Education
Cass Technical High School.
Cass Technical High School.
Gist, a 5 ft 11 3⁄4 in (182 cm) Detroit native, 20 years old at the time, eventually became first runner-up to Mona Grudt of Norway in the Mission Universe pageant of that same year. Gist is a graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit. At the time of her coronation, she was a junior marketing and management major at Northwood University at Midland, Michigan.