Krider Bequest

Reprinted Courtesy of KSU Foundation

The G. Alden Krider estate, Manhattan, Kansas, has made a $91,500 gift to the Kansas State University Foundation Changing Lives Campaign to enhance the G. Alden and Margaret B. Krider Memorial Fund for the College of Architecture, Planning and Design. Krider started the fund in 1997 for student employees who help index, digitize and upgrade the collection in the college’s Krider Visual Resource Center.

Krider was a native of Newton, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in 1933 and a master’s degree in 1955, both in architecture. Krider joined the architecture faculty at K-State in 1949. He became the director of basic studies when the College of Architecture and Design was formed in 1964. His wife, Peg (Bacon) Krider, also graduated from architecture at K-State in 1932. She was the architecture librarian from 1967 to 1977. She died in 1995. Alden Krider died in 2004. Their children were both K-State graduates. Janet L. (Krider) Duncan, Manhattan, earned a bachelor’s degree in 1962 in physical sciences, a master’s in statistics in 1968 and doctorate in statistics in 1972. John Krider earned a bachelor’s degree in 1967 and master’s degree in 1976, both in journalism and mass communications. He died in 1997.

Janet Duncan is a member of Presidents Club, a KSU Foundation leadership organization for friends and alumni of K-State.

“I think one of my father’s happiest times must have been in his history of architecture classroom, when he and his students were surrounded by the images from his three slide projectors as he lectured,” Duncan said. “His student assistant told me years later that the instructions for changing the images in those noncomputer, predigital ages looked most like a musical score, and every word of my father’s lecture was timed to explain the facets of the architecture he knew his students needed to see. The Krider Visual Resource Center has sprung from this, and to help students at Kansas State has been his continued goal.”

“We are very pleased to receive this generous bequest from the Alden Krider estate,” said Jeff Head, director of the Krider Visual Resource Center. “The Krider Center today is steeped in technology, requiring skills in digital and electronic systems, Web programming and server management. In addition, students with a good grasp of architectural history and graphic design are always needed. This bequest will be used to endow student salaries to help us attract the student talent we need to build the image and video collection, and meet the future audio visual needs of the faculty and students in the college.”

The KSU Foundation’s Changing Lives Campaign for Kansas State University is a comprehensive $500 million campaign that will infuse new funds into virtually every dimension of the university. The KSU Foundation coordinates fundraising efforts with alumni, friends, corporations and foundations to secure private support for Kansas State University.

For more information, contact:
Joe Montgomery, 785.532.7568
Jeff Head, 785.532.1094