in this changing world. It had fostered a spirit of caring in a world crying out with its needs, and it had given an international outlook that is almost a sine qua non in today’s multicultural environments. Thank you, Jon. Then with pictures of the Grand Canyon, Ian Grant transported us through their majesty and wonder - and heat, leaving us to brave Toronto’s blustery and chilly April. Till next year, ‘Floreat Chefoo’. Among those present were: Samuel Arendt; Jack & Gwen Bell;...”
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“...PRESENT DAY CHEFOO NANAE - JAPAN In December, everyone was busy preparing for our annual Christmas presentation. With only 12 children here each one had to be fully involved! They all worked hard to learn their parts in Japanese as we sought, through prayers and songs, to share the wonderful message of Christmas with about 70 Japanese friends and neighbours who joined us in the new Nanae church for the evening There are strong links between the school and the church, which was built 1 ’/2 years ago, at the entrance to the school grounds. The children enjoy attending the monthly Family Service there but on the other weeks still have their own Worship Time and Sunday School here at Chefoo, in English. Once again the Winter Term (Jan-March) brought seemingly endless fun for the children out in the snow. They specially enjoyed their trips to the local ski slopes but even within the school grounds there was plenty of scope for skiing, tobogganing and building. At one point we had quite a village...”
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“...In the coming August there will be a new French teacher, a new junior school teacher and a new vice-principal here at Hebron. The school is trying to gain greater official recognition so that children who wish to continue their education in India can do so more easily. Andrew & Shirley Dickinson MORRISON ACADEMY Everyone knows about Chefoo School, but what is Morrison Academy? Morrison is the current main OM F educational provision for OM F children in Taiwan. There are 28 families with 57 children among taiwan OMFers. This year 17 of those children are studying at Morrison Academy. As more and more of our children reach school age, the number of those students will increase. Fully accredited Morrison Academy provides a quality American style education from a Christian perspective within the context of an international community. Children from 35 nationalities study at Morrison. Forty percent of those children are missionaries' kids. Morrison has three campuses, each with an elementary...”
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“...KNIGHT Kiating and Kalimpong as a child and then as a teacher at Chefoo Japan 1964-78. Still with OMF home-staff, Melbourne. RUTH METCALF (1930-41) I live at 38 Baxter Village Robinson Road Frankston Victoria 3911. I moved in January 1992 and am very happy in my home. This retirement of 700 has a very happy atmosphere and there are many outlets. JOYCE (TRUDINGER) McLEOD (1931 -40) I recently visited my sister LYNDAL HOWARD. She and her husband Rex are now living in Belair, a hill suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. They have 5 grandchildren. FRANK MOORE (1946-51) I remain a teacher despite some efforts to get out of it around my 50th birthday. I am Co-Head of an idiosyncratic little school for children from 3 to 18. My father Percy Moore was at Chefoo from about 1916-27, later joined by my aunts Jessie Bentley Taylor and Marjorie McLean and uncle Doug Moore. Before that my grandmother Esther Moore and her family were all at Chefoo before the turn of the century. My mother, Amy Moore, now lives...”
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“...wonderful Chefoo Mag, please pass on to Tim Reynolds that I applaud the Christian principles that are expressed in the magazine. RUTH METCALF, NORMAN CLIFF and I were in the same form at Chefoo.- Frankston Victoria PETER & JOHN ROBINSON (1930-38) During the year John was taking meetings for Pray for China Fellowship in all the southern states as well as in Queensland. When he was in Melbourne he preached at the Chinese Church in Frankston. The meetings are held at the Wesley Uniting Church where Lilian Fletcher was a member. John was appointed the acting Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney on 1 October until 17 December 1992. John’s address is: 115 Stuart’s Road, Katoomba NSW 2780 RUTH METCALF lives about 5 kilometres from our home here. I have had a letter from JOHN QUIMBY and NORMAN CLIFF both of whom were in the same class as I at Chefoo. FRANCES (HAYMAN) SCULLY and her husband, Ron, are both recovering from early forms of cancer. They live in a beautiful area, set among many trees...”
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“...letter is printed in this magazine.) The monthly OMF prayer meeting at the home of GORDON & MAY CONWAY (1914-25,1947-50) is almost a mini-Chefoo reunion! Those attending include exfellow CIMer’s Nancy Knight, and her son and daughter-in-law ALLAN (1941 -47) and Shirley, as well as MARGARET (JACKSON) DEWDNEY. Daughter Elspeth keeps very busy with Christian work, particularly Bible-In-Schools (religious education) classes. The children love her and often when out shopping she hears some small voice say to her mother ‘There is our Bible lady’. Recently Gordon and May had a phone call from LOIS GLAZIER who was passing through Auckland. ‘How well we remember her and her sister GRACE with our children at Kuling’. 1/242 Sturges Road Henderson Auckland 1008 MARGARET (JACKSON) DEWDNEY (1933-45) shares this story about her father Gerard Jackson who was secretary to Chefoo School. ‘When Dad took over, there were two safes in the office. One was an old mode! and held the account books. The other was a modern...”