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“...i AN GRANT 27 Little Ave Barrie, ON L4N4M7 (705) 726-9677 THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE WINTER 1994/95...”
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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE [Est. 1908] Published twice a year by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Edited By Dorothy Cox 34 Ririe 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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“...INDEX Page From the Editor.........................................................2 Prayer Request - Al Stewart.............................................2 Further Report on Chefoo Archives in G.B. - Norman Clift..............3 Chefoo China Tours 1995.................................................4 School Days at Kiating (Conclusion) - Clarence Frencham...............5 Photographs............................................................12 A Missionary Kid - Tim Dinkins........................................14 News of Old Chefusians.................................................16 Present Day Chefoo.....................................................24 Wedding - David Bentley-Taylor and Felicity Houghton..................33 Reminiscing a China Childhood (Part 2) - David Clarke.................34 The East is Red - Estelie (Cliff) Cowley..............................43 Reunions...............................................................45 Birds in the Fowler’s Net (Part 1) -...”
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“...paper, photocopying, postage, fax etc. at cost only and do not charge for my time. The only way I can think of to reduce costs by a significant amount would be to have only one magazine a year. Judging by the amount of material I get in (apologies to those who have to wait until next issue to see their articles in print) this would be quite a bulky tome and certainly cost a lot more in postage - so maybe this wouldn’t save money after all. I’d like to hear comments from the different committees. Chefoo Japan is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. One article about this appears in this magazine and I hope to (belatedly) print others next time. As I produce the labels for envelopes please will members of the Great Britain Branch notify me of any change of circumstance or address. I would like to thank Jean Peace for joining Josephine Houghton in performing the arduous task of proof reading. I couldn’t produce the magazine without them. Once again there is a good mixture of news and articles...”
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“...friend - with the above result. FURTHER REPORT ON CHEFOO ARCHIVES IN GREAT BRITAIN ITEMS SENT TO MRS ROSEMARY SETON SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES 1. Photograph Albums - 2 batches files in Treasury Tags Dr Fred Judd’s album Arnold Lea - 2 albums Album marked ‘Chefoo’ Scrap books of large photographs Album with brown cover Irwin House Internment Camp - Autograph 2. Chefoo School Magazines: December 1958 - December 1974 July 1975 - June 1987 December 1987 - December 1992 (some already sent by Martin Dainton) 3. Sundry File containing: Paintings of Weihsien Camp by Dr Neve Sketch of Junk by J N Duncan Report of Red Cross Hospital -1895 A Short History of Chefoo School Opening of Memorial Hall -1924 Sundry articles from China Daily News Article - North China Daily News Feb 1935 Dedication of new school building -1934 Empire Day celebrations -1934 Article ‘A Boy's War’ 1985 Booklet of ‘Chefoo Birds’ by J N Duncan Booklet with Chefoo Songs Norman Cliff page 3...”
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“...CHEFOO CHINA TOURS 1995 are being arranged on the occasion of the 50th anniversary for many of their release from internment and their au revoir to China Tours are designed for two weeks The approximate dates and prices are listed below TOUR #14 —8-22 July Shanghai - Moganshan - Wuhan - Jiujiang Kuling (Lushan) - Nanchang - Chengdu - Jiating (Leshan) London £1900 - San Francisco US$2900 - Melborne/Sydney AUS$3700 TOUR #15-12-26 August Beijing - Chefoo (Yantai) - Yengchow (Penglai) - Weihaiwei Weihsien (17 Aug liberation day in Weifang) - Qingdao - Shanghai London £1700 - San Francisco US$2600 - Melborne/Sydney AUS$3400 BUS TOUR #16-16-30 September Shanghai - Lunghua (visit the former internment camp & Columbia Country Club) Hangzhou - Moganshan - Suzhou - Wuxi - Zhenjiang - Nanjing London £1500 - San Francisco US$2350 - Melborne/Sydney AUS$3100 Plus One-week optional extensions are available for each tour Those interested in joining a tour &/or wanting more information should notify any...”
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“...used to bring goods up from Kalimpong. Many's the time we stood and watched the boxes slowly swinging their way through the air dangling from the little wheeled carriage to the terminus not far below us. Days in Kalimpong were a lot happier than in Kiating and a lot freer. There were not as many children and I was growing a little more used to boarding school life. School continued with a strong American emphasis. I can still remember many of the states of the U.S.A. - like an earlier American Chefoo student who could recite the English counties beside the Thames. One of the jobs we did soon after our arrival at Kalimpong was to help polish the floors. This was fun because after the wax was put on the floor we polished it by sliding back and forth with small cloth pads on our feet. Our building was not very large and situated on a fairly steep hillside just above the position at which the bare grass slopes gave way to a forest of deciduous trees with an occasional clump of bamboo and other...”
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“...At last came the day when my sisters and I were summoned to the Principal’s room where we were told we were leaving the school to join our mother and travel back to England with her. When the taxi finally wound down the steep hillside toward Kalimpong and the future I felt rather lost -1 had left my family. Chefoo was loneliness, inequality, excessive religion but it was also adventure, self-reliance, beauty and patience. For many years I was bitter against the school, staff and my parents - now I realise they were just like me - both good and bad - inheritors of a swiftly changing world and victims of their own childhood teachings and customs but each, in their own way seeking the Truth. THE END PHOTOGRAPHS WHO IS WHO? I wonder if anyone recognises anyone else in this line up of day scholars? It was taken on the beach outside the school (probably around 1940), and there are members of 6 different classes and 4 families. Turn to page 32 to find the answer. Photo - by the one on the left...”
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“...THREE GENERATIONS James Hudson Taylor, III, IV and V, at the baby’s dedication at the Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston, where JHT IV is associate pastor. A church packed with Chinese and Chinese-Americans witnessed the dedication as James Hudson Taylor III read the vows to his son. JHT III, known as Jamie Taylor in his Chefoo School days, is the great grandson of J Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission and the Chefoo Schools. He and his wife, Leone, serve God and the Chinese people from their home base in Hong Kong. Photo - by Mary Taylor Previte IN SUMMER 1994 ISSUE Page 25 3: Dorothy Houghton (n6e Cassells) wife of Bishop Frank Houghton 13: Amy Wilson Page 56 The right one of 3 boys - A E V Brown (‘Buster Brown’) Norman Cliff Tony Railton comments, ‘I was most interested in reading the Summer 1994 CSA Magazine, with all the childhood memories it evoked. In the photo on P.56 I’m sure that the lady in the centre back with the dark hat is my mother, Mrs Gwen Railton The...”
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“...CHEFOO 1933 Who else do you recognise? Photo - Tony Ftailton A MISSIONARY KID By Tim Dinkins, written from HA in the United States ‘Kuwoo Kuwoo’ was the sound of the wild monkeys that woke me up each day in the tropical jungles of the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia, where I attended Chefoo School for the past four years. Today I’m thrilled to tell you why I am so happy to be a Missionary Kid. page 14...”
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“...Letter. How many do you write a month? I have written once a week for a few years in Malaysia. Writing all those essays and getting my thoughts on paper has also helped me share things with my family and God. Hobbies. What are your favourite hobbies? At Chefoo we have aunties who encourage us to take an interest in different things. I like to collect international stamps, coins and souvenirs. Crafts take up a lot of my free time. I enjoy painting, sketching and drawing cartoons. What is soccer to you? At Chefoo soccer is football. What is baseball to you? At Chefoo, baseball is cricket. What is American football to you? At Chefoo, it’s rugby. I like playing all of these! Some kids probably get $50 a month allowance. When I was at Chefoo I learned to survive with the bare minimum of $1.50. But so did everyone else in the dorm. This taught me to be creative and get by on barely any money. Lastly, I would like to say that coming back to America as a family has created quite a challenge for...”
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“...or more. I keep well but am restricted in service. I enjoy friends both in and out of my church and keep in touch with grads and the work in the Bible College in St Vincent, West Indies, where I taught for 5 years. Both boys live and work in downtown Toronto. Guy is single but lain has three little girls - a lovely trio. ROGER FIDDLER (1912-24) I was three years old when my parents left me at Chefoo School. They were on their way to Kansu where they were stationed by the CIM. I was 8 years old when they next saw me and then 16 years old when last seen by them on my way to the U.S. I saw lots of Chefoo but little of my parents. DONALD GIBSON (1934-40) There is a time for everything - a time to work, and a time to retire! I did my last clinic at the Hospital for Sick Children in June (1994). So far, full retirement seems like a summer holiday. My sisters keepwell, MARGARET in Coulsdon, England, and EILEEN in Jackson Heights near New York. MARK H GRIFFIN (1925-36) Page 18 (Summer 1994) revives...”
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“...a lovely room in the main building in: NTM Homes, Room 109, Missions Boulevard. Sanford, Florida 32771-7637. Rejoicing in the Lord. MARY TAYLOR PREVITE (1939-45) I’ve been in a whirlwind of speeches, radio and television interviews across the country since the May 1994 release of my book, Hungry Ghosts. Speeches to 30. Speeches to 5,000. From the Atlantic to the Pacific. Hungry Ghosts is my own memoir of helping American teens in trouble by my using the same survival skills our Chefoo teachers used with us in the Weihsien Concentration Camp. What a story! This exerpt should bring back a lot of memories: ‘Our teachers insisted on good manners. There was no such thing, they said, as one set of manners for the outside world and another set for the concentration camp. You couid be eating the most awful-looking glop out of a tin can or a soap dish, but you were to be as refined as the two princesses in Buckingham Palace. Sit up straight. Don’t stuff food in your mouth. Don’t talk with your mouth...”
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“...Africa and Ruanda, not to mention Israel/Jordon/Palestinians. It has NEVER been boring and very seldom repetitive. We have come to appreciate London, enjoy England, and love Europe. We are scheduled to return to the U.S. in late November. Contact was made with CSA during my sister, Molly's, visit to England in April 1994. KATHLEEN (COATES) THOMPSON (1919-1924) My brother, REG COATES died December 1993, of a brain tumour. He had lived in Brisbane, Australia since aged 15. He was 82. His memories of Chefoo were all very happy ones. I am now a resident in a delightful seniors’ residence in Agincourt in metro Toronto, and love it. MARJORY WINDSOR (1935-45) While visiting friends in a Chinese restaurant, I noticed at the next table someone who had to be a ‘Bell’ - but I didn't know which one. I went over and spoke to her, sure enough - she was EDITH BELL REIGLER from Montreal, Quebec. We enjoyed a nice chat - 50 years is a long time! At my residence we really miss GRACE (TAYLOR) HARRIS, who is in...”
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“...Board. I teach DR SAM WELLER’S granddaughter. She, her sister and I played in the school orchestra in a concert recently. We had two pieces conducted by the guest on honour that evening, Sir Edward Heath. Recently I went to the service where JOE COTTERILL (Weihsien) was ordained priest, JEANNIE (HILLS) COTTERILL had taught us history in Chefoo. Joe was glad to have a representative from China! DOUGLAS and Rosie SADLER visited us this summer. SHEILA DAVIES writes from Chefoo Malaysia - We have just received a copy of the Chefoo magazine and were intrigued to read the article about this Chefoo in 1967. It may have been relaxed compared to the original Chefoo in China, but compared to today it sounded very regimented. In my dorm the children do their own S.U. notes in the morning and because of the small numbers there are fewer team games and regimented activities. MARJORIE (SMITH) DORMAN (1925-35) At the last reunion I met someone who remembered Robert Clow’s sister (see article Robert Clow...”
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“...INEZ GRIFFITHS (DAVIDSON) (1920-26) I was very pleased to get the Summer Chefoo Magazine and receive news of the schools up to date. We still live in Kingston (after 47 years!) and we like it here in spite of many changes. My husband, Eric, still has some musical ploys, the chief one being the Council for Music in Hospitals. It entails accompanying singers and instrumentalists in iive concerts in hospitals including Mental Institutions and Children’s Wards. He sees many harrowing sights but feels it is worthwhile work. Now both in our 80’s, we don’t travel very far afield, but we are blessed with good health and have much to be thankful for. I have wonderful memories of the years at Chefoo - 2 years in the Prep School and 4 years in the Girls’ School. GENE JOHN (SINTON) (1924-33) After 46 years in 2 and 20 Chessel Avenue, Bitterne Alan and I have moved half a mile to a modernised cottage - built originally 150 years ago. We found on taking it over that we had also purchased a working cement...”
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“...to OMF’s sheltered accommodation for retired workers. Our new address is:- 3 Comford Court, Cornford Lane, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, KentTN2 4QS. These comfortable flats are in the grounds of Cornford House, the Residential and Nursing Home where Margaret worked for 27 years so it is rather like coming home. Bernard and Jean Welch are in charge here and we are surrounded by old friends, many of whom were Chefusians. We have so much to thank the Lord for. PRESENT DAY CHEFOO Educating MKs On the primary level, OMF’s own Chefoo Schools in Malaysia and Japan have been, and continue to be the basic educational provision for all our OMF children throughout East Asia. However, with an increasing number of Christian schools opening inAsia, OMFers have been able to send their children to more local schools. Chiang Mai Interna-page 24...”
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“...international school which operates on the American system. However, Faith also offers an IGCSE programme, which is geared towards UK and Commonwealth pupils. Hebron School works within an English curriculum and offers course up to A level. Oct-Dec 1993 East Asia Millions CHEFOO MALAYSIA Our God is from everlasting to everlasting and unchanging. The names by which he is known in scripture reveal the uniqueness of His character. One of His names which is particularly meaningful to OMF is Jehovah Jireh - God our Provider. Throughout the history of the Mission, we have seen innumerable examples of His unchangeable character and particularly how He does provide for all our needs. It is hardly surprising that during the last Chefoo term, we have seen examples of this. So on reflection what can we give thanks to God for? :- Weather We often say that in the Camerons we have two seasons, the wet and the wetter! Normally it is safe to assume that the morning will be dry, with rain sometime in the afternoon...”
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“...education at schools in four different countries. Travel We are always thankful for the Lord's protection and financial provision for our children as they travel, particularly as they make the long journey to and from school. In June we implemented new travel arrangements. Instead of hiring a fleet of taxis, a coach was chartered from a local tour company. Along with the use of one taxi and a Chefoo minibus, all the children were transported to the airport at Kuala Lumpur before flying home to be re-united with their parents. The trial run was successful, so this will be the norma! means for Chefoo travel. Opportunities for Involvement in the Local Community Children from Levels 3-6 appreciated the opportunity to play a major part in the programme of Easter outreach meeting, initiated by Rev Stephen. This was held at Mount Vernon, one of the local holiday bungalows. Their singing, playing recorders and guitars became a meaningful focus for school music lessons. Sheila Davies’s ministry as...”
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“...person with practical maintenance gifts would be wonderful assets to the smooth running of the school. We are thankful that the Lord is answering prayer and sending children. The roll is now stabilising around 35 pupils. We can therefore be confident that he will provide the staff to care for, and teach these children. Currently there are people expressing interest in some of these vacancies. Pray that the Lord will confirm whether or not Chefoo is the right place for them. Dave Matson CHEFOO NANAE, JAPAN It's a real privilege and joy to be back here at Chefoo School after time in England on Home Assignment. With an increasing number of families working in cities with international schools and others, especially Asian families, opting for Japanese local schooling, it looked as if our numbers this term would drop to an all-time low. So we were very thankful for the 5 new entries (4 of them from outside OMF). Three more are essential during the school year. The fact that 2 of them speak only a...”