Ventures Winter 2018-2019 | Page 28

ADVANCING THE MISSION Left to right: Carolee Martelle ’63 ’89 ’97, Kevin Motz ’09, Beverly Bareham ’01 Outstanding Alumni Honored at Baccalaureate Distinguished Alumni Award This award honors alumni who embody the Stevenson tradition of excellence through personal accomplishment, professional achievement, and humanitarian service. | position as a staff accountant through the college’s Career Center. Following graduation, she took a tax position and quickly decided to pursue a master’s degree in taxation at the University of Baltimore, where she obtained the highest GPA in her program. It was at this time that she Beverly Bareham ’01 began her extensive volunteering efforts across various Beverly Bareham chose to attend Stevenson University, has chaired the State Tax Committee, served on the then Villa Julie College, because she needed to invest in Board of Directors of the Maryland Association of CPAs, an excellent education. She was raising a young child and has presented at continuing education seminars at the time and had to consider the logistics of juggling nationally. In 2014, she decided to start her own practice childcare with the demands of being a full-time student. and was soon joined by her husband, Andy—also a CPA. Bareham was happy to find a strong sense of community In 2017, she hired her first Stevenson accounting student among her classmates and values the lasting relationships as a tax season intern. built with faculty members. 26 As a student at Villa Julie, Bareham landed a part-time VENTURES/WINTER 2018-19 organizations within the accounting industry. Bareham