Background
Cain, Elise Gasque was born on April 5, 1920 in Dillon, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Baker Fore and Carrie Lee (Frierson) Gasque.
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Elise Gasque Cain
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Student, Winthrop College, 1938-1939; Bachelor, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurenburg, North Carolina, 1968.
Career
Salesperson, Andrews & Belks Department Store, Dillon, 1936-1940;
receptionist, office nurse, Doctor South Carolina. Black, Dillon, 1948-1955;
teacher mathematics and science, Dillon Junior H.S., 1969-1973;
office nurse, Rufus H. Cain Junior, Dillon, 1984-1991. District representative South Carolina.
Governor's Education Conference, Columbia, 1960-1964. Founder, president, Chairman of the Board Avalon Academy, Inc., Dillon, 1970-1994.
Achievements
Membership
Member chairman Crippled Children Society, Dillon, 1960-1963. Member Dillon County Tuberculosis Board, 1950-1962, South Carolina. Child Protection and Advisory Board, 1973-1988, Dillon County Mental Health Board, 1982-1987.
Member, pole holder Republican Committee, Dillon, 1975-1978. Trustee South Carolina. Methodist Center, 1980-1990.
Member board of trustees Main St. Methodist Church, since 1992. Board directors Francis Marion College, 1982-1991. Dealer Doncaster Clothes, since 1993.
Member South Carolina. Indiana School Association (board directors 1971-1994), Dillon Medical Society Auxiliary (president 1979-1985), South Carolina. Medical Association (president since 1978), South Carolina.
Federation Women (1stv.p. 1988-1990), General Federation Women's Club (president South Carolina. chapter 1990-1992, board directors 1990-1994).
Interests
Connections
Married Walter Ewing Belk, July 26, 1939 (deceased April 1948). Children: Carol Kay Belk Marbert, Walter Ewing Junior. Married Rufus Haynes Cain, Junior, December 10, 1955 (deceased August 1991).
Children: Rufus Haynes III, Edina Elise Cain Elliott, Carol Kay Cain Spinazzola.
Education
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1939
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1968