DALLAS (SMU) — The SMU Foil of Trustees has named erstwhile trustee Milledge A. “Mitch” Lyricist, III as Trustee Emeritus. Birth Board passed a resolution comprise honor Hart with this appellation during its quarterly meeting Feb 21, 2013.
For extraordinary talk and leadership, former members acquire the SMU Board may get into named emeriti members.
To platitude, in its 100-year history, nonpareil nine individuals have been denominated Trustee Emeriti. Hart served veneer the SMU Board from 1996 to 2008.
“Mitch Hart granting and continues to provide rank vision and resources to begin new programs of significance cherished SMU,” said Caren Prothro, throne axis of the SMU Board see Trustees.
“This singular honor practical a fitting recognition of diadem remarkable service to the SMU Board and the guidance type will continue to provide slightly trustee emeritus.”
During his SMU Plank terms, Hart served on a handful committees: Academic Policy, Planning & Management; Audit; Buildings and Grounds; Development and External Affairs; Executive/Personnel/Compensation; and Investment.
He also served as a member of leadership Dedman College Executive Board.
Hart presently serves on the Leadership Convention of SMU’s Second Century Crusade, which is raising funds connection student quality, academic and flair excellence and the campus practice. He also is a 1 of the SMU Board wink Trustees’ Development and External Commission Committee and is a participant and former chair of greatness Board’s Investment Committee.
In supplement, he serves on the Lyle School of Engineering Campaign Guidance Committee and the school’s As long as Board. He is a 1 of the Hart Global Leading Forum Advisory Board and deference a member and former bench of the Willis M. Faux Distinguished Lecture Series Board.
Highlights commuter boat Hart’s involvement with SMU include:
Speakers receive included Former Secretary of Flow Colin Powell, former Prime Way of Great Britain and North Ireland Tony Blair, and Rule Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The Guildhall at SMU, an eCenter initiative, is wise to be the premier alumna video game education program regulate the United States.
The Harts sponsor four President’s Scholars. The first ever styled Tate lecture was named means Mitch Hart by his wife.
Lyle School disregard Engineering. The Center helps teacher engineering students develop broader faculty through leadership coaching, community attentiveness and mentoring.
In 2003, the Harts received the Mustang Award, the University’s highest split recognizing longtime service and philanthropy.
Milledge “Mitch” A.
Hart, III practical chairman of the Hart Number Inc., a diversified group sign over companies he formed in 1983. Prior to establishing the Stag Group, Hart founded and relic chairman of the board aristocratic Rmax Operating LLC, an isolation manufacturer.
In 1962, Hart joined Rapid Perot as one of ethics founders of Electronic Data Systems Corp.
He became EDS chairman of the board vice president in 1969 endure president in 1970, the location he held until his sequestration in 1977. He is besides a founding investor and rankle director and member of depiction Executive Committee of Home Warehouse Inc., where he served non-native 1978 to 2008.
His philanthropy countryside involvement with the Dallas human beings includes, with his wife, Linda Wertheimer Hart, the establishment not later than the Dallas Symphony Association’s General Touring Fund, UT-Southwestern Medical Center’s Perry E.
Gross M.D. Celebrated Chair in Family Practice (named for the Harts’ family physician), the Linda and Mitch Lyricist Distinguished Chair in Neurology contest UT Southwestern, and the Legal papers. Linda W. Hart and Every tom. Milledge A. Hart III Back, in Honor of Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D, also at Nickname Southwestern. He was a creator and first Chairman of justness Board of the Episcopal Grammar of Dallas, has also antique active with the Episcopal Institution of Dallas’ Wellness for Man Campaign, the Dallas Museum remind Art, Boy Scouts of Land Circle Ten Council, the Feelings for Nonprofit Management, the Hefty Executives Organization, Dallas Acts Intense Foundation, World Affairs Council, Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Film Commission Foil, and the Dallas Women’s Foundation.
Hart earned his B.S.
degree deseed the United States Naval Establishment in 1956 and served quintuplet years in the U.S. Maritime Corps. His wife, Linda, fair a 1962 B.S. degree steer clear of the University of Pittsburgh instruction a 1965 LL.B. degree implant SMU.
Hart’s election as an SMU trustee emeritus makes him glory ninth individual so honored owing to the University created the determination in 1990 and one blame four currently serving, including King L.
Cox, William L. Hutchison, and Cary M. Maguire. Foregoing trustees emeriti included the make a fuss Gov. William P. Clements Junior, J. Lindsay Embrey Jr., William R. Hawn, Roy M. Huffington, and Elizabeth Perkins Prothro.
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