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Bar News - January 20, 2006 New Accounting Supervisor Has Varied Background By: Beverly Rorick Asked how she happened to move from that field to accounting, Stirling says she went first into banking—and then she married and moved to New Hampshire. “My ex-husband owns a restaurant [MacKenna’s Family Restaurant in New London] and I did the financials. So I decided to go back to school and become a CPA.” She also earned an associate’s degree from McIntosh College along the way. Stirling’s responsibilities at the Bar Association include, but are not limited to, preparing monthly reports of the financial activity of all departments to present to the Executive Director and to the Board of Governors. She also assists the Executive Director and the Director of Finance in preparing the annual budget and acts as liaison to the external auditors during the annual audit. Stirling manages staff payroll activity, too, and assists department managers to meet all reporting requirements demanded of groups that provide grant funding to the Association and its affiliates. Her contact with members will be chiefly through the annual membership dues billing process, for which she provides oversight. “And, along with others in the department, I will try to answer member questions and resolve any invoice-related problems,” says Stirling. Outside of work, Stirling says her chief interests are: “My kids, my kids, my kids!” Her son James is 20 years old and in the Marine Corps. He is stationed in Pensacola, where he is in Aviation Ordnance. Daughter Sarah, 18, attends William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri. Sarah has been riding since she was five years old and has won a rare kind of full scholarship for all four years; it’s called the “Theresa and Bernie Vonderschmitt Saddleseat Scholarship.” Stirling herself used to raise American Saddlebreds, but now owns just one horse, Lucy. In addition to her interest in horses (and her kids), Stirling enjoys gardening and reading—and of course, numbers: when she took the CPA exam in 1998, she was one of only seven in the whole state to pass all four parts of the exam at the first sitting. “I am very happy to have Laura on the Bar’s accounting department team and I look forward to working with her,” said Thomas W. Manter, Director of Finance.
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