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“...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 with the Schools.
Membership in the Association
All former scholars...”
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“...countries in every time zone, enabling a continuous 24-hour Hallelujah. At any one time more than a third of the world was singing together! New Zealand started the chain with 13 performances involving most of their hospices. Hawaii sang the final performance. What a wonderful event to be part of. The next international Messiah is in 2000 - so now you know - there is no excuse not to join in then
The summer 1998 issue of the Chefoo Magazine will be celebrating 90 years of the Chefoo Schools Association. We want this to be a very special edition and this can only happen if YOU help to make it so. However, there will be a touch of sadness because we will also be marking the closing of Chefoo, Nanae.
A big thank you to all the contributors to this issue. I came back from two weeks soaking up the sun in Tenerife to a mountain of post from all over the world. My new computer and I have been put through our paces and I hope have not been found wanting.
Please may I have copy for the Summer 1998...”
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“...lining the driveway; my freestyle stroke, learnt four years ago, can take me two kilometres on a god day; study of Chinese language has progressed to the stage where I canning, shuo, nian, xie’ (hear, speak, read and write) with an increasing degree of satisfaction and usefulness. It helps in communicating with an ever growing number of Chinese friends who have recently emmigrated from China, Taiwan and Malaysia. I am secretary/treasurer for the Wellington branch of the NZ Chinese Language Association. I also help to organise a monthly Mandarin Corner, where anyone cam practise conversational Mandarin and am preparing a bilingual talk in Chinese which will cover events in China during my lifetime there, from the Shenyang (Mukden) Incident in 1931 up to the end of W W II and of Weihsien Camp in Shandong.
One of the regular Corner members is a Chinese artist who, in flowing calligraphy, has done the four character phrase ‘xue hai wu ya’ - the sea of knowledge is boundless. It has pride of...”
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“...really means a free parking place! I have some publications coming out: one longish book on educational history and two books concerning China - personal memoires ‘A Family in China’ and the second ' The Soviet Influences on Chinese Communist Higher Education’. I am writing some impressions of Chefoo (probably not for distribution).
RAY HOLLINGS (1938-40) I continue in active surgical practice in the private sector, having retired from Royal North Shore Hospital at the end of 1995 with an association that lasted 42 years. I also continue to work regularly at two large
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“...personal contacts and spent a day in the Fragrant Mountain before we dispersed to our three different continents.
CHEFOO REUNIONS
SCOTLAND
The Reunion was held on 25 September. The speaker was a Pastor Darren Fung from Hong Kong, doing postgraduate work in the Divinity Faculty of Edinburgh University. On asking him to nominate a cause to which we might send a small donation he thought of some prisoners in Hong Kong, in some very needy circumstances, who has in prison become Christians and an Association he knew took a special interest in them - perhaps indeed had had some part in their conversion. Bobby Walker
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“...the task were outstanding. He was never showy or ostentatious in his manner or style. His quiet, unassuming presence was deceptive. For beneath the surface there was a spiritual strength and loyalty. His love for the Lord and the Word will remain a legacy in the books he helped to produce.”
Grant’s love and loyal devotion in the interests and concerns of the OMF family world wide, for Barbara, Eddie and Billy, Bruce and Roxie and their families, for friends connected with the Chefoo Schools Association, Knox Church and in the States, and that unwavering firm dedication supremely to his Lord are memories we shall all long cherish. David Michell
ELIZABETH [ELSIE] (STEWART) HOUSTON died suddenly on 20 October 1997. The following is an extract of the tribute paid by her Minister at the Thanksgiving Service.
(Elsie’s) own family roots were in the north-east, in the Buchan Peninsular. The journeying which has its origins there, was very much a faith journey. Her parents the Revd John Stewart and...”
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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
Principal/Headteacher 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:...”
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