Flashback to '76

Mildred Benz was the Jackson County Senior Extension Adviser-Youth in 1976. She had a bachelors and masters degree from Southern Illinois University. She began work in Jackson County in 1945.

"Milly" as most everyone called her, was never in a Home Economics position, but she was a member of NAEHE and IAEHE. She held many leadership positions in the Illinois Extension Advisers Youth organization; including state president. She was a national committee chairman as well.

In addition to her long career in Extension, she had also been a teacher for 10 years!