School Cafeteria Regular Leaves One Last Tip

March 10th, 2009

Vanguard University (Costa Mesa, California) received one heck of a tip this month when campus lunchroom regular, Bruce Lindsay, left his entire estate to the struggling institution. For the past 70 years, Lindsay had been a fixture of the university, eating three meals a day at the school cafeteria while students and faculty surrounded him to talk and hear his tips on living a frugal life.

Having survived the Great Depression, Lindsay certainly knew what he was talking about and lived by his own advice. Up until his death, he enjoyed free coffees from the bank and free meals from Vanguard University after he was declared a student advocate by a former university president in the 80s.

Now, instead of helping out students by lending a much-needed ear, giving advice, and appealing to campus officials on their behalf, Lindsay’s legacy will be the estate, worth an estimated several million dollars, that he willed Vanguard University. The money will go towards paying off the school’s $42 million debt as long as officials honor Lindsay’s last request: that some of his money be put towards the creation of a new dining hall for Vanguard University.

– Genevieve M. Blaber

*Picture courtesy of The Los Angeles Times.

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