ROSS PEROT’S PLAQUE ATTACK

spats Perhaps The Mort, at least in some symbolic sense, is the plaque. But EDS Director of Public Affairs bill Wright, ever ready to bash EDS founder h. Ross Perot, says that there is more to the story of a missing plaque at The Mort.

In August of ’88, we counted the strings attached to Perot’s $10 million donation to the symphony hall; among them. Perot’s requirement that a portrait of Morton H. MeYerson be hung in the foyer of the building, and that a plaque with the portrait should explain that Perot’s gift was made possible through the hard work of the men and women of EDS.

But when the symphony center opened in September, portrait and plaque were nowhere to be seen. What gives? “Mort didn’t want his portrait in the hall and the plaque was supposed to go with the portrait,” says Leonard stone, executive director of the Dallas Symphony Association. “And that’s that.”

Not so, says Wright, whose EDS is now involved in dueling lawsuits with its feuding founder, Perot. To Wright, nixing the plaque is just one more example of Perot turning on his former associates. Wright says that EDS-friendly plaques as far away as Washington, D.C., have disappeared; one in the National Archives that recognized EDS’s contribution to Perot’s gift of the Magna Charta, and another one that hung in the Smithsonian with the helicopter H. ROSS PEROT JR. flew around the world.

“I think it’s disappointing,” Wright says. “Ross has always recognized the source of his giving.”