University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1981
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Successful alumni pay back KU with donations
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
Maybe it is succeeding against the odds that inspires the successful to reach back toward those who follow them.
Two who do just that are Hazelle Hedges Rollins and Byron T. Shutz, both of Kansas City, Mo.
Rollins faced the Depression when she graduated in 1832 with a fine arts degree from the University of Kansas. Shutz spent the 1919-20 academic year here, then left school to support his widowed mother.
Both are members of the Chancellor's Club, the KU Endowment Association's designation for those who contribute a minimum of $1,000 annually. Rylan and Shute, both retired, provide their livelihoods to KU as well.
"They're supposed to keep the rent low," Shutz said, arching his white eyebrows. "I hope they still are."
Shutz donated the Oxford Apartments, the apartments rented to graduate students by the Endowment Association.
Rollins, the woman behind Hazelle Inc., once the largest manufacturer of puppets in the world, donates puppets.
"I got into the real estate business that summer and did so well I never came back," boosted Shutz, a aerial photographer inressed in a charcoal gray business suit.
Shutz was once a student with less money and more responsibilities than most. After his sister married and moved away from the Shutz home in Kansas City, Mo., he planned to rent an apartment himself and his mother and finish school.
His plans changed, however, when he spied a possible career in a summer job with the Herbert V. Jones real estate firm in Kansas City, Mo.
"I told Mr. Jones I'd stay with the firm if I could be a partner in five years, provided, of course, that I panned out," said Shutz.
He panned out. They made him a partner at age 25.
He became the highest earner for the firm, but after a clash with Jones over progressive hiring practices Shutz decided to shift. Shutz left to start his own firm, he said.
"That's the main reason for my interest in KU," the father of three and grandfather of 11 said. "Two of my children graduated from there."
Despite retirement, he still has several clients.
This year's recipient of the award was Malcolm Burns, assistant professor of economics, who wrote and paper on the free enterprise system.
IN ADDITION TO regular trips to Lawrence for Endowment Association activities, Shutz said he and his wife, a graduate of the University, come to most of the football games.
"We like to say that we never lose a KU-MU game," he said. "We've had season tickets since the stadium was built."
"I go to the office every day," Shutz said. "We woke that I just moved down the hall five doors."
Shutz also fills his life with art. He gestured to a gold-framed painting of an elderly man parting the lace curtains of a window. The woman smiles
MARK McDONALDI/Kansan Staff
Shutz approached former Chancellor Archie Dykes three years ago with the idea of establishing an annual teaching award.
Byron T. Shutz
"I decided too much was being done for the students and not enough recognition was being given to the teachers," he said.
Upstairs in her dark brick, English-style home, two spare rooms hold dozens of cardboard boxes filled with puppets.
"In my world travels, a puppet was the souvenir I'd always let," she said.
Her total collection—valued at more than $100,000—contains many puppets, which she is packing to send to such a friend as the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
necting their tiny hands and feet to a crisscross of sticks.
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"It still had the same painted face," she said proudly, "and it had been dancing for 25 years."
At the park's entrance, she watched children insert coins into a box containing one of her clown puppets and push buttons to make the puppet dance.
Her puppets are scattered all over the world. During a trip to Copenhagen, she and her husband visited the Tivoli museum and said they are comparable to Disneyworld.
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IN MOSCOW, she received two puppets believed to be the only contemporary Communist puppets in any Western collection.
"This is a thing that in many foreign countries is bigger than our 'Muppets' here," she said. "Books, as you know, are the last four or five hundred years."
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"I'd have people say, Well, I’d place a big order with you, but I’m afraid you would‘ be able to fill it because you’re human," she said, indignation in her man.
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13—Buddy Miles
14—Uriah Heen
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8 — 9, 10
merrily as he watches something going on beyond the window.
TOMORROW
Coming in November
16—Maynard Ferguson
18—Morilla
Like people, he said,
PUPPETEER ROLLINS likes people too—the small kind with strings con-
"I guess you can see I like character studies," Shutz said, as he switched off the lamp over the painting.
4—Clocks
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"In the old days, the court jester would never tell the king off, but he had a hand puppet who could tell the king off. The judge might mischievous sparkle in her blue eyes.
SHARON C. COLEY is a city girl.
Starting a business in the middle of the Depression was not easy, especially for a single woman. fresh out of college.
SHE CAN ALSO tell stories of her own puppets, manufactured for 42 years in Kansas City, Mo., by Hazelle Lee. She has taught at Eagle Academy and educates puppets in the world.
She began the business in 1932, when she worked as a puppeteer at the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
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"I walked right through customs with them," she said.
When she wasn't collecting puppets, she was designing them. Each year's collection included beloved stock characters such as Tete the Clown, and popular characters, such as the comic-strip characters Blondie and Dagwood
School System used them to help resolve racial conflicts, she said.
IN 1975, she retired and sold Hazelte Inc. She has been busy ever since arranging to have her puppets placed in museums and other institutions.
About 150 of her collected puppets,
including a showbow minstrel worth
MARK McDONALD/Kansan Staff
and television heroes Batman and Robin.
Her largest order was for 10,000 puppets representing black and white children. The New York City Public
Her techniques progressed with the post-World War II technological boom. A Teto of the '30s boasts a faded, cracked smile on his hand-carved wooden face; a post-war Tato of tenuine, a synthetic material, is immortal.
One of Rollins' friends, who owns an antique shop, wrote to her recently, Rollins said.
$4,000, are in the Spooner Museum of anthropology an awaiting a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the ACR to series of puppet shows in the spring.
"How does it feel," the friend wrote, "to know that antique dealers come to me asking for machelle mariesetta?"
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