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“...IAN GRANT 27 Little Ave Barrie, ON L4N 4M7 (705)726-9677 THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE SUMMER 1995...”
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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE [Est. 1908] Published twice a year by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Edited By Dorothy Cox 34 Pirie Fload 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 tor 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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“.....9 Present Day Chefoo..................................................14 Tidbits - Barbara Tootill...........................................18 Luce and His Empire - W A Swanberg..................................19 Photographs.........................................................22 Fifty Years On - Estelle (Cliff) Cowley.............................24 Birds in the Fowler’s Net (Part 2) - J W G Bruce....................26 Memories from Chefoo School Days - Peter Robinson...................32 Old Boys in Bath - David H Clarke...................................33 News of Old Chefusians..............................................34 Chefusians Killed in World War 1 ...................................46 Memories of Kiating - Theodore Kitchen..............................48 Reunions............................................................49 Where Are They Now?.................................................54 China Inland Mission School Annual Prize-Giving - Chefoo Daily News July 1936...”
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“...and another has become the mother-in-law of Fiona (Trelogan) Rickards. Some members have written to me saying that they would like to contribute to a fund to help keep costs down saying that this would benefit those who find it difficult to pay. On the subscription renewal form in Great Britain there are spaces for contributions to CSA general funds and for present day OMF MK’s who are still in school. Those who feel able to, might like to make use of this facility in other countries. The next Chefoo Reunion in London will be on Saturday 16 September U.R.C. Hall, Tavistock Place. Any Chefusians visiting the country will be very welcome. My continued thanks to Josephine Houghton not only for her meticulous proofreading, but also helpful suggestions for improvement to the magazine. Please let me have all items for the next edition by 6th November. Now I’ll leave you to get on with reading the magazine. Dorothy Cox page 2...”
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“...Extract from ‘China’s Millions', March 1936 EXPERIENCES IN BUILDING WORK H/e are glad to print to God’s glory part of Mr. Douglas Robertson's account of His goodness in connection with the new buildings at Chefoo. Mr. Robertson was the architect THY mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens, and Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.’ How literally these words were fulfilled to us! Here a number of experiences are recorded as a testimony to the goodness and power of GOD, and of His personal interest in everyday affairs. First, with regard to preservation from accidents. Accidents, sometimes fatal, are not uncommon in connection with building work in China. At the opening service in the new Class Room Building, Dr. Judd, who spoke, told of how numbers of serious accident cases had been brought to him from a neighbouring property, where the Chinese were putting up a new house, not a very large building. Special prayer, however, was made that we might be preserved from such, and, in the goodness...”
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“...per cent, and decided to dispense with insurance. The firm in question manufacture a particularly good type of stove, but the agent in Shanghai remarked, ‘We have had to give up importing that type. We always have such a high percentage of breakage, sometimes up to one hundred per cent!’ But for us the firm undertook to take special precautions in packing, etc., and the order was placed for a number of stoves of the special type, along with others. The order duly arrived, and when unpacked in Chefoo the fact was revealed that some three stoves in all had sustained slight damage, but were still usable. Every other stove was in perfect condition. It is interesting to think of that prospect of one hundred per cent, breakage, and to contrast it with GOD’S one hundred per cent, answer to our prayers. On numbers of occasions the LORD worked on our behalf beyond our asking or our thinking. An example of this is as follows. Reference has been made to the proximity of the new buildings to the sea...”
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“...expressing their appreciation of a gift recently received from CSA. “Dear Mrs Green We are parents of Joanne Booth who is at Hebron School in India. We are missionaries with OMF and work in Japan and we have just received a letter from Hebron telling us of a gift received from the Association to be divided among the children there. We wish to express our thanks for your love, care and help for the children. Joanne loves Hebron and has settled well with lots of friends. She is beginning her third year there. We have seen the school, talked to the teachers and find the place to be a ‘grown up Chefoo’! Many thanks. Sincerely, Desmond and Margriet Booth” page 8...”
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“...also “Some weeks ago we received a letter from Shirley Dickinson at Hebron telling us they had received a gift for the OMF children from the CSA. We were so touched and grateful (our Caroline has just gone into the 6th form having been in the since she was 13). Please accept our warmest thanks. We have two girls who are old Chefusians and both have very happy memories of Chefoo, so there is that connection, too! Our second daughter, Susanna, has been in touch with the Association through Donnington where she is a happy member of the family. We would be grateful if you would pass on our appreciation to those who so kindly gave. With warmest greetings, Zinnia Symonds” FROM MAOS TO MINIS IN THIRTEEN YEARS by David H Clarke An afternoon flight to Yantai on an East China Airways’ DC-9 sure beats arriving by train at 5.00 a.m. That steam-train journey from Beijing with my wife Margaret, 13 years before, had taken more than 15 hours and the train was largely empty. This time we arrived at Yantai’s...”
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“...Aeronautical Engineering Institute, that now occupies the Compound, put on a very posh lunch for us in a restaurant up in the South-East corner of the old CIM property. There was ‘cam-bei’ (toasting) galore and after being entertained to a couple of revolutionary songs accompanied by video-tapes (singing called ‘karaoke’ introduced by the Japanese) our group rendered - without the aid of video-tapes or song books - all the old school songs we could remember, ending with the 23rd Psalm to the Chefoo tune. One afternoon we climbed Adam’s Knob and were rewarded with a grand view of the places we had been able to that visit. The sweep was spectacular, from the Sandspit and Bluff, to the Harbour, Consular Hill, the Front, Rickshaw Hill, Second beach (with Lighthouse Island in the distance) and round to Third Beach and the broad highway to Muping. We could even make out the line of the Weihai mountains in the sea-haze to the east. Margaret and I had stayed in a Government guest-house off Third...”
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“...We won’t be back, we felt - ever. Good-bye to our beloved China, I thought, you wonderful country with such a suffering past, such a fascinating present and of such future promise. God grant you enlightenment and true freedom! It was Saturday - a day of special Chinese dishes at our hotel -1 ate two heaping bowls of delicious Shanghai steamed dumplings, we collected our bags, checked out and left for the airport and home. * Editor - see Summer 1993 CSA magazine - photograph page 7 PRESENT DAY CHEFOO FAITH ACADEMY Prayer - an active force that we in the OMF dorms here in Manila have really seen the working of throughout the years. The first example that I would like to share is one which has been told me by Uncle Jim, my dorm parent. A few years ago one of the older girls in the dorm, Serena Jensen, was anticipating returning to Australia alone for schooling and no housing arrangements had been found. Prompted by a devotional book that Uncle Jim as reading in dorm devotions, she and her room-mate...”
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“...when our 3 older students, Peter Viljoen, Sun Min Kim and Joseph Na all graduate. Speaking of graduation, Helen Lyttle and I spent a very helpful few days in Aprii at Christian Academy in Japan, the American school in Tokyo which most of our present students will be attending after Chefoo School. We were both so thankful for this chance to find out so much about the situation for which we are preparing the children here. It was also a special bonus to be able to spend time with so many former Chefoo students thee. Whilst in Tokyo we also enjoyed meeting Nigel Trevor and Andrew Pike who are back in Japan to work for a while. Back here in Nanae, the older class are enjoying looking back to find out more about Chefoo School’s past years in China. Just now they are fascinated by David Michell’s book, A Boy’s War which we’re reading together. A visit from Margaret Knight, who taught here 1964-77, has also helped to bring history to page 15...”
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“...missionary families represented. OMF alone with 22 students enrolled makes up almost 10% of the student body. As dorm parents to 10 of these 22 we hear a lot of talk about the good old days at Chefoo Malaysia. Jason Rancourt and Hanni Oppel (9th grade) and Ben Rancourt (7th grade) are our three who have graduated from Chefoo Malaysia. They hold the school and it's staff in highest esteem. Caleb Oppel, KathieTrelogan and Peter McGowan (5th grade) all enjoyed 2 years of Chefoo life and Paul McGowan (3rd grade) joined his brother for 1 year. At the OMF hostel, John Mark (7th grade) and Ruthanne Kane (4th grade) loved their years there, as did Ben Curtis, Khup Nhgaite (5th grade) and Jenny Mclvor. Ian Thompson, also a student at CMIS, who lives at home with his parents, enjoyed 2 fun filled years at Chefoo. For our older students CMIS was their choice for secondary education. As for the younger children, a number of reasons are given for coming to CMIS, among them is the chance to remain in the...”
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“...was so near it was small wonder that we imagined tigers looking into the dorms at us, especially after one holiday, when a tiger apparently did visit. We also had a visit one day from a troop of monkeys, which resulted in a day without lessons as the staff tried devious means to catch them. They helped themselves to a quantity of boot polish and one child fell into a laundry basket on top of one!! LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE by W A Swan berg (1973) Extract 2. IT WAS ALL GOD Although he later said of Chefoo School, “I hated it and I loved it,” it was the dislike that seemed to linger. On top of the displacement of his adoring parents by despotic masters who enforced regulations with canings, the young patriot was a member of the minority. The masters were all Britons, as were four-fifths of the hundred odd students. His stuttering, about which he was painfully sensitive, could not have failed to provoke occasional taunts, nor could his aggressive Americanism. His imperfect sense of humour deprived...”
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“...American consul general at Shanghai and with whom he would have a sporadic friendship that ended curiously: “I had a long talk with Thornton Wilder on Darwinism, he says that it is quite the thing in the U.S. He says that until he came here he thought everybody accepted it!” Anger gripped him on Independence Day, 1912: “To my utter contempt of American citizens her in Chefoo, the 4th of July passed without note to sound the glories of our day. Has patriotism fallen to this degraded state? Is there no spark left to show our ancient glory?” His national loyalty would always be a blend of Roosevelt, Beveridge and Dink Stover. At Chefoo School he did what would eventually come naturally to him. page 20...”
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“...older Chefusians about these pages because I really wonder how accurate the description of the school really is. Was there flogging and fagging and toadying? Why would there have been a problem about getting into fourth form? Was Greek taught, and if so when was it dropped? And a question about Tsingtao, was the Grand Hotel on the Bund? I am especially interested because my father was at the Boys’ School at the same time, but was two years Luce’s junior. Editor - To find out more about Luce see Chefoo Magazine - Summer 1993 -page 49 Henry R Luce - Another of Chefoo’s Famous Sons by Norman Cliff. page 21...”
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“...FIFTY YEARS ON by Estelle (Cliff) Cowley We were on a train, ‘soft bed class’, a euphemism for first class in the classless People’s Republic of China. The compartments had four bunks, and the floor even the corridor, was coated with exquisite, though grubby, Chinese carpets. It was the end of our 12th day of an unbelievable tour, and the excitement was mounting as we approached our destination - Yantai - our beloved Chefoo! The sun was setting and shone directly through the carriages onto the corridor windows as nine pairs of eyes strained for a glimpse of anything familiar. The window only opened a handbreadth upwards, and the nine Old Chefusians droppec to their knees to look through that slat, oblivious of the feet that picked their way over them as they passed down the corridor. I looked around me and realisec what I saw - nine Chefusians on their knees, unconsciously showing the degree of their devotion to the lovely port that was their Alma Mater, and the God tha: we were taught...”
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“...God raised him up to world fame as the hero of the film ‘Chariots of Fire'. A familiar figure in Weihsien camp was old Herbert Taylor, eldest son of our founder Hudson Taylor, who in his 80’s wore a long white beard just like the pictures of his father. He remembered sailing out on the LammermuiraX the age of five. As he walked around under a red-lined parasol, he spanned for us the whole history of the CIM. His grandson James Hudson Taylor III and his brothers and sisters were there with the Chefoo School, completing four generations in China. Jamie and our class were preparing for our matric exams in 2 or 3 months time, when suddenly our settled existence came to an abrupt end. On 17th August 1945, two days after rumours of a Japanese surrender had swept through the camp, we all pricked up our ears and rushed outside at the sound of an aircraft engine. A huge B29 bomber flew over the camp, and then before our disbelieving eyes the bomb-doors opened, and out dropped seven red para- page...”
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“...bewildered armed guard and into the sorghum fields to meet our rescuers. Imagine our greater surprise, if that were possible, to find there an Old Chefoo Boy, Jimmy Moore In the euphoric days that followed before our evacuation ‘Pa’ Bruce, advised us to write our matric exams immediately, as we would have to start again in our home countries if we did not. So with one week’s notice, with ‘planes dropping supplies daily by parachute all around us, we swotted and then wrote our final exams. Chefoo had such a good record at Oxford University that when ‘Pa’ took the papers personally there, they accepted them, and most of us passed and gained our school leaving certificates. In a few months we were scattered all over the world, but our Chefoo family maintains its ties with a bi-annual magazine. The Mission has changed its name and area of work; new Chefoo Schools have blossomed in exotic places, but we remember our Prep School motto: ‘Remember Jesus Christ’ who is ‘the same yesterday, and today, and...”
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“...aloud to the house a classic thriller. Rider Haggard’s ‘King Solomon's Mines’ was one. Another was John Buchan’s deer-stalking adventure ‘John Macnab’, illustrated by a splendid map drawn by the English Master, Mr Gordon Martin1. Every day we lined up outside for Roll Call and on the command “Bango!” we numbered off in Japanese: “Ichi-Ni-San-Shi-Go-Roku-Hichi-Hachi-Kiu-Chiu ... etc”2 1 - Mr Martin was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. He was the last Headmaster of the post-war, China-based ‘Chefoo’ School, in its remote fastness in Kuling, W. China, until expelled by the Communists in 1951. 2 - Numbers one to ten. page 29...”
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“...Reluctantly I put aside dreams of escape. I took a last longing look over the bay, remembering nostalgically the fabulous launch trips of the past to nearby islands or longer steamer trips to Weihaiwei, Tientsin and Shanghai, and exulted one last time in my temporary truancy. Then, resignedly, I stood up and retraced my steps, without incident, without seeing another soui, back to camp and a soundless return to my bed. MEMORIES FROM CHEFOO SCHOOL DAYS by Peter Robinson 1930-38 1. At Prep School, I often awoke at night. I remember hearing the sound made by the night-watchman when he would strike two bamboo sticks together as he walked around the compound. 2. At the Boy’s School, I had number ‘23’. Our bedroom (three to a room) was in the upper wing, over towards the five courts. Beyond the quad wall was an open field which had a number of burial mounds. At night I often heard ‘wailing’ - there’s nothing so heart-rending as the sound of women wailing. I'll never forget. 3. Who could ever...”