Academy to celebrate Founders Day

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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. --  The Air Force Academy will celebrate Founders Day with a presentation of the Association of Graduates' Distinguished Graduate Award April 5 at noon in Mitchell Hall, followed by a Founders Day dinner at the Falcon Club that evening and a parade on the Stillman Parade Field April 6 at 10 a.m.

Founders Day is held to honor the Air Force Academy's founding, which began April 1, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 325, 83rd Congress, Second Session, formally authorizing the establishment of an Air Force Academy and appropriating $126 million for its construction.

Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott announced in June 1954 that the Academy would be built in Colorado Springs.