The Female Institute had been a famous southern finishing school for girls.
Mendez grew up during a time when most southern and southwestern schools were segregated.
In baseball, there are intense rivalries between the four southern schools.
A serious issue facing most southern schools in 1956 was that of desegregation.
We'd play against those southern schools and they would call us football players, animals.
It is the only southern school still in existence with this distinction.
He said that Arabic should be introduced into southern schools without delay so they could catch up to the north.
That average is 25 percent for the southern schools.
But he said the district would begin a teacher-training program next year focusing on the southern schools.
As with the acting style, Kathakali music also has singers from the northern and southern schools.