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| | College of Architecture, Planning and Design @ Kansas State University |
 | | He won the freshman architecture prize in 1929, and in 1932 he entered and won the Schnackenberg Scholarship to the Art Student’s League, for a year in New York City, where he studied under the painter John Steuart Curry. |
 | | Architecture positions were few in 1933, so Alden and his wife Peggy, who also graduated in architecture, formed their marionette company, “The Jesters.” They traveled throughout Kansas and into Oklahoma giving shows until 1935, when Krider was hired by the National Youth Administration to teach arts and crafts in the Kansas NYA Girls Camps. |
 | | After the war, he and Peg built their own house in Kansas City, which was featured in a national magazine for its architectural innovations. |
| aalto.arch.ksu.edu /info/faculty/inmemory/04-krider.htm (854 words) |
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