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Peter Gzowski College receives generous donation from David Morton and Patricia Owens Morton; $250,000 gift to fund lecture hall and endowed scholarship for Native Studies graduate students.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 April 2004-TRENT UNIVERSITY: Peter Gzowski College receives generous donation from David Morton and Patricia Owens Morton; $250,000 gift to fund lecture hall and endowed scholarship for Native Studies graduate students(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Peterborough: A generous donation of $250,000 by David Morton and Patricia Owens Morton of Peterborough, Ontario, will fund two initiatives at Trent University: the construction of the Morton Owens Lecture Hall in the First Peoples House of Learning at the new Peter Gzowski College, and an endowed scholarship to support a Native Studies graduate student.

Remarking upon the reason for their gift, David Morton stated: "I have always had a great admiration for Trent University... its goals, its dreams and its values... much of which I have learned first hand through Patricia's long involvement at Trent as a Professor. Of course, like millions of other Canadians, I also had tremendous respect and affection for the late Peter Gzowski who was a great Canadian, a great human being and, I am proud to say, a cherished friend. Peter always expressed his great affection for Trent both publicly and privately, and consequently, it is very gratifying for Patricia and me to be able to both assist Trent and at the same time honour Peter Gzowski by playing...

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