The Quaker Oats Company of Canada Ltd.
Makes its largest single donation to Trent

Chancellor Peter Gzowski, at left, Trent President Bonnie Patterson and Quaker President and CEO David Morton, following the second Chancellor's Dialogue, sponsored by Quaker.

Trent University's Beyond Our Walls campaign has received the largest single donation that Quaker Canada has made to a charitable cause. The $350,000 gift was recently announced at the second of five Chancellor's Dialogues, hosted by Trent Chancellor Peter Gzowski.

The donation will support the Chancellor's Dialogues - which are open to the public - provide graduate scholarships for Trent's PhD students in Native Studies and Canadian Studies programs, and a scholarships program for the university's undergraduates in the fourth year of a humanities program. Trent is the only university in Canada to offer a PhD in Native Studies, and it will collaborate with Carleton on a new PhD program in Canadian Studies, with the first students starting in fall 2001.

In officially announcing the donation from Quaker on the 36th anniversary of the university October 17, Ted Tremain, deputy chair of the Beyond Our Walls campaign, noted that the $17-million campaign has reached 80 per cent of its goal.

Quaker President and CEO David Morton explained that his company is proud to support Trent's Beyond Our Walls campaign, and described the historic relationship Quaker has had with the university. Bonnie Patterson, President of Trent, noted that with Quaker's donation, more than $3-million of the campaign goal has been raised in the Peterborough area.

The campaign seeks funds in three thematic areas: support for students; support for learning, teaching and research; and support for campus renewal.