Notable Alumni from Crescent School

Crescent School NOTABLE ALUMNI

Many private schools in Canada have numerous graduates who have gone on to great things. Learn about a school’s most influential, important, successful, and famous alumni.

List of Alumni

Alumnus	Grad Year	Accomplishment
Michael Warner	1996	Medical Director of Critical Care at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto.
Jason Beck	1989	Grammy-nominated pianist, producer and songwriter who performs as Chilly Gonzales
Ming Wai Lau	1997	Chairman of Chinese Estates Holdings Limited and philanthropist.
Ted Livingston	2005	Founder and CEO of Kik Inc., a mobile communications platform with over 240 million users.
Neil Lumsden	1971	Professional football player in the Canadian Football League
Christophe Beck	1987	Emmy Award-winning composer for film and television
Nicholas Latifi	2013	F1 race driver for the Williams Racing Team .
Evan Solomon	1987	Canadian columnist, political journalist and radio host. He is the current host of CTV's national political news program, Question Period.
Jesse Wente	1992	First Nations Canadian Arts journalist, author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth & Indigenous Resistance, and, Chairperson of the Canada Council of Arts
Christopher Homer	2001	Co-Founder and COO of thredUP, an online thrift and consignment store that went public in May 2021.
Gabriel Leung	1990	World leading epidemiologist, Dean of La Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at University of Hong Kong; Helen & Francis Zimmern Professor in population health & Chair Professor of Public Health Medicine.
Andrew Boozary	2003	Executive Director of Social Medicine and Population Health at the University Health Network.
Rob Stewart	1997	Photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. He was the producer and director of the documentary films, Sharkwater, Revolution and Sharkwater Extinction

What Crescent School says about their alumni network:

Crescent School's alumni mentoring helps alumni achieve personal and professional goals. The Professional Mentoring Program connects experienced alumni with younger graduates who are pursuing similar career paths. The University Mentoring Program connects a Crescent Grade 12 student who is entering his first year with an alumnus already enrolled in the same university or university program.
Crescent School's Alumni Internship Program connects young Crescent alumni with employers who can offer meaningful summer employment opportunities.

Qualitative insights

These insights are based on conversations with parents, alumni, and school leadership. Handpicked and curated by our editor, they offer a close look at how the school is experienced and perceived by those who know it best.

Enduring bonds go beyond graduation.

Observations from students and alumni suggest that the sense of brotherhood formed at Crescent School remains strong well after graduation, with mutual support and lifelong friendships forming a core part of the community's fabric.

Among the students, you are part of a brotherhood. You really care about each other more than just peers at school. It goes beyond that. Most of my best friends nowadays were my friends from Crescent School, and I imagine that a lot of them will be my friends for life. I think that's definitely something that I wouldn't say every high school creates. I think that's something really unique about Crescent School and I'm very happy I was able to experience it. It's benefitted me years down the road as well.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

What I appreciated most about Crescent was the community, and especially the community within the grade level. For example, I recently had a virtual reunion with people in my grade — we had about half the grade on a Zoom call, which is impressive these days. We had breakout rooms where we would just have four or five of us catching up for minutes at a time. It was so energizing to see people, and to see how strong the affection is — to see someone you haven’t seen in five years and being like, ‘Wow, I have a deep interest in what you’re doing with your life’.

—Cooper Midroni, alum (see full interview)

It’s one thing for an institution to just say, ‘We’re going to teach these values’, and it’s another thing to actually instill them into the curriculum, into the staff. There’s a lot of levels of the school that have to be on board with those values in order for it to be instilled in every student. That level of respect is very common amongst all those who graduate. You see it with recent grads, as well as older alumni. That level of respect kind of sticks and it latches on and it doesn’t let go.

—Naveen Gupta, alum (see full interview)

The biggest thing that I appreciate at Crescent School was the relationships and the connections I made at the school. That network, whether it be my peers, teachers, students in other grades, faculty, and even parents, everyone was part of this really big extended family. To this day, some of my closest friends are the ones I met at Crescent School.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

That bond with my Crescent School peers is what brought me back to Crescent School, as I've been on the alumni executive board for the past six years. One of the reasons why I joined in the first place was because I want to continue to be involved with the school. To give back, and support as much as I can. Crescent School has definitely played a big part in my life, and I'm happy to continue to help and support as much as I can.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

To this day, my friends and I continue to share stories of the Crescent School days. Some of my best memories took place at the school. These connections, these moments, they last a lifetime, and I'm always going to remember and reminisce about it. I would recommend that current and future students just cherish the memories and embrace everything that Crescent School has to offer.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

Beyond my peers, the relationships that I have with the teachers at Crescent School really helped me develop into who I am today. They invested their time into helping me to become who I am in my life after Crescent School. So much so that whenever I run into a teacher, whether it's at the school or outside the school, they still remember me. That's something that's really special to me, because after 10 years of being away from the school, I know how many students they teach and meet on a yearly basis.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

The alumni network is supportive.

Testimonies from alumni highlight the strong, supportive alumni network at Crescent School, underscoring how connections with fellow alumni and the school's resources continue to offer professional and personal benefits years after leaving the institution.

Everyone at Crescent School is committed to seeing you succeed, well after you've left the school, and makes sure that what you've learned there goes on to make you a successful person, and a happy person later in life. I think Crescent really cares about the little things, I would see that people were recognized for small acts of kindness, whether it was in a leadership position at school or as an outreach effort.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

My appreciation has only just gotten stronger. The power of the alumni network, regardless of what graduating class you're in, when you meet another alumni, there's always that Crescent connection that you can share and connect with. It's really incredible that I can run into a Crescent School teacher 10 years later, and they still remember the experiences that we had way back when.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

The one thing that I feel that truly differentiates Crescent School from other independent schools, is really the connectivity and community, even in your life after Crescent School. Whether it's through events, activities, mentoring, recognition, internships or even fundraising, the mission of the Alumni Board is to foster that sustained, meaningful relationship with Crescent School and fellow graduates.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

One personal example, showing the power of that Crescent School alumni network, was the help that the alumni internship program really provided me. It really helped me start my professional career after university. Leveraging the strength of our alumni, the internship program at Crescent School helped me land my first job, and to further add to that, when I moved to my second job, one of the senior leaders that interviewed me at the company was a Crescent School alumni.

—Magda, parent (see full discussion)

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