Ryan Bell ’98 returned to Crescent School in January 2011 after five years as Director of Camp Maple Leaf, a nonprofit residential camp for financially under privileged and at-risk children/ youth. In September 2012, Ryan took on a full-time teaching position at Crescent as a grade 6 Form Teacher. He is teaching all grade six students Language Arts and Social Studies. Ryan continues to live in Cabbagetown where he has resided for the past seven years Long preferring to attempt to subvert mores rather than to further entrench them, David Heti ’00 left the Department of Justice for the world of comedy. David has entertained audiences in Toronto, New York and London. For a list of upcoming dates, please visit his website www.davidheti.com.
Jeff Larcina ’03 recently joined Bentall Kennedy as an Asset Manager for the firm’s investment team. Bentall Kennedy is a major North American real estate fund manager for institutional investors. Prior to joining the firm, Jeff spent five years with the real estate corporate finance group of Ernst & Young in Toronto. Jeff received his CFA designation in September 2012. Peter Polydor ’05 has taken a leave of absence from SAIL to lead the tech investments at ERGO Capital Partners, a private merchant bank backed by several family offices.
Arif Mamdani ’05 is living in Boston, where he is in his third year at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine. BufferBox, a parcel pick-up kiosk founded by Jay Shah ’06 and two other University of Waterloo students, was recently sold to Google Inc. for $17 million. John Racioppo ’07 is a recent graduate of Brown University with a degree in Theatre Arts. He now splits his time between Toronto and New York City working both as an actor and as co-founder of the independent film collective Good Baby Films.
Tim Usher-Jones ’01 has been with Chubb Insurance since his graduation from Queen’s Commerce in 2005. He currently holds the position of Assistant Vice President. Tim married Jess Shain in April at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Included in his wedding party were fellow class of ’01 alum Steve Hull and Will Nelson.
s Willy Chyr ’05 recently spent
s Ben Sokolowski ‘02 was married on June 3, 2012, to Aviva Shedletzky in Toronto. Ben and his wife are now living in Los Angeles where he is working as a writer on the TV series, Arrow. 36
six months in 2012 on a farm in Wisconsin for an artist residency. In January, Will was commissioned to design and create the entrance for the Interior Design Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. His installation As Luck Would Have It, earned him a feature piece on the front page of Entertainment Section of the Toronto Star, Sunday edition. He has been invited to be an artist-in-residence for six months at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai; he leaves in April to take up this exciting post. Matt Barrett ’05 has moved from Loblaw Companies Limited to the J.M. Smucker Company, where he has taken a position in category management.
Doug Reeves ’07 recently completed a Double Degree Masters of International Business, between Queen’s University in Canada and Universiteit Maastricht in Holland. He spent the last year and a half learning and traveling throughout Europe, while completing an internship with the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), based in Amsterdam. James Tennant ’07 is in the middle of completing his law degree at Dalhousie University. Crescent School
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