Philanthropist Lepin tops up awards for TRU students
Indeed he has. In the intervening years, Ken has donated $3.98 million to TRU and recently added $275,000 to increase all of his awards by 10 per cent to account for post-pandemic inflation. Ken has 17 student awards at TRU that are funded by his endowments, including a new award for software engineering. The 82-year-old also has awards in science, nursing, trades, business, law, education, animal health technology, culinary arts, tourism management, respiratory therapy and graduate studies. Ken started out as a chartered accountant, then entered the sand and gravel business with a clien...
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