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In 1994, the University of Toronto Alumni Association established the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards in his honour "to recognize students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole."
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degree. He worked as executive director of a group home for teenagers, and as a project director for the
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He retired from elected politics in 1982 to accept a job as president of the Toronto chapter of the
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as vice-president of institutional relations. He has since held similar positions with
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He first entered politics in 1970, winning election as a school trustee on the
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Cressy was born in 1943 in Toronto, and attended Lawrence Park Collegiate and
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Cressy remained with the United Way until 1987, when he left to join the
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Ontario New Democratic Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections
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in the Ward 7 seat Sewell had vacated in order to run for
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He graduated from 220:Toronto City Council 550:. 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Toronto City Councillor
Janet Howard
David Reville
John Sewell
Joanne Campbell
Metro Toronto Councillor
John Sewell
Joanne Campbell
Toronto
Ontario
Ontario New Democratic Party
Joanne Campbell
Joe Cressy
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Canadian
Toronto City Council
Northern Secondary School
George Williams College
Chicago
University of Toronto
Master of Social Work
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Toronto Board of Education
Ontario New Democratic Party
St. David
1977 provincial election
Margaret Scrivener
1978 municipal election
John Sewell

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