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Biographical Information on Mark and his Family
As a student at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, during the late 1960's Mark was a cadet in the Air Force ROTC. When he graduated in 1970 he reported for duty at the USAF Flight School at Laredo AFB, Texas. After earning his wings Mark was invited to remain in the Air Training Command as an Instructor Pilot in the Undergraduate Pilot Training program. It was at Laredo Air Force Base that he first met Lt. Ruth Carter, RN.
In 1975 Mark & Ruth were married and left Active Duty to start a life in New England and careers in the private sector. Mark worked in his family's ship repair subcontracting company and Ruth did shift work at local hospitals while spending much of her time at home with their growing family. Son Adam was born in 1977. Daughter Kate arrived in 1980. The family was filled out when daughter April came along in 1986.
By the early 1980's Mark was a corporate executive in the Tag and Label industry, specializing in Barcode technology for Automatic Identification and Data Collection. In a series of Product Management and Marketing Management positions he was responsible for enterprises throughout the developed world. Traveling widely, Mark was able to learn quite a bit about other nations and their cultures from the first hand experience of having been there to do business.
Adam Jay Zaccaria has been profoundly handicapped since birth. He is Autistic. As a result of raising him and caring for him at home for the first 28 years of his life Mark and Ruth have become far more expert in dealing with this increasingly common syndrome than they ever planned to be. In life, though, you play the hand you're dealt. Adam has made progress every year. At the point where he could no longer be managed at home it was a Blessing that state supported options were available. Today Adam lives happily in a group home with four other residents of similar condition. He and his roommates are cared for by a corps of state workers who are both dedicated and skillful. In a word, Adam is flourishing. He is a client of the Adrien LaPlante center, in Wakefield, where he is employed in a protected workshop
Today Mark operates a consulting practice in Business To Business Marketing, based in North Kingstown. Ruth is the Nurse Manager for a pediatric psychiatric practice, in Middletown. Adam, now 30, lives in Exeter. Kate Auxier is a Lieutenant in the RI Army National Guard, and a newly appointed member of the Bar here in her home state. April is completing her studies at Emerson College, in Boston. There she has concentrated on writing for the screen, Marketing, and TV Production

Mark and Ruth understand both the obligations and the attraction of military service. So do their daughter and son-in-law. Dan and Kate Auxier are both full time members of the RI Army Guard. Kate was deployed to Iraq with the 126th Aviation Battalion in 2005, interrupting her studies at Roger Williams School of Law to pull that tour. Staff Sergeant Dan Auxier has just returned from serving his third combat tour in Iraq. This time Dan deployed with Rhode Island's 169th MP Company.

No national government should ever choose to make war. Dan and Kate Auxier are two reasons why no national government should ever choose to make war with the United States.

Both Mark and Ruth are longtime members of the North Kingstown Republican Town Committee, the NKGOP. Mark is a past Chair of that organization. Beginning with Ruth's run for the state legislature in 2000, the couple have worked on one of their campaigns every Election Year since. In the process Mark spent 4 years on the NK Zoning Board of Review. He was both appointed and elected to the Town Council there. Ruth currently serves on the NK Zoning Board. And, of course, both are gearing up for the 20 city & town campaign for Congress currently under way.
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