In 1960, his father sold Royal Imprints and returned to teaching statistics and mathematics at Bucknell University, which he had done for several years in the 1940s.

After being a homemaker in the 1950s, his mother returned to teaching at Milton Junior High School, as she worked on a Master of Science degree in Education at Bucknell, which she received in 1964.

While a student at Bucknell, Benson joined the Kappa chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity[1] and played varsity golf.

He worked as a Management Analyst for the Army Security Agency in Arlington, Virginia for a year after graduating from Bucknell.

In June 1969, Benson joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in Whippany, N.J. as a Computer Program Design Engineer and Member of Technical Staff.

In June 1998, Benson became the Dean of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business and the Simon S. Selig Jr.

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