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...fund-raising pamphlet put out by the University of Houston in 1937 was like hundreds of others. But one of them fell on very good ground: into the hands of a multimillionaire named Hugh Roy Cullen. Oilman Cullen thumbed it through, over & over again. He was fascinated by the story of a "typical" job-holding student-a boy who worked and studied from 6:45 each morning until 11:10 each night. "That," said Hugh Cullen, "is the kind of people I want to help...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...
Keep the Change. Even for Texas, Hugh Cullen is a strange sort of angel for any university. He is a big, blunt man whose own schooling lasted exactly three years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...
...first gift to the university was a modest one-$350,000 for a liberal arts building. Later, he opened his checkbook to pay for a new engineering laboratory. The check he wrote happened to be $100,000 more than was needed. "Keep it," Cullen told the university, "and raise salaries...
Marble & Mahogany. Cullen gave $1,000,000 to install a huge heating plant. He paved the campus walks and streets, rimmed them with electric light. He did everything from air conditioning the campus buildings to putting up the $5,000,000 Ezekiel W. Cullen Building (named after his grandfather), equipped with 94 offices, 46 classrooms, marble from Italy, mahogany from Honduras, lacewood from Australia. Finally, he turned over enough of his oil royalties to ensure the university an eventual income of $10 million...