Williams, Karen J. (Karen Jackson), 1940-

Karen Averill Jackson was born on January 17, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Elmore Jackson, an executive of the American Friends Service Committee, and Elisabeth Averill Jackson, a 1931 graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She attended the Friends Seminary in New York City in 1953-1954 and the Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1954-1957. From 1957-1961 she was a student at Mount Holyoke, where she majored in political science and received a B.A. degree. In the fall of 1961 she began working for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in New York City. She married David L. Williams on September 7, 1963, lived in Moscow in 1964-1965 while he studied journalism, and had a daughter in 1971. She also attended Columbia University where she received a M.A. degree in political science (1964) and a M.L.S. degree (1970). From June 1967 until her retirement in July 1999 she was a librarian at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

B. Karen Averill Jackson.