It was fifty-five years ago today… first classes underway!

In 1963, the Trinity Junior College Choir, pictured above, featured fifteen of the seventeen students enrolled at the College.

Fall 2017 marks the 55th anniversary of the first classes at Trinity Western, TWU Archivist Sylvia Stopforth, reminds us.

Classes officially began on September 17, 1962,  with a total of  17 students enrolled. This 55-year milestone has already passed us by,  but  you can read about those early years on TWU’s timeline.  As well you can listen to  (or read

Also, you can listen to (or read transcripts of) oral history interviews conducted with 5 of the first 17 students available.

For more information about TWU history, contact Sylvia Stopforth at the Archive.