Education

Pictured left to right are Dr. Rebecca Cooper and Ms. Barbara Mattingly

Beaufort (SC) Branch AAUW 2017 Educational Foundation Named Gift Honoree:
Barbara Mattingly is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and is a graduate of the University of Dayton where she earned a B.S. in Elementary Education. Barbara has been a member of the Beaufort Branch of AAUW since 2010. She has served on various committees and has been extremely active in all projects and ac-tivities implemented by our leadership.

Most notable is her work with “Books for Birthdays,” a five year program implemented by the Beaufort Branch that supported pre-school students in learn-ing to read. With this project preschool students were given books on their birthdays. Barbara co-chaired the committee of branch members who vis-ited each month the preschools of two local school districts, Jasper and Beaufort County Schools. Dur-ing these visits the volunteers read to students from many different books that they then would receive in the month of their birthdays. Since 2012, Barbara also served our branch as treasurer, a very demand-ing position. She has done an outstanding job.

Barbara is the wife of Rod, a retired executive for Xerox. She is the mother of four daughters and six grandchildren. She spends her time between her homes in Beaufort and Rochester, NY. She and Rod also spend much enjoyable time visiting with their daughters and their families in NY, MA and NJ.