The Gregory Frith Memorial Prize, awarded to a Cultural Studies student who produces the best creative course work in any given year, is named after Gregory Frith (1952 - 1980).
Greg came to Trent as a mature student in the mid-1970s, after spending his immediate post-high school years pursuing his first two loves: music, which he pursued professionally and with great success, and radio (he worked as a radio announcer in Windsor, Ontario).
He found his years at Trent, where he discovered for the first time the joys of intellectual occupations for which he turned out to be well-suited, to be transformative, as well as a source of great pride. Shortly after leaving Trent, Greg was diagnosed with cancer, and he died the following year. After his death, Greg’s father, Royce Frith, Canadian Senator (1977-94) and High Commissioner to London (1994-96), now deceased, and his sister, Valerie Frith, decided to endow a prize in his honour, it was decided that the new Cultural Studies Program, with its combination of creative and theoretical commitments would be the best “home” for such a prize.