December 15, 2005
Dr. Mark O'Farrell was inaugurated as the eighth president of Trinity College on October 28, 2005, at New Port Richey, Florida. Trinity College was founded in 1932, when Dr. William T. Watson, a tent preacher from North Carolina and pastor of a large Alliance church in St. Petersburg, felt the Lord leading him to establish a Bible college for the training of Christian workers. Billy Graham graduated from the college in 1940. O'Farrell is the superintendent of the Southeastern District.