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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE 2002...”
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“...THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE [EST. 1908] Published annually by the CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Edited by: Dorothy (Cox) Chadborn 143 Chapel Road West Bergholt Colchester Essex UK CO6 3EZ 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. 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. To promote friendly relationship between all persons in any way connected with the Schools. Membership of the Association All former scholars and members of staff of the Schools are eligible for Ordinary Membership...”
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“...CONTENTS page From the Editor 2 Dissertation - Christina Spink 3 Memories - Annette Harris 4 News of Old Chefusians 6 A Younger Brother’s View - Frank Moore 20 Chefoo Memories and After - Don Nicholls 31 Reunions 33 China Connections 34 Westerners in China - D E Sergeant 34 Chefoo School: The Last Bulletin - Tim Jenkins 37 Chefoo School is in Good Hands 38 In Memoriam 39 Obituaries 40 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002 1...”
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“...will all want to join with me to say a big ‘Thank you” to him for all that he has done for the CSA over the past years. Pauline Dunn has agreed to take over the positions, on a temporary basis, assisted by Chris Macqueen. This will be the last magazine that I will be editing. Now that the last Chefoo has closed I feel that my job has finished. Also, we are not on e-mail and many of you that are send items into the publisher who lives some distance from me. Although Graham does come over to this village from time to time it is not easy getting information in different ways and trying to put it all together. The post China Chefusians seem to keep up to date by e-mail and by logging on to the Chefoo Website. Others of you who do not keep in contact by either of these methods might like to start up your own ‘Round Robins’. I can certainly supply names and addresses of all those who have been receiving the magazine from England and I’m sure that the other branches will be able to supply them...”
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“...(Cox) Chadborn DISSERTATION I have finished my doctrinal dissertation and wish to thank all those who helped me in the process by sharing their stories and memories with me. The dissertation is entitled An Oral History Case study on the Co-construction of Schooling at the Chefoo School and in the Weihsien Concentration Camp. UMI # 9998870 Copies are available from: UMI Dissertation Services A Bell & Howell Co 300 North Zeeb Road PO Box 1346 Ann Arbor Michigan 48106-1346 Phone: 1-800-521-0600 e-mail: http://www.bellhowell.intolearning.com Thank you for your assistance Christina D Spink 4640 ’H’Street Philadelphia PA 19124 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002 3...”
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“...MEMORIES OF CHEFOO KALIMPONG AND CHEFOO SHANGHAI or THE EMERGENCY PREP SCHOOL Annette R Harris While Chefoo China, staff and pupils, had been interned by the Japanese, CIM missionaries’ children in Free China had been growing up at home with their parents and becoming in need of schooling. CIM planned to start an emergency prep school for them in North India. Dr Graham of the St Andrews Homes in Kalimpong offered CIM the loan of two of their buildings, so the children were flown out of China to India together with an emergency staff of missionaries. The school was already up and running when I arrived from the UK on my way, so I thought, to China. But when I got as far as Calcutta in December 1945 I found a letter from Mr Sinton there asking me to go up to Kalimpong instead and join the staff there. It was a great disappointment at first, I’d been waiting 6 years to go to China, but it turned out to be a wonderful bonus and blessing from the Lord. I soon discovered that many people would...”
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“...CIM. It consisted of two blocks, one was an office block and the other was living quarters with a nursing home on the top floor. The school was accommodated in the Office Block, right over the offices. It must have been somewhat of a trial for the Directors to have the patter of little feet running along the corridor over their heads. After we had set up school in Shanghai Frances Williamson went back to her former work in China and her place as Principal was taken over by Hugh Iliff from The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002 5...”
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“...during which we attended the wedding of one of WILBUR BUTLER’S sons [Wilbur was at Chefoo Malaysia]. Up through the hot Centre, including Uluru [Ayer’s Rock], Alice Springs, Katherine Gorge, Litchfield National Park [mountain streams & swimming rock pool much like Kuling] to Darwin, from and treeless desert plains to tropical sunsets. Then Kakadu National Park, Ord River Irrigation scheme & huge diamond mine, the Bungle-Bungles, Broome’s Cable Beach, snorkelling over Ningloo Reef with it’s incredible coral & fish colours, Kalbarri - where we met a bearded Ken Parsons [Kiating] & his wife in the Anglican church [to discover we were in the same caravan park] & so to Perth. Then south, to revel in the wonderful scenery of the south coast of Western Australia, including the Tree-top walk [40 meters above the ancient forest floor] close-up encounters with humpback whales. Across the Nullabor Plain [including 6 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002...”
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“...a 146 kilometres dead straight & flat stretch of road], around the Eyre Peninsular back to Pt Augusta & on to home in Melbourne. We have just sold our Mitcham home & move to a 2 bedroom unit [no 181 ] in Baxter Retirement Village early July. ROSE & THEO DUBECK (Baguio Chefoo 1974-1978) Theo and I are now officially retired from the Church and the responsibilty of caring for needy street people with various physical and psychiatric problems at bethel Homes. I have also retired as Church secretary at the local Baptist church but we are still very involved with the work and taking Bible studies. Our main responsibility these days (and the reason why we needed to stay in Australia) is caring for my severely physically and mildly mentally handicapped brother. I have just needed to put his name down at the local nursing home in case we can’t keep caring for him! We have much joy hearing from the former Chefusians (or their parents) who were with us during those years. Many are actively involved...”
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“...the mission work. DAVID AND ROBYNNE HAYMAN Last October in Japan we welcomed 3 very weary, dusty mountain climbers, raising funds for ‘Adopt a Minefield’. All from the UK, Tom Feamehough was ex-Nanae Chefoo and Paul Briffa from Cameron Highlands, Chefoo. Starting from the southern tip of Japan, by the time they reached us they had walked some 6000 kms and climbed 92 of the ‘One Hundred Famous Mountains’of Japan. Walking on a shoe-string budget, they had camped overnight on the pebbly island of a river in Osaka; by contrast, a stranger from USA paid for 4 nights in the Hilton when they reached Tokyo! Neck high snow and blinding blizzards defeated them for the final 2 mountains. At this time Robynne and I were serving short-term the church in a corner of the grounds of the Japan Nanae Chefoo School (The school property is being sold to a Christian group who plan to use It as a ‘Free School’ for teenage drop-outs). 5/74 Howard Avenue, Dee Why 2099 THEO & JOYCE HAYMAN Although we had retired...”
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“...Queensland. I received a ietter from CLARENCE FRENCHMAN last week. He gave me quite a lot of news of other school mates. 7 Thelma Street, Kingaroy Q4610 FAITH (HUTTON) LEDGARD The 6th form which left Chefoo in 1937 have a Round Robin which takes about a year to go round the world. Starting in USA, then Canada, UK and Australia, we keep in touch by our personal information and photos. I send out the CSA magazines in Australia but have very little contact with CSA members because of the vast distances. Melbourne have a get together but as our news editor, Frank Moore, is now teaching English in N China our news has become sparse. I am involved in a Choral Society and we give concerts in and around Sydney, also with Girl Guides as a District Leader and am in charge of a shop selling Guide The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002 9...”
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“...engagements in Singapore and Malaysia and meeting up with old students. They have 2 sons, married and a daughter and 2 grandchildren -lively girls who are a delight. RIDLEY SMITH After travelling into China on business regularly during the 1980’s I regrettably called a halt soon after Tien An Men and difficulties with fee payments. Now we’re at it again! As chairman of our architectural firm with head office in Sydney and branches in Brisbane and Adelaide, associate offices in Melbourne, 10 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002...”
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“...their kind comments and condolences. About two years ago I visited Sister MARY BRAIN, who was a nurse in the Boys' School from about 1940 onwards. She is still alive, and I will visit her again soon. She joined the Roman Catholic Church later, and became a Sister. She is over 90 and has been blind for many years, but her mind is active, and she told me interesting stories of when she was in inland China before she came to Chefoo. Last summer I visited KATHLEEN (STRANGE) FOSTER where HELEN (COSTERUS) MAREK, from Canada was staying. We were all in the same form at Chefoo and Weihsien. We had a really good mini-reunion. Here in Bath life continues much the same. I still play the violin in the Bath Symphony Orchestra, and still do some rock-climbing. My wife, Isobel and I are very involved with our church, which is soon to undergo a thorough refurbishment. In Weihsien I played the trumpet in the Salvation Army Band. Recently my three offspring had the trumpet restored for my 70th birthday. I...”
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“...will be spending a few days with us. Another old Chefusian we met in Melbourne was TED PARADISSIS and his wife. The family we were staying with lived opposite Ted and discovered that we had both been to Chefoo Schools, so they arranged this meeting I Ted told me that he was a cousin of STEPHINOS & ATHENA PARADISSIS, who I remember in my time. Pat and I also met DAVID CLARKE while he was on a brief visit to family in Torquay in 2000 and that was the first time we had met since 19411 Next month will see us on another cruise in the Med. from Venice westwards to Barcelona, so our travels are by no means over yet! Woodside, 53 Lower Fowden, Churston Ferrers, Paignton, Devon, TQ4 6HS Tel: 01803 844717 ANNE (EDWARDS) CLOUGH (Malaysia 1961 -72, Baguio City 1972-75) It was great to read of the Chefoo Malaysia School Graduation, Thanksgiving and Reunion, and to subsequently learn of much blessing amongst those who attended. The video of the event, kindly arranged by Mark Ellis in Sevenoaks; was greatly...”
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“...Province). My father, Dr John Jones, worked in Chowstun BMS Hospital for a number of years and my younger brother MAX (now Dr James Maxwell Jones) was born in Chowtsun on 23 August 1915.1 remember a Harris family that lived the other side of Chowtsun in those days with 2 children, Peggy and Fred. In 1937, Miss Blackmore, former Headmistress of Chefoo Prep School, kindly turned up to a Baptist Church in London, where I was being farewelled (amongst others) to go as a new Medical Missionary to Bolobo Station in Belgian Congo. It was a great surprise and a thrill for me! In 1977,1 retired from medicine, and, soon after, had the privilege to act as Medi-The Chefoo Magazine * 2002 13...”
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“...around them. BERYL (WELCH) GOODLAND and her husband Pat enjoy retirement in Gorsley, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Pat preaches occasionally in local churches. BERNARD and his wife Jean have moved to Raglan in Wales and are settling well into the local community. THEODORE and Pam became grandparents over a year ago. THEODORE continues teaching in Cambridge and has an annual trip to the Caribbean to teach in a medical school there. 56 School Lane, Toft, Cambridge, CB3 7RE Tel: 01223263371 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002 15...”
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“...neighbourhood at the time of our mother’s childhood. Alvyn gave a talk at a recent Chefoo reunion in Toronto, where he provided the group with a broader sense of the broader historical context of the CIM and of the Chefoo Schools in China. Norman is now Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Arizona; he now teaches half the normal load; i.e. a full load in the Fall semester, and then he is free in the Spring semester. At the end of 2002 he will be fully retired. From time to time he has the opportunity to visit with two of GORDON MARTIN’S children, ALISON (MARTIN) HOLMES, who lives in Prescott, Arizona; and DICK MARTIN, living in London. It is also a pleasure to visit Gordon Martin’s brother, MORRIS, who lives in Tucson. Morris Martin did not spend any time in China since his parents were on the staff of the CIM at Newington Green, in charge of the candidates for the Mission. Now 16 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002...”
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“...Third St Tucson, AZ 85716 USA SARAH (BRYAN) ERWIN (1932-1940) My husband and I visited China in April 2002, taking our three children with us and the husbands of our two daughters. My sister, Ann also went with a son and friend, making 10 of us in all. We had been due to leave on Sept 22nd last year, but with all the unrest after 9/11, we rescheduled the trip. Along with all the tourist things to see, we of course went back to Chefoo and to our home town - Huangxian - now called Lungkow (just about 10 miles from Penglai). The changes in the country are amazing. In Chefoo, at least the sea and the bluff are still there, unchanged, and all our memories which forever tie us to China. We stayed in a beautiful hotel and had breakfast in the revolving restaurant on the top, getting a view of the bay which we had never had before. However, as we looked over the bay and the road to second beach, we realized that the hotel had been built on top of The Rocks. A disappointment not to watch the waves beating...”
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“...to join Paine Webber in the old PanAm building above Grand Central. Cantor Fitzgerald occupied floors 101-105 of Tower One in the World Trade Center and lost some 700 people with the first plane on Sept 11, many of them British. When the 1993 bomb exploded at the WTO, Christopher had taken the day off! In August, ALLAN LUDBROOK and his wife DAWN came by for lunch on a trip through New York and Connecticut from their home in Dundas, Ontario. There was much talk about Chefoo, Peking, Canada, and cabbages and kings! 18 The Chefoo Magazine ♦ 2002...”
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“...CAROL (PREEDY) TER JUNG (Ku li ng, 1948-1950) In October 2001,1 had the opportunity to meet MARJORIE (BUTLER) KEEBLE (classmate from Kuling 1948-50) from Australia and tour London. My aunt, EDITH PREEDY (Chefoo 1920's) from England, joined us midweek. From London we rented a car and headed for Wales and other parts of England for a delightful time. One highlight included going to the site of where Clarendon School used to be in Abergele, Wales. When Kuling had to be disbanded in early 1951, my sister, brother and I were sent to England to await our parents. With several other children from Kuling including my sister GRACE (PREEDY) BARNES (Kuling 1948-50), we were sent to Clarendon School for a few months. I was fortunate enough to have one of my Kuling teachers, Miss Bea Stark, as my teacher there for those few months. (The school has since burned down and is now located in England). MARY (CULPEPPER) WALKER (1937-1940) Our Lord has seen fit to leave us here another year, to enjoy many blessings...”