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I found the information about the babysitter that I was seeking. And I don't thik that it has been mentioned on this thread, so here it is:

Obama 'mama': 15 days from birth to Seattle class

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Mary Toutonghi, according to an interview published in the Seattle Chat Club blog, claimed to have baby-sat for the future president at Dunham's Seattle apartment in January and February 1962. The Toutongi interview provides no information about Dunham arriving in Seattle to begin classes in the autumn of 1961.

When asked why Dunham left her husband in Hawaii to come to Seattle with her infant son, Toutongi explained Dunham told her that she and the baby would be going to Kenya when she finished her education, as she had promised her parents when she was married.

Toutongi also added Dunham's explanation that her husband had an obligation to his tribe to take another wife that was a full-blooded Kenyan. Toutongi further commented, "I don't think I could have been that brave."

In an interview with WND, Toutongi said she baby-sat for infant Obama "for two or there months, when he was seven months old," adding "it was in the spring."

Given Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, this would put the dates Toutongi baby-sat infant Obama in February and March 1962.

"My daughter was 18 months old and she just had her 50th birthday this year," Toutongi recalled. "So, that would make the time around February and March 1962."

"Ann Dunham and the baby moved in while we were there," she remembered. "We managed the house and they had the rooms on the first floor to the right, immediately above the garage. Each of the rooms on that floor comprised a one-bedroom apartment. I can't remember when she moved in, but the baby was seven months old."

"It was kind of weird, but she never told me why she abandoned her husband," she commented. "I don't know if the courses she wanted were here. I couldn't figure out why she was here in Seattle while her husband was in Hawaii."

Ann Dunham's residence in Seattle, 1961 (Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Branch, King County Assessor Property Record Card collection)

Barack Jr. apparently was only a few days old for the travel from Hawaii to Seattle, probably in a propeller airplane that could have taken nine or 10 hours for the trip.

In deciding to take her child and move to Seattle, Ann Dunham abandoned her husband, Barack Obama, Jr. who stayed behind in Hawaii, evidently to continue his studies at the University of Hawaii.

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I found the information about the babysitter that I was seeking. And I don't thik that it has been mentioned on this thread, so here it is:

Obama 'mama': 15 days from birth to Seattle class

"On July 29, the University of Washington e-mailed WND Dunham's complete grade transcript covering her attendance at the university. The university confirmed Dunham's classes starting in the fall of 1961 were night classes. The transcript clearly documents that Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for two classes that began on Aug. 19, 1961: Anthropology 100, "Introduction to the Study of Man" and Political Science 201, "Modern Government.""

The interview with the babysitter is interesting and provides support for the time line that put her physically in Seattle in February 1962--it doesn't provide any support for Corsi's proposition (derived from the U of W records) that she was on campus taking classes on August 19.

We have seen another document confirming that the classes for which she was registered fall quarter 1961 were extension classes which she could have been taking from anywhere. Which is consistent with my own recollection.

Corsi's August 19 date for physical attendance at classes is wrong. He may think he got it from the U of W but his description of emails and the like is a little suspect. Careful inquiry would confirm the state of facts.

If she was in a night class in fall quarter, classes started in the last week of September or the first week of October. She wasn't in class at Washington on August 19.