Jessie Thatcher Bost

Jessie Olive Thatcher Bost (December 16, 1875 1963) was the first female graduate of Oklahoma State University. 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 A&M College) when it opened later that year. 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. After graduating, Bost worked as a public school teacher in Stillwater. She married Henry Bost in 1902; the couple had four children and moved to Alva in 1908. 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.[1][2]

Bost was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1997.[3]

References

  1. "Bost, Jessie Olive Thatcher (1875-1963)". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  2. "Jessie Thatcher Bost". Oklahoma State University Library. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  3. "Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame Inductees". Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
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