Perot Receives Thayer Award Cadet. (Photo by Anthony Battista/DPTMS Visual Information)
Elizabeth Betterbed, the Deputy Brigade Commander, asks Ross Perot a question during a lecture in Jefferson Hall on Thursday. Perot was on campus to receive the Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates. The Thayer Award, given annually since 1958 in honor of Col. Sylvanus Thayer, “Father of the Military Academy,” is presented to an individual who exemplifies the academy motto, “Duty, Honor, Country.”
