The collection is arranged into the following series:

I. Chefoo Schools Association Magazines

II. CSA Correspondence and Lists

III. Audio and video recordings

This collection consists of an almost complete set of the magazine, from 1908-2016.  The collection also contains records, correspondence, and lists from the CSA and the Chefoo schools, from 1895-2005. Notable alumni correspondents include Carrington Goodrich and Henry Luce. A history of the China Inland Mission Schools, 1879-1929, is included as well as a folder of CSA Archives. Lists of addresses, students, staff, and alumni of the various Chefoo and CSA branches are included—of note, lists of those interned at concentration camps during World War II. Additionally, this collection contains several audio and video recordings, which include several talks by Jack Graham, an interview of Graham by Mary Previte, and a copy of a silent film from the 1940s depicting life at Chefoo, China.

Series I: Chefoo Schools Association Magazines

Arrangement: Chronologically

Date Range: 1908; 1933-2016

Volume: 1.6 cu. ft.

Boxes: 1-4

Geographic coverage: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand.

Type of documents: Magazines

Notes: An almost complete set of the Chefoo Magazine, published by the CSA for their alumni from 1908 to 2018, with copies of the 1908 edition and then almost every edition from 1933 to 2016. Also includes a few early copies of The Chefusian, a magazine created by Chefoo School for its students.

Exceptional items: Folders 1-2 and 1-3 contain copies of The Chefusian, the Chefoo student-created magazine.

Folders 1-15 through 1-21, magazines contain a serial publication of the History of Chefoo, by Dr. F. H. Judd, which runs across twelve magazines, No. 41, December 1948 through No. 53, July 1954.

Series II: CSA Correspondence and Lists

Arrangement: Alphabetically by folder title

Date Range: 1895-1993

Volume: 2.25 cu. ft.

Boxes: 5-9

Geographic coverage: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand.

Type of documents: Correspondence, lists, newsletters, prayer letters

Correspondents: Marion Taylor, L. Carrington Goodrich, Joe Dunlap, Henry Luce, Thornton Wilder.

Notes: Contains letters and correspondence collected by the North American branch of the CSA at two different times. Boxes 5 and 6 contain correspondence between alumni and the CSA; addresses, receipts, and other papers related to the organization; a written history of the early days of Chefoo Schools; and newsletters.

The dates on the material fall primarily between the 1930s and 1960s, except for a binder of newsletters from 1985-1988 from Chefoo in Malaysia, correspondence regarding the Centennial dinner in 1981, and a letter from 1915.

Boxes 7-9 contain materials form the 1930s-2000s. These folders primarily consist of lists and correspondence, as well as one folder of archives. The lists included are student and staff, addresses, alumni, and Chefoo missionaries.

The correspondence is composed largely of membership forms and updates from CSA alumni. The folder of archives contains miscellaneous, unsorted materials from the CSA and copies of papers about archival practice.

Exceptional items: Folder 5-6, Correspondence with L. Carrington Goodrich, an alumnus, who was a sinologist and professor at Columbia University and North American chairman of the Chefoo Magazine.

Folder 5-10, Correspondence with Henry Luce, the co-founder of Time Magazine, about a story in the magazine about Chefoo and another notable alumnus, Thornton Wilder.

Folder 5-16, Correspondence – Wilder, Thornton, contains a few of Wilder’s membership forms as well as the cover of the Time Magazine in which he was featured.

Folder 5-18, History: a manuscript entitled “The Story of Our China Inland Mission Schools: At Chefoo, 1879-1929.”

Folders 7-8, 7-19, and 7-21 contain lists of students and staff interned at concentration camps during WWII, the latter two listing Temple Hill and Weihsien internees, respectively.

Series:  III. Audio and video recordings

Date Range: 1995-2006, undated

Volume: .7 cu. ft.

Geographic coverage: United States, United Kingdom, China, Japan, India.

Type of materials: DVD and CD recordings

Notes: DVD1, DVD2, and DVD3 are video recordings that all feature Jack Graham, a former student of Chefoo, recounting his family’s work as missionaries, his life at Chefoo, and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner at Temple Hill and Weihsien during WWII.

CD1 and CD2 contain part one and part two of an interview of Jack Graham by high school students, where Graham discusses his life as a missionary kid, schooling at Chefoo, internment at Weihsien, and departure from China after the war.

CD3 features Mary Previte (a Chefoo student and fellow prisoner) interviewing Jack Graham for the show Street Lights about Chefoo and their experiences as Japanese prisoners of war.

DVD4 is a copy of a 1940s silent film about Chefoo China, specifically focusing on reopening Chefoo in Shanghai after WWII.

Exceptional items: DVD4, a copy of a silent film of life at Chefoo, China, in the 1940s (corresponding material can be found in folder 7-17).