EX-99.23.q.ii
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
WHEREAS, Pauze Funds, a business trust organized under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust"),
periodically files amendments to its Registration Statement with the Securities
and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and
WHEREAS, the undersigned is the Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer of
the Trust;
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Patricia S.
Dobson and Philip C. Pauze, and each of them, her attorneys for her and in her
name, place and stead, and in her office and capacity in the Trust, to execute
and file any Amendment or Amendments to the Trust's Registration Statement,
hereby giving and granting to said attorneys full power and authority to do and
perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be
done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as she might
or could do if personally present at the doing thereof, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set her hand this 26 day
of December, 2000.
/s/
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Nancy K. Szidlowski
Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer
STATE OF TEXAS )
) ss:
COUNTY OF HARRIS )
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for said county and state, personally
appeared Nancy K. Szidlowski, known to me to be the person described in and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and who acknowledged to me that she executed
and delivered the same for the purposes therein expressed.
WITNESS my hand and official seal this 26th day of December, 2000
/s/
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Notary Public: Y. Michelle Calderon
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