Background
Though Bost was born in Guthrie Center, Iowa, her family moved to Stillwater in 1891, and she enrolled at the university (then known as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College) when it opened later that year.
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Education
She graduated in 1897 alongside two male students in the university"s second graduating class. A bout of typhoid fever had prevented her from graduating with the first class the previous year.
Career
After graduating, Bost worked as a public school teacher in Stillwater. Bost remained involved with the university and became the first president of its Alumni Association in 1902 and the Half-Century Club in 1954. The university named its first female dormitory for Bost when it opened in 1925.
Bost was inducted into the Oklahoma Women"s Hall of Fame in 1997.
