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“...Published by the Chefoo Schools Association The Chefoo Magazine ASSOCIATION 2011 THE BOYS SCHOOL ATHLETIC SHIELD FEATURED IN THIS Welcome to David Dykema, our newest C.S.A. Vice-president Henry Luce on the Chefoo School Trip to Chefoo, Weihsien, Shanghai, Kuling & Kiating—July 2012 ISSUE 31 12 13 Chefusian Tales of WW II: • Sam Arendt • Ron Slade • Marian Andrews • Peter Brown • Mary Previte • Willie Arendt • Ray Moore Yantai Photo Gallery Kuling Photo Gallery Today's OMF Approach to Caring for the Children of its Missionaries "No Place to Call Home" -An interview with Raquel Hoersting Barbosa, PhD candidate Full Table of Contents 14-27 This shield was a gift to the Boys School by the Chefoo Schools Association. It was formally presented to the school on their behalf on Wednesday evening, August 20, 1913 by Mr. J. Howard Stooke, to Mr. Murray representing the School Authorities. To make the event a worthy occasion and to show the School's appreciation of the Old Boys' beautiful gift, Mr...”
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“...experiences during the Second World War. Those of us who know our Chefoo Schools history have known all along how important this period of time was for the school, since students and staff were interned by the Japanese close to four long years, and a lot has been written about that. Another small group started out in Free China, and were chased out of China to India. But this year I was introduced to a variety of stories of other experiences that I had not heard about, or read about, and that undoubtedly will interest Magazine readers. For example, I was having a phone conversation early in the year with Sam Arendt, and hearing of his Chefoo years I commented: "Oh, so you were at Weihsien". "No", he replied, "my parents were Germans, so we weren't interned—we remained at Chefoo." On reflecting on this I should not have been surprised, but I was. It had never occurred to me that a handful of Chefusians spent the entire War years at Chefoo. I persuaded Sam not only write an account for us here, but...”
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“...TO CARING FOR M.K.'s • The OMF approach, by David Dykema • Our President's Perception, by Marjorie (Butler) Keeble • No Place to Call Home, Chefoo Magazine interview with Raquel Hoersting Barbosa Henry Luce on the Chefoo School Did the CIM Purchase the Kuling American School? By Ian Grant From Manchu to Mao: at Home in Hunan, 1909-1951, by Phyllis Bannan Woodworth My Children or the Cross, One woman's sacrifice in Pre- Communist China, by Miriam Dunn Chefoo /Yantai Kuling Chefoo Favourites, School Songs, and songs from Golden Bells. CD and Song Book on sale Trip to China, July 2012, sponsored by the Chefoo Schools Association Report of the Inaugural Session of the Lushan Institute We welcome a new Vice-President, David Dykema 10 13 28 31 Editor's Notebook Letters News Reunions In Memoriam 2 4 7 39 41 A Lost Friend? Do you have a friend from Chefoo Schools whom you have lost track of, and are wondering where they might be? Contact the Editor, and maybe we can help. We have been fairly successful...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 4 Eva Arendt Racine, MDCM FRCPC, (1933-36), Montreal Thank you for sending me the Chefoo Journal. The articles were so interesting, even if I had to read them on my special viewing machine, since I have only a little vision left in one eye. But China and Chefoo cannot be forgotten. Peter Bazire (Yantai, Weihsien), Bath, England Once again you have produced a really interesting Chefoo Magazine, with such a variety of articles. Many thanks. I was impressed with the colouring in my mother's painting: not always easy to get right. Also, the photos of the school Orchestra and the Staff are remarkably clear. Grace (Woodberry) Bradley (1938-42), Illinois, USA I just received my Chefoo Magazine. I give you high praise for your inside-the-front-cover article on missionary kids and their attitudes towards their parents, lamina retirement community, Christian-based, and there are a few missionary 'kids' here in their 70's and 80's still battling anger towards their parents...”
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“...ones", I am sitting to the left of George Kraft, four rows below you - in the middle of the picture and ahead of a couple rows of mostly girls. Near the end of the movie your Dad made of "Life at Chefoo School", I am one of the ones bobbing for apples in a tub of water -again, another fond memory. (Ed: See Wanda's obituary on page 41). Marian (Kitchen) Holmes (Kuling), Vic, Australia Thank you Ian for the excellent Editorial you wrote for the magazine. I did appreciate the articles from the China's Millions included by Anne Hazelton also. She must be related to Wanda (yes, her mother—Ed.). It is interesting to observe that as the schools developed and years passed by, the treatment of the children considerably improved. I have just read one of Sheila Millers books on the Cameron Highlands Chefoo. They were very fortunate children with 'Dorm Aunties' who were apart form the school system, meaning a shoulder to cry on when things were rough at school. Marjorie (Butler) Keeble (1947-51), Vic...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 6 to their work (calling). Her brother, two years her senior, appears to have held the opposite view and felt that his parents were, if not abusive, neglectful for having left them in an institutional environment where they would often go years on end without seeing their parents due to their distance away in central China and the episodic restrictions on travel due to either brigandry or political instability. Throughout her life, my mother remained passionately committed to her Christian faith. Her formidable intellect, remarkable memory and rigorous study of the scriptures made her an invaluable "in-house" resource to several ministers at her church. After writing her Oxford exams at Chefoo at age 14, she enrolled in McMaster University, then in Toronto, and was soon teaching English and History to Grade 13 students who were older than she was. Her brother, in contrast, to my understanding, became either an atheist or an agnostic who had no involvement...”
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“...the attached photo which reads 'Dr Raymond Hollings, 50 years service to Northern Sydney Central Coast Health.' Today I rang Ray, whom I have not met, and he said he would be happy to have the photo and his comments printed in the Magazine, which he praised profusely. He looks surprisingly like Peter Bazire, in whose class he was at Chefoo. I gather his family managed to get out of Chefoo in 1940." His comments include: "I was intrigued to see how many of my old Class mates of Lower 1 and Upper 1 in 1938 - 40 featured in the latest magazine. I am sorry I will not be able to get to the Melbourne Reunion in April... I have had an unpleasant reminder of Chefoo lately as I well remember having whooping cough in the summer hols of 1939! Well, I've had it again and have been coughing for four months and feeling very unwell in a general sense. However, having had my 80th Birthday yesterday (7th December 2010), I'm hoping for a better 81st year. Just to let you know what I look like, I'm enclosing...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 8 Mary Ruth Howes (1938-42), Florida, USA Thanks so much for the recent letter announcing the new edition of the newsletter. Sorry for my long silence. Adjusting to one's additional years and aging body seems to require more time and energy than one likes. In June 2010 I went to England to visit my sister, Flora Nell Duke (who would have come to Chefoo in January 1942, if it had not been for Pearl Harbor). She and her husband live in Helsby, just north of Chester. On a visit to Ness Gardens, run by the University of Liverpool, we got to see the original rhododendron plant brought to Ness from Yunnan, China, in the early 1900s and named in gratitude for Roxie Hanna, the hostess in the CIM home where the explorer stayed while he was collecting specimens. Roxie's grand-daughter, also named Roxie Hanna (now Roxie Wilson, living in Collingwood, Ontario, Ed.), was in Chefoo in a class or two ahead of me. The Ness gardener said that they planned to take cuttings...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 9 Bob, who came to Toronto all the way from California just to attend the April Chefoo Reunion. Beth Leach very kindly provided accommodation for Candida, and arranged for her to visit with Bob). An amazing school. The presence of heathens (sic) was more than just a way to increase revenue but it gave us all a chance to mix with Mish Kids and for the boarders to meet Italians like Candida and Riccardo Battistuzzi, and Greeks like Elia and Stephanos Paradissis. Boarders from Shanghai families were also among us. I remember a Prince of the island of Tonga who played hockey in bare feet. He was the ward of the American Consul. In an effort to throw light on this piece of school history, I wrote to the Bishop of the Pacific (including Tonga.) I wrote to an address in New Zealand. Like prayer, there is not always an answer. Once more may I ask if anyone has a copy of the Chefoo Daily News, edited by my uncle, Douglas Murray, father of Tina, Peter, Jimmy, Elspeth...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 11 Chefusian Dr. Phyllis Bannan Woodworth (1927-1937), who hails from Portland, Oregon, has written a family history that may be of interest to some Chefusians. Of this book Daniel Crofts, author of Upstream Odyssey, says: "The Bannan family— an Irish father, an Australian mother, an Australian stepmother, and three children born in China who grew up to become Americans—exemplified the strikingly international nature of the Protestant mission movement in Republican-era China. Phyllis Woodworth, one of the three Bannan offspring, places her family's experiences amid the raging torrent of twentiethcentury Chinese history. Based on research that has taken the author to four different continents, From Manchu to Mao memorably combines a deeply personal tale with a keen eye for the larger stage on which she and her family lived." Hunan, the last province to do so, opened its doors to foreigners in 1897; the doors closed in 1951. This book, covering the last years...”
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“...way of Chefoo. In 1904 the Luce's and the school moved from Tengchow to the Presbyterian compound at Weihsien, which was the very site of the war-time Japanese concentration camp, of Chefoo School infamy. This is where young Henry Luce grew up before he was sent to the Chefoo School in 1908, at age 10. Writing to a friend in the US, before going to Chefoo, he described Weihsien as follows: "I live in the country near Weihsien city, in a compound or big yard about two blocks large. There are eight dwelling houses, a boys' and girls' school, a college, a big church, and two hospitals." As for the Chefoo School, Brinkley describes it this way: "There were few educational options for Western children in Shantung, and Harry's parents had little choice but to send him to the China Inland Missionary School, known to its students by the name of the town in which it was located - Chefoo... Chefoo was a British boarding school, and the combination of the limited amenities available in Shantung and the...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 13 Trip to China in July 2012 Visits to all the Chefoo School sites in China: Yantai, Weihsien, Kiating, Shanghai, and Kuling Perhaps a final trip, perhaps even the creme-de-la-creme trip to China specifically designed for Chefusians is being organized by, and will be led by Rob (Francis) Joyce, with assistance of Ian Grant, to take place in July 2012. What is being planned is a visit to all the Chefoo Schools former China locations: CHEFOO AND TEMPLE HILL (Yantai, Shandong province), WEIHSIEN (Weifang, Shandong), KULING (Guling & Lu Shan, Jiangxi), KIATING (Leshan, Sichuan) and SHANGHAI. Rob has been back to China 12 times and visited all the school sites several times. Only Kiating's specific property has not been identified, but it is planned to come as close to where it existed as possible; probably a side trip to Mt. Emei, where the Kiating group vacationed, can be included in the program. Fortunately all the school sites are located in or near places...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 14 At Chefoo, but Not Interned By Sam Arendt We are used to hearing how the Chefoo School was interned during the War, first at Chefoo, then at Weihsien. But a few German and Italian families were not interned, and Sam shares his story with us. Chefusian Tales of World War II I was eleven years old in 1938 when I first went to school in Chefoo as a day scholar. Until then, I had done only home schooling. I remember Mr. Harris giving me a test to find out my scholastic level. I did not understand English grammar and will always be grateful to Miss Pyle for taking time after class to teach me on a one-to-one basis. Mr. Welsh taught Algebra and Trigonometry. Mr. Martin taught Latin and Chinese history. I took part in the boat races as the coxswain, but had no ability in sports. I have happy memories of my school years and liked and respected all of my teachers. Mr. Houghton taught us Scripture and showed us how God led and guided him personally to the right life...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 15 We supplied them with goats milk and did anything we could to help out. They owned some land behind their house. I sometimes pastured the goats there and visited with Mr. Paradissis over the wall. The Japanese were very suspicious of my father because he did not belong to a mission and his financial support came from North America. They threatened to shoot him as a spy. A friend and former mission co-worker of the Liebenzell mission, Dr. Eitel, was able to intercede in my father's favour. Dr. Eitel was valued by the Japanese for his surgical and medical expertise. Any houses that had been vacated by those going into internment, and were not immediately occupied by the Japanese, did not last long. Every piece of wood in the houses would be pulled out for firewood, and then the walls would collapse. That the boys' school was burned may not have been intentional. I used to pasture my goats in the gardens of these destroyed homes. I also pastured where the...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 16 INTERNED AT LUNGWHA CAMP IN SHANGHAI By G. Ronald Slade From Memories of School Boy #51, a memoir written for his family, and published privately. We are grateful to Ron for sharing his story with us. Chefusian Tales of World War II Farewell to Weihsien he International Red Cross arranged for children who had parents as Internees in other Camps to be joined up with their parents if possible. This meant that (my sister) Nora and I, along with about ten other Chefoo School students, were to be transferred from Weihsien to the Shanghai area, where there were several Concentration Camps. The night before we were to leave I spent some time saying goodbye to class mates and some of our teachers. Arriving back at our dorm there was a message that Mr. Bruce wanted to see me. As well as saying goodbye, he wanted me to know that the School had tried their best to have a teacher accompany us on this trip. Our teachers were very loyal to their students. Their request...”
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“...porridge form. Most of the time we took our rations back to the cubicle; sometimes Mom had extras that she would add. Occasionally Red Cross parcels came in with food stuffs. Sometimes some of the CIM German missionaries, who were not interned, were able to send food parcels. Right after breakfast on the first day, I was surprised when Mike Orchin, a former student and friend from Chefoo days, called on us. His parents were business people in Tsingtao, and they had also come to Shanghai before the War, hoping to evacuate to England, but were unable to get a ship. Mike and I had been quite close friends in Chefoo. He was all excited, telling the family that I was to play a (field) hockey game! The school in camp was divided into two or three groupings, and Mike had arranged for me to be included in his group, and wanted me to play that morning. So, we had a good game and our team won. This gave mean opportunity to meet some of the kids I would be going to school with. Pretty soon Nora and...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 18 Chefusian Tales of World War II pass the time and make things less monotonous. While the school held our own sports activities, there were times when older folk joined in, or conducted their own sport such as soccer, rugby, field hockey, cricket, and softball, depending on the season. Everyone had a job to do to keep things going. If you were a student, that was your full time job. We had teachers who had taught in the Shanghai schools, so I felt that the standard of schooling was fairly good. My final year of high school was at the Lungwha school. The Art and Consequences of Escaping When registering to enter the camps in the Shanghai area, internees were given four mimeographed sheets of paper by the Japanese in which there was a warning that people should not attempt escape. It also said: "The Civil Assembly Centre, being the best home for those who live in it, must be loved and cherished by all of them. Every person shall take care of his health and...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 19 WE SLEPT RIGHT THROUGH IT Have you ever been at the center of a significant, even dangerous event, yet have no personal recollection of it because you slept through it? I have. It occurred sometime in 1950 at Kuling. This was after the Communists had peacefully captured Kuling a year earlier. As I understood this incident, regretfully not until the next morning, a gun battle occurred in the middle of the night between bandits and Communist soldiers. The bandits were at the top of Monkey Ridge, overlooking Kuling valley, and immediately above the Chefoo School. Being night, and no visible targets, bullets were flying in all directions. How could I sleep so soundly in the middle of such drama? But I did. Many other 'fortunate' staff and students were awakened to the terror of warfare. I have always regretted that I did not accompany them. Chefusian Fred Woodberry slept through an even more dramatic event, on the high seas, while heading to the United States...”
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“...The Chefoo Magazine, 2011 Page 20 K BELATED HONOUR Marion Andrews did not attend a Chefoo School. She was born at the CIM Hospital Compound at Paoning, Szechuan in 1948 and the family was evacuated from China in 1949. Four of her cousins went to Chefoo in Malaysia: Paul, Philip, Anne and Timothy Wik. They all live in the USA and their father Harold is still alive. Two of Marion's aunts, Lucinda Wik (Malaysia) and Ruth White (Japan) spent their working lives in OMF, but her parents did not return to the Mission after China. She grew up reading stories of Chefoo, the CIM, and OMF. This is a wonderful story! Chefusian Tales of World War II In 1943 the Japanese army had taken the Burma Road, cutting supply to the Chinese army. All supplies for Free China had to be flown in over the Himalayas, at great cost of life and aircraft. The Commander of the British Military Mission in China visited the General Director of the China Inland Mission and asked for two of his men who knew the language, customs...”