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“...Published by the Chefoo Schools Association The Chefoo Magazine Profile JIM MOORE ~ WEIHSIEN LIBERATOR Interviewed by Ken Grant FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE JimMoore, - Weihsien liberator: Interviewed by Ken Grant 1 Arduous D eparture: Closing the Chefoo School in Kuling, 1950 -51, by Dorothy Bell 11 Encounters, by Euther Cook 15 The Eric Eiddell I Knew, by James H. Taylor III 18 Photo Galleries: Kuling, Shanghai & Chefoo 19,20 Return to Chefoo, 2004, by Eaurence T. Jorden 22 Chefoo' j' Historical Roots, by Frances Osborne 24 Full Table of Contents 3 Jim Moore, left: receiving congratulations for a mission accomplished. Anyone who attended school in Chefoo, especially those who were interned in Weihsien, know who Jim Moore is. Former Chefoo student, he later joined the War effort with the US Navy, and in 1945 he was selected to join the small band of parachutists assigned to jump from 500 feet into a field beside the internment camp in Weihsien to officially liberate the 2,000 people who had...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine Page 2 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK From where I sit, the past year has been both exciting and disappointing as far as the Chefoo Schools Association is concerned. On the brighter side I feel very much the hub of the Association as I receive communications almost daily, from Chefusians all over the globe, primarily by email, but also by regular mail. The constant theme is gratitude for all the “work" I am doing on behalf of the Chefusians. It is truly gratifying to be constantly thanked for having fun! A second highlight has been the increase in the number of dues paying members, as a fairly significant number of old scholars have come on board, especially the Ku I i ng contingent, many of who are now reaching the age where it is as interesting to look back as looking to the future. To a large extent the growth has been through 'word of mouth’. Special credit is due to Marjorie (Butler) Reeble in Australia, who is doing a superb job of contacting Chefusians, organizing reunions...”
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“...briefly shows slides of buildings in Chefoo, Kaiting, and Kalimpong, followed by the feature movie of life at the school in Ruling. It is 25 minutes in length. With the kindness and support of OMF International in Canada we have acquired this film in DVD and VHS formats, and it is available to anyone who is interested in ordering a copy. We are simply covering our costs, as follows: CONTENTS DVD VHS Canada 1100 16.00 USA 10.25 13.50 Australia 16.00 17.75 Pounds Sterling 6.90 7.50 Euro 9.75 10.85 FEATURE Profile: Jim Moore, Interviewed by Ken Grant 1 ARTICLES Arduous Departure: The Closing of the Chefoo 11 School in Ruling, 1950-51, by Dorothy Bell Chefoo’s Historical Roots, by Frances Osborne 24 SHORT A Novel Way to Celebrate the New Year, Torjesen 7 STORIES & Chefoo Encounters, by Luther Cook 15 ARTICLES The Eric Liddell I knew by James H. Taylor III 18 Return to Chefoo, 2004, by Laurence T. Jordan 21 A Tribute to Aunt Helen, by Richard Kraft 23 My Chefoo Days, by Moses Chu 27 Weifang Celebration...”
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“...enjoyed reading the 2004 edition of the magazine and seeing a number of references to people of my time at Chefoo (1935-42). When my sister sent me the attached tribute to David Bentley Taylor it triggered a search through my archive. David Bentley-Taylor was one of the 22 "Sons of the Prophets" who arrived at Chefoo in 1938 and who put on such a great entertainment of Snow-white and the Seven Dwarfs for those stranded there for that Christmas. He stayed on as my form master. Over the following Christmas, which I also spent at the school, he encouraged some of us to start a magazine. David Bentley-Taylor stayed on the staff for less than one year but he left us all with lasting memories of his enthusiasm, kindness and wisdom and I remember being very upset when he announced his departure. I found some memorabilia which included photos of the gang The Childrens' Monthly Paper - Chefoo Boys' School Gilbert Dunachie Jacky Fitzwilliam John Sturt Haaken Torjesen George Bell David Thomas Alex Reimer...”
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“...had so many struggles and problems and could make 'mistakes' or misjudgment's Hudson Taylor was not whitewashed. Frank Moore, Shaanxi, China My heartiest congratulations to you on the 2004 edition of Chefoo Magazine. You have, I think, rescued the entire organization from a slow and sentimental passing away. By shifting the focus of the magazine to an exploration of the pastas opposed to a retelling of the past, you have revived us. Good on yer, mate! You've done us all a great service. Jim Moore, Dallas John Robinson’s article on spending the Christmas Holidays at school in 1935 brought back pleasant memories. There were 8 to 10 boys who were unable to secure adequate transportation home and remained in the dorm. I was a day student and my home in the Baptist compound across from the Chefoo Club tennis courts was only a couple of blocks from the school. I don’t remember whether I was invited or simply showed up but every morning about ten I would climb the stone wall at the southeast corner...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 6 (Letters. Continued from page 5) been loving, good and kind to us. I remember standing near the finishing line on the Boy’s School sports field and watching the Senior Boys 440 race. At the last turn prior to the finishing tape, Wally Desterhaft (a very tall boy) had a sizeable lead, but stumbled, tripped and fell down on the track. Without hesitation, he got up, resumed the race with scratches and all, and finished first. He had been down, but was notout. I’m sure all of us have had our stumbles and falls and resulting bruises, but God’s grace and strength enables us to get up and continue the race. God bless you all! James Hudson Taylor III, Hong Kong (Writing on the passing of David Bentley-Taylor). They came like aliens from Mars! And we students in the Chefoo Schools welcomed them as such. Their impact on 250 adolescents in boarding school, caught in the throes of the Sino-Japanese War, was indescribable! 67 years later and I can see them now. We were...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 7 A NOVEL WAY TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR Excerpt from Kari Torjesen Malcolm’s book, We Signed our Lives Away, pages 155-57. Used by permission of the publisher, William Carey Library, 1605 E., Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104. The book can be purchased on their website (www.WCLBooks.com). After waiting two months for a ship to cross the Pacific, we began our twenty-eight-day voyage. We arrived outside New Westminster, British Columbia, in Canada on the last day of 1945. The ship dropped anchor in the harbor because we could not land until after the New Year’s holiday. But when the pilot came out to the ship my brothers, tired of the sea, begged for a ride to shore. Who could refuse two skinny young boys, full of enthusiasm about being the first to step on North American soil? Hakon and Torje were allowed to roam around the farm country by the pier where the pilot left his launch. They were glad to feel solid ground under their feet again. Torje tells the story...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 8 (Jim Moore Profile, continued from page 1) ey, they said, he could do so. My mother became ill, and we had other problems. He did raise the money, and he got a church to furnish him with a car, which was unique in Chefoo - I don’t know that there were four or five of them. We did not get back to Chefoo until 1929, so we were in the States for three years. When we got back to Chefoo I enrolled again in the elementary school and then when I finished that I moved over to the Boys School. My parents, I think very rightly, figured this would be a good time for me to be a boarding student. I guess a 9 or 10 year old would need a little discipline and trainingthat we would get at the school that we wouldn’t get at home. I was the one who was athletic in the family. My sister Martha Jane was the 'A' student. She had the brains in the family and I made out on my athletic ability. When I moved to the Boys School there was some competition between the houses to get...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 9 (Continued from page 8) cided to head back to Chefoo because we were going to be here for a couple of days. We started off, and spent the night at a Chinese inn, where I slept on a kang. The fellow in charge had a couple of mules and he would let me put my suitcase on the mule but I had a lot of walking to do. Eventually we got back, and I was telling Duncan about it. Hesaid, “That’s an interesting story. Why don’t you write that up for me." So I did. He also drew a map showing where we had gone, and some little history about it and sent it down to the newspaper in Shanghai, the Shanghai Statement, or what was the major English language newspaper. They published it, and we got 30 Yuan, and Duncan split it with me. That was the most money I had ever had in my life. That was an interesting experience. Also Duncan liked to box, and he would ask some of the older boys to spar with him, and about once a week I would stay after class and we would spar. That was...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine Page 10 (Jim Moore Profile, continuing from previous page) KG: Jim, as I listen to you I am making an assumption, and it guess I need you to clarify. When you are telling me all these things I am assuming that you learned Chinese. Good point. And I mentioned what a great value my China background had, at the Chefoo School. I did learn Mandarin to some extent. After college I applied to various agencies in Washington, and planned to go to law school. I put my application in to about five government agencies - Commerce, and Agriculture and what not, and one of them was the Department of Justice, and the FBI. The FBI was looking for people to be clerks, but they were interested in my China background, and they asked if I spoke Mandarin, and I said, well, a little bit, which was probably pushing it somewhat because I was far from expert, but anyhow, I got in with them, and went to night law school. This was about 1941 and the war had broken out, you know, and the FBI had...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 11 ARDUOUS DEPARTURE CLOSING THE CHEFOO SCHOOL IN KULING, WINTER 1950-51 Excerpt from Dorothy Bell’s privately published autobiography, NANNIE’S STORY, IN WEAKNESS, STRENGTH Late in 1951 Dorothy and George Bell traveled from their mission station in Kansu province to the Chefoo School at Kuling to visit with their three youngest children, Alfred, Grace, and Stephen. At the time they did not know that they would not be able to return to Kansu, and that their journey to Kuling, the mountain resort at Lushan, proved to be only a stop in their final trip home to Canada, having served with the China Inland Mission since the early 1920’s. Here is Dorothy’s account of the final closing of the Chefoo school in China. Mr. Crook soon hired men and sedan chairs to take us up the mountain to Kuling. By that time George and I were very excited. We had hardly dared think about meeting the children when there were so many hindrances en route, but then it did seem as though...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 12 One lad who had been asked what was his father’s occupation, replied “He packs and unpacks.” (Continued from page 11) was happeningto them. The staff wanted the children to have a happy Christmas with nothing to mar their pleasure. That is just what God gave them. Carol singing, a Christmas eve party, Christmas day with its presents, its goodies at meals, how good it was! Everyone worshipped the Lord who had been born so long ago in Bethlehem. The program in the afternoon when so many took part, the final giving out of gifts, made the children wild with excitement. What a treat to see the carefree enjoyment of all those youngsters. Behind the fun was a feeling of oppression for the adults. We thought of the future and all it might hold. We knew we could leave it with the Lord. He would undertake. But how difficult would it be? What would happen when exit permits for the whole group were requested? In the night we were a little apprehensive. We had seen...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 13 Kaitingto Kalimpong, 1943 Two Recollections Vera Tyler, from the C IM home in Kunming The evacuation (of CIM missionaries from China in the advance of Japanese troops) spread so that we had a continuous stream of guests, and (husband) Bill was kept busy getting flights forthem out of China. One Christmas, we had 125 with us including the school children and their teachers from the temporary school in West China. We waited all Christmas day for them and wondered what had happened, but they finally arrived about 4.30 AM with a great story of God’s protection. They had got as far as Chengtu airbase in Szechuan and found some problem that kept them grounded, so the flyers had the fun of having the children there for Christmas dinner. Because they couldn’t fit the children with parachutes, they refused to take them. When they finally got down near Kunming we were having an air raid so they couldn’t land, and flew on hoping to find another airstrip further inland...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 14 (Killing closure, from page 8) “Yes, a little bit, also Chinese history and geography." “What do they teach you about communism?" “What does your father talk about at the breakfast table? At night when you are alone as a family?" “What do you plan to be when you grow up? Do you want to go to America?" “What are the names of some of the Chinese friends of your father and mother?" There were times when the children said things we would have liked to say to our rulers. “What are you doing these days?" “Waitingfor you to give us permission to leave," one small girl replied. “What are you doing while you wait?" “We go for walks to Lion’s Leap, the Three Sisters, Monkey’s Ridge." However do you translate the nicknames the children were given to their favorite spots? “What else do you do" “I’ve just read The Woman in White, and Blind Fafferty." Again it taxed my ingenuity to translate the names of the novels into Chinese. I did the best I could with a quick prayer...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 15 Ruling report From Mu Dehua, ‘our man in Kuling’. ‘Chefoo Encounters’ By Luther C ook These are excerpts from Luther’s unpublished manuscript, Encounters. His grandmother taught at the Chefoo School, and his mother attended there. Luther enrolled in 1935, just before his 7th birthday, and his brother Calvin enrolled a year later. Luther was interned in 1942, but was repatriated in August of that year. He says that his Grandma Wight was known to the Boys’ School as Old Turkey Hen, a name she apparently approved of. About 70 Mayors from all over the world attended a “World Environment Day” convention at San Francisco in June 2005. At this meeting Mount Lushan was awarded "PROMINENT ECO-TOURISM SCENERY" by the Vice Secretary-General. Lushan now has three world crowns from the United Nations: . World Culture Landscape Heritage, . World Geo Park, and . Prominent Eco- Tourism Scenery. One day for a great treat we hired a sampan and sculled to Pebble Beach, so...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 16 (Encounters, continued from page previous page) place. When the 440 was run, much to my surprise I easily overtook the second place runner but was content to plod along behind the front runner until an anonymous voice from the sidelines urged me by name to “step on it". Fearingthat the runner I’d just passed had received his second wind, I stepped on it and won the race. It was my only first in 8 years of school running and I was quite proud of it because the 440 is such a taxing sprint. The summer holidays lasted the whole month of August. One summer Mum and Dad were on furlough and another time the Japanese attack on China prevented us from returning to Hong Kong. On these summers we stayed with Grandma (in Chefoo). As a gift, she had bought us membership in the Chefoo Yacht Club, so we spent all day every day in the water. Mum said the sun was good vitamin D & C so by the end of the summer we were dark brown. Today I’m paying for the false science of...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 17 Gordon Martin mentioned that for every step there would be a stop and that God’s grace was just as available for the stops as for the steps. It was a timely word. (Killing Closure, continued from page 16) us, and the choice of which children was left to the school. The baggage had to be inspected before we left. There was a huge pile of it as we had permission to take with us the baggage of the children who had returned home for the holidays. It was taken to an unoccupied compound. The boxes and trunks were lined up on a long porch for the examination that took three days. Atnightthe compound was left unguarded. A couple of men from the school were always with the boxes and at night George and Alfred took plenty of bedding and a lunch with a thermos of something hot and slept on the boxes. When the officers left the courtyard they unscrewed the light bulbs and took them away but George took a couple down from the school so he and Alfred could read during...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 18 The Eric Liddell I knew By J a m es H. Ta ylor III This past February 21st marked the 60th anniversary of the passing of Olympic champion, Eric Liddell, at Weihsien internment camp. Like so many who knew him at Weihsien, Jim acknowledges the great impact Eric had on his life. He wrote of this in the Forward to the recently published C hinese edition of Eric Liddell— Pure Gold (2001), by David McCasland, which has now been translated in Mandarin and will be distributed in advance of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The English and C hinese editions are a vailable from O MF Books. The publisher is Discovery House Publishers, ISBN 1-57293-130-2. The English edition is $20.00 and the C hinese edition is $16.00, plus packaging and postage. Eric Liddell was my hero long before the 1981 Academy Award winning movie, Chariots of Fire, brought him to the attention of the world. Interned together in the Japanese concentration camp in Shandong, Weifang, during the War...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 19 KULING 8c SHANGHAI GALLERY Killing photos and map submitted by David Allen Mrs. Stanley Houghton, relaxing with students in Shanghai, c. 1947. Below, teachers and other CIM staff, also taken in Shanghai. xta ins ft, THE LU5HAN RANGE...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2005 Page 20 Chefoo Gallery GIRLS FROM CHEFOO'S LOWER SCHOOL DORMITORY (LSD) are photographed in Tsingtao, 1945, shortly after their release from the Weihsien Civilian Assembly Center. Back row, from left to right: Margaret Young, Christine Martin, Betty Patchett, Middle row: Audrey Beven, Jean Bruce, Jean Clow, Elizabeth Edwards. Front row: Marjorie Harrison, Mabel Andrews, Joyce Michell. (Mary Taylor, who submitted this picture, had been repatriated to her parents a month earlier.) Chefoo, 1941. Cub Scout Den, led by “Bagheera", Irene Rouse. Backrow: David Thomas, Doug Sadler?, Jamie Taylor. Front row: ??, Jim Harrison?, Fred Woodberry. Picture supplied by Fred Woodberry. Chefoo, circa 1920. Submitted by Rev. Dr. Donald MacLeod. Yantai, circa 2004. Submitted by Norman Cliff....”