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Dr. Charles Henry Stange, Dean, Division of Veterinary Medicine, 1907; assistant professor, Veterinary Medicine, 1907-1098; dean, Division of Veterinary Medicine, 1908-1936
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Dr. Charles Henry Stange, Dean, Division of Veterinary Medicine, 1907; assistant professor, Veterinary Medicine, 1907-1098; dean, Division of Veterinary Medicine, 1908-1936

Object NamePortrait Bust
Artist / Maker (Danish - American, 1885 - 1961)
Date1936
OriginUSA
MediumPlaster painted to resemble bronze
Dimensions38 x 33 x 21 in. (96.5 x 83.8 x 53.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIn the Christian Petersen Art Collection, Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberU90.63
Status
On view
Label TextCharles Henry Stange was born on May 21, 1880 in Cedar County, Iowa. He received his D.V.M. from Iowa State College (University) (1907). Stange began his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Industry (1907). He returned to Iowa State as an assistant professor (1907-1908) and became acting Dean of the Division of Veterinary Medicine (1908-1909), and Dean of the Division (1909-1936). During Dr. Stange's tenure as Dean, he worked diligently to make Iowa State's Division of Veterinary Medicine the best in the nation. He separated the Division into five departments and later established two new departments (the Department of Veterinary Hygiene and the Department of Obstetrics) and the Veterinary Medical Research Institute. The Veterinary Quadrangle was constructed (1912), which was one of the finest facilities of the time. The Division also become one of the first veterinary schools to offer four full years of veterinary courses and to set entrance requirements for its prospective students. Dean Stange belonged to many professional and honorary organizations, including Phi Zeta, Sigma Xi, United States Livestock Sanitary Association, American Veterinary Medical Association, Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, Association of State and National Research Workers in Animal Diseases, and the Iowa Academy of Science. He was a delegate to the Eleventh International Veterinary Congress (1930) and the United States Bureau of Education chose him to survey the veterinary schools in the country (1928). Dr. Stange passed away April 26, 1936 and is interred in the Iowa State University Cemetery
Published ReferencesIowa State Student, Jan 21, 1937; The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa), Aug. 24, 1937; Des Moines Register, Aug. 24, 1937; Ames Daily Tribune, Jan. 1, 1938.
Locations
  • (not entered)  Iowa State University, Veterinary Medicine
Charles Edwin Friley, President, Iowa State College, 1936-1953
Object Name: Portrait
James Murray Haddow
1953
Object number: U88.15
Dean Charles F. Curtiss
Object Name: Portrait
Robert Wadsworth Grafton
Object number: 80.22.3
Dr. Henry Herbert Kildee, Dean of Agriculture, 1933-1949, Iowa State College
Object Name: Portrait
Othmar Hoffler
c. 1939
Object number: U2000.103
Consul Sigfrid Schiff (1838-1907)
Object Name: Portrait
Paul Spangenberg
1883
Object number: UM99.26
Charles F. Curtiss, Dean of Agriculture, ISU, 1902-1932
Object Name: Portrait
Object number: U99.16
Unknown Prisoner
Object Name: Sculpture
Christian Petersen
1951-1952
Object number: UM2000.6
Gilmour B. MacDonald, professor of Forestry, 1910-1946; head, Department of Forestry, 1946-1948
Object Name: Painting
Claudie Herschel Wright
Object number: U2007.236
Study for Veterinary Medicine Mural: Veterinary Medicine Quadrangle site sketch
Object Name: Drawing
Christian Petersen
1935-1936
Object number: um92.158