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“...Published by the Chefoo Schools Association The Chefoo Magazine 2006 FEATURED THIS ISSU IN E The Death of Far, by Kari Malcolm 1 De Scouting En Chine, by John Espey, with an introduction by Morman Austin 9 90 th Anniversary of the Tattle of the Somme, by Frank Moore 13 A Canadian in Trouble in Port Said, by Ian Grant 14 Repatriation, an African Route, by John Sturt 15 laving in Two Worlds, a Navy Boy T Efe at Chefoo, by John Cooper 18 Photo Galleries 23-24 Full Table of Contents Twilight at Chefoo THE DEATH OF FAR By Kari Torjesen Malcolm It was not uncommon for children attending Chefoo schools in China to have colleagues from single parent families, due to the death of a parent. Often this was not discussed by the children, just known. A parent, more often a father, would die from illness or accident. For the Torjesen children, late in 1939, it was due to an act of war. Peter and Valborg Torjesen were serving in Shanxi province among the Mongolian population, and although they were with...”
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“...reminds us that In Less than two years we will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Chefoo schools Association. Thank you, T>avld Beard tn New Zealand for drawing this to my attention Late Last year, so, please put on your thinking caps, and start rustling through your personal archives, and your memories (even If It does not stretch back 100 years) and see what you might share with us on this Another thought, too. A Long lost friend from yui/wMia,, and Three F+llls, Alberta, Roxie (smith) scattum surfaced a few months ago, and as with so many C-hefuslans, we have had Interesting email commuwlcatlows since then, sharing news and recollections, and she Is also full of good Ideas, she would Like to see more essays that focus on some Interesting and commendable accomplishments by people who attended chefoo schools. 1 agree with Roxie, so even If you have little to share of your recollections of your Chefoo days, but have had an Interesting Life, or some outstanding accomplishments that you...”
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“...S. 28 BOOKS PENDING Alvyn Austin, Norman Austin, Fred Harris, John Owen, 17 POETRY Kuan-Hsiu, and Li Po 18 PHOTO Kuling 23 GALLERIES Chefoo 24 DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Notebook 2 Letters 4 News 29 Reunions 33 In Memoriam 38 Send orders to: Chefoo Schools Association 22 Cloughley Drive Barrie Ontario L4N 7Y3 CANADA From Australia, send your payment to Marjorie Keeble 24 French Street Hamilton, Victoria 3300 HELP US CELEBRATE OUR CENTENNIAL CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION 1908 to 2008 Yes, our 2008 issue of the Chefoo Magazine will commemorate the 100 year anniversary of our Association— REMARKABLE! Any ideas you can share for inclusion in this issue are very welcome. Any account you might have, or know about, that describes the beginnings of the Association will be of value. Or, you might want to write a poem, or an essay to capture the spirit of the Association over these many years. Send your ideas or contributions to the Editor, now....”
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“...and friend dating back to those Cameronian days in the late 1970s. Linton Conway, Aukland NZ I add my thanks to you and those who contributed to the '05 publication. A fine reflection of Chefoo and Ruling. There are very few names I recognize now (Sydney Best, Broomhall, Matthews) because I am so ancient at age 97. You mention photographs. About 20 years ago or so I sent an album or two to someone in England who was putting together an archive of Chefoo photos, but I can't remember his name (Norman Cliff confirms that he was the one). There were photos of the whole school with Mr. McCarthy resplendent in his frock coat, Harris, Malcolm, Gety, Chalkley, Sooke and possibly Duncan. Welch and Bazire came later while I was at school - a great addition of youth. There were photos of the Boys and Prep schools, Exhibition Day, the W.A.s and J.R.s The teams that battled for the CAKE -such stalwarts as Palma, Griffiths, Grosart, Vale, Ford, Pots, Hunt, Pike Gould and the final triumph was Mrs. Eckford...”
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“...using for cleaning our teeth in those last few months when supplies must have been held up? I can still remember that metallic taste in my mouth. I have not used tooth powder since. Marion (Kitchen) Holmes, Wheelers Hill, Australia Congratulations for an excellent Chefoo Magazine. I have read and re-read it. You have done a greatJob, for it has brought back many memories to share with my children and the grandchildren. Faith Cook (nee Rowe) lives 40 minutes drive from us, and it has been a Joy to have her and Paul in our home. Faith has become a great writer - I highly recommend her books - very challenging. Mary (Pearce) Brooke, Lichfield, UK We did the China trip in October/November of last year (2005). We were welcomed by the Chefoo Magazine on our return which contained three articles that were very pertinent to me and Molly, my older sister - the two "flight out of Chunking to Kunming" stories, and the long recounting by Mrs. Bell of our exit from Kuling in '51. We also bought and have...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 6 didn't make the parting any easier. After we had prolonged all the goodbye ceremonies and wiped our tears more than once, Mor and Far got into their rickshaws and were headed down San Lane toward the ship that was to take them to Tianjin. Then we mechanically stepped inside the compound gate, and looked over the brick wall, caught one more glimpse of We caught one more glimpse of our parents, their heads bobbing to the rhythm of the rickshaws. It was then I knew that that was the last time I would see them together. our parents, their heads bobbing to the rhythm of the rickshaws. It was then I knew that that was the last time I would see them together. This knowledge was like a delicate secret that came from deep inside of me. I didn't immediately think of it as God speaking to me, but later I identified it with the "still small voice." It wasn't a frightening experience, but a quiet inner certainty, wrapped in the greater certainty of God's unlimited love...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 7 Thanks forjoy and thanks for sorrow Thanks for heavenly peace with Thee! Thanks for hope in the tomorrow, Thanks through all eternity. The rest of the day was filled with its regular routine. Far hadjust returned the day before from a preaching trip to a nearby village, and was catching up on paperwork and other practical details. And Mor tended the sick who came to the clinic. They ate lunch and took a short nap. Then as they were getting ready for afternoon coffee, at about 2.30, they heard the unpleasant thunder of bombers in the air. Far ran out into the yard to look and came right back. It looked like thirty to forty planes in the air, more than he had ever seen before in Hequ. "We must stay where we are," he told Mor. "There is no time to run for shelter. Quickly, let's get under the bed." Before he got properly under the bed, and while Mor hadjust bent down to get under, they heard the sound of the first bomb exploding. It was a sharper sound than...”
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“...Friends If you have a friend from Chefoo Schools whom you have lost track of, and are wondering where they might be, please contact the Editor, and maybe we can help. If you don’t have access to email, don’t let that deter you. Just send a note by mail (address on back cover), and it will be posted on the email network. If an answer arrives, you will receive a reply by regular mail. If this does not work, your query will appear here in the Magazine. THE BOXER TROUBLE By Ida Pruitt, in A China Childhood, 1978 During the Boxer Trouble, as Westerners called the 1900 rebellion ... many officials sympathized with the Boxers. The officials hated the “Ocean People,” those outside barbarians, the Western Powers, who were chopping off pieces of China each for itself, and who were controlling much of China’s national income to pay for the wars forced on her and lost. The Boxers said they would drive all of these barbarians into the sea. In the middle of a class (at Chefoo), one day in the late spring...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 9 LE SCOUTING EN CHINE By John Espey, introduced by Norman Austin The following essay is a chapter from John Espey’s book, first published in 1944 by Knopf, Inc., Minor Heresies, Major Departures, A China Mission Boyhood, and is used with permission from the Regents of the University of California, University of California Press, who most recently published the book in 1994. This story took place during the period when Espey attended the Kuling American School in the 1920s. Norman Austin, who attended the CIM school in Kuling more than two decades later, introduces Espey’s essay. John Espey was born in 1913 in Shanghai into a missionary family, of American Presbyterians. For the first eleven years of his life he lived in the missionary compound in Shanghai, but in 1923 his parents sent him to the American school in Kuling. He seems to have had some health problems and his parents thought that the bracing mountain air of Kuling might improve his health. Later...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 10 been born in China and having spent those formative years of our life in China, being raised by Chinese nannies and cooks and learning at least some Chinese from them before we were sent to the Chefoo School. This double-edged privilege is more obvious in Espey’s case than for many of us since he lived in a missionary compound until the age of eleven, and had considerable freedom to roam about in his Shanghai neighborhood. Most of us put aside our Chinese roots when we entered the Chefoo Schools at the age of six. In our Ku I i ng days the Chefoo School made an effort to remedy our cultural deficiencies by having a sweet Chinese lady give us Chinese lessons and we were taught something of Chinese manners. But our education gave us nothing of Chinese history, though for many of us China was our birthplace and the only real home we knew. The land we called “home" was some distant place, more a place in our imagination than a real country. Of Chinese religion...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 11 Scout hats were hard to come by in Shanghai stores, which naturally catered to the Boy Scouts of China rather than the Boy Scouts of America, and I wisely said nothing about the matter to anyone. When the package arrived, I waited until I was alone before I opened it. My chagrin and my relief at being alone were about equal as I pulled from the wrapping not an official American Scout hat but an official Chinese one, which was a few shades darker than the American model and had a leather strap instead of a ribbon around it. Though I enjoyed, and quietly cultivated, a small reputation for eccentricity at the school, I knew that even my closest friends would think I had gone too far if I were to appear with a Chinese Scout hat on my head, and I hid it instantly at the bottom of my steamer trunk. This experience left me so shaken that I was not particularly surprised a few months later by the collapse of a deal I had made to buy a hat from the only Scout in...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine 2006 Page 12 "Well, you were mistaken, Little Brother," the cook said. He always called me Little Brother when he was about to give me either advice or orders, saving my purely formal title of Little Master for public occasions. "Since it is impossible even for your parents to keep you from rushing out over the mountains to live like a wild animal, to say nothing of the stupidity of what you are doing, but I can at least see that you don't disgrace yourself and everyone connected with you by walking through the valley loaded down like a donkey." "But that's part of the idea," I protested. "This is the way everyone does it in America when he goes camping." Knowing no Chinese for "camping," I used the English one. "You see, it isn't a civilized thing," the cook said. "If there isn't a Chinese word for it, you can be sure it's barbarous." "I don't know about that," I answered, "but I do know I'll be late meeting the others if I stay here trading thoughts with you." "All...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 13 90th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme By Frank Moore A Story about 17286 Private Alfred Isaac Andrew, 15th Battalion, Royal Scots, killed in action Tuesday, June 4,1916, aged 19. Alfred Andrew was a Chefusian. He was born on the 18th May 1897 at Guiyang in Guizhou province. He was the last child of George and Jessie Andrew, pioneer missionaries of the CIM. The family appears, resplendent in Chinese silk, in the wedding photo of Alfred’s only sister Esther to Arthur Moore, a converted police detective from the Shanghai International Settlement. The photo is taken on the 11th December 1908. George and Jessie Andrew are 51 and 50 years old. George Findlay Andrew, 21 years, stands tall and gangling between his diminutive Scottish mother and D.E. Hoste, general director. Later, between 1925 and 1929, George Findlay Andrew would teach at Chefoo. John Arthur Andrew stands alone on one side dressed in a four button Edwardian suit and high collar. James Findlay...”
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“...George Findlay standing at the grave of Alfred. They are on their fourth and last furlough. The Andrews retired in 1924 to Chefoo where their grandchildren were all at school. They were the children of Esther Andrew and Arthur Moore: Percy 15 years (the author’s father), Jessie 13 years (later the wife of David Bentley-Taylor), Marjorie 11 years and Douglas 7 years (see obituary, page 43); and the children of George Findlay Andrew and Fanny Riley: Leslie 12 years, Aileen 10 years and Mervyn 8 years. George Andrew, affectionately known as 'Saint Andrew', became a familiar figure around the school. Jessie Andrew died in 1927 and was buried in the foreign cemetery. George Andrew followed her in 1930. At some stage the Andrew-Moore family contributed to a memorial gate erected at the school to remember that the major part of Alfred’s short life was as a student at Chefoo.* A CANADIAN IN TROUBLE IN PORT SAID By Ian Grant At five o’clock in the afternoon our ship made a twelve-hour stopover in...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 15 REPATRIATION - AN AFRICAN ROUTE By John Sturt This is an excerpt from John Sturt’s memoir, /n Loving Life, One Physician’s Journey, by permission of the publisher, DayStar Books, Auckland, 2003. These events took place in 1942. My parents were interned for several months in Manchuquo and then taken via Korea to Japan. Eventually they were evacuated by ship from Yokohama to Lorenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) which was the nearest port belonging to a country not involved in the war. This was organized by the Red Cross who also tried to join up families. A message came for me along with a few other school children (at Chefoo) to proceed by ship to be relocated in a camp in Shanghai. It was a rough four-day trip. As the ship was now under the control of the Japanese, we were provided with their food - rice and raw fish. I remember leaning over the rail and being violently sick, returning the fish to where it had come from. As we approached...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 16 coconut trees lined the shore. Would my parents be there? If not, what should I do - try to go to England where I had several relatives, or to New Zealand where two of my sisters were living? I prayed about it in a simple way and felt a sense of peace that my future was in God’s hands. We docked at the wharf in Lourenco Marques (now Maputo). Most of the people walking about were Bantu Africans, although there were a few white faces. I scanned the crown for an hour or so and eventually spotted a tall, thin man with a goatee beard. “Hi, Dad! It’s me!" My stepmother was there too, and they beamed back. I rushed down to a lower deck to make conversation easier. “How are you, Mum and Dad? I was beginning to wonder if I’d ever see you again! When did you get here?" “We arrived from Japan on the Tatuta Maru five days ago, but had no way of knowing if you would be able to get out of Shanghai. We’re so grateful you made it." “You two look great - maybe a bit thinner...”
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“...Mostly completed, he is searching for a publisher. The title will likely be The Arabic Scholar's Son, Eittle Foreign Devil Recalls Turbulent North China, 1927-43. Chapters will include: The Pioneers, the Arabic Scholar, Year of the White Terror, Rafting the Huang He, Western Tranquility, Fetters Home, Pirate Attack, Chefoo—My School, Under the Rising Sun, Repatriation, and Reunion—On Tune! The Chefoo Magazine Editor will inform members by email when the book is available. By John Owen John is in the final stages of preparing for the publication of a biography of Dr Arthur William Douthwaite who was a brother of his Douthwaite great-grandfather, and superintendent of the Chefoo mission station from July 1884 until his untimely death in October 1899. He states: "I have been greatly assisted in this project by two luminous Old Chefusians, namely Valerie Griffiths and particularly by Norman Cliff." sky and the sense of freedom. I wanted to stay. Sending me back to Melbourne by plane, Uncle gave...”
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“...Being a Navy family, we Coopers lived in two different worlds when we were in Chefoo - the CIM world and the Navy world. However, both worlds impacted each other. I thought I might briefly discuss this impact. Throughout the 1920s and 30s most of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet ships would spend their summers in Northern China and winters in the Philippines. In China the cruisers, the submarines and their tender, and a small seaplane tender would be based in Tsingtao. A destroyer squadron and its tender and a couple of minesweepers would be based in Chefoo. The British fleet would be nearby in Weihaiwei. However, Royal Navy cruisers would frequently 'show the flag' in Chefoo. There were 12 destroyers in the squadron. Each ship had a peace-time crew of approximately 90. The destroyer tender had a crew of around 600. The minesweeper might have 60. Thus, there would be around 1800 U.S. Navy officers and sailors in Chefoo for six months of the year. With their families, there would be well over two...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 19 the famous Lighthouse Island. Overseas, the U.S. Navy would only permit part of the ship's crew to be on liberty at a time. But, if all ships were in port, there might be as many as 600 men ashore in the evenings and weekends. This number must have had a noticeable impact on the Chefoo economy and social order. Many of the sailors were handsome teenagers right off the farm. This must have given the headmistress at the Girls' School some sleepless nights! The Navy Young Men's Christian Association downtown could only do so much to channel the adventuresome energies of these lads. Among the Navy families that followed the fleet each summer to Chefoo were a fair number of children. I recently queried one of these children, with whom I have kept contact over the years, about her Navy schooling experience. I asked Mary Ann Schindler Ward: "Where did you heathen Navyjuniors, who did not go to CIM, go to school in Chefoo-Yantai?" She replied: "We went to the Fleet...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2006 Page 20 Francaise in 1950. My father, by then a Rear Admiral, was head of a U.S. military mission setting up the southern NATO command. With the start of the Korean War, I returned to the U.S. and enlisted in the Navy. I served aboard the tanker U.S.S. Salamonie and got to Europe about five times. After nearly four years of service, I returned to school and graduated from the College of William and Mary. I then did graduate work in physics at Georgetown University and physical oceanography at Texas A&M University. Then I really went to sea. First, for six months floating around on an ice-island in the Arctic Ocean and then nine years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. I participated in many oceanographic cruises in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean and three to the Indian Ocean. In 1965 I sailed around the world aboard the R/N Atlantis II. I was able to spend a month ashore in Australia, a week in Hong Kong, and a month in Japan....”