Bermuda College will today kick off its 40th birthday celebrations in style.

The official start of the party will be marked by the music of the Bermuda Regiment’s fanfare trumpeters and the colourful spectacle of the Warwick Gombeys.

Celebrations will begin with a tree planting ceremony at 6.30pm at the north pavilion of the National Stadium with Minister of Education Dr Grant Gibbons and Bermuda College president, Dr Duranda Greene.

Bermuda College was formed in 1974, through the amalgamation of three institutions — the Bermuda Technical Institute, the Bermuda Hotel & Catering College, and the Academic Sixth Form Centre.

The speakers will be educator and politician Dale Butler, of the Academic Sixth Form Centre, Bermuda College culinary lecturer and chef Fred Ming, of the Hotel & Catering College, and Reginald Minors, formerly of the Bermuda Technical Institute.

This will be followed by a BC2BC, Bermuda College to Bermuda College, Sunset Walk which will commence at 7.15pm.

A Bermuda College spokeswoman said: “It’s a walk of nostalgia for many from the old Roberts Avenue campus, where Bermuda College used to be, to the current Stonington Avenue campus.”