Minneapolis couple donates $8 million to Marquette
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Minneapolis couple has donated about $8 million to Marquette University in Milwaukee to establish a journalism fellowship.
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Peter and Patricia Frechette made the donation in honor of Patricia's parents, Perry and Alicia O'Brien, who graduated from Marquette in the 1930s. Perry O'Brien was a longtime reporter with the Janesville Gazette and WCLO radio.
The partnership with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://bit.ly/VTV6FP) is aimed at bringing journalists from all different types of media to Marquette for an academic year to work with students on in-depth public service journalism projects.
The fellowship begins this fall.
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