26 Claudia and Bart Bartlett take in OSU’s f i rst home footbal l game of the 2012 season wi th thei r daughter, Sarah, and son, “Trey.” Donor’s $50 check was just the beginning of decades of giving back to OSU. Growth of giving It was the early ’80s when recent OSU graduate Claudia Holdridge handed over her first donation to her beloved alma mater. The $50 contribution brought a smile to her face: Not only did she feel gratified in giving back to the university she loved — she also secured a parking spot in the Morrill Hall lot for her and her girlfriends during the upcoming football season. Over the next three decades, Claudia and her husband Bart Bartlett watched the campus change and grow. The zeros on the end of that original $50 gift grew, too: Two $500,000 gifts for endowed chairs plus nearly $800,000 in scholarships have been donated to the university through the Edward E. Bartlett and Helen Turner Bartlett Foundation, which was created by her husband’s grandfather. gary lawson / University Marketing story by Stacy Pettit Smith
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