Friday, November 7, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
University fails to land donation
Alumni Association rejects alumnus' offer of Shawnee plot
Coryanne Graham Special to the Kansan
Darol Rodrok is a proud University of Kansas alumnus and a residential developer in Kansas City. When he decided that he wanted to preserve a 40-acre plot of land in Shawnee, his attorney, also a KU alumnus, suggested donating the land to his alma mater.
They talked to Fred Williams, president of the Alumni Association, but their offer of a half-million dollars worth of tax-free land never went anywhere. Neither Rodrok nor his attorney understand why.
Heaven, said that the land, located at 47th Street and Woodland, was not suitable for residential development because it was heavily wooded, with steep terrain and many creeks.
Rodrok's attorney, Pete
Rodrok wants to donate the land to an institution to ensure that it will stay in its natural state forever.
"This is a beautiful piece of land," said Rodrok. "I don't want it to ever change."
The University was Rodrok's first choice to receive the gift.
The University was Rodrok's first choice to receive the gift. On April 29, Heaven and Rodrok met with Williams to discuss the possibility of donating the land to the University.
Williams said that the meeting was confidential, so he did not speak to others at the University about the donation. Instead, he sent Heaven a copy of an article from a 1996 issue of "Kansas Alumni" magazine detailing the efforts of a KU
environmental studies professor who might be interested in the land.
But Heaven had a slightly different understanding of their meeting. He said Williams suggested that without finding a department or a professor who could undertake a land project, the land could not be accepted by the University.
"Fred said that he was sorry, but that he was unable to find someone who could do it." Heaven said.
It may have been that Rodrok and Heaven were talking to the wrong branch of the University.
Daryl Beene, vice president for property management at the KU Endowment Association, said that he thought the University might be interested in the land in Shawnee.
"We would like the opportunity of speaking with them," Beene said.
Beene said that land donations did not need to be revenue-producing.
The University owns approximately 1,200 acres of land in Kansas for conservation purposes and approximately 43.000 acres across the country, Beene said.
Rodrok and his attorney are now talking with Shawnee about making the land a conservation site for the city.
Local store's products sold nationwide
Bloom's body care lines distributed to stores on East, West coasts
By Ann Premer apremer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
products nationwide.
Lawrence's home grown bath and body store is distributing two new product lines nationwide to more than 300 stores.
Margot Wells, co-owner and founder of Bloom Bath & Body, 704 Massachusetts St., said she originally had envisioned several Bloom retail stores but had no objections with the store's recent success in the distribution market.
"Everything that we have done has been kind of good luck. Literally, it was just kind of a whim." Wells said about distributing
Wells and her partner, Paul Burlew, are graduates of Baker University and opened the original Bloom in Lawrence in 1994.
"We always wanted to manufacture our own products," Wells said.
Wells said 70 percent of the distributed products were made in Lawrence and Littleton, Colo., where the other Bloom is located. The rest of the products are manufactured in other places around the country where they are distributed, such as California, she said.
Wells said Bloom's products were being sold in higher-end stores including Bare Escentals, Z Gallery and Anthropologie, whose parent company is Urban Outfitters.
Kari Abril, Anthropologic manager in New Port Beach, Calif., said her store was carrying Bloom shower gel, lotion and
"We wanted to design something that was really cutting edge."
Margot Wells founder bloom bath & body
bath salts.
"They are going well," Abril said. "The scents are wonderful."
Three product lines are being offered to the stores that carry Bloom products. Rielley Scott, a KU graduate and Bloom manager, said Bloom had been distributing Simply Good, a line of products including body sprays, lotions and shower gel since January.
"It's really big on the East and West Coasts," Scott said.
Bloom's distribution base, which started at 100 stores last January, has grown to more than 300 stores. Wells said.
Last month, Bloom began distributing two new lines to stores: Just Add Water, a line of bath salts and another, nameless line that concentrates on body care.
"We wanted to design something that was really cutting edge," Wells said of the Just Add Water line.
She said in January she hoped to distribute Bloom products to more stores in the Midwest. She also said she wanted to widen the company's distribution line of products and was looking into creating a pajama line and a linen line.
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