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“...IAN GRANT 27 Little Ave came, ON L4N4M"? (705) 726-9^ THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE WINTER 1995/96...”
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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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“........... The Photo I Never Got - Linton Conway.............................. Eric Liddell 50th Anniversary...................................... Reunions .......................................................... Chefusians Killed in World War II.................................. The Latin School Song.............................................. The Black Market at Weihsien....................................... Speech - Memorial Ceremony at Weifang - Estelle Cowley............. Present Day Chefoo................................................. Birds in the Fowler’s Net (Part 3) - J W G Bruce................... Photographs........................................................ News of Old Chefusians............................................. Table Manners...................................................... Memoires - Mark Griffin............................................ In Memoriam/Obituaries................................................”
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“...privilege of welcoming a new Vice-President. I was very pleased when Theo Welch telephoned me to say that Norman Cliff had accepted this position. Norman has given many years of time and energy to the Association both on the Great Britain Committee and behind the scenes. He is a frequent contributor of articles in the magazine. I would like to thank him for the support he has given me since I took over the position of magazine editor. As we have recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of VJ day, I make no apologies for the number of items included in this edition that relate to that day - so important to many of you. It is also good to have thoughts on present day school from some of the MK’s at Hebron School. I wonder how they would react to the Table Manners printed on page 47? There are Chefoo Song Books - words and music - for sale. Please contact me or a member of your committee if you want one. £1.50 (sterling) + postage. When Joanne Robinson - OMF China Rep - came to speak at our church...”
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“...THE PHOTO I NEVER GOT by Linton Conway (Staff, Cameron Highlands 1975-78) I can still see her face as we walked back and forth in front of her bedroom doorway with various pieces on our double bed. This New Zealand family had to be suspect! (You soon learn at Chefoo that your own sense of humour is not necessarily shared internationally.) We had only arrived in the Camerons a few days previously, and like many a newcomer, appeared embarrassingly early on a number of staff rosters - in this case ‘Evening Prayers' on our very first Sunday night. At 6.30pm the entire school assembled, in pyjamas, washed, powdered, fed and accompanied by a menagerie of favourite stuffed toys. Children were allowed to sit in family groups - an added treat. For the kids, a weekly highlight. For the staff, the end of the weekend, and mercilessly close to the beginning of another week. Staff numbers rarely set records at evening prayers! The Conway family, sure that every child appreciated a bedtime story, obviously...”
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“...ERIC LIDDELL 50th ANNIVERSARY Article reprinted from ‘Day One', magazine of the UK-based Lord’s Day Observance Society by John Bowmer Liddell Olympic Champion and China Missionary This year marks the 50th Anniver sary of the death of Eric Liddell, Scotland’s most revered athlete, who refused to run for his country in the Olympic Games on the Lord’s Day. Since his death, books have been written about him; schools and colleges have been named after him; the fdm ‘Chariots of Fire’, a box office hit, portrays him. His name is held in high esteem for the example given to all who strive to honour the Lord and his day. As the son of missionary parents Eric spent his formative years in China. He was rather a delicate child. His mother nursed him through many childhood illnesses including one which left him unable to walk, never mind run, for several months. At one time it was feared he would never be able to walk again. Thankfully, he did recover to become one of Britain’s most successful athletes...”
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“...REUNIONS GREAT BRITAIN - ENGLAND What a good time we had at the U.R.C. Hall in Tavistock Place when we gathered tor the Chefoo Reunion! Sadly, we were nearly all from the older age-range. It meant that such words as ‘Tell me, who’s that in the blue ....?’ weren’t heard as often as usual, but we missed our younger fellow-Chefusians. A welcome cup of coffee was served on arrival, which whetted our whistles for plenty of chat. We enjoyed catching up on news and looking at the old Chefoo photographs around the hall, which brought back many memories. The Chinese chow was as good as ever. Comfortably replete we sat down, first for a shortA.G.M., chaired by Theo Welch and then to listen to our speaker, David Bentley-Taylor. He told us about his missionary life in China. Starting as one of the ‘Sons of the Prophets', (the temporary men’s language school was at Chefoo) he stayed on for a while on the Boys’ School staff. Later he married Jessie Moore, an old Chefusian, and they worked up in the northwest...”
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“... All were at school in Chetoo and though we are getting on in years we are young in heart when we meet and recall our school friends and the staff to whom we are indebted in so many ways. Soft drinks were served as we met and then a hot Chinese meal was delivered and devoured with great enthusiasm, followed by fruit salad and Chinese tea. After the meal Bobby Walker, our president, introduced Rev Norman Macrae who led us in devotions, reading from the Bible he was presented with when he left Chefoo. The Business Meeting was then held and Alice Forrest informed us that her sister and husband Beth (Taylor) and Rev Brodie had just left Scotland for a two year tour in Katmandu. We wished them every blessing in this new venture. Dorothy (n-e Walker) and her husband Billy Toop then gave us a talk, with slides, on their recent trip to China and it was obvious how much they had enjoyed the time they spent there, meeting new and old friends.They were amazed at the kindnesses and gratitude which...”
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“...THE BLACK MARKET AT WEIHSIEN Apocryphal stories about the exploits of Fr. Scanlan in the Black Market abounded while we were in Weihsien. This Trappist priest moved with hundreds of priests and nuns to Beijing a month before the Chefoo group arrived from Temple Hill. The following is an extract from Patrick Scanlan’s book Stars in the Sky, and therefore is an accurate account of these amusing incidents. Men and women were losing weight, and many had heavy work to do. When, therefore, Chinese appeared outside the wall with eggs, peanut oil to fry them in, jam, honey, fruit and poultry, you can guess what happened. Soon a brisk trade was going on over the wall. My hut was against the wall, and beyond it was a road, on the other side of which lived a Chinese family with a garden and trees round their house. There was no place in the camp better suited for buying over the wall. So I began buying from the family opposite my hut, a family which happened to be Christian, but Protestant. At first...”
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“...We also represent, in a sense, about one thousand alumni of the Chefoo School, a British school founded at Yantai in 1881 for the children of foreigners. The whole school was moved here from Yantai in 1943, about 100 of us, scholars and teachers. Three of us who are present here today wrote our Oxford University School Leaving Certificate examinations here, two of us while American aeroplanes were flying overhead, dropping food parcels by parachute, almost exactly 50 years ago. We have come here today to give thanks for our preservation at that time and to the present day. We know now that if Japan had not been forced to surrender when she did, the Allies, including China, would have launched an invasion on Japan. This invasion would have been greater than the Normandy landings in June 1944. We knew then that if that landing had taken place, our guards had orders to kill all their prisoners, in order to release the soldiers to fight at the front. We have come here today to honour our dead...”
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“...We honour our teachers and parents who left the comfort of the home countries, and came to work as missionaries in China, not for profit, but for love of the Chinese people. This compound, the school and the hospital were also founded and built by missionaries. Those who worked here were Americans. One of the teachers who taught here at this school in Weifang before the Japanese war was Dr John Hayes, also a Chefoo boy. He was imprisoned here with his old parents, and his father Dr Watson Hayes died during that time. A famous man, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine, was bom here in this compound of missionary parents. As soon as the sailing ships from the West were able to sail further than Indonesia, and reached the shores of China, at the end of the 18th century, the people in England began to take an interest in the Chinese people. My great-great grandparents were so concerned that they hoped that one day they would have a son who would come to China. When their son Hudson Taylor was...”
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“...PRESENT DAY CHEFOO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY - JAPAN Here’s our Chefoo gang currently at CAJ. They usually come at about age 12. Moses, Daniel and Grace live in CAJ Hostel which is parented right now by OMFers Dieter & Shelley Schmidt. Others all live with parents within 90 minutes of the academy. Back Row: Oliver Lindheim (OMF S Africa); Moses Chan (OMF Hong Kong); Jason Sung (OMF Taiwan); Daniel McGinty (OMF USA); Sam Paris (non OMF); Sun Do Kim (non OMF); Sun Min Kim (non OMF); Jospeh Na (non OMF) Front Row: Andrea Schmidt (OMF USA/Switz); Joy Sung (OMF Taiwan); Esther Ryu (OMF Korea); Hannah Ryu (OMF Korea); Grace Kim (OMF Korea); Erin Paris (non OMF); [Not in picture - Matthew Lindheim (OMF S Africa)] FAITH ACADEMY Break Time III Waves of relief reverberate through the school during the last few days of school before the midterm holidays. For the third of the high school that page 25...”
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“...Maths, Physics, Geography, German and General Studies. My parents are working in Jakarta, Indonesia. My sister Abigail is here with me but Ivan is still at Chefoo. I intend to study in England - possibly Psychology and then maybe go for mission work in S.E. Asia or Africa. ABIGAIL BAKER I’m called Abi. My parents work as missionaries in Jakarta, Indonesia. My dad teaches theology at college and mummy is regional representative of OMF Jakarta. I came to Hebron approximately a year ago, in February 1995.1 find the people here very friendly, and I have settled in well. I think the only thing I don’t enjoy is the food - yuk! Everything else, especially the work is cool fun. The only problem there is, is when you get ill you nearly did of all the catching up. FIONA PERRY I am a missionary kid at Hebron. While I was at primary school at Chefoo my parents worked in Ambon, Indonesia. My dad is a teacher in a nearby University and my mom occasionally teaches English. The dorm life is great at Hebron...”
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“...church, a few large buildings and street upon street of low barrack-like ‘lines’. High watchtowers, manned by armed sentries, were dotted around the walls and the whole enclosure was surrounded by barbed wire. We were driven through a large Chinese gateway decorated with Chinese ‘characters’, spelling out the ironic message ‘COURTYARD OF THE HAPPY WAY’. On our arrival there were about twelve hundred internees in the camp from Peking, Tientsin andTsingtao. They lined the streets and cheered asour Chefoo contingent - about three hundred strong - arrived. It was late summer and many of the men were bare from the waist upwards and deeply tanned from the sun. It was - we soon discovered - a very cosmopolitan camp. British internees outnumbered all the others put together, but several Commonwealth countries -Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were represented, and there was a large American minority. In all there were about a dozen nationalities, including Dutch, Belgian, Greek, Russian...”
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“... where privacy meant a 9' x 5' bedspace and where men and women could be seen each morning carrying their chamber pots, to empty them in the noisome communal cesspits. After a while our lessons began again. But most of us also had our regular chores of pumping water, cleaning vegetables, or gutting fish. At other times we volunteered to chop wood, carry coal or make coal briquettes for the elderly or infirm. At an impromptu Chefoo concert, we sang heartily a splendid, self-mock-ing parody, composed by Gordon Martin: “Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Chefoo never, never, never, shall be: Made to pump And clean the fish And make coal balls Like a gang of public slaves!” And everyone queued! We queued for our meals at the two Cookhouses three times a day. We queued at the Showers after finishing work. We queued to squat (Eastern style) above the ground-level toilets and then swill them with buckets of water afterwards. We queued in the winter to receive our meagre ration of coal...”
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“...two fantasic sons. John Acton It is Livingstone House 1930 (it was Bill Tyler’s and Arthur Smith’s last year at school) and my second last. There were two Hanna brothers - Gordon and Elmore. Back Flow 2 Thompson; 3 Surman; 5 Farquhar Macrae Middle Flow 1 Gordon Hanna; 5 Gordon Edgar Front Flow 3 Forbes; 4 Reginald Parrott; 5 Norman Macrae The Staff Cricket Team was in 1930. P A Bruce had just taken over from McCarthy. Albert Lutley is there (a fine cricketer). Leslie Lyall is there. He was at Chefoo only 1929-30, then he was sent inland by the CIM - so that makes it 1930, I’m sure. Third from the left on the back row is Dr Dickson, our school doctor, but how he, an American, coould be playing cricket I can’t imagine! Back Flow 3 Dr Dickson Front Flow 4 Albert Lutley David Landsborough Editor: It seems that the date of the Livingstone House photo is 1930 but there appears to be some controversy as to who is who!! Back Flow 2 Harold Ledgard or Thompson Front Flow 4 Eric Bird or Reginald Parrott...”
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“...at the mouth of the river by the Pilot Captain Polkinghorn - father of Elsie - one of the pupils - who guided us over the sand bar and up the river to Tientsin. He told us that boats were out searching for us as we were overdue. So by the grace of God we anchored in Tientsin. My parents were stationed in Honan as were Lacks, Brocks, Joyces, Conways, Wellers, Guinness - so those pupils will likely remember this event. I look forward to the Chefoo mag - but there are so few names I recognise now. MARGARET (SPENCE) COOP (1930-38) I always enjoy my Chefoo Mag. When it arrives, I sit down and read it from cover to cover! My daughter is an exchange teacher in England this year, just outside Nottingham - and I hope to visit her in the spring. I hope to see some of you. SARAH (BRYAN) ERWIN (1931-40) Thank you for the interesting magazine-Summer ’95.1 particularly enjoyed David Clarke’s account of their visits to China in 79 and then in '92. Having been there myself in 1983, under strict surveillance...”
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“...in a list in the last Chefoo Magazine.) CECIL & LUCILLE GRACEY write - ‘ROWENA (GRACEY) & MIKE McGINTY are house-parents of Chefoo School, Japan, this year. Mike is also pastoring the Nanae Church on the school’s property. Both are full time work jobs. Their oldest son Daniel, now attends CAJ inTokyo. This is Megan’s last year at Chefoo, then she will join Daniel at CAJ. The youngest son, Patrick, just started at Chefoo this year, and loves it. From the letters received the children are blessed with dedicated and creative, godly teachers and have a wonderful life at Chefoo.’ MAYBETH GRAY (1920-29) Maybeth is speaking at a joint OMF and Christian Communications meeting in Vancouver on 25 November. She will speak on the CIM and China. Frank Wuerst and David Michell have the same role in Calgary and Toronto. BETH LUTLEY LEACH I always love to get the Chefoo Magazine which I pretty well read from cover to cover - then pass on to my sister Margaret (USA) (born in Chefoo but left at age 6 months)...”
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“...ROBERT McMULLAN (1939-41) Two requests. 1. Have any members copies of the Chefoo Family News? 2. Has anyone got a picture of a Chefoo Rickshaw? 147 Spruce Street Toronto M5A 2J6 Ontario Tel: 416 914 3529 EDITH (JACOB) MARBLE (1933-36) I’m just back from a month with my youngest daughter, Ruth, and her family. We moved them from an apartment in Cupertino to a house with a yard in Santa Clara (both communities abut San Jose in California’s Silicon Valley). Welcomed small Sherburne #4, Nathan David, and celebrated Caroline’s third birthday while I was there. How I’m enjoying being retired and a grandmother. Are there any other Chefusians nearby? I’d love making contact. The reunion we had several years ago in Los Angeles was priceless. Thanks for all the work that goes into the Chefoo Magazine. I enjoy reading it ‘Kiwer to Kiwer’. 8445 Westmore Road #96 San Diego CA 92126 Tel: (619) 578-5159 DAVID & JOAN MICHELL This has been an exciting summer for putting us in the grandparent mode. Heather’s...”
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“...Vistafjord. Just about cruised out’ this year. Were in London tor a tew days in August on our way home from Hamburg, and dined ‘Chinese' with MICHAEL CALVERT of Weihsien fame, and his wife, Daphne. We missed the Association of British Internees march down the Mall by a matter of days, but our thoughts were there. I am now the U.S. P.O. box and co-ordinator, and trust that many old Chefusians are in our ranks. NORMAN CLIFF is the UK moneybags- a good omen? A CLARENCE PREEDY (1918-26) After attending the Chefoo Reunion in Toronto in April 1995 I was able to spend 8 weeks in England with my sister EDITH PREEDY. We explored Norfolk - staying in Cromer for 3 weeks Had some time in Tunbridge Wells and visited Cornford House. It was a delightful privilege to meet BERNARD and Jean WELCH who do a magnificent job of taking care of CIM/OMF retirees. Also to renew acquaintance with DORIS BRISCOE, HENRY GUINNESS, GORDON MARTIN and DOROTHY STARK. In Cornford Court was able to talk to LESLIE and ADA STEAD...”