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“...Published by the Chefoo Schools Association
The Chefoo Magazine
2012
FEATURED IN THIS
ISSUE
CSA China Tour, 2012
• An overview
• Chefoo/Yantai
• Temple Hill
• Weihsien / Weifang
• Shanghai
• Guling / Lushan
• Kiating / Leshan
A Sixty Year Surprise: 25
George and Dick Kraft
visit their parents mission station near the Tibetan border
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George & Dick Kraft
Kangding, western Sichuan province, near the Tibetan border
Chefusians attend the 31
2012 Lushan Institute
The Long March to avoid 35 the "Long March", by
Norman Austin
From Weihsien to 39
Shanghai's Pootung
Camp, by Basil Scott
Full Table of
Contents
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George Kraft attended the Chefoo School at Shanghai, and his brother Richard joined him at Kuling. Their parents had served as missionaries with the China Inland Mission in western Sichuan province. They were stationed in a small town of Kangding, half the distance between Chengdu and the Tibetan border.
George and Dick joined the Chefoo Schools Association China tour this past July, which...”
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“...the trip this past summer to China, sponsored by the Chefoo Schools Association. We visited all the sites of the Chefoo Schools in China, the first, and probably the last such trip, ever. A total of 26 people participated, with a core of 22 of us who took in the entire trip. Special thanks to Rob Joyce ('Francis' reverted to 'Rob' for this trip, the name he went by at Shanghai and Kuling), who teamed up with a superb China national guide, Eric Liu, to pack a lot into a fairly brief time, yet everything went very smoothly. Eric in turn selected a first rate team of local guides, most of whom are probably as good as one could get if visiting China. To top it off, the people who joined the tour were very cordial, patient, generous, and enthusiastic - you simply could not have put together a more amenable group if they had all been hand-picked, which they weren't. It was a wonderful tribute to the Chefoo Schools Association, to Rob and Eric, our local guides, all the participants, and to China...”
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BACK TO SCHOOL!
Visits to the Chefoo School Sites in China,
Sponsored by the Chefoo Schools Association July 5-17, 2012
At Yantai, with the Prep School as background
Left to Right: kneeling, Mavbeth (Conway) and Ian Roberts, Ian Grant, Henry Hallgren;
Standing, first row, Susan Dobson, Bob Jeffery, Margery (Joyce) Palomino, Ann (Bob) Jeffery, Priss (John) Streeter, Grace (Glazier) Bryer, Delores, Jeff, Stan and Peter (with hat) Thompson, Chris (Mabel Andrews) Johnston, Anne Joyce, Sandra Grant.
Standing, behind, Barbara (Jeffery) Goode (almost hidden behind Bob), Hakon Torjesen, Dick Kraft, Francis (Rob) Joyce, Linda Miller and John Jeffery, George Kraft, and John Streeter (between Chris and Anne).
The following pages will feature descriptions and impressions of this tour by those who participated. The object will be to make those of you who did not join us to deeply wish you had....”
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“...community, and it is attracting close to two million Chinese tourists each year. So they don't mind 'Kuling', and have even established a prominent monument at the Gap (i.e. 'downtown'), using this name.
Speaking of Chinese names, if you were a student at Kuling, do you remember the big house that some of the staff lived in at the top of the property, with the Chinese
THE NAMING OF KULING
Excerpt from "The Story of Kuling", by Edward S. Little
Published by request of the Chinkiang Literary Association, 1899
The name of the highest peak opposite the entrance or gap is Ku-niu-lin or Bull Peak. The valley along which the bungalows are built is called the Chang-ch'ung or the Long Valley. I did not like any of these names, so I gave the estate a new name, calling it Kuling and making it the Chinese form of the English word cooling, so that the name might describe its destined use. The place was hoped to be one for the cooling off of over-heated foreigners. It was a name, too, that Chinese who...”
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“...would have been nice to have an elevator, especially if you were assigned to the third floor. But we managed. ♦
The former Tyng house serving as the Chefoo Tour hotel, 2012.
George Kraft leading in the singing of Chefoo school songs, and selections from Golden Bells, foyer of Tyng's House
Maybeth (Conway) and Ian Roberts, in front of the former Conway family residence.
WELCOME BACK HOME CHEFOO STUDENTS
MuDehua, our long time friend, is formally made an honorary member of the Chefoo Schools Association....”
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CHEFOO SCHOOLS CHINA TOUR ~ 2012
Chefusians attend the Lushan Institute's 2012 Session
The Lushan International Institute of Language and Culture completed its inaugural summer program in July of last year. The Institute was first inspired by the Kuling American School Association (KASA) in 2005 when they held a reunion at Lushan. They had kindly invited members of the Chefoo Schools Association (CSA) to join them, and five people who had been at
the Chefoo School at Kuling attended. After considerable work and negotiations the Institute was born as a partnership between
KASA, the Lushan government, and Nanjing University.
The second July session was held this year, and four people associated with the Chefoo Schools participated. They were Helen (Simpkin) Joynt of Australia and her husband Robert, Helen's sister Dorothy Simpkin from Great Britain, and Ken Grant (this Magazine editor's younger brother) who lived in the OMF hostel in Alberta in the 1950s...”
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“...where she taught Old Testament. She was there until she was 78 years old, and returned to Canada, then assisted family members in Florida and Ohio, who needed her help due to ill health. She returned to Toronto where she spent her final years, passing away at the age of 103. Pearl faithfully attended Chefoo Reunions in Toronto until frailty made this no longer possible.
Pearl was born a month after the forming of the Chefoo Schools Association, and in April 2008 at the Toronto Chefoo Reunion they jointly celebrated the centennials of both Pearl and the Association.
Kathryn (Phillips) Fairley, February 1934-September 2012
Kathy had a rich and fulfilling life, including some extraordinary experiences. She was born in Tianshui in Gansu province in China in 1934, where her parents were missionaries. From 1941 to 1943 she and her brother, Richard, were held prisoners of war by the Japanese while at Chefoo School on the east coast of China. They were released as part of a prisoner exchange and reunited...”
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“...n of 'a fine cricket bat....saved from the Japanese, when they took over...Tientsin Grammar School'. Their son David was born in Ballarat at Eildon House on 6 November 1947.
At the end of first term in 1950 the family returned to Hong Kong and Singapore, where Frank was a manager of his uncle-in-law's watch importing business. Their daughter Heather was born in Singapore on 21 October 1950. He and Australian Hong Kong Trade Commissioner, Harry Menzies, established the Hong Kong Australian Association.
The family returned to Melbourne in the late 1950s and Frank taught first at Camberwell Boys' Grammar and then at Scotch College (1956 - 1971). At Scotch he taught a wide range of subjects and coached the tennis team to 7 premierships over 13 years. He was instrumental in the creation of Old Scotch Collegians' Tennis Club in 1959.
Frank Stuckey passed away on Monday 22 August 2011 at Gold Coast Hospital. He is survived by his wife Marjorie, children David and Heather, and three grandchildren...”
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“...left China to relocate in South East Asia (see column to the left on this page). The last Chefoo School, in Tanah Rata, Malaysia, was closed in June 2001.
THE CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
The Chefoo Schools Association was founded in 1908. Its purpose is to operate an association for all former scholars and members of the staff 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 one another; and to promote friendly relationships 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. Associate Membership is open to other persons interested in the welfare of the Association.
MAGAZINE AND MEMBERSHIP DUES
Membership is based on the calendar year. The annual membership fee includes a subscription to The Chefoo Magazine at no additional charge and...”
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