Background
Moxon, Barbara Wischan was born on May 2, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Ernst and Helen Legget (Boggs) W.
Moxon, Barbara Wischan was born on May 2, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Ernst and Helen Legget (Boggs) W.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1942. Master of Science in Education, 1943. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Newberry College, 1990.
Family case worker Main Line Federation Churches, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1943-1947.
Past president, chair finance development, public affairs, education, volunteer counselors, speakers bureau Planned Parenthood, South Carolina. State vice president Common Cause, state action alert coordinator. State chair European Research Area South Carolina, editor newsletter.
Past president, vice president board Killingsworth Home. Precinct chair Democratic Party. Past president Parent-Teachers Association.
Board directors South Carolina Christian Action Council, director citizenship, public affairs. Member state board, secretary, membership chair, fundraising committee South Carolina Coalition Choice. Member choir St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Columbia, South Carolina.
Member various committees, past president Lutheran Church women. Past chair, secretary, past chair Women's History Week project South Carolina Commission on Women. Past organizer, state chair, legislation chair South Carolina Advocates for Women on Boards and Communications.
Member American Association of University Women (president Annapolis, Maryland branch, Portsmouth, Virginia branch, Greater Columbia, South Carolina branch, public policy chair local and state, vice president local and state program, chair women's issues, budget, Educational Foundation honoree 1984, 88, B. Moxon American Association of University Women American Fellowship named after her 1999), League of Women Voters (state and local president, chair member, finance development state and local, secretary, chair organization, 50th annual committee, Making Democracy Work communications, Barbara W. Moxon award named in her honor, one of 25 women featured in national exhibit Women in Action: Rebels and Reformers 1995-1996), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Robert Kerwin Moxon, March 4, 1944. Children: Peter, Christopher (deceased 2003), Laurel Suggs.
