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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE WINTER 1997/98...”
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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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“...INDEX page From CSA President - James H Taylor III 2 From the Editor 3 A Few Loose Ends & a Tapestry - David Beard 4 Comments on Summer 1997 Magazine 6 Birds in the Fowler’s Net (Part 7) - J W G Bruce 7 Autograph Album - Luther Cook 13 American Education: British Commentary - Stewart E Fraser 13 Where did the ‘Chefoo’ tune for the 23rd Psalm come from? 14 News of Old Chefusians 16 Present Day Chefoo 28 By Many Waters (Part 3) - Gene (Sinton) John 33 Return to China in 1995 - Neil Yorkston 38 Reunions 41 Letter - Christina Spink 43 A Tribute to Thornton Wilder 44 In Memoriam/Obituaries 47 page 1...”
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“...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 Magazine by 26 May at the latest. Thank you God bless you all...”
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“...were hand embroidering was for export to New York. They informed us that the factory originated in the early 1930s, started by Christian missionaries. It brings to mind the weekly crocodile walk to the Union Church and the time when I smuggled in to the church a small mirror and used it effectively to reflect sunlight into the preacher’s face! On the back of the framed tapestry I have affixed a memento, namely a faded postcard (postage 2+ cents) with the inscription 'Temple Hill Cut-outs made in Chefoo, China, by the Self Help Dept, Women’s Bible School. For untold generations the women of China have cut dainty conventionalised pictures from red paper.Temple Hill Cut-outs are made by the school girls, using the iron scissors and the methods of their grandmothers’. On the reverse side is a red cut-out. In the July 1984 issue of the Chefusian, Faith Ledgard stated that ‘this factory has grown directly from the China Crafts business commenced by the McMullan and Rouse families’. Can anyone supply...”
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“...of scale. The plan worked well and I always liked the rhythm of the archways facing the quad. The quad - what a place for the invention of games - unquestionably the most sophisticated and refined game of ‘rounders’ took place there every spring for a short time. Perhaps all this has been written about but in the words of Henry V “Old men forget.” Andrew Haze land 101-1211 Beach Drive, Victoria V8S 2N4 I read with interest the article by Norman Cliff ‘What Happened to the Chefoo Boys’ School’ in the summer 1997 Chefoo Magazine as it answered the question of who burnt it down and, incidentally, corrected my assumption that it was the Nips. I had no idea it was some careless Bah lu (I don't know the anglicised spelling). As that question is now answered, I was wondering about another - what happened to the Boys'School trophies? My recollection is that before leaving Temple Hill, we hid these silver shields and trophies etc in the space above the roller partition which divided the rooms. I...”
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“...effort to defend the railway line. Every day bridges were blown up by the Communists and miles of rail removed. The Colonel therefore sent Arthur Hummel and RoyTchou on a secret mission to the Communists to try to negotiate a cease-fire while the Internees were evacuated to the Coast. A truce was agreed and a day was set for the first batch of six hundred to leave. All the Chefoo School party were in this group. On September 26th instead of stumbling out of bed, bleary-eyed, at 3 a.m. to stoke the Hospital furnaces, I had an extra two-hour lie-in before a 5.30 a.m. ’ - Admiral Dan Barbey’s naval forces also sailed to Chefoo, but found it already undeCommunist occupation. After some discussion they decided that the Marines should not land and sailed off again. page 8...”
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“...breakfast. At six o’clock - carrying our handful of possessions - we left our Hospital quarters for the last time. My stoking partner, Macaulay - a tall, cheerful Chefoo businessman - waved as I walked past the furnace room. He was in the second batch, delayed in camp till mid-October after the truce broke down and the railway was again sabotaged. Eventually all the remaining eight hundred were flown out to Peking and Tientsin in C47s. We piled into trucks and - amid smiles and waves - were driven through the gateway which we had entered - in such different circumstances two years before. At last we were really free and en route for England. Inwardly my heart was now singing that same American song which had blared out so devastatingly: “Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day!”. We boarded our train - plastered with large Chinese‘characters’proclaiming our identity - and settled down contentedly to watch the Chinese landscape glide slowly past our windows. In the fields and...”
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“...Africa. Before the War an unknown admirer had coined the phrase in reference to Chefoo ‘the Best School East of Suez’ and, among the cognoscenti, the nickname stuck. And now, in its final days1, it lived up to it. The Australian party travelled home in H.M.S. Bonaventure and at Sydney the Captain said to Mrs Lack: “I did not think there were such well-disciplined children left in the world! They are a credit to their School”. And when the first batch of Canadian Chefusians arrived in Vancouver, the local newspaper headlined its story: THEIR INTERNMENT CAMP MADE CHARMING CHILDREN. The Reporter wrote: “Recipe for a well-brought up child - three years internment with the Japanese ... They were merry and enormously active and quite unrestrained. But their manners were gentle and considerate. Whatever their three and a half years of priva- 1 - The Chefoo School never returned to its own compound in the port of Chefoo (Yantai) but was reconstituted, under the same name, at Kuling, W. China until...”
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“...the house system was introduced into the Boys' School by Dr Judd who was Principal. It was a great pleasure to meet him again in Victoria B.C. when I was in Canada a few years back, after an interval of 60 years!” STEWART E FRASER Thanks for the Chefoo Magazine - always of interest. I am truly retired with a small vineyard to keep my wife (also a retired academic from RMIT). I have the dubious honour of being anointed as Emeritus Professor - which 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...”
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“...then I have developed a new garden, started a theology diploma and enjoyed my one grandson. MARGARET KNIGHT (1943-51) To New Zealand then to Australia in 1955-63 then to Japan, Chefoo Nanae teacher till 1972. Now on homestaff of OMF Melbourne. FAITH (HUTTON) LEDGARD At the end of June I had a visit from MURIEL and JANET DAVIS who were on their way home to London, Ontario. Janet was completing her term as a missionary in the Philippines and Muriel went out to meet her and travelled to Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney to meet up with friends of Chefoo days and other acquaintances. They stayed with me for 5 days before visiting Brisbane and returning to Canada via the Philippines to collect their luggage. One afternoon DAVID HAYMAN, who was in the same class as Muriel, spent some time with us re-living memories of Chefoo. page 17...”
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“...My grandmother, ESTHER MOORE (nee ANDREW) went to Chefoo from about 1887 -1900. She was the eldest daughter of George and Jessie Andrew who are buried in Chefoo. My father, PERCY MOORE, was at Chefoo from 1915 - 1927. He was School Captain in his last year. My uncle, DOUG MOORE, lives outside Toronto. He was at Chefoo from about 1922-32. RAYMOND MOORE (Chefoo/Weishien/Shanghai/Kuling 1940-50) my oldest brother, is retired now and lives some 200 miles outside of Melbourne. He is a minister of the Baptist Church but latterly worked as a Social Worker/Family Counsellor. My second brother, ALAN MOORE (Kiating/Kalimpong/ Shanghai/Kuling 1943-50) died in 1985.1 am Principal of an alternative school in Melbourne based on a Rousseauian vision of child-centred education. HAZEL (EDWARDS) REID (Kiating/Shanghai/Kuling 1943-50) We returned to all these places in 1991 - 40th anniversary of the date of our eviction! I always look forward to our Chefoo Reunions and fortunately my husband, Rob, likes Chinese...”
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“...is currently on placement in Leicester. Nathanael successfully got AABB at A-lev-els and is now on a gap year at Abemethy (a Christian outdoor pursuits centre in Scotland). Gracie has just started at Hebron School and is settling well there. ARNOLD CLARKE I am still in Phuket, W Thailand as an active ‘retired’ missionary and finding that the Lord keeps much of His best till the last in life, it is a great blessing. I spent a week with my brother in Cape Cod this July and it was great to revive Chefoo and China memories. Also had an evening with ARTHUR BENTLEYTAYLOR in Workington, Cumbria in June. ANNE (EDWARDS) CLOUGH (Malaysia 1961-76) Having both reached Senior Citizenship status, we seem busier than ever, perhaps because it takes a little longer to do everything. We’re encouraged with the appointment of a fine young couple at our local church, after a busy interregnum, renovating the Manse and building up a strong basis for outreach, with prayer for local and overseas mission. JOANNA (GOODWIN)...”
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“...Bible messages for the Chefoo Malaysian staff and other OMF conferees from OMF work in Singapore. The conference was held on Pangkor Island. Meeting up with present staff of Chefoo was very special for me. I found it so encouraging to see the godly people the Lord has called to this work. PAUL & JANET PIKE (1979-82 Japan House Parents) Church planting in Nishi Kasai, Tokyo also in Seijo. HELEN (PIKE) SCOTT-COOK frcs (1975-80) Married in July 1995 to Greg. Working in Birmingham. Involved in local church. ANDREW PIKE (1978) doing research at Hokkaido University in Molecular Chemistry. Assists at Sapporo International Church in reaching out to university students. Helps to coach the university rugby team. While at university in Newcastle he also earned his Green Beret with the Royal Marines Reserves and was commissioned at Sandhurst. RICHARD PIKE has a degree BSc in Sports and Exercise Science. About to do P.G.C.E. 1 year at Loughborough University. Has been helping at Chefoo, Japan for 2 weeks...”
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“...Presbyterian Church. JOSEPH R DUNLAP (1920-22) Illness kept me onTemple Hill till we left Chefoo in 1927 but my brother, LOGAN, kept me up to date until then. In the States, attended the College of Wooster (1932-36); library training thereafter at Columbia University followed by work at the City of New York (1937-73) minus time out for army service (1943-46). Have been to China four times since then and noted the changes on Temple Hill and the East Side. Am always glad to receive the Magazine and see what time has done with those of us whose minds were activated long since by the distant ocean. VAUGHN DICKSON EARLY (1928-36) I am retired from nursing but still lead an active life. Swimming in the ocean (about a mile away) is still one of my favourites. I spent Easter in California with Carol, my oldest daughter, and was in Asherville, N Carolina area for three weeks this summer. My sister, ETHEL SMITH (Chefoo 1934) is in a retirement home in Asherville - we enjoy our visits together. I always...”
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“...pastor for a few months with two small congregations whose pastor had to retire. I have had a number of opportunities to fill in for pastors on vacation or attending continuing education. In July 1996 we travelled AMTRAK to Seattle, WA for an intensive week of Stephen Ministry Leadership Training and on the return journey through Colorado had Winifred’s Waters Reunion at Durango, and also my brother JOHN (Chefoo 1939), Mona and grandson, Matt came from S California to visit. Later in summer 1996 we went east to visit Jim and Dee, and on return visited MARGARET LEARNER MERRIMAN (Chefoo/Weihsien 1945). This summer we took the rails again to California’s Yosemite National Park. John and Mona joined us at Merced and the Waters Reunion was at Bass Lake. I recently attended the Seventh International page 23...”
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“...War so the Chefoo story will go into the homes of many more children. JIM MOORE (1926-36) I enjoyed Bruce’s Birds in the Fowler’s Net- Part 6 in your summer issue. It brought back many memories. I got to know Mr Egger inTsingtao in the fall of 1945.1 enjoyed hearing of his activities on behalf of the camp. I recently had a knee replacement to join my ‘new’ hip. My sister, MARTHA JANE, had a knee replaced this July. We are both walking much better. Always enjoy your magazine. P RUTH (JORDON) MURRAY One year ago we lost our oldest brother JOHN LEONARD JORDON, to cancer. He was only 72 years old and a year before was a healthy active man. Left of the Jordon family of 4 children are THEO (Ted) a physician in Vernon B.C., PETER, living in Richmond, B.C., a Youth With a Mission administrator, author, missionary and father of 4 children and myself living in Chase B.C. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading David Clarke’s memories of life in China - especially of childhood days at Chefoo and Wei-hai-wei...”
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“...‘ ‘happy sister’) came from UK, her niece CAROL (PREEDY) TERJUNG (daughter of CLARENCE PREEDY who passed away last June) was there from the USA. Daughter MARGIE (Lloyd) was over from Queensland in Australia. There were many interesting little "Chefoo reunions’ as various folk met up after a number of years. AVERIL (MclNTOSH) BENNETT, Margie and Carol met for the first time since they were at Kuling together 47 years ago! GORDON and MAY CONWAY were also present. Greetings were sent from CSA. Mary was the Secretary/ Treasurer for CSA New Zealand for many years. Apart from her own upbringing and schooling in China in the 1920’s, she returned in 1934 as a nurse to work at Chefoo, where she met and married Dr Hallam Howie. Together they served at Chefoo though all the War years - a 10 years stretch with no furlough. page 26...”
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“...information or knowledge relating to his grandparents (Herbert Railton) at Temple Hill (1942) or Weihsien, so he can include it in his family history. 14 Nutsey Avenue, Northcote, Auckland 1309, NZ Graham and JENNI (KNIGHT) REDDING (Malaysia 1982-87) are taking a year’s leave in London after 6 years at Somerville Presbyterian Church in Auckland, departing on 20 January 1998. Graham hopes to complete his PhD at Kings College in Bloomsbury. Jenni is looking forward to meeting up with some former Chefoo friends. MARY BUELL - where are you?? page 27...”
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“...January - March 1998 with his wife Ingrid. SCOTT and Delsey CONWAY (Malaysia 1975-78) shift to Melbourne in February with their two little sons, to live and work - a welcome move from the Melbourne grandparents’ point of view, but not so good for the Auckland ones - LINTON and ANNABELL!! PRESENT DAY CHEFOO HEBRON School life here is now in full swing as each student prepares for a new term. Every one is aiming high in academic, sport and social life, but mainly in pleasing God.This term is again a busy one with school sports, music exams and external examinations. News of Chefusians: Lucy Johnson has arrived, with her sister Kathrine from Chefoo Malaysia and has settled in well. Grace Ayling (Chefoo Japan) is also finding many friends and enjoying life at Hebron. Ian and MattheThomson having completed one year at Hebron are getting on well with sports and school work. Shalom Wangrangsimakus is now in Standard 9, working hard, involved with drama and enjoying life in the dorm. Robert and Bryony...”