I need to know because I support Dean and:
A close friend of Dean's father founded Boys and Girls Harbor...
The Dean's contributed money to this organization at the same time they were members at Maidstone...
The Dean boys attended this camp and also worked there as counselors...
I fear a troubling pattern is emerging about the Dean past.
The history of Boys & Girls Harbor flows directly from the best and noblest elements of American culture. During the mid 1930’s, towards the end of America’s worst depression, Anthony Drexel Duke and a few prep school friends took jobs at a camp for disadvantaged and delinquent immigrant boys. Mr. Duke recollects, "At the camp we soon found out that we, not the children, were delinquent. Delinquent in knowledge of what it is like to be truly poor in America". This revelation inspired Mr. Duke to start a camp of his own. In 1937 the camp officially opened and it started small, running during college summer breaks. In 1941 the threat of impending war temporarily stopped the camp but after the war, and after some of Mr. Duke’s fellow founders lost their lives, he began again to build the Harbor. The founders, to name just a few, included John Lindsey, whose later accomplishments included serving as Mayor of New York City; Claiborne Pell, who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate and in 1997 was appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations; and Paul Moore, who became the Bishop for the Diocese of New York for the Episcopal Church. All of these men, as founders, dreamed of creating a place of safe harbor for New York City’s underprivileged children.
Nearly 65 years later, the Harbor (now Boys & Girls Harbor) has grown from a recreational summer camp into an organization serving nearly 7,000 underprivileged children and their families from East and Central Harlem each year. Our comprehensive services offer children access to the quality educational training so desperately needed in this at-risk community where 70% of school-aged children have reading and math skills below their grade level. The Harbor’s diverse services include: a pre-school program that last year served 283 children between the ages of six-months to five-years; a structured academic and visual/performing arts after-school program; behavioral health services encompassing clinical services, substance abuse prevention, and a teen pregnancy prevention program; one of New York’s first charter schools which uses thematic teaching practices to implement its science and arts curriculum; rigorous academic training and guidance for college-bound students; a world renown performing arts conservatory, and the summer camp from which it all began, that now emphasizes supplemental academics, physical adventure programs to teach problem solving skills and the environmental sciences.
The educational enrichment the children gain during their time at the Harbor is vital to their future success, as are the core values that are instilled in them. Through every academic lesson, every music or dance class, or trip to camp, the students are taught to have hope, to believe and to be responsible. Each child learns to believe in himself, to have faith that there is success ahead, and to have a sense of responsibility for himself and for his community. Boys & Girls Harbor gives its graduates not only academic skills but, the emotional and spiritual strength they will need to overcome the barriers they are sure to encounter on the way to their dreams.http://www.boysandgirlsharbor.net/site/default.htm 
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