Transforming Futures: Trent University’s 50th Anniversary Campaign Report on Philanthropy
$50 Million Campaign Volume 1 Issue 2 June to September 2010
Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics American scholar Dr. Kathryn Norlock takes on role as Trent University’s inaugural endowed chairholder An official welcome and inaugural public lecture with Dr. Kathryn Norlock will be held at Trent University on November 3, 2010. Check the website for details.
“Establishing an endowed Chair in Ethics shows Trent’s commitment to the importance of thinking critically about the most fundamental questions of our lives and our shared responsibilities,” says Dr. Kathryn Norlock, a renowned researcher and scholar in the field of ethics and the ethics of forgiveness. After an international search, Dr. Norlock was named the inaugural chairholder of the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University. Dr. Norlock, previously an associate professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, officially takes on her prestigious new role at Trent in September, three years after the University announced the creation of the endowed chair, the first in Trent’s history.
The Chair in Ethics was established by members of the Patterson and Drain families through a generous $2 million gift, the largest gift given to Trent by living donors. The Chair is named in honour of Kenneth Mark Drain, who lived and worked in Peterborough County all his life. “I can’t tell you how humbled I am to be the first to occupy a position created in honour of Mr. Drain,” Dr. Norlock says. “As chair, I hope to contribute to the University’s 50th anniversary and the Centres of Knowledge. I also hope to further my own goal of involving many voices in discussions of ethics. As a teacher, though, I’m most looking forward to working with Trent students and meeting with new and different classes.”