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“...IAN GRANT 27 Little Ave Barrie, ON L4N4M7 (705)726-9677 THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE WINTER 1993/94...”
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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE [Est. 1908] Published twice a year by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Edited By Dorothy Cox 34 Pine 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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“...................................................2 From Great Britain Secretary..........................................2 My First Sunday in Toronto - Bruce Clinton...........................3 Firsts - Stan Rist....................................................5 Reunions..............................................................7 Copy of Letter from Chefoo through Swiss Parents.....................11 Children's Newspaper.................................................14 The Small Escape - John Graham.......................................21 Photo - Chefoo's Frozen Sea - in January 1936 .......................23 Present Day Chefoo...................................................24 Letters to G.B. Branch...............................................28 Wedding of Stanley Houghton & Dorothy Benson.........................29 Enemy Aliens - M B Chilton...........................................31 News of Chefusians...................................................32 Christmas at Kuling...”
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“...FROM THE EDITOR My apologies to Kathleen (Strange) Foster and L P Hartley for misquoting. All those of you who are more literary educated than me would have known it should have been ‘The past is a foreign country'. Once again I have received a great variety of items for this magazine. If we are to keep going as an association we MUST continue to hear from the post China Chefusians - both news and articles. Keep them coming! I’m sorry that I have not been able to include all the photos you sent me - not necessarily due to lack of space but for financial reasons. The printer charges about £5.00 (Sterling) for screening each photo so I don’t want to bump up the price of an issue too much. Bill Sinton remarks that the G.B. Medical Reunions have not been reported on. If one of you sent a report to me it would get printed! The deadline for copy for the Summer magazine is 14 May 1994. If you send items via your News Editor please let him/her have them in plenty of time as to get to me by THE...”
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“...MY FIRST SUNDAY IN TORONTO By Bruce Clinton - Chefoo (1913-24) On 1 September 1924 I kissed my mother goodbye. (She was then the housekeeper at The Boys’ School, my Australian father having died when I was an infant.) They had been missionaries together in Changteh, Hunan. Goodbye was said on the jetty beside the bust harbour of Yantai (Chefoo), where I was born, raised and educated. I had just passed my seventeenth birthday and had written the Oxford High School leaving certificate in July. I did not hear until December that I had passed. I was bound for a new life in Toronto, Canada, of which I had heard from school friends who had preceded me. A launch carried me out to the S.S. Feng Tien (Heavenly Wind) and two days later I was in Shanghai. Here I boarded the C.P.R. ship Empress of Asia, along with school mates Harold Warren, Reuben Fiddler, Cathy Judd and Averell Robinson, under the care of Mr & Mrs Robinson. We crossed the Pacific to Vancouver. The train journey across Canada impressed...”
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“...FIRSTS From Stan Rist (1923-33) Among the many fond memories I have of Chefoo are several ‘Firsts' in my life. Incidentally, this is the fist contribution I have made to the magazine - after 60 years! Perhaps some of these are firsts’ for your readers too. Here are a few of mine. 1. The First separation from my parents, when I entered Prep School, January 1923. 2. My First walk along the Bund to Union Church - quite exhausting for a five year old. 3. When I was First (head of the class) in Kindergarten through Lower I. 4. When I First met Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour (age seven, according to a letter my mother kept for years.) 5. When I First learned to swim; after somebody pushed me off the Prep School raft and I had to get back to it on my own - dog-paddle. 6. When I saw my First movies - ‘Felix the Cat’ and a Charlie Chaplin short, at the Chefoo Club during winter holidays, when all of us were invited there for a party. 7. When I First fell in love, at age seven or eight. Her...”
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“...by Mr McCarthy in his study. I forget what infraction I committed to deserve this 21. The First loss in my family. News of my father’s death in the interior took one week to reach us. 22. My First ‘mention in dispatches’ - in the Chefoo Daily News. A report of a soccer game between the school and the Settlement in which I displayed exceptional prowess as the substitute goalie. 23. My First pair of glasses, at age 12. I hated them! 24. My First pair of crutches. Necessary after surgery on an infected foot. 25. My First piano lessons. Poor Miss Wilson had to finally give up on me. I have always regretted not being able to keep up with them. 26. My First time scoring any significant number of runs in a cricket match (33), Foundation Day 1933, my last year at Chefoo. The are other first-time experiences I could mention, e.g. my first plague of locusts; my first cloud-burst, resulting in several drownings; my first straw hat (Summer Sunday head-gear), succeeded by my first Panama hat (also S...”
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“...September from 12 noon till 4.30 p.m. The twenty people who attended were:- Rev & Mrs John Burnett, Mrs Jean Doyle (Garven), Mr Ian Findlay, Rev Norman Macrae, Mr Ian & Rachel Morrison (Nicol), Dr Helen Richardson (Brown), Mrs Jenny Somerville (Liddell), Drs Bill & Dorothy Toop (Walker), Dr Bernard & Mrs Walker, Dr Robert & Mrs Walker, Mr & Mrs Forrest (Alice Taylor), Mrs Elsie Houston (Stewart) and Miss Frances Bailey. Bobby Walker welcomed us all including Miss Bailey who had been a teacher in Chefoo Schools, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia and Miss Jackie Erskine who had recently worked in China for two years with Amity. A Chinese Chow was delivered piping hot, Bobby Walker said grace and the meal was greatly enjoyed by all. The meeting was held with Bobby Walker in the Chair and Rev John Burnett took the devotions and included a letter from his grandfather to his brother, written a hundred years ago in China, which we all found quite fascinating. The business meeting was held and among other items...”
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“...photographs and exhibits, and a good Chinese meal, brought into us, complete with chopsticks. We sang a Chefoo song accompanied by a tape recording made by the Bazire brothers. Copies of this tape of Chefoo songs were on sale afterwards. A brief AGM was chaired by Tim Reynolds. All the present committee members were re-elected, with the addition of Theodore Welch. Presentations were made to Norman Cliff and Doris Briscoe for all their valued work as chairman and secretary. We were glad to get to know David and Florence Matson, who are going to the Cameron Highlands School to relieve the present headmaster (Barry McKessar) and his wife. Several of the younger generation who have been at the Newbury Hostel were there with Ivor and Yvonne Bees. One of them, Eric Fewster, told us of his adventurous and exhausting cycle trip through Malaysia, including a call at the Cameron Highlands Chefoo. BarbaraTootill then showed slides of her 4-5 years, as a nurse in the Cambodian Refugee Camps. These gave...”
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“...brought them into fashion! The geography and timing may vary it seems, but it is surprising how the components and antics of Chefoo life have remained so similar over the decades. It was good to have a direct telephone call to Barry & Eunice McKessar in the Cameron Highlands to bring us an up-to-the-minutes description of life at Chefoo today. Then David Michell kept us intrigued with the talk of his recent trip into China in connection with the Eric Liddell Sports Foundation. He showed us an 8-minute video taken during that trip, plus a set of slides of the old Yentai property and other historic photos. There were many challenges to memory as various once-familiar faces appeared on the screen. Some even dared admit that it was they who were thus portrayed. It was a worthwhile afternoon with a healthy blend of the old and the new, and the strengthening of Chefoo bonds. Those who attended were: (Alan &) Averil (McIntosh) Bennett, Brydon, Carey & Kristina Bennett, (Barry &) Phyllis (Taylor)...”
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“...Apologies were received from: Sheila (Lipson Ward) Pottkamper, Dr John (& Agnes) Sturt, Betty (Patchett) Stevens, Nick & Jenny Conway, Alsion (Knight) Vautier. It was also good to have Jan McCalman present - a Kiwi OMF missionary on furlough from Japan, reminding us of the Nanae Chefoo family, Margaret Howie (widow of David Howie), and Roy & Carol Olsen from the USA (ex OMF, Manorom, Thailand) whose children were at Chefoo Malaysia in the early 70’s. (Note: Addresses for all the above are on file for any friends elsewhere who want to make contact. Write c/o NZ CSASecretary, Linton Conway, 23 Katavich Place, Auckland 1004, New Zealand) COPY OF A LETTER RECEIVED FROM CHEFOO THROUGH SWISS PARENTS 24 January 1942 It must be weeks since you heard of the children, for no mails are allowed in or out these days. Can you imagine the bitter disappointment of the children with all the boxes packed, when the news came that all British ships had to proceed instead to Hong Kong! The ‘Hsin Peking' had...”
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“...details of our buildings and furnishings and cost, our names, ages, addresses and nationalities included in each. Finally we have each been given an arm band to wear when we go out. It has our nationality on it. One day, after filling in a particularly large number of forms all in duplicate, the one who took the prayer meeting gave out 'Count your blessings, name them one by one!’ We have cut down our meat and milk bills by half and dismissed a number of servants. The boys and girls in the other schools set tables and clean rooms. Here the staff do their own chores and spread bread. It is quite a business to clean one’s room before morning school. We are also limited in the number of pieces of bread we eat. The Preps eat 9 a day. At supper they are allowed one piece every 5 minutes and each is very particular that no-one gets over his share. We are having the most interesting meals - ‘Teo-fu’ (bean curd) in huge quantities and peanuts in a number of dishes, one of the most popular being peanut...”
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“...having grown up here at Chefoo as a child, has he-own very special contribution to make. Another recent development has been the help given by local retired friends One is a retired primary school teacher who has started coming to teach the children Japanese brush writing. Another is a retired laboratory assistant who is keen to help with our science lessons. With Japanese lessons for all the childrer and Chinese and Korean teachers coming in each week to teach the Chinese and Korean children, life is full of variety! Meanwhile, Helen Lyttle has just returned to teach the older class after being delayed at home by a leg injury. So I return to England for Home Assignment or 7 October. I was so sorry to miss being with you at the Chefoo Reunion on 1£ September, as originally planned. Judith A Spea- CAMERON HIGHLANDS - MALAYSIA Monday morning assembly at Chefoo Malaysia is storytime and this term the stories are about life at Chefoo in the ‘Good Old Days’! While Chefoo students got up to more...”
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“...cheers for those who keep on working through their retirement! We were sorry to farewell Judy Gibson in June but very pleased to welcome another Canadian on board when Lilly Wegner came to take over the girls’ dorm. At the end of this year Marj Lattin finishes as Chefoo Housekeeper and retires to the USA. The McKessar family complete their ten year residence in Malaysia and hand over Chefoo leadership to David and Flo Matson who arrived from England in early October. We also farewell the Level 5/6 teacher, Michelle Collin, who transfers to Morrison Academy where she will continue teaching MKs and OMF students. Canadian Thanksgiving on October 11th again provided us with the opportunity to thank Gos for his goodness to us here at Chefoo. After digging deep into their pockets and giving money towards a Christian hostel for Malaysian young people, both staff and students devoured the traditional Thanksgiving dinner of turkey and pumpkin pie. page 25...”
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“...there was a brilliant water supply. It is pleasant hilly country, now almost surrounded by houses From the beginning an area was made flat for tennis courts. So well practisec are the young people in tennis that they excel in the ‘Far East’ tournament. They also play basket ball and volley ball. Wrestling expends surplus energy! Others prefer cross-country running. Today about 700 attend the school, of whom about 630 are MKs. Half of the school are boarders and one of the residences is called Chefoo. So wide are the countries from which come missionaries today, that some of them cannot spea» English, especially those from Korea. There are no short term breaks but during the long major holiday ail the boarders go home. The school is evenly divided into Elementary, Middle and High, each with its owr principal. More than sixty are on the staff. Some of the wives also work part-time. Scripture teaching is part of the course. Once a week there is a chape service. Often at the end of August there...”
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“...sports, of which the boys have especially taken advantage. For one week of the past quarter, each day has been designated for dressing up and our Chefoo middle schoolers enthusiastically joined in the festivities. High school too, has enjoyed the occasional relief from the routine of school. Here to start high school as freshmen are Kathy Seed , Noreen Wufff and Esther Ryu. Noreen’s brother, Markus Wulff has just returned to Australia to complete his secondary school education. Paul Briffa, Jo Roberts and Steve Trelogan seem to be fitting well into their home countries too. Some of the folk taking GCSE’s at Faith, Annette Mclvor, Lydia White and Sharon Szto, are preparing for the up-and-coming exams. Even this is frequently interrupted by the many power cuts that are experienced here in Manila. Luckily though, this is the season for rain which relieves some of the heat that could make black-outs more of a hassle. So the rain does have it’s good points. It has also made the soccer practices...”
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“...Keiko Fuki, who are starting to teach at DTC. Although they were born and brought up in Japan and were married there, they have lived for 15 years in North America. For Kanji it will be a new experience teaching theology in English. He asks us to pray for his lecture preparation, and for their little daughter Marie, who will probably go to Chefoo School. Yours sincerely C L Glasgow Director of Administration & Finance FROM FAITH ACADEMY 3 August 1993 Dear Mrs Green It was with a deep sense of gratitude that we accept this generous gift on behalf of the Dorm-parent Team here at Faith Academy. Please convey our thanks to the officers of the Association for their timely gift to the ministry here in Manila. For some time now we have laid plans for a new venture within the OMF Board-page 28...”
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“...environment for senior students as a means of moving towards independence as tertiary education rooms. We are advised that your gift will be directed to seeing this venture on the road to realisation. May God bless you abundantly for your kindness and concern. Alan and Hetty Dorman WEDDING OF STANLEY HOUGHTON & DOROTHY BENSON ON 16 JANUARY 1930 AT CHEFOO Wedding at St Andrew’s Church The right man and the right bride, the blessing of God, plenty of friends, and sunshine - these are needed for a real marriage, and these were not lacking at the wedding of Mr Stanley Houghton and Miss Dorothy Blanche Benson, both of the China Inland Mission Schools Staff. St Andrew’s Church was full of friends when Mr Bruce escorted the bride to the chancel steps where Mr Houghton was waiting, with Mr LT Lyall, the 'best man’. Miss Benson was dressed delightfully in white Chinese crepe, and wore a charming veil which had been worn by her mother and grandmother before her. Miss Edith Bruce, who acted as bridesmaid...”
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“...conclusion Mr Bruce prayed for the blessing of God to rest on the future of our friends as on their past: and then speaking in Chinese at their request, expressed their gratitude for much loyal help. Mr and Mrs Houghton allowed themselves to be photographed, and shortly afterwards left to settle into their new home. With them went our best wishes, not for ‘riches too burdensome’, but for ‘the blessing of the Lord’ which ‘maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it'. [By kind permission of the Chefoo Daily News] Left to right: Leslie Lyall, Mrs Bruce, Stanley Houghton, Dorothy (Benson) Houghton, Edith Bruce, P A Bruce page 30...”
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“...an indefinite period of internment. With the departure of many able bodied men when the second American repatriation ship left Shanghai, the camp found it difficult to fill all vacancies existing in the labour market as we had, shortly before the American repatriation, lost a large group of Fathers etc from this centre. However, the labour situation was more than compensated by the timely arrival of what proved to be the best organised and most efficient group of all. i.e. the Chefoo School Group. Coming from Chefoo as seasoned internees, this group made light of our many labour problems, and under their most capable Head Master and his excellent staff they quickly and cheerfully took over more than their share of the essential camp assignments. Looking on from the ‘side lines’ I have day after day, month after month, come to understand and appreciate the outstanding qualities of Mr Bruce and all the members of the C.I.M.. The responsibilities which they have shouldered so ably and cheerfully...”