Stange

Mary Zeiss Stange is a professor of women's studies and religion at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Expertise: Religion, women and feminism, environment, hunting and other political and social issues.

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Background: Stange leads something of a double life — college teaching in Upstate New York, and ranching and hunting in Montana, where she and her husband, Doug, operate the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch.

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Colonel Bogen, agreed to allow Professor Dr. Carl Stange to offer the British a newspaper in light of the French and Flemish newspapers published for French and Belgian POW's at the camp.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

At the dedication of the Association hall at Göttingen in March 1915, Professor Carl Stange delivered an unusual address, stating that this facility could now be enjoyed by the Allied POWs to improve themselves by absorbing Kultur.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

The English newspaper featured letters from Colonel Bogen and Professor Stange and contained travelogues (Burma and Egypt), stories about Canada, poetry, and editorials.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Clay, here's a little story that happened one time Stange but true.

The Best Day of All? 2008

Stange was eager to serve the POWs, and had prepared the ground for the Association by offering weekly lectures, publishing a magazine fortnightly in French, and starting a small library.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Bogen (the camp commandant), Professor Carl Stange of the University of Göttingen, Schreiber, Phildius, and Harte, the delegates studied the problem of providing aid to the POWs.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Professor Dr. Carl Stange, of the University of Göttingen and German YMCA representative, served as the editorial supervisor for the newspaper.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

On a less positive note, Stange doesn't seem completely at home in the character of Giles, while Karl Bittner's shrill, giggling, swishy depiction of the young oddball named Christopher Wren evokes a college production.

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