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eanne Phillips can trace the
roots of her journalistic success
to home schooling.
Phillips, writer of the syndicated
advice column "Dear Abby," learned
her trade from her late mother,
Pauline Esther Phillips, who began
working under the penname Abigail
Van Buren in 1956 and gradually
involved her daughter.
Jeanne Phillips was 14 when she
started helping with responses to
young people. Under her mother's
direction, the second-genera-
tion newspaperwoman
moved into editing
and co-writing
before she took
over the column
in 1987.
Advice
Pauline Phillips
columnist
also was following
Jeanne
in family foot-
Phillips
steps. Her twin
sister, the late
Esther Pauline
Lederer, led the way
into the field of advice
working under the penname
Ann Landers. Before becoming
"Dear Abby" and going into syndica-
tion, Pauline Phillips assisted her iden-
tical sibling. The twins, of Jewish her-
itage, ultimately had relationship rifts.
Jeanne Phillips, whose column
appears in 1,400 newspapers world-
wide with a readership estimated at
110 million, will discuss her career
when she addresses this season's open-
ing meeting of the Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah. The luncheon
event, accompanied by fund-raising
boutiques, will be held Tuesday, Oct.
5, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield. Barbara Ben and Sherrie
Stern are co-chairs.
"Empathy and the determination to
get the best possible opinion that you
can for somebody" make for a good
advice columnist, Phillips told Larry
King. "When I have a problem, I talk
to friends, people I trust and my hus-
band."
The columnist, one of only three
laypersons to be granted a life consult-
ant membership in the Group for the
Advancement of Psychiatry; uses her
organizational contacts when she feels
problems need research for appropriate
resolutions. She communicates with
local fans through the Detroit News.
Helping to solve problems beyond
individual correspondence has become
important to Phillips, a Californian
who supports the military through
OperationDearAbby.net . This Web
site, operated in partnership with the
Department of Defense, encourages
readers to send messages to men and
women in the military.
Phillips, who sits on the advisory
boards of the Children's Rights
Council and Mothers
Against Drunk Driving
(MADD), has become
a public spokesper-
son for the
Alzheimer's
Association.
Alzheimer's is the
disease that
brought her
mother's career to
an end.
In anticipation of
her Southfield
appearance, Phillips
answered some questions
for the Detroit Jewish News:
JN: What will you cover in your talk?
JP: I'll be talking about the history of
the "Dear Abby" column and some of
the interesting letters I have received
from readers with problems, both
touching and funny.
JN: Do you have any personal experi-
ence with Hadassah?
JP: I was given an honorary member-
ship to Hadassah last year when I
spoke to the Houston chapter. In fact,
I was so impressed that I subsequently
bought a lifetime membership.
JN: Have you spoken before other
groups in Michigan?
JP: I have not had the pleasure of
speaking in Michigan before now, but
I do have some very close friends in
the Detroit area.
JN: Has the general temper of the
questions changed in the years you've
been an advice columnist?