Dean Auslander 1201 Prickly Mountain Road Warren, VT 05674 802-496-6538 dean@madriver.com After St. Paul's I took an Outward Bound course (Hurricane Island) and then went to Yale where I roomed with Lee Kidder. A history major, I was in the Yale marching band and became business manager of the Yale Record. I took a leave of absence in my junior year for a number of reasons, moved to Vermont and worked at Sugarbush Ski Area. I liked Vermont and transferred to the University of Vermont. I was denied resident tuition so I unmatriculated. I stayed in Vermont for awhile but an injury sent me to a warmer climate, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I found work in the boat (yacht) yards there. I returned north to Rhode Island in 1977. I went to work for an industrial water treatment company and a chemical manufacturer. I took some night courses in business and law at Roger Williams College. In 1981 I took over the ownership of the water treatment company and transferred my college credits to Barrington College of Barrington, Rhode Island. Barrington was a small Christian College that was originally the Providence Bible Institute. (I had a “born again” experience while living in Florida and had joined a small Baptist church there.) I majored in Biblical studies and graduated magna cum laude in 1984. ( Barrington merged with Gordon College so I am listed as an alumnus but have not even been to the campus.) In addition to operating the water treatment business I worked part-time as a security guard and a van driver for the elderly in order to buy some land in Vermont. In 1992 I moved to Warren, Vermont where I had purchased land (starting in 1978). I lived in an old mobile home while I cleared the land and began construction of a small house where I live now. Since living in Vermont I have worked in a French restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, started a dot.com business, enumerated for Census 2000, and done maintenance and construction work. I have been an auditor (3-year term) and a constable for the Town of Warren. I am the President of a local Land Trust and have volunteered for a number of community organizations. I enjoy skiing, hiking, maple sugaring, organic gardening, as well as on-going home and forestry projects. I also enjoy Vermont history and am lobbying for an amendment (update) of the Vermont constitution. I've been more concerned with maintaining integrity, learning to be healthy, and in spiritual growth then in achieving fame and fortune. I continue to support St. Paul's School because a Judeo-Christian worldview needs to be upheld and because of my mother, who was a devoted Episcopalian all her life. I think the St. Paul's motto is good one but I have been bothered by the fact that the pelican symbol is based upon a misconception of pelican behavior on the part of some medieval Christians. (Pelicans regurgitate food for their young rather than pierce their breast).