Blystone & Bailey CPAs Scholarship Fund
Blystone & Bailey is a mid-Michigan CPA firm with full time offices in Midland and Mt. Pleasant. The firm’s founders, Glen D. Blystone and Thomas J. Bailey, have worked in public accounting for more than 35 years. They have worked together continuously since 1976, beginning as employees of a regional CPA firm in Bay City, then practicing under their own names as sole practitioners, and subsequently organizing Blystone and Bailey CPAs, PC in 1986. The firm now also includes principals Jill Bourland, Mary Ann McPherson and Tony Wilmot.
Glen Blystone was involved in the initial formation of the Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation and sat on the finance committee. Jill Bourland has been on the finance committee for years and is currently a Community Foundation trustee.
The office has been a promoter of co-op programs facilitated through the local high schools, and internship programs through the local colleges, in an attempt to foster continued education in the field of accounting. They want to assure quality accounting now and in the future. In 2014, Blystone & Bailey has also established an endowed scholarship fund to provide assistance to students that are passionately pursuing a degree in accounting.
This fund is currently growing and will award scholarships in the future.