Accounting 'Trailblazer' Celebrates 50 Years of Service

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Long before computers and calculators, accounting was done by hand. "There was pencil and paper, for starters. There was a giant thing called a Contameter, but you didn't carry that around with you," said accountant Marilyn Pendergast. Pendergast knows it firsthand. She's been in the business for 50 years. "My first day was July 5, 1966," she recalled. Pendergast is considered a trailblazer in the accounting industry. She was the first woman president of the New York State Society of CPAs and has traveled the world promoting the profession.