Caroline Iverson Ackerman [SEP] occupation
Caroline Iverson Ackerman
Caroline Iverson Ackerman (March 6, 1918 – September 23, 2012) was an American aviator, journalist, reporter and educator. She was the aviation editor of Life magazine during World War II and was the first director of public relations for women for Shell Oil Company.
Biography.
Caroline Emilie Iverson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Jacob Engval Iverson and Ella Dorothea (Schmidt) Iverson. She earned her B.A. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in journalism and
Boston, where she taught until 1978. She had been involved with the Lutheran Church throughout her life. After her retirement from Northeastern, she assisted with communications development, wrote for and eventually became editor of the "New England Lutheran" until 1992. She also kept active as a freelance writer throughout the rest of her life.
The papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman are maintained at the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Personal.
In 1949, she married Leslie Ackerman, her