What is Helena Benitez?
{{Infobox Officeholder |image = Helena Benitez photo.jpg | image_caption = | office2 = [[Senate of the Philippines|Senator of the Philippines]] | term_start2 = December 30, 1967 | term_end2 = September 23, 1972 | office1 = [[Interim Batasang Pambansa|Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa]] from [[Southern Tagalog]] | term_start1 = June 12, 1978 | term_end1 = June 5, 1984 | office = [[Regular Batasang Pambansa|Member of the Batasang Pambansa]] from [[Cavite]] | term_start = July 23, 1984 | term_end = March 25, 1986 |birth_name=Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|06|27}} | birth_place = [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|07|14|1914|06|27}} | death_place = | nationality = Filipino | parents = [[Conrado Benitez]] (father)<br>Francisca Tirona (mother) | spouse = | party = | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = [[Philippine Women's University]]<br>[[George Washington University]]<br>[[University of Chicago]]<br>[[Iowa State College]] | occupation = educator and politician | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez''' (June 27, 1914 – July 14, 2016) was a [[Filipinos|Filipino]] academic and administrator of the [[Philippine Women's University]]. She served in the [[Senate of the Philippines]] from 1967<ref>[http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/helena_benitez.htm Senators Profile - Helena Benitez]. Senate of the Philippines. Accessed on 2015-08-21.</ref> until [[Congress of the Philippines|Congress]] was closed when [[Martial law in the Philippines|martial law]] was declared in 1972, and at the [[Batasang Pambansa]] from 1978 until it was abolished in 1986. Benitez also founded the [[Bayanihan Dance Company]].<ref name=ps>{{cite news|last = Macai