Rimington Trophy, honoring NCAA’s most outstanding center, announced Carl Mauck as 2017 Gerald R. Ford Legends Award recipient, awarded to former collegiate or professional centers who had standout football careers and made significant football, business, and/or philanthropic contributions
From Newport News, VA: Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that its Newport News Shipbuilding division successfully completed the builder’s sea trials of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) aircraft carrier headed to sea for the first time on April 8, 2017, as the ship began its first sea trails in which its systems will be tested, known as Builder’s Sea Trails
The Foundation remembers civil rights leader, Foundation Trustee, and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, Jr. who passed away at his home March 31, 2017 (Photo: Justice Thurgood Marshall and Coleman in 1975 prior to his swearing-in as Transportation Secretary)
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation will hold its annual luncheon honoring Mrs. Betty Ford on April 11, 2017 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park with special guest Mary Jean Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower
Steve Ford joined others in remembering the first moments of First Families moving into the White House on ABC’s 20/20 ‘The Trump’s Go to Washington’, including recalling the Ford Family’s first days as America’s First Family
Grant Hill is the 2017 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award, which honors an individual who has provided significant leadership as an advocate for college sports, joining John Wooden, Coach Pat Summitt and Billie Jean King as a recipient of the award
Remembering President Ford’s 1975 signing into law that women were eligible for appointment to the United States Military Service Academies, the U.S. Senate recognized the 40 years of women cadets at the Air Force Academy
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Foundation kicked-off the holiday season with the Annual Tree Lighting and Holiday Open House which featured festive music and the ‘Christmas on the Grand’ display of Christmas trees and holiday quilts in the Museum’s lobby
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) provided remarks at the exhibit opening of 4,000 square-foot “Space: A Journey to Our Future” which is presented in collaboration with NASA at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
