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Rodney “Rod” Garth Mayor was born May 24th, 1938, in Toronto, Ontario. Mayor attended Appleby College from 1950 to 1953. He did not graduate from the school, but is considered to be from the class of 1957. He was privileged to be a part of the Appleby Coronation choir that performed at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. Mayor is remembered at Appleby as a distinguished boxer, winning the James Cup (80 lbs) in 1952. Upon leaving Appleby, Mayor attended Ryerson and specialized in business administration. He has worked for Nestle Canada and has been working in real estate for over 18 years. Mayor interests include volunteering as a Big Brother, coaching hockey in Port Credit, and horse racing.

James William "Bill" Sefton was born on October 25, 1915 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sefton. He attended Appleby College from 1929 to 1932, and although he did not graduate here, he is considered to be part of the Class of 1935. While attending Appleby, Bill participated in soccer, Junior hockey, boxing, Cadets, badminton, cricket and was on the Third football team. He was confirmed at the John Bell Chapel in 1930.
Bill married Sarah Jardine Murray on April 3, 1941. They lived in Toronto and he worked as a truck driver for Loblaws. He was a supporter of Appleby College and attended many Alumni (Old Boys) events. He died on Friday January 5, 2007.

David Boyd (b. 1951) and raised in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, he received his Honours B.A. in English (1974) from Mt. Allison University. Upon graduation, he joined Appleby College as a teacher of English in the Junior School and was a faculty member from 1974 to 2008. During his tenure, David taught English at every level and was instrumental in introducing and molding the writer’s craft and media arts courses for senior students. He wrote and directed numerous plays for the Junior School, including two three-act musicals, Tom Brown’s Schoolday, the Musical (1991), and Mice in the Cellar (1992), as well as Macbeth, A Multimedia Event (1995) and Caesar, A Multimedia Event (2005). He created the Black Magic Mime Troupe composed of students from grades 6 to 8 who performed throughout Ontario. He established and supervised the long-running student newspaper Re•Source and designed Appleby’s first website.

Away from teaching, David coached hockey, softball, cricket, soccer, and basketball. He has served as assistant housemaster of Junior School House, and later as Housemaster of Chattaway’s from 1974 to 1988 and was assistant house director of Powell’s House from 2001-2008. In 1999, he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. David founded TEACH-IT, an international education technology team that instructs educators on integrating technology into the curriculum. He was the former Chairman of the Read In Foundation Inc., an international organization that promotes literacy through telecommunications. David introduced Read In! events at Appleby where students had the opportunity to discuss books, speak to authors over the Internet prior to introducing the school’s laptop program. As a forward thinker and technological innovator, David assisted with the transition to e.school@appleby program.

Outside of Appleby, David has authored more than 20 books for children and young adults. His novel Bottom Drawer (1996) was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Text.

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In 1934, Percival Wickens was appointed Appleby’s second headmaster. Born in England, Wickens attended the University of London where he specialized in mathematics. During the Great War he served in the Royal Naval Air Squadron and was distinguished for his abilities and became a prominent flight instructor. He was frequently requested to pilot distinguished passengers such as Generals, Ministers, and Royalty across the
English Channel. Before his appointment to Appleby, Wickens was Assistant Master at St. Alban’s School in Brockville. In 1922, the growth of the School warranted the division of science and mathematics as distinct teaching roles which had previously been taught by Mr. Whittington. Thus, Wickens joined the staff of Appleby as mathematics teacher and soon became Housemaster of the New House (now Colley House) in 1923. In 1925, he succeeded the Rev. Mr. Blyth as Housemaster of Powell’s House.

Wickens is best remembered for approaching all activities with enthusiasm, dedication, strict discipline and electrifying power. Whether it was teaching cricket, dramatics, organizing Continental tours, or the Argus, everything was done with precision and efficiency; his personally motto was, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”

Sadly, on June 14, 1937, Wickens lost his battle with cancer and passed away. Even though, Wickens’ service as headmaster lasted a mere three years, John Guest fondly commented in the 1938 Argus these words - “I know that as long as Appleby stands, it will be the greater and finer for all the work and love that he [Wickens] expendedupon it so nobly and ungrudgingly."

On his arrival at Appleby in 1968 as our fourth headmaster, Edward Reynolds (Ned) Larsen sounded a keynote that was to echo through the College community and influence profoundly the development of the school over the next 12 years: that, given men, women and boys who were prepared to work hard, the possibilities for greatness at Appleby were unlimited.

Prior to his appointment, Ned Larsen was for nine years the headmaster of British Columbia's Shawnigan Lake School, of which he was an Old Boy. A scholar and athlete, he held degrees from both U.B.C. and Oxford. He served twice as President of the Canadian Headmaster's Association, and was a ranking squash player at the Canadian Senior level.

Larsen is remembered for growth. The student body increased during his tenure from 250 to 385, allowing a wider range of academic options, greater selectivity in choosing prefects and teams, the establishment of a meaningful admissions waiting list, and a policy of basing admission on entrance exams. He enhanced academic standards, brought a new level of professionalism to the faculty, and broadened extracurricular
programs.

He expanded Appleby's athletic offerings by adding rugby, senior soccer, squash, swimming, track and tennis to Appleby’s ‘traditional’ sports (football, hockey, basketball and cricket). His insistence on sportsmanship and good manners at all levels made Appleby an exemplar among ISAA schools.

Improvements to the College’s physical plant accomplished in Ned’s administration include the J. S. Gairdner arena, the pool, the library, three science labs, the extension of New (now Walker) House, the renovation of Colley House, and the Northern campus in Temagami (with the Appleby Northward Bound program), as well as many other projects. In addition, the College endowment saw significant growth.

He encouraged both the Old Boys’ (now Alumni) and the Women’s (now Parents) Associations, whose programs became increasingly ambitious and successful. Ned Larsen resigned from Appleby in 1980 to teach for a year in England. Upon returning to Canada, he was appointed headmaster of Rothesay Collegiate School in New Brunswick, a post he held for one year. He returned to Oakville, and assumed the post of Director of Development and Membership Services for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

He died of a brain tumour in 1983 at age 58.

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.

Alexis Troubetzkoy was Appleby’s fifth headmaster. Appointed to the post in 1981, he came to Oakville from Selwyn House School in Montreal, where he had been headmaster for ten years. Ironically, he had gone to Selwyn House from Appleby in 1971: he had originally joined our staff in 1968.

A Canadian citizen, Troubetzkoy was born in Paris, France, and educated at the Kent School in Connecticut. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Sir George Williams University, and a Diploma in Education from Bishop’s University. Before joining Appleby he taught at Stanstead College, Bishop’s College School, and St. Stephen’s School in Rome.

Troubetzkoy said his mission was to “let Appleby become a beacon from which other schools could take their bearings.” In order to achieve his aims, he addressed several issues: among them were refining the academic program; bolstering the extracurricular offerings, especially in the arts; and, in his words, bringing Appleby “into the mainstream of Canadian education, in the sense of … having it play a more prominent role in independent education.”

A significant initiative was his decision to make Appleby a ‘fast-track’ school, where students would graduate in four years. Current principal Guy McLean gave Troubetzkoy credit for overcoming the many obstacles to success and ensuring the smooth implementation of the four-year program, which marked a major change in the school’s culture. Our ‘double cohort’ class (about 60% of which comprised four-year students) graduated in 1987, 16 years in advance of the double cohort from Ontario’s public high schools.

The Nicholas Arts Centre (the art and music building opened in 1985) is the most visible sign of Troubetzkoy’s success. Providing this facility, and instituting an ‘extracurricular credit’ requirement in the Appleby College Diploma, marked a new attitude toward the arts.

In terms of raising Appleby’s profile, he promoted student exchanges with schools on the West Coast, in England and in Europe, particularly through the English Speaking Union and the Appleby-in-France program; and under his leadership, Appleby become a member of the National Association of Independent Schools in the United States and the Headmasters’ Conference in Britain.

Alexis Troubetzkoy resigned in 1987 to take on the leadership of the Toronto French School.

He passed away in February 2017.

CESI was established in 1986 and the broad purposes of the Institute were to develop and promote educational standards, and to provide responsible institutional and program evaluation and accreditation.

Sir Byron Edmund Walker (1848 - 1924), Appleby's founder, was a prominent Canadian businessman and patron of the arts. A president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and a Chairman of the Board and Chancellor of the University of Toronto, he was also instrumental in founding the Royal Ontario Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. He was an honorary president of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and a chairman of the Royal Conservatory of Music, as well as being a keen amateur palaeontologist, and the owner of one of the world's finest and largest collections of Japanese prints.

During the first decade of the 20th century, John Guest, the head of the prep school at Upper Canada College, dreamed of having a small school of his own in the country. He was fortunate in having married Gladys Walker, the daughter of Sir Edmund, and the young headmaster's father-in-law was in a position to make Guest's dream come true. Sir Edmund underwrote the purchase of the school's original 32 acres in Oakville and the construction of the earliest buildings; he became chairman of Appleby in 1917, when the school passed from his private ownership into the hands of the Corporation of Appleby School, and served until 1924.

He was married to Mary Alexander (1851 - 1923) and together they had seven children: Ethelwyn (1875 - 1966), Edmund M. (1877 - 1969), Ewart B. (1879 - 1953), Gladys Walker (1882-1971) - married John S. H. Guest, Dorothy I (1889 - 1875), Alfred A. (1891 - 1973), and Harold C. (1893 - 1969). Harold C. Walker would also serve on the Appleby College Board of Governors.

Sir Edmund Walker died on March 27, 1924.

Harold C. Walker was born in 1983 to Sir Byron Edmund and Mary Alexander Walker. He was the youngest of seven children. He married Kathleen I.L. Temple (1897 - 1983) and they had three children.

Harold C. Walker was appointed to the Appleby College Board of Governors on April 1, 1924 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Col. James George. This was the same board meeting that it was announced his father, Sir Edmund Walker had died. However, Harold was not appointed to the Board to replace his father. Harold C. Walker was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors on December 21, 1926. He was in this role until his resignation on February 11, 1953 when Mr. C.L. Gundy was appointed Chairman and took the chair immediately.

Harold C. Walker died on March 23, 1969.

Gladys Walker was born in 1882 to Sir Byron Edmund and Mary Alexander Walker. She was the fourth of seven children. She married John S. H. Guest (1874 - 1953) and they had four children: David G. "Dadie" born in 1908, John S. born in 1911, Elizabeth N "Betty" [Osler] born in 1914, and Katherine M "Kitty" [Stevens], born in 1917.

E. Alastair Walker was born April 1, 1902 in Toronto to Grace Edith Dillon and Ewart Buchan Walker son of Canadian Business and Arts Patron Sir Edmund Walker. Alastair attended Appleby College from 1916 to 1924. He was the nephew of Appleby Headmaster John Guest. While at Appleby, Alastair was Head Prefect (1923-1924), he played on the First Rugby and Cricket teams, which he was awarded Colours, and was a member of the Dramatic Club.

Alastair received his B.A. from University College, University of Toronto in 1928. After a brief period as a Wall Street 'Runner', he returned to his studies, receiving an Honours B.A. in English in 1931 and a M.A. in 1943 from Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1932, Alastair joined the Appleby School staff teaching English and Matriculation until he enlisted in 1941. From 1941 to 1944 he lectured at the Ordnance School, Barriefield, emerging with the rank of Major in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. In 1944 he joined the staff at Queen's University as an instructor in the English Department, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. Alastair Walker died November 19, 1992.

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.

David Graham Guest was born on January 25, 1908 to John Sherrat Hill Guest and Gladys Guest (nee Walker). He is the son of Appleby’s first headmaster and co-founder J.S.H Guest, and the grandson of Appleby patron and co-founder Sir Edmund Walker. He had three siblings, Elizabeth (Betty) Osler, Katherine Stevens, and John S. Guest. David attended Appleby as a student from 1917 to 1925. After graduating from Appleby, he attended Trinity College from 1926 to 1929, where he studied mathematics and physics. In 1929 he began attending Caius College in Cambridge, studying law. During his career he was a barrister and solicitor with Blake, Cassels & Graydon, and was on the Appleby Board of Governors from 1935 to 1976.

On September 19, 1936, he married Valerie Franklin Jones. They had three children Christopher Graham Guest, Valerie Gillian Guest, and John Guest. David died on August 15, 2001, at the age of 94.

The Appleby College Foundation was incorporated by Letters Patent on April 23, 1959. It was organized by members of the Appleby College Old Boys' Association (now known as the Appleby Alumni Association).

The purpose of The Appleby College Foundation is to promote and encourage education at Appleby College by way of gifts or donations to or for the benefit of the said College or contributions in aid of improvement of its facilities or by way of the provision of scholarships, fellowships, bursaries or prizes to students attending or proposing to attend at or graduating from the college. This will be accomplished by soliciting, acquiring, accepting or receiving gifts, donations, bequests or subscriptions of money or other real or personal property.

Membership to The Appleby College Foundation (Foundation) originally included all members of the Appleby Old Boys' Association who made a donation to the Foundation, and to any other persons from whom donations are accepted by the Foundation, shall be members of the Foundation for and during the year in or for which such a donation is made. The President of the Appleby Old Boys' Association, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Appleby College and the Headmaster of Appleby College shall be members of the Foundation ex officio as well as being members of the Board of Trustees, Membership could also be granted by a resolution of the Board.

Ex officio members now also include the President of the Parents' Association, the members of the Board of Governors of Appleby College, the life members of the Board of Governors of Appleby College and those former members of the Board of Governors of Appleby College who have completed at least one full three year term as such a member.

The affairs of the Foundation are managed by a Board of Trustees. Originally the Board of Trustees was limited to nine individuals, with six individuals elected from the members of the Foundation. In 1999 this was amended and increased to a total of sixteen members, with The President of The Appleby College Alumni Association, the President of The Appleby College Parents' Association, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Appleby College and the Headmaster of Appleby College being automatically elected to the Board of Trustees and the remaining twelve positions elected from the members of the Foundation.

The Argus Society Inc. was incorporated by a Certificate of Incorporation on September 11, 1979 in New York City, New York. Its purpose was to allow Appleby College constituents residing in the United States to receive charitable tax receipts for their gifts in support of the College. The Society was established with the assistance of Jay G. Rienstra, an attorney with the New York firm Cahill Gordon Reindel and its founding directors included past parent David Hall Brooks (President) and Walter Casperd (Secretary-Treasurer), and alumnae Keith Clarkson '66. It was established as a public foundation and received tax exempt status in 1981.

The Argus Society Inc. had the power to make grants to organizations operating for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or education purposes. The Society had no members; grants could only be made if a written request for funding was received by the directors. Directors would meet once a year to review requests for funding and review donations received. Other duties included receiving, receipting and acknowledging donations and keeping track of the Society's bank account. As its annual gross receipts never exceeded $25,000, the Society was not obligated to file tax returns, but was required instead to send notices of Exemption to the New York State Department of Law.

The Argus Society's designation as a public foundation was an important once as tax deductions for contributions to public foundations were greater than those for private foundations. However, to qualify as such, a public foundation was required to show public support, meaning that the majority (i.e. more than 50 percent) of receipted gifts during the year could not be received from a single donor. If an individual did make a donation that represented more than 50 percent of total contributions, the Society could claim that this constituted an "unusual gift" but ran the risk of losing its designation as a public foundation.

In 1990, Kevin McMurchy was appointed director to to replace Walter Casperd. In the early 1990's FRISBE (Friends of Independent Schools and Better Education) was established; based in the US, this public foundation received donations on behalf of Canadian independent schools, holding them in trust for up to six months until a biannual grant was issued for the donated amounts designated to each participating school. In an effort to save staff and volunteer time and to ensure that donations which might have been defined as "unusual gifts" to The Argus Society Inc. could be received without risk of losing any tax deductions, Appleby College decided to use the services offered by FRISBE. With this decision, The Argus Society Inc. effectively ceased to function and tax returns and notices of exemption were no longer filed after this point.

In 2002, Appleby College began to take the necessary steps to re-activate The Argus Society Inc. In 2003, the by-laws were updated. In 2004, Articles of Amendment for The Argus of Society Inc. were filed, changing the 'Public Charity' status of the organization.

On May 31, 2010 under a Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation, The Argus Society Inc. continued under the new name of Friends of Appleby College (United States), Inc.

On May 31, 2010 under a Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation, The Argus Society Inc. continued under the new name of Friends of Appleby College (United States), Inc. The purpose of the organization is to assist Appleby College constituents residing in the United States in supporting Appleby College's mission. The College's Mission is to educate and enable young men and women to become leaders of character, major contributors to, and valued representatives of their local, national and international communities.