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Nina May Meggs was born December 12, 1886, in Gananoque, Leeds, Ontario to Abraham E. Meggs and Margaret Meggs. She had six siblings, Reginald, Fred, William, Stanley, Epsie, and Sadie. She began her career as a nurse-in-training at Brockville General Hospital in 1908 until 1913 and served as a nurse for some time at the military hospital Kingston Convalescent Home until 1917. On November 23rd, 1917, Nina signed up for military service overseas for WWI in Kingston, Ontario and departed for service in December of 1917. She arrived overseas in January of 1918 and returned from service sometime after May 1919.

Nina worked at Appleby College as a Registered Nurse from 1921-1924. She joined the Appleby school staff in June 1921, taking over for the previous nurse, Miss Nurse. She briefly left Appleby sometime in July 1923 due to an unknown illness and returned sometime in June 1924. She suffered a reoccurrence of her illness sometime between September-December of 1924 and left Appleby permanently in December 1924. Nina Meggs died in 1973, and is buried in Gananoque, Ontario.

Stuart McLean is an author and radio announcer at CBC.

Guy S. McLean was Appleby’s sixth headmaster, now referred to as principal. Prior to his appointment as headmaster in 1987, McLean held a number of academic posts at Appleby including Director of Studies, Head of English, Director of Athletics, and Assistant Director of the Junior School under Michael Nightingale.

Born in London, Ontario, McLean obtained a BA in English at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 1971 McLean joined Appleby, primarily teaching English, Latin and Mathematics in the Junior School. McLean’s tenure as headmaster has seen significant changes in both the focus and direction of the College. In consultation with the Board of Governors and staff, McLean wrote a long-range business plan that set the direction of the College’s development into the 21st century. Two important initiatives in the plan were the implementation of a coeducational programme and narrowing the academic programme by phasing out grades four to six. In the fall of 1991, Appleby saw its first female intake; then in 1993, the first alumnae graduated. That same year Baillie House, Appleby’s first residence for women, opened. By the fall of 1993, the lowest entry level was grade seven.

Another important advancement of the College was the decision to join the Round Square, an international association of independent schools, which has enhanced opportunities for Appleby students to participate in exchange programmes and international projects. This occurred in 1992.

In 1998, a second strategic plan was approved during McLean’s tenure, which saw the college grow dramatically by the purchase of six acres at the northeastern corner of campus, the construction of a full-size artificial-turf field hockey pitch, the long-awaited construction of a new Powell’s House (to replace the original 1918 structure), as well as a state of the art wireless Student Commons building that contains a new
library, archives, information technology department, classrooms, and a new dance studio.

Under McLean’s direction, five pillars of strength were established: Community Spirited, Technologically Innovative, Academically Vital, Globally Inquisitive, and Actively Engaged. Of particular note is the e.school in which IT is integrated into every facet of the school curriculum. With over three decades of service, McLean can attest that Appleby is a “co-educational day and boarding university-preparatory school, with a
curriculum based around the liberal arts” with over 740 students. He retired as Headmaster and Principal in 2010.