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Sylvester H. Cain, Kansas Reform Candidate for U.S. Congress, 1st District

Contact: 785-437-3787, syl.cain@votekansas.org

Gender: Male
Birth year: 1930
Place of birth: Everly, Iowa
Marital status: widower. Married to Patricia Cain for 40 years. Sylvester and Patricia raised eight children, all whom have grown and left home. Sylvester has 32 Grandchildren.
Religion: Roman Catholic

Education: Eighth grade graduation; High School graduation; College Degrees: BA in Education and Philosophy, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO; M.A. School Administration, Ph. D. School Administration and Education Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Employment: Teacher and/or School Administrator from 1955 to 2005. Taught various levels of students from Primary grades to University Upper Division grades.

Sylvester worked in various teaching capacities in Catholic schools in Arizona, Alabama, Maryland, and Saint Mary’s, Kansas. These teaching experiences were in the regular catholic grade and high schools, and in the Newman Center at Arizona State University while working on his M.A. and Ph. D. degrees.

While living in Maryland and Virginia Sylvester was employed at the United States Department of Education, Assistant Secretary for Research and Development, Washington, D.C. He worked in Statistics of the schools and colleges of the United States of America. Later he worked in the Administration office of the Assistant Secretary. Sylvester “retired” in 1986 and moved to Saint Mary’s, Kansas where he has lived since. During those years he taught Integrated Language Arts, specifically reading comprehension, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Sylvester taught in Kansas in Public Schools and in State Reform Schools. One of his favorite teaching assignments in the public schools was Driver Education. They all wanted to learn that subject, if they didn’t already know it all.

Sylvester has worked behind the scenes in the tax honesty movement in various groups helping the general public understand the Internal Revenue Code and the administration thereof. He has done this in one capacity or another since 1960. Sylvester has learned that many of the early ideas of “how-to” understand the code has had to change with the broadening of his education on the subject. The advent of the computer and the internet enhanced this work greatly. No longer was there a need to have meeting late into the night miles and miles from home, no longer a need to make trips to the law library; all that is needed now is e-mail and the Internet websites.