PR 'Matriarch' Ruth Edelman, 1929-2013
Today brings news that in some way touches everyone in the public relations industry: Ruth Edelman, who helped build husband Daniel’s eponymous firm into the world’s largest, died this weekend at 84 after a brief battle with leukemia.
The Chicago Sun-Times describes Ruth as the firm’s “matriarch”, but of course her role went well beyond “pick[ing] out the lamps and furniture” for Edelman’s first Chicago office.
In fact, she was something of a bellwether for powerful women in the industry, and her networking skills were legendary. Son
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