Elsie Brogan was born in Virginia in 1904. She was educated in Virginia, and continued her education at several North Carolina colleges. She married Austin Evans, who died in 1970.
Elsie taught school in the Forsyth County public schools for 38 years, and for many of those years she taught junior high students at Griffith School. She helped to organize and became the first president of the Forsyth County Classroom Teachers Association. She was the program chairman and fund raiser for the Griffith Parent Teachers Association for many years.
Elise participated in the movement to relocate Wake Forest College to Winston-Salem, and in the drive to locate the School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. She also helped in the movement to build a new sanctuary at Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church, and was a fund-raiser for building Forsyth Memorial Hospital.
She and her husband raised animals and grew peaches on their farm. Elsie passed away in 1987.
