Ada Musician Paints China In Home Studio
(by Verda Pifer, Lima News Correspondent)
ADA - Mrs. Carroll Alden is the wife of the retired inventory of the paper milk carton with the pouring spout but Ada residents know her as a fine China painter, musician, artist and good neighbor.
The former Lela Degler, who was born in the home on South Gilbert Street where they returned in 1955 after living in the Detroit area, is happy now to be back "home."
Their home, which she says would be a "cruel sword in the side of any interior decorator" was remodeled with their hobbies in mind. The many large windows provide the light needed in the working areas in all the wings. Convenient cupboards and niches were added to the house the raw materials of the hobbies of which she "tackles with a lot of energy and rushes to completion."
She received a degree in piano at ONU in 1905 and another in Organ in 1912 and became acquainted with her husband in musical circles while he was in the engineering college. He received his doctorate at Purdue University.
It was in Detroit when their two daughters were in high school and Carroll was in Europe for his company that she discovered that she could attend hobby classes. Jewelry design and manufacturing was the first course taken and many courses followed in different hobbies through the years. For many years, however, she had done China painting and it is still her favorite.
"One of my neighbors invited me for lunch one day and one guest just happened to be a hooked rug teacher who was starting a class," and then I began hooked rugs for a hobby.
She has enrolled under several famous artists for classes in oils. Landscapes are her best, she says. Then, there are ceramics, murals, copper enameling, weaving and leather tooling. All of these remain everyday hobbies in her busy life.
Her lapidary electric powered equipment is housed in a sunny corner of the first floor study-recreation room. She saws the semi-precious rock in slab cuts and goes from there in successive operations of grinding, leveling and polishing while fashioning distinctive jewelry. Today, she buys most of her mounting but she frequently works on the original using her silver soldering torch in an Alden design.
On this particular day, she had just molded and slipped a tray full of greenware preparing to bisque fire in one of her two kilns. She frequently makes her own molds in ceramics.
At one end of the spacious bedroom is a table full of German China and a working table with brushes, paints and designs which she uses in China painting. Mrs. Alden said, "I'm a copy cat. I don't sketch although the colors are mine." Presently she is painting tureens with fish and shell designs for oyster stew. The soup dishes will all be painted differently but in a sea pattern. China painting, she says, is a complicated process of three paintings and three firings. She uses much of this art for decorative objects as well as useful items.
The walls in the same room are a gallery of distinctive landscapes and still lifes. "One instructor told me that leaves are my best and naturally, I enjoy doing landscapes the most." One of her oils, "Mist in the Mountains" is her favorite.
To the right of the China working area, is her loom on which she regularly turns out yards of houndstooth patterned wool and real-silk cloth for suits. She has made many scarfs with Lurex threads for gifts to friends. The warp and weft are in shelves nearby. The beautiful appliqued quilts, all 15 of them, were made in this sunny room.
The walls of the dining room, which is filled with ornate furniture and lighted with a gorgeous crystal chandelier, are painted with her murals. A large mirror reflects the woods scene with the picturesque rail fence and the Ohio River scene. Both were copied from Kodak prints taken on family trips.
"My husband enjoys doing woodworking when he finds time." He makes all her turntables and jigs for easier working and frames all the oils. Today, Mr. Alden is far from being retired. He is Professor of Engineering at ONU and finds time after a day's schedule of classes to do the yard work.
She makes duplicates of everything for their two daughters. Both have doctorates and reside in other cities, and in this way, are able to share the results of the hobbies of their mother. Miss Elizabeth Alden teaches educational psychology at Columbia University. Priscilla is married and is head psychologist at the Child Guidance Center in Wilmington, Delaware. The Aldens have two grandchildren.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, June 3, 1962)
(by Verda Pifer, Lima News Correspondent)
ADA - Mrs. Carroll Alden is the wife of the retired inventory of the paper milk carton with the pouring spout but Ada residents know her as a fine China painter, musician, artist and good neighbor.
The former Lela Degler, who was born in the home on South Gilbert Street where they returned in 1955 after living in the Detroit area, is happy now to be back "home."
Their home, which she says would be a "cruel sword in the side of any interior decorator" was remodeled with their hobbies in mind. The many large windows provide the light needed in the working areas in all the wings. Convenient cupboards and niches were added to the house the raw materials of the hobbies of which she "tackles with a lot of energy and rushes to completion."
She received a degree in piano at ONU in 1905 and another in Organ in 1912 and became acquainted with her husband in musical circles while he was in the engineering college. He received his doctorate at Purdue University.
It was in Detroit when their two daughters were in high school and Carroll was in Europe for his company that she discovered that she could attend hobby classes. Jewelry design and manufacturing was the first course taken and many courses followed in different hobbies through the years. For many years, however, she had done China painting and it is still her favorite.
"One of my neighbors invited me for lunch one day and one guest just happened to be a hooked rug teacher who was starting a class," and then I began hooked rugs for a hobby.
She has enrolled under several famous artists for classes in oils. Landscapes are her best, she says. Then, there are ceramics, murals, copper enameling, weaving and leather tooling. All of these remain everyday hobbies in her busy life.
Her lapidary electric powered equipment is housed in a sunny corner of the first floor study-recreation room. She saws the semi-precious rock in slab cuts and goes from there in successive operations of grinding, leveling and polishing while fashioning distinctive jewelry. Today, she buys most of her mounting but she frequently works on the original using her silver soldering torch in an Alden design.
On this particular day, she had just molded and slipped a tray full of greenware preparing to bisque fire in one of her two kilns. She frequently makes her own molds in ceramics.
At one end of the spacious bedroom is a table full of German China and a working table with brushes, paints and designs which she uses in China painting. Mrs. Alden said, "I'm a copy cat. I don't sketch although the colors are mine." Presently she is painting tureens with fish and shell designs for oyster stew. The soup dishes will all be painted differently but in a sea pattern. China painting, she says, is a complicated process of three paintings and three firings. She uses much of this art for decorative objects as well as useful items.
The walls in the same room are a gallery of distinctive landscapes and still lifes. "One instructor told me that leaves are my best and naturally, I enjoy doing landscapes the most." One of her oils, "Mist in the Mountains" is her favorite.
To the right of the China working area, is her loom on which she regularly turns out yards of houndstooth patterned wool and real-silk cloth for suits. She has made many scarfs with Lurex threads for gifts to friends. The warp and weft are in shelves nearby. The beautiful appliqued quilts, all 15 of them, were made in this sunny room.
The walls of the dining room, which is filled with ornate furniture and lighted with a gorgeous crystal chandelier, are painted with her murals. A large mirror reflects the woods scene with the picturesque rail fence and the Ohio River scene. Both were copied from Kodak prints taken on family trips.
"My husband enjoys doing woodworking when he finds time." He makes all her turntables and jigs for easier working and frames all the oils. Today, Mr. Alden is far from being retired. He is Professor of Engineering at ONU and finds time after a day's schedule of classes to do the yard work.
She makes duplicates of everything for their two daughters. Both have doctorates and reside in other cities, and in this way, are able to share the results of the hobbies of their mother. Miss Elizabeth Alden teaches educational psychology at Columbia University. Priscilla is married and is head psychologist at the Child Guidance Center in Wilmington, Delaware. The Aldens have two grandchildren.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, June 3, 1962)
Ada Musician Paints China In Home Studio
(by Verda Pifer, Lima News Correspondent)
ADA - Mrs. Carroll Alden is the wife of the retired inventory of the paper milk carton with the pouring spout but Ada residents know her as a fine China painter, musician, artist and good neighbor.
The former Lela Degler, who was born in the home on South Gilbert Street where they returned in 1955 after living in the Detroit area, is happy now to be back "home."
Their home, which she says would be a "cruel sword in the side of any interior decorator" was remodeled with their hobbies in mind. The many large windows provide the light needed in the working areas in all the wings. Convenient cupboards and niches were added to the house the raw materials of the hobbies of which she "tackles with a lot of energy and rushes to completion."
She received a degree in piano at ONU in 1905 and another in Organ in 1912 and became acquainted with her husband in musical circles while he was in the engineering college. He received his doctorate at Purdue University.
It was in Detroit when their two daughters were in high school and Carroll was in Europe for his company that she discovered that she could attend hobby classes. Jewelry design and manufacturing was the first course taken and many courses followed in different hobbies through the years. For many years, however, she had done China painting and it is still her favorite.
"One of my neighbors invited me for lunch one day and one guest just happened to be a hooked rug teacher who was starting a class," and then I began hooked rugs for a hobby.
She has enrolled under several famous artists for classes in oils. Landscapes are her best, she says. Then, there are ceramics, murals, copper enameling, weaving and leather tooling. All of these remain everyday hobbies in her busy life.
Her lapidary electric powered equipment is housed in a sunny corner of the first floor study-recreation room. She saws the semi-precious rock in slab cuts and goes from there in successive operations of grinding, leveling and polishing while fashioning distinctive jewelry. Today, she buys most of her mounting but she frequently works on the original using her silver soldering torch in an Alden design.
On this particular day, she had just molded and slipped a tray full of greenware preparing to bisque fire in one of her two kilns. She frequently makes her own molds in ceramics.
At one end of the spacious bedroom is a table full of German China and a working table with brushes, paints and designs which she uses in China painting. Mrs. Alden said, "I'm a copy cat. I don't sketch although the colors are mine." Presently she is painting tureens with fish and shell designs for oyster stew. The soup dishes will all be painted differently but in a sea pattern. China painting, she says, is a complicated process of three paintings and three firings. She uses much of this art for decorative objects as well as useful items.
The walls in the same room are a gallery of distinctive landscapes and still lifes. "One instructor told me that leaves are my best and naturally, I enjoy doing landscapes the most." One of her oils, "Mist in the Mountains" is her favorite.
To the right of the China working area, is her loom on which she regularly turns out yards of houndstooth patterned wool and real-silk cloth for suits. She has made many scarfs with Lurex threads for gifts to friends. The warp and weft are in shelves nearby. The beautiful appliqued quilts, all 15 of them, were made in this sunny room.
The walls of the dining room, which is filled with ornate furniture and lighted with a gorgeous crystal chandelier, are painted with her murals. A large mirror reflects the woods scene with the picturesque rail fence and the Ohio River scene. Both were copied from Kodak prints taken on family trips.
"My husband enjoys doing woodworking when he finds time." He makes all her turntables and jigs for easier working and frames all the oils. Today, Mr. Alden is far from being retired. He is Professor of Engineering at ONU and finds time after a day's schedule of classes to do the yard work.
She makes duplicates of everything for their two daughters. Both have doctorates and reside in other cities, and in this way, are able to share the results of the hobbies of their mother. Miss Elizabeth Alden teaches educational psychology at Columbia University. Priscilla is married and is head psychologist at the Child Guidance Center in Wilmington, Delaware. The Aldens have two grandchildren.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, June 3, 1962)
(by Verda Pifer, Lima News Correspondent)
ADA - Mrs. Carroll Alden is the wife of the retired inventory of the paper milk carton with the pouring spout but Ada residents know her as a fine China painter, musician, artist and good neighbor.
The former Lela Degler, who was born in the home on South Gilbert Street where they returned in 1955 after living in the Detroit area, is happy now to be back "home."
Their home, which she says would be a "cruel sword in the side of any interior decorator" was remodeled with their hobbies in mind. The many large windows provide the light needed in the working areas in all the wings. Convenient cupboards and niches were added to the house the raw materials of the hobbies of which she "tackles with a lot of energy and rushes to completion."
She received a degree in piano at ONU in 1905 and another in Organ in 1912 and became acquainted with her husband in musical circles while he was in the engineering college. He received his doctorate at Purdue University.
It was in Detroit when their two daughters were in high school and Carroll was in Europe for his company that she discovered that she could attend hobby classes. Jewelry design and manufacturing was the first course taken and many courses followed in different hobbies through the years. For many years, however, she had done China painting and it is still her favorite.
"One of my neighbors invited me for lunch one day and one guest just happened to be a hooked rug teacher who was starting a class," and then I began hooked rugs for a hobby.
She has enrolled under several famous artists for classes in oils. Landscapes are her best, she says. Then, there are ceramics, murals, copper enameling, weaving and leather tooling. All of these remain everyday hobbies in her busy life.
Her lapidary electric powered equipment is housed in a sunny corner of the first floor study-recreation room. She saws the semi-precious rock in slab cuts and goes from there in successive operations of grinding, leveling and polishing while fashioning distinctive jewelry. Today, she buys most of her mounting but she frequently works on the original using her silver soldering torch in an Alden design.
On this particular day, she had just molded and slipped a tray full of greenware preparing to bisque fire in one of her two kilns. She frequently makes her own molds in ceramics.
At one end of the spacious bedroom is a table full of German China and a working table with brushes, paints and designs which she uses in China painting. Mrs. Alden said, "I'm a copy cat. I don't sketch although the colors are mine." Presently she is painting tureens with fish and shell designs for oyster stew. The soup dishes will all be painted differently but in a sea pattern. China painting, she says, is a complicated process of three paintings and three firings. She uses much of this art for decorative objects as well as useful items.
The walls in the same room are a gallery of distinctive landscapes and still lifes. "One instructor told me that leaves are my best and naturally, I enjoy doing landscapes the most." One of her oils, "Mist in the Mountains" is her favorite.
To the right of the China working area, is her loom on which she regularly turns out yards of houndstooth patterned wool and real-silk cloth for suits. She has made many scarfs with Lurex threads for gifts to friends. The warp and weft are in shelves nearby. The beautiful appliqued quilts, all 15 of them, were made in this sunny room.
The walls of the dining room, which is filled with ornate furniture and lighted with a gorgeous crystal chandelier, are painted with her murals. A large mirror reflects the woods scene with the picturesque rail fence and the Ohio River scene. Both were copied from Kodak prints taken on family trips.
"My husband enjoys doing woodworking when he finds time." He makes all her turntables and jigs for easier working and frames all the oils. Today, Mr. Alden is far from being retired. He is Professor of Engineering at ONU and finds time after a day's schedule of classes to do the yard work.
She makes duplicates of everything for their two daughters. Both have doctorates and reside in other cities, and in this way, are able to share the results of the hobbies of their mother. Miss Elizabeth Alden teaches educational psychology at Columbia University. Priscilla is married and is head psychologist at the Child Guidance Center in Wilmington, Delaware. The Aldens have two grandchildren.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, June 3, 1962)
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