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When Mary Louise Nunes graduated from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with a degree in accounting in 1983, she had no idea she'd go on to make a name for herself as a certified public accountant.
"I think my education was really well-balanced," the native of New Bedford, Mass., tells the Boston Globe.
"The accounting program didn't just teach you about debits or credits or financial statements.
We had our fair share of fun in addition to studying....
As the accountant, you have to adapt to the client, and the soft skills I learned are something that I use every day."
After graduating, Nunes started her own firm, Nunes & Charrier, and it's grown to more than 100 employees in New Bedford and around the country.
Now, Nunes is giving back to her alma mater in more ways than one.
She and her husband, Randall Mello, have donated to UMass Dartmouth for years, and when Nunes' parents died, the couple installed a stained-glass window in their memory at a Boston church.
"We ended up having a stained-glass window installed in my parents' memory," Nunes says.
"Similar to the window's imagery, the pillars of Nunes' philanthropy stand tall and resolute on a foundation built of
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