Flashback to '76

In 1976 Joan Cummings was Williamson County Extension Adviser/Home Economics. She had also worked for two years in Union County and had been in Williamson since 1970.  She earned a Masters Degree in Family Economics and Management from Southern Illinois University in 1974. 

It is interesting to note that Joan's daughter, Linda, was the baby in the Home Management House at SIU for a time while she was finishing her Master's. Some of us who were there during those semesters remember her well!

Joan left southern Illinois and worked in the northern part of the state for several years. She also became Joan Todd during that time. She ended a long career in Extension by working as a Nutrition and Wellness Educator at the Rockford Center. Joan also held several leadership positions in IAEHE and IEAFCS during her tenure.