St Landry County Louisiana Archives Photo Place.....Opelousas Female Institute 1909 
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Source:             St. Landry Clarion, May 22, 1909
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OPELOUSAS FEMALE INSTITUTE CLOSES

Noted Education Institution Has No Graduate

This Semester...A Facor In educational

History Of Opelousas.

The Opelousas Female Institute closed the school term last night, with modest 
exercises, there being no graduate this year.

The Opelousas Female Institute forms an interesting part of the educational 
history of Opelousas. Many of the bright, cultured women of this parish and 
town owe all the education they possess to the O. F. I.- and when we say "all 
the education they possess" we do not mean it in a limited sense. Those who 
graduated from the O. S. I. have reason to feel proud of the fact.

The institution was organized by its present head and owner, Mrs. M. M. Hayes, 
in 1871. It began in a modest way, and grew until it now occupies its present 
building, a large, well-appointed, commodious brick building, situated in the 
center of the city.

Mrs. Hayes was born in Franklin, Tennessee, and attended the Soule Female 
College at Murfeesboro, and later graduated from The Tennessee Female College 
in 1851. During the war she taught in private schools. She was married to Capt. 
James Hayes in 1868. After her husband's death, which occurred in 1871, Mrs. 
Hayes opened school in Opelousas, the outgrowth of which is the Opelousas 
Female Institute.

Mrs. Hayes is a cultured, high-toned lady, besides an educator of marked 
ability. Long may the O. F. I. flourish!







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