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“...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 with the Schools. Membership in the Association...”
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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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“...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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“...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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“... 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 overalls were scampering around their large, sunken field. Some of the second formers from the Boys School had found kites on their way back and were having fun flying them. Various children were, as usual, finding the Compound goats fascinating to watch. Brothers and sisters, generally separated in the different schools, were taking the chance to be together. A big boy was having a great game with a diminutive member of his family, chasing him round and round a clump of trees. Parties of boys and girls were returning from long walks over the hills close behind us. Complete families, like the Stanley Houghtons, were quietly strolling about. Everybody was on holiday. Hemmed in as we were by the sea, the hills, the Japanese, the war and the general lack of transport, and I gazed through the trees, along the gullies...”
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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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“...and now, in the summer term, those same grounds are alive with bicycle riders, ball games and tree climbers. This summer sees quite an exodus from Chefoo with Stephen and Peter Viljoen leaving for furlough in South Africa, Moses and Joshua Chan furlough in Hong Kong, Daniel and Megan McGinty furlough in America and Jason Sung beginning secondary school in Tokyo. So, along with all the fun out of doors, there is plenty to occupy us in the classrooms as we prepare these children for the various schools they will be entering. Judith Spear OMF DORMS PHILIPPINES Miraculously another successful year draws to a close. Now there are only 2 more weeks and, true to M.K. school form, this not only means moving a grade higher but saying goodbye to those leaving. However, there will be many happy memories and events that concluded these days... Though there have been continued ‘brown outs’ (no electricity!) and water shortages we have seen God continue to provide wonderfully for our needs and safety....”
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“...memories of his beloved teacher Miss Powell, from all those years ago, were certainly appreciated. (Editor- This 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...”
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“...1990 I have come to Houston, Texas to serve as Interin Pastor of Clear Lake Presbyterian Church. We live just a couple of miles from the Johnson Space Centre, many of our parishioners are connected with the space programme, either through NASA or jobs with private industries that have contracts with NASA. MARGARET (SEAMAN) FEVER (1930-41) Douglas continues to overseethe College of Humanities and International Studies as Dean. From a little seed five years ago it has grown and branched out to schools in Hebrew, Greek, Fine Arts, Humanities, TESOL (Teachers) and ESL (Speakers) of other languages. I help in Bible Study devotional talks, office and hospitality. Twice I became a student - for a Writer’s Seminar and in the TESOL school. I team-taught in a Japanese seminar made up largely of Buddhist students, some of whom committed their lives to the Lord and were tearful when leaving. Living close to the base our team of teachers and staff meet weekly for fellowship and prayer in our home. Our...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association (Founded in 1908) PRESIDENT Howard F Joyce FCA Vice-Presidents S Gordon Martin, John J Miller, Mary L C Nicoll, James H Taylor III Principals of the Chefoo Schools Judith Spear (Japan); Barry McKessar (Malaysia) GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH AND COUNCIL Chairman: Timothy F Reynolds 45 Brockhurst Road Chesham Bucks HP5 3JB Secretary: Josephine Houghton 19 Riffhams Drive Great Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM2 7DE Treasurer: Ruth (Crockett) Green 15 Abbotsford Road Goodmayes Ilford Essex IG3 9SN News/Magazine Editor: Dorothy L Cox 34 Pirie Road West Bergholt Colchester Essex CO6 3TA NORTH AMERICA BRANCH Chairman: David Michell 395 St Germain Avenue Toronto Ontario M5N 1W8 Secretary: Ian Grant 27 Little Avenue Barrie Ontario L4N 4M7 Treasurer: Bill Tyler 45 Wynford Heights Crescent Don Mills Ontario M3C 1L2 News Editor: Grant Hanna 1058 Avenue Road Toronto Ontario M5N 2C6 AUSTRALIA BRANCH Chairman: Theo Hayman 22 Alice Street Macquarie Fields NSW 2564 Secretary-Treasurer: Faith...”