At last Sister Francetta was so fortunate as to get a chance to go with some other Honan missionairies, while Sister Regia and I waited for another opportunity to go. Finally the American Chaplain of the airforce told us to be ready, and when a plane would be leaving he would fetch us and go along. The Honan University had urgently begged me to come back to take up a teaching position as they were very short of instructors. So - early in October we flew to Chang Chow and then on to Kaifeng by military jeep. How wonderful it was to be at Home again after four years of concentration camp and an extra year of waiting. Fig. 9 - Sisters Back home in Kaifeng. We found our beautiful convent all repaired and renovated under the capable direction for Sister Wibora and so could take up our community life again after an absence of five years. I resumed my teaching at Honan Univeristy, even serving as head of the English Department for a period of time.

But that quiet peaceful life was not to continue for long. The Chinese communists, taking advantage of the unstable situation, were moving closer to Kaifeng. Father Stier, S.V.D., who was generously risking his life to protect us, begged us to leave Kaifeng and go to Shanghai. On April 7, 1948 a plane was ready to take us together with the Sisters of Providence and four Protestant Missionary ladies to a safer place. In Shanghai the good Social Services Sisters shared their small convent with us. After a quiet week there, the Mothers for the Sacred Heart of the woman's section of Aurora University invited us to teach in their busy school. I taught in the grade school and high school until the end of June when Sister Regia and my application to return to the states was approved. And so, after 18 years in China, we went back to the States for a period of rest and relaxation.

During this time the sisters remaining in China (Sisters Francetta, Ursuline and Mariette), were looking around for a place to re-open our mission. They were told of a junior high school in Tainan, Taiwan which was looking for Sisters to operate their school. Sister Francetta and Ursuline decided to go to Taiwan to investigate, with the happy result that the Benedictine Sisters would be warmly welcomed to Kaing Hua Girls' Junior Middle School. They would not assume ownership, but would have full control. And so the welcome call for Sister Regia, Sister Wibora and myself to return to our beloved mission in the Orient brought us back - this time to Tainen Taiwan - in July 1949. Very soon however, another invitation came for us to move to Taipai to teach there, this time, at The National Taiwan University.