He was born in Seattle in 1926, the only son of Nicholas and Lucille Buchanan. He is survived by Marilyn, his wife of 72 years, three children, six grandchildren and three great grand-children. During
World War ll he served as a U.S. Merchant Marine midshipman on Victory ships carrying
munitions and war material to the south Pacific. After the war he earned a B.S. degree in
accounting from University of California, Berkeley in L950 and a Certificated Public Accountant
license for CA and Washington. From L958 to 1"962 he served as treasurer and business
manager of the Augustana Lutheran Mission field in Tanganyika, East Africa, experiencing
British colonialism and lndependence of the new Tanzania nation.
ln 1962 the family comprising two sons and a daughter moved to Tacoma, WA where
Dean was hired at Pacific Lutheran University as vice president for financial and business affairs,
a position he held for twelve years. He then accepted a similar position at California Lutheran
University in Thousand Oaks, CA for fifteen years . He was an active Lutheran church member
and a Rotarian in Tacoma and Thousand Oaks. During his tenure in higher education he was
energetic in professional organizations: on the executive board and president of the Western
Association of College and University Business Officers, as a board member of the National
Association of College and University Business Officers, a volunteer member of the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation committees.
After early retirement he operated his own consulting firm for ten years specializing in
private college and university financial planning, serving over forty institutions from Vermont to
Hawaii. After living in Santa Maria for twenty years, Dean and Marilyn moved to the
Samarkand Retirement community in Santa Barbara. His health declined in 2ALZ contracting
pneumonia and congenital heart failure.
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