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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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“...is in a Nursing Home - paralysed on both sides.
STAN RIST (1923-33) Referring to p36 of the Summer '96 magazine - Please note I am not living ‘conceitedly’ at a Senior’s Residence, but ‘contentedly’. I don’t know if the error is mine or your! (Editor - definitely mine. Many apologies) but hope it wasn’t noticed by too many readers who know me. If I am conceited about anything it is my association with Chefoo Schools (‘God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Jesus Christ'.)
NORVIN ROTHSCHILD (1930-40) Once again I am pleased to report that by and large, things seem to be in a satisfactory condition. I’m still able to make my way from the bedroom to the breakfast table in the morning, for my usual dose of caffeine, sucrose and lactose (with a small nod to the ‘in’ drug lexicon) to which I became addicted while in service. (Of course, that might well have been a hundred years ago, in a different world, where, in those days, we simply called it coffee, with sugar and milk.) Generally...”
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“...stone engraved in gold, in English and Chinese, set up in the camp grounds, near the former church where Liddell often preached, and the sports field where he coached all the young people’s sports. To his delight the Chinese prepared a beautiful walled garden with a moongate for the memorial. My brother Norman Cliff, and David Michell, then OMF National Director for Canada, dedicated the stone to the music of bagpipes and then Chinese music accompanying dancing schoolgirls.
We were at a Chefoo Schools Association Reunion in London in July 1994, when it was announced that a trip was planned for a visit to China in Sept 1995. I protested and said it must coincide with the 50th anniversary of our liberation from Weihsien camp, August 17th. And so the dates were altered so that we would be at Weifang (new name) on that date. But as the day approached there were so few people who had booked that we wondered whether the tour would take place. Only three Chefusians, Theo Bazire, Neil Yorkston and myself...”
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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); David Matson (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 M5N1W8 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. V3A7S6
AUSTRALIA BRANCH Chairman: Theo Hayman 22 Alice Street Macquarie Fields NSW 2564 Secretary-Treasurer: Faith (Hutton)...”
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