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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1989

NAME: Nadyne Gail Edison
AGE: Early thirties
OCCUPATION: Executive assistant to
Mayor Coleman Young, which includes
marketing the City of Detroit for new
business developments.
EDUCATION: A Bachelor of Arts degree
from Queens College, City University of
New York, a master's degree from
Michigan State University (MSU) and a
Ph.D. also from MSU in mass
communications.
RESIDENCE: Detroit
FAMILY: Single. Her mother, Sylvia
Edison, resides in New York City, and
her brother, Mitchell, is an arbitrator
for Equal Employment Opportunity in
Chicago.
SYNAGOGUE: Downtown Synagogue
ORGANIZATIONS: International
Communication Association, Public
Opinion Research, and Professional
Women's Business Association
FAVORITE BOOK: The Stranger by Albert
Camus
HOBBIES: "Who has time for hobbies?
. . . Boating and traveling!'
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: "Bringing
Presumed Innocent into the City of
Detroit starring Harrison Ford out of
Warner Bros., and it was a major
accomplishment because there were
several other cities under
consideration!' Edison adds that the
film crew had a certain hesitancy to
come to Detroit, but after several
meetings they really felt that they
would get great cooperation. "They left

feeling this was one of the best filming
experiences they ever had."
PHILOSOPHY: "I think it is very
important to find a balance in one's life
between one's professional life and social
life and still find time to share the good
fortune that one gets. I think many of
us have lost sight of that balance, and
I'm certainly one of them."
BACKGROUND: Nadyne Edison was born
and raised in New York City in a
politically active Jewish home.
"Growing up in my home, Jewishness
was a political ideology, as opposed to a
religion — a political ideology, cultural
ideology and a very serious sense of
history, heritage and tradition," says
Edison.
Her father was entertainment editor
of the New York Post, and her mother
was a homemaker. She remembers
attending many theatrical productions
with her family as well as many union
meetings. Her grandfather, Abe Edison,
started one of the first communist,
Jewish newspapers in New York.
In 1971, Edison lived three months
in Israel. She went there after her
brother married an Israeli and fought in
the Six-Day War. Her Israeli experience
strengthened her Jewish identity.
Growing up in a family of
journalists, Edison was always s aware of
the power of the media. ."My rebellion
was to study the effects of the media
and the impact on people's attitudes,
positions and stereotypes?'
Edison received a BA from Queens
college in New York and then
eventually went to MSU for an MA and
Ph.D. degree in mass communications.
She then became a professor of
communications at New York
University. After the nuclear power
plant accident at Three Mile Island, she
was appointed by President Carter to
head a national task force on media
coverage of the accident. The ultimate
findings were that the media
underplayed the accident because of the
media's lack of understanding of nuclear
energy.
In 1982, she returned to MSU to
finish her dissertation, which was on
violence in television. The next year,
some friends were running for
government positions and she stayed to
help them. Also, she knew Jim
Blanchard and previously worked on his
campaign.
When Blanchard became governor,
she was appointed deputy director of
licensing and regulation. But Edison
missed the urban life and decided to
accept the job as mayor's assistant in
1985.
Part of her job entails promoting