Illinois Teacher retires after 42 years

“Every child has music in them in some way,” she said. “I don’t believe there are people who can’t appreciate music; it is a universal human experience.”

Budil was a young singer/musician in 1970 when she started teaching K-8 music for District 91. She sang soprano locally, performing Verdi concerts, according the Oak Leaves newspapers of the era.

Performance is in her blood. Over the decades she has been charged with graduation, writing children’s plays and organizing all the holiday shows and musicals, such as H.M.S. Pinafore a couple of years past.