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'''Robert Allen Alost''', known as '''Bobby Alost''' (February 20, 1935 – April 10, 2020),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/robert-alost/e9495953268|title=Robert Alost|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 26, 2020}}</ref> was the 16th president of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], with service for the decade from 1986 until his retirement in 1996.
'''Robert Allen Alost''', known as '''Bobby Alost''' (February 20, 1935 – April 10, 2020),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/robert-alost/e9495953268|title=Robert Alost|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 26, 2020}}</ref> was the 16th president of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], with service for the decade from 1986 until his retirement in 1996.
Alost obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from NSU and is doctorate in education from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. As a Northwestern faculty member, he was promoted to dean of the College of Education, a post he filled from 1975 to 1982. He worked with three [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], state Representative Jimmy Dale Long, Sr. (1931-2016), of Natchitoches and then 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 on the NSU campus the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a boarding school for two hundred selected talented and gifted students. Alost was director of LSMSA from its inception in 1982 until he was named president of the university four years later.<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>
Alost obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from NSU and is doctorate in education from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. As a Northwestern faculty member, he was promoted to dean of the College of Education, a post he filled from 1975 to 1982. He worked with three [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], state Representative Jimmy Dale Long, Sr. (1931-2016), of Natchitoches and then 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 on the NSU campus the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a boarding school for two hundred selected talented and gifted students. Alost was director of LSMSA from its inception in 1982 until he was named president of the university four years later.<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; material may no longer be accesible}}</ref>
[[Conservative]] author [[Rod Dreher]], a native of [[Baton Rouge]], entered LSMSA in 1983 at the age of sixteen at the inception of the institution. In his blog, ''The American Conservative,'' Dreher describes how Alost impacted Dreher's life:
[[Conservative]] author [[Rod Dreher]], a native of [[Baton Rouge]], entered LSMSA in 1983 at the age of sixteen at the inception of the institution. In his blog, ''The American Conservative,'' Dreher describes how Alost impacted Dreher's life: