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“...Published by the Chefoo Schools Association
The Chefoo Magazine
LAST ISSUE: Published 1908—2018
The opening ceremony of the new Chefoo School exhibit at the Yantai Municipal Museum, March 28, 2018.
(See p. 6 for the commencement of the inside stories).
Opening Ceremony
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Second row, left to right: Yu Zuhua, Dean of History and Culture Department, Ludong University; Chi Ruowei, Associate Consultant of the Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Yantai Municipal People’s Government; Adrian Keeble, Marjorie Keeble, President and Director, Chefoo Schools Association; Keith Butler, Chefusian, Mary Edgar, Professor Ron Richmond, Chen Haitao, President of Jiaodong Culture Research Association; Gao Aidong, Curator of the Yantai Municipal Museum; Chen Xiaoling...”
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Editor’s FINAL notebook
We can all attest to the fact that our universe, our world, our nations, our institutions, and each of us as individuals are constantly changing. The last Chefusian to enrol in the Chefoo School in China took place in the Fall of 1950. In June 2001 the last Chefoo School in Malaysia closed its doors for the last time. With this issue the Chefoo Magazine is being published for the last time. In a few more years any person who attended the Chefoo School in China will cease to exist. Our teachers and caregivers have already preceded us. I often remind myself that this summer I turn 78 years of age, and I am one of the youngest Chefusians from the China era. We've had a good run, and for a brief time at least, our 110-year-old alumni association will carry on.
In the 2017 magazine I informed readers that the 2018 issue would be my last. I also said that because it was not likely that any other Chefusian would, at this stage of our collective lives...”
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THE CHEFOO SCHOOL DISPLAY AT THE YANTAI MUNICIPAL MUSEUM
• Introduction, and Background Story
• Delegates Representing the Chefoo Schools Association
• The Ceremony:
• Opening Remarks, by Host Yin Guowen
• Speech by Ian Grant, on behalf of the Chefoo Schools Association
• Speech by Liu Kianfeng (Jeff Liu), Board President, Yantai Municipal Museum
• Further Remarks by Yin Guowen
• Photo Gallery:
• The Exhibition
• Chefoo School historical buildings
• Banquets in honour of the Chefoo Schools Association delegates
• Today's Yantai Waterfront
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STORIES OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, AT YANTAI
• My Chefoo Pedigree, by Raymond Moore
• The Halcyon Days of Chefoo, Tales of a Local Boy, by John Hoyte
• Grace Liddell Cox: A Reluctant Teacher, by Miriam Moran
A STORY OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, AT WEIHSIEN
• Liberation, and After, by Paul Amos
STORIES OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, AT KULING
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• The Attic, by Paul A. Grant
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• From Shanghai...”
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Letters and News
Sam Arendt, Perth, Ontario
Here are some corrections in connection with my article in the Chefoo Magazine last year. The Liebenzell Mission had no connection with brethren assemblies and my father knew nothing about them when he went to China. The book room my father operated was an outlet of the Christian Book Room of Shanghai, started by Mr. G C Willis, who was mainly in printing to supply all missions with gospel tracts, posters and booklets. If you have Dr. Nelson Bell's biography, he mentions Mr. Willis as his source of Gospel literature. The Christian Book Room moved to Hong Kong after the war. His daughter sold it to an Australian, when she retired. The man who bought it was the one who got arrested in North Korea about a year ago. Mr. Willis was in some ways my spiritual father. He authored some English books that are still in print. One is "To the Parents of My Grandchildren". Since writing my book I found out that the Mrs. Baller of Chefoo...”
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dress is doable. Think of all the joy he is bringing to places like Luseland." My email set off a barrage of counter emails from my former Three Hills cohorts, and one of the most interesting was from Blake Bromley who has had a long history in Vancouver as a lawyer specializing in Charities law. (read the 2017 Chefoo Magazine for a report on his influence in charitable legislation in China). Blake's email said: "I set up Jimmy Pattison's charitable foundation so when these emails started I dropped him a note about the interaction among MK's generated by his Luseland exhibit. He was travelling, but his Executive Assistant responded asking me whether I had missed attaching the photo (Blake forwarded it soon after when he received from me the photo shown here). His daughter now runs the foundation and her response to me supported that they were pleased to hear the anecdote about Aunt Frieda.' A fascinating story, to be sure."
Estelle (Cliff) Horne, South Africa
Greetings...”
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really surprising to me, their records of the Chefoo School while in China are vsery limited. This in itself is useful information (see page 9 for an overview of Chefoo School and C.S.A. archival information available worldwide.)
After Singapore we flew to Sydney, Australia. Again, we did a few of the normal tourist things, but a highlight was a visit with Chefusian David Simpkin, thanks to the kind assistance of
With David, and his daughter Joy—the 3 TCKs, as OMF calls us. his
MK daughter, Joy Lankshear. David and his wife live together in a nursing home. They had been medical missionaries in South Thailand with OMF. While we were warned that David usually doesn't talk very much, we were pleased to spend a couple of hours with him, including lunch together. David was very willing to talk of Kuling, and also of his medical experiences in Thailand as a physician.
Following Sydney we flew to Adelaide and spent several days with Ruth Grant, who was in my class at Kuling...”
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Weihsien camp was liberated by the US paratroopers? He sent me a picture taken on his 93rd birthday. His grandson Daniel and wife Tracy have a baby girl now, and are still in South Carolina where they have bought a house. Tracy is teaching and Daniel has his own photographer studio in Columbia/Lexington. We correspond regularly."*
Announcement
Effective immediately, do not use the email address
chefoo@rogers.com
Please only use
iangrant@rogers.com
44%/ Book Pending
Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War, by Tyler Wentzell.
Essays by Tyler Wentzell about Chefusian Edward Cecil-Smith appeared in the 2015 and 2017 issues of this magazine, and the author enthralled attendees as theme speaker at the 2017 Chefoo Reunion in Toronto. We announced last year that Mr. Wentzell's book was due for publication in 2018, and the launch is now scheduled for November 15. It can be pre-ordered (at a lower price) at the...”
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“...ancient manuscripts.
CONTINUING C.S.A. PROJECTS Here are projects the Editor of the Chefoo Magazine will be working on in the coming months, if not a year or two. He won't be retiring any time soon! Be sure Ian Grant has your current email so he can continue to communicate with you about these projects.
1. David Houliston of Chefoo Reconsidered (i.e. post-China Chefusians) and Ian have launched a new web site named
The Chefoo Experience http://thechefooexperience.azurewebsites.net/
This site is still in early development, but the objective is to have it fully developed by late summer. It brings together the Chefoo Reconsidered web site and the Chefoo Magazine.
2. Ian is in the process of digitizing the entire set of Chefoo Magazines, from its inception in 1908 to this current, and last, issue.
2. Ian is working with Yantai TV and the Yantai Municipal Museum to develop a four-part TV documentary on the Chefoo School in Yantai. Each of the four segments will be 25 minutes in length. Interviews...”
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“...archival materials for this purpose, and we are always pleased to direct them to these archives.
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The Archives Manager
Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London, WC1H OXG
+44 (0)20 7898 4..80, docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
China Inland Mission: Chefoo School and the Chefoo Schools Association Papers, reference code: GB 0102 CIM/CSP
Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College
500 College Avenue, Wheaton IL 60187, U.S.A.
https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/billy-graham-center/resources/recommended-resources-for-evangelism/billy-graham-center-archives/
Archivist: Bob Shuster, bgc@wheaton.edu; phone: 630-752-5918
OMF International
Headquarters, 2 Cluny Road, Singapore
Contact: Walter McConnell, Archivist, waltermcconnell@omfmail.com
Yantai Municipal Museum
Nandajie Street, Yantai, Shandong, 264000 China
Telephone: 0535-6233390; Cell: 18615061618
Contact:...”
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“...exhibition of Yantai's recent history section, in this large and impressive building.
On March 28 at the Golden Gulf Hotel, where the CSA delegation stayed, Li Xin hosted a celebratory dinner for the visiting Chefusians and local Yantai friends who were instrumental in making the project a success. At this dinner Ian Grant presented him with a special plaque, formally designating him as an Honorary Member of the Chefoo Schools Association. [A similar plaque was presented to Mu Dehua in Lushan in 2012 when the Chefoo Schools Association party visited the school sites in China—see Chefoo Magazine, 2012]....”
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The Delegates Representing the Chefoo Schools Association
Keith Butler
Keith was born in Guiyang, Guizhou in 1934, where his parents were missionaries with the China Inland Mission. His family was from Australia, although his mother had been born in China to parents who were also missionaries in Guizhou. During the Sino-Japan War Keith's family stayed in 'Free China' until the end of 1944, as the Japanese had not taken Guizhou Province. But the family was then evacuated to India, then moved on to Australia, their home country. The family returned to China in 1947, and Keith and his two sisters attended the Chefoo School, first in Shanghai, then in Lushan, Jiangxi from 1947 - 51. Keith returned to Australia where he completed his secondary education, followed by university studies in Melbourne, specializing in architecture. He spent a career designing churches throughout Australia. He married a teacher and has three daughters. He and his wife moved to a retirement...”
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“...following World War II. The school was relocated at Lushan, Jiangxi at the end of 1947. After high school in Canada he attended university, was employed by the Ontario provincial government in social services until 1996, then worked as a private consultant until retirement in 2008. Since 1998 he has been the Secretary/ Treasurer of the North American Branch of the Chefoo Schools Association, and since 2003 he has been the editor and
Ron was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. Trained as a Math/Science secondary school teacher, he taught for 10 years in Canada and Ghana, West Africa before joining the Education Faculty, University of Regina. Dr Richmond has travelled widely, and has enjoyed developing friends with international students and scholars who come to his university. Many of these are visiting Chinese professors. As a result, Ron has now travelled widely in China and enjoys sharing his experiences through lectures back in Canada, and through online writing and photo sharing. He visits...”
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Opening Ceremony at the Yantai Municipal Museum
The speeches during the ceremony have been translated into English or Mandarin, depending on who gave them, because this issue of the Chefoo Magazine will be shared with people in Yantai who were an important part of this exhibition, including the ViceMayor, Zhang Bo, some of whom are not fluent in spoken or written English. In due course Chen Haitao, who was authorized to translate Gordon Martin's Chefoo School, 1881 to 1951, will no doubt translate this entire issue in Chinese.
Opening remarks by Host Yin Guowen, the Director of the Foreign Affairs Office,
Yantai Municipal Government
Distinguished Leaders, Guests, good Morning!
Today, we gather here for the opening ceremony of Our Budding Youth: the Exhibition of Historical Materials of Chefoo School in Yantai made possible by the Chefoo Schools Association. There will be more than 110 exhibits on display, all of which are donated to the Yantai Municipal Museum...”
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Speech by Ian Grant, Chefoo Schools Association
Vice-Mayor Zhang Bo and honored guests,
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I bring greetings from the many members of the Chefoo Schools Association. We are the alumni of the Chefoo School. More than 2000 students attended the school here in Yantai from the time it was established in 1881 until the school was interned at Weifang by the Japanese in 1943. After the War the school was re-established in Shanghai, and then at Lushan, Jiangxi. There were several small Chefoo Schools in East Asia following our days in China, the most prominent being in Malaysia, which was closed in 2001. However, the Chefoo Schools Association,
made up of alumni of the schools, and the annual Chefoo Magazine, of which I am editor, have both been operating continuously for 110 years.
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We are very pleased that the City of Yantai, and the Yantai Museum, are ...”
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Most of these missionaries, and certainly my own parents genuinely liked the Chinese people they worked among. Our delegation here today, five of whom are children of those missionaries, grew up to share our parents respect and fondness for China. This was engrained in us as children and has remained in us all our lives. Each of us was born in China, and I am very proud that I was born right here in Yantai.
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Because the missionaries of the China Inland Mission were spread across China, some in quite remote places, the best model for an educational experience for their children was a centralized boarding school where the children lived and attended school in one place and visited their parents once a year if possible. They chose Yantai, or Chefoo as it was called then, to be the location of this school because of the climate and its beauty beside the sea.
The Japanese moved the Chefoo School in September 1942 to crowded quarters on...”
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“...my warm welcome and compliments to all the delegates from the Chefoo Schools Association, to everybody attending this event, as well as every friend from the media!
In the year of 1879, Mr. James Hudson Taylor chose Yantai and established China Inland Mission School, which was named Chefoo School in 1881. This school with beautiful seaside location has been known as "the best school east of Suez Canal", just because of its typical British curriculum under strict administration. Chefoo School has created indelible history with its unique and legendary experiences together with the proud school tradition during its development process in Yantai, in China, and even in the other parts of the world.
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In its 60 years history in Yantai from 1881 to 1941, the Chefoo School nurtured and educated more than 2000 students, including...”
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I also remember that in 2015 while Chinese people celebrating the 60th anniversary of the victory of Anti-Japanese War, more than 70 Chefoo School's alumni and their descendants came to visit Yantai and ponder on the past; Not only, I also remember even at an official welcome dinner to our national leader in LA, a lady, widow of a Chefoo School alumnus, told China leader the moving story of her husband. It is obviously...”
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“...President for the Chefoo Schools Association's generous donation.
This certificate formally acknowledges the donations to the Museum by members of the Chefoo Schools alumni.
Now, Ian Grant will present a commemorative plaque to Mr. Gao Aidong, Curator of the Yantai Municipal Museum.
This plaque reads: The Association expresses sincere gratitude to the YANTAI MUSEUM for formally opening a permanent display of the Chefoo School on 28 March 2018, of photos, documents, and artifacts of our School, and for inviting a delegation of former students to participate at the opening ceremony.
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Now, dear leaders, guests, let's gather around for group photos (see cover page).
The Opening Ceremony now concludes. Please enjoy yourselves in the exhibition. Thank you!*...”
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Photographs of the exhibition are seen below and on the following two pages. As is often the case when a new collection is formally introduced to the public, a large display will be given prominence. In this case it was on the main floor of the Museum. This exhibit was on display until the end of April, 2018 at which time it was dismantled, and will be reopened on a smaller scale in a permanent location in the building. Chefusians, members of their family, or friends will always have access to the exhibit.
Yantai Municipal Museum
Nandajie Street 61, Zhifu District Yantai, Shandong, CHINA PC 261000 Contact: Mr. Felipe Lee
• Office phone: F+86 0535 6233390
• Cell: 18615061618
• Email: 2790778829@qq.com...”
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Photos courtesy of Ron Richmond...”
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