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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 UK CO6 3TA
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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“...a degree at the London Bible College. We are presently looking at several situations where Graham may work as a minister in September of this year (1997).
PAULINE DUNN (Malaysia 1977-89) Aug/Sept 1996 - I spent four weeks in Malaysia and Singapore. It was wonderful being able to return to Chefoo and then to catch up with many local friends. In true style I was well fed! This time two UK friends joined me and we met up with people whom they had met when visiting me at Chefoo. 1996 also saw a visit from HEATHER CALDER - New Zealand. We had a great time catching up and enabling Heather to experience the British ‘Marble Hill’ summer concert! (This is held outside.)
I am now on the Chefoo Schools Association Committee and would love to see you younger people attend the annual reunion. Do put it in your diary for 13 September 1997.
Work, church and covenanters remain the same, as well as singing with the All Souls’ Choir and cycling for charity.
ANDREW FEWSTER (Malaysia 1976-82) Having worked...”
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“...E STAMP FOR OLD CHEFOO BOY
On April 16th, 1997, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 32 cent stamp in commemoration of Thornton Niven Wilder who was born in Madison, Wisconsin, April 17th, 1897 and died, aged 78, in Hamden, Connecticut, December 7th, 1975. First Day Covers were available at Hamden Post Office.
His parents, Amos Parker Wilder and Isabella Thornton Niven, had three other children Theodore, Isabel and Amos. Theodore also attended Chefoo School and was known as “Wilder Major”.
Amos, the father, was a onetime editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, before being appointed U.S. Consul-General to Hong Kong, in 1906, and subsequently to Shanghai. The older Wilder children went to school in Hong Kong, then when their father moved to Shanghai, Theodore and Thornton were enrolled at Chefoo. They were there in the years 1911 and 1912.
Carrington Goodrich wrote to the Chefusian, after Wilder Minor’s death, that he “.... was a loyal member of the Chefoo Schools Association, and enclosed the...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association (Founded in 1908)
PRESIDENT James H Taylor III
Vice-Presidents
S Gordon Martin, John J Miller, Mary L C Nicoll, Norman Cliff
Principals of the Chefoo Schools Judith A Spear (Japan); Anne Latimer (Malaysia)
GREAT BRITAIN BRANCH AND COUNCIL Chairman: Theodore P Welch 56 School Lane Toft Cambridge CB3 7RE 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: David Grant
Ontario Pioneer Camp RR#1 Port Sydney Ontario POB 1L0 Treasurer: Ian Grant 27 Little Avenue Barrie Ontario L4N 4M7 News Editor: Ruth (Dykema) Engler #103 5700-200th St. Langley B.C. V3A 7S6
AUSTRALIA BRANCH
Chairman: Theo Hayman 22 Alice Street Macquarie Fields NSW 2564 Secretary-Treasurer: Faith...”
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