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“...OVERVIEW OF THE CHEFOO MAGAZINE The Chefoo Magazine was established in 1908 as the official organ of the Chefoo School's Association. The Chefoo School had been founded in 1881 by the China Inland Mission, and the alumni association was established in January 1908. At the end of their first year they produced their first magazine as a means of communicating with their membership, potentially in the UK, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Shanghai, and anywhere else in the world where former students were located. Although the Association still exists (2019), the last magazine was published in 2018. This was a remarkable 110-year run, especially when considering that the School in China was closed in the early months of 1951 when Westerners were forced to leave China. Throughout much of the history of the Association, it was dominated by alumni from Great Britain. This is not surprising given that for its entire time in China it was a British school. However, soon after it was formed...”
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“...Newsletter of the Great Britain Branch. This carried on even after the magazine front cover again picked up the title Chefoo. It is interesting that it was not until December 1986 that The Chefoo Magazine was again adopted on the front cover. This was continued until the end, with the one peculiar exception in 1991 when it was named Chefusian. (Anyone who attended the Chefoo School has been referred to as a Chefusian. Sometimes the words Chefooite, or the spelling Chefoosian were used, but in recent times Chefusian has been the preferred term and spelling). There was an interesting twist. The Chefoo School itself, spearheaded it seems by students, but with teacher leadership in the background, attempted to put out a magazine from time to time. In one effort, in 1913, they published a magazine which they boldly named The Chefoo Magazine. They gave no reason why they used the title already adopted by the alumni, and there was no comment in the immediately ensuing years by the official alumni...”
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“...to the branch and after conferring with our other two directors they passed this entire collection to the OMF archives at their headquarters in Singapore. There were no copies in this collection that were not already in the Toronto/SOAS collections. Where the Magazine was Published Until late 1971 The Chefoo Magazine was published in Great Britain. This function was transferred that year to Toronto, apparently because the UK Branch was not able to find someone to carry on this function. For the next twenty years the magazine was published out of Toronto. It returned to the UK in 1991 and remained there until 2003, when once again it went back to Canada where I published it in Barrie, Ontario, an hour north of Toronto. I did so until the closing of the magazine in 2018, by which time the UK branch had ceased to exist, in 2014. Their functions of treasurer and distribution of the magazine were taken on by me as magazine editor. Frequency of Publication The frequency of the magazine has varied...”
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“...the school originated in China and was in operation there for 70 years. Where did all those documents go? No doubt it had much to do with the sudden internment of the school following Pearl Harbor in late 1941, and the school at Kuling that was evacuated quickly a decade later. 4. A museum collection of the Chefoo School was established at the Yantai Municipal Museum in March 2018, in partnership with the Chefoo Schools Association. Li Xin, a private citizen from Shanghai who attended school in Yantai in his early years, was very instrumental in facilitating this remarkable joint venture. Post-China Chefoo Schools When the China Inland Mission was forced out of China in 1951, they decided to continue their missionary work in other Pacific Rim countries. They changed the name of the mission to Overseas Missionary Fellowship (today OMF International). They now took a different approach to providing an education for the children of their missionaries. They established small schools - one has...”
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“...(perhaps), a hostel was established where children spent vacations and holidays, but from there they were sent to various boarding schools in the country. Although there were exceptions, few post-China alumni have been interested in joining the Chefoo Schools Association. For the most part they have seen this Association as the domain of the China alumni, with whom they have not felt much affinity. This is not surprising given the contrasts between the China and post-China experiences. First, in China, other than a brief experiment early in the twentieth century when an exclusively prep school was operated in Kuling (it closed following a fire that destroyed the building), all Chefoo School students attended school in the same location, whether at Chefoo, Weihsien and Kiating/Kalimpong in the War years, Shanghai and Kuling. Second, the general pattern was to start school early at the Prep School level, then continued to the secondary level, either at the Boys School or the Girls School before...”
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“...world- wide. The final issue of the magazine was delayed for several months, for a very good reason. Perhaps the crowning event in the history of the Chefoo School in China, and of the alumni association, was the invitation in 2016 to establish a permanent exhibit of the Chefoo School at the large Yantai (Chefoo) Municipal Museum. I had been instrumental in gathering many documents, photos, and artifacts from CSA members world-wide, then organizing and cataloguing them before shipping them to the Museum. This event was formally launched on March 28, 2018 and I was invited to attend and give a speech on behalf of the Association. Several other Chefusians were also able to attend, and we were given a very warm welcome over several days by City and Museum leaders. This event was of course the theme of the last Chefoo Magazine. Ian Grant Director, Chefoo Schools Association Summer 2019 6 | P a g e...”