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Resident of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]]

Resident of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]]

|death_date=April 10, 2020 (aged 85)  

|death_date=April 10, 2020 (aged 85)  

|death_place=Not mentioned in obituary

|death_place=Place of death not mentioned in obituary

|resting_place=Not mentioned in obituary

|resting_place=Not mentioned in obituary

|religion=Not mentioned in obituary

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As president, Alost worked with two [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], state Representative Jimmy Dale Long, Sr. (1931-2016) and state Senators [[Francis C. Thompson]] of Delhi in Richland Parish and Donald Gene Kelly of Natchitoches, and [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[David C. Treen]], to open the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts in an older building on the NSU campus. Alost was director of LSMSA from its inception in 1982 until he was named president of the university four years later. Earlier, from 1975 to 1982, he was the dean of the College of Education.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://traditions.nsula.edu/the-hall-of-distinguished-educators.html|title=The Hall of Distinguished Educators|publisher=Traditions.nsula.edu|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}</ref>  

As president, Alost worked with two [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], state Representative Jimmy Dale Long, Sr. (1931-2016) and state Senators [[Francis C. Thompson]] of Delhi in Richland Parish and Donald Gene Kelly of Natchitoches, and [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[David C. Treen]], to open the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts in an older building on the NSU campus. Alost was director of LSMSA from its inception in 1982 until he was named president of the university four years later. Earlier, from 1975 to 1982, he was the dean of the College of Education.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://traditions.nsula.edu/the-hall-of-distinguished-educators.html|title=The Hall of Distinguished Educators|publisher=Traditions.nsula.edu|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}</ref>  

After leaving NSU, he worked as  a financial advisor for AXA Equitable Insurance. He is an inductee of the NSU Hall of Distinguished Educators.<ref name=bio/>

After leaving NSU, he worked as  a financial advisor for AXA Equitable Insurance. He is an inductee of the NSU Hall of Distinguished Educators.<ref name=bio/> He died of a lengthy illness at the age of eighty-five.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=robert-alost&pid=196075199&fhid=10224|title=Robert Alost obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 25, 2020|accessdate=April 26, 2020}}</ref>

 

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