From left to right, MC administrator Margaret Latimer, scholarship winner Trinh Nguyen, scholarship winner Grace Le, MC administrator Lucy Laufe.
On September 16, 1946, the first Montgomery College classes were held in the evenings at a local high school with a student body of 186 men and women. Today, the College has grown to a multi-campus institution and serves nearly 60,000 students a year, through both credit and noncredit programs, in more than 100 areas of study.