Patterson meets Trent

On a whirlwind two-day visit to Trent last week, incoming president Bonnie Patterson met students including Lady Eaton College senior senator Julie Murphy, and Board of Governors member Adam Guzkowski. Escorted by members of the presidential search committee, Patterson met students, staff and faculty at all three campuses. She met college heads, graduate and full- and part-time undergraduate student leaders, student senators and college cabinet presidents, and heads of faculty and staff unions. She talked to interim president David Smith, had breakfast with president of the Trent University Foundation, drank coffee with non-academic and academic department heads. She was interviewed by a Peterborough Examiner reporter, addressed the Board of Governors, lunched with board and Senate and the board, and held a working dinner with the president's executive group. Patterson takes office July 1.