Bartlett, L. Lee

L. Lee Bartlett (born 1930) is an advertising executive, professor of communications, and academic administrator in Utah.

Leonard Lee Bartlett is from Mountain Home, Idaho. In 1948-1951 he enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) as an art major. He was involved in many campus activities such as playing saxophone for the campus big band, running on the BYU track team and serving as an art editor of the Banyan yearbook from 1950-1951. From 1951-1956 he served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war. He graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1953. He was assigned to Headquarters USAF Europe and was involved in Eastern Europe target area analysis where he received a Commendation Medal for work on a classified intelligence publication. After release from active duty, Bartlett returned to Provo; completed his senior year at BYU and graduated in May 1957 with a B.A. Degree in Art. From 1957-1987, he worked in advertising: ten years in Chicago, seventeen years with Cole & Weber in Seattle, and three years in Cole & Weber California offices. He retired from Cole & Weber advertising agency when offered a faculty position in the BYU Department of Communications. From 1987-2002 Bartlett taught advertising, mass media ethics, and, after completing a master's degree in art history in 1989, an introductory art history course. He was named Communications Department chair in 1995 and in 1996 was named Assistant to the President, University Communications, and served on the President's Council during the Merrill J. Bateman administration. Retired in May 2000 and was called back later in the year to serve as BYU Olympic Coordinator up to and through the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics and retired again at the conclusion of the Winter Games. He has been an Assistant to the President since 2003, reviewing and preparing replies for the President's Page e-mail address.

Bartlett was invoved in community service such as serving as President of the Brigham Young Academy Foundation during the campaign to renovate the Academy Building and create the new Provo City Library at Academy Square. He presently serves on the Provo Arts Council and as member of the Provo Center Focus program. He also served on a Provo Foster Care Review Board and as a tutor for the Project Read Adult Literacy Program. He served for a time as chair of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Utah South Public Affairs Council.

From the guide to the L. Lee Bartlett collection of Office of the President correspondence, 2000-2006, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)