From #9574 “...Odd thing about SAD, no high school yearbook of what would have been her senior year was able to be found. ...”
The actual story of Stanley Ann at Mercer Island is this.
Stanley started school with the Mercer Island group while living at Columbia City as a sophomore, having been at Eckstein in Junior High.
Mercer Island High School was opened at that time and the record is inconsistent on the question of whether the Stanley sophomores were at the High School; at the Old Mercer Island School; or elsewhere. The class was at the High School in Stanley's Junior year and she was there with them.
At some point, around what would have been the inception of her Senior Year, she was early admitted in a combined degree program at University of Chicago where she attended in the 59-60 class year and in the 60-61 class year, getting credits which would show up on a true transcript from University of Hawaii from her student period beginning in March of 1963.
She received her Mercer Island High School degree with the class of 60 with her U of Chicago credits but she was living in Chicago and didn't make it for picture sessions with the class. Thus her picture was in fact not in the yearbook.
Having her in Chicago in School from 59 to 61 repudiates the legend that is wrapped around Dreams but in fact, the class at Mercer Island was small, and when they decided on how to use the legend, they were able to control all the copies of the yearbook, so far.
And in fact, in Dreams, Ayers more or less tells you this story, except as to the essential facts that contradict the legend. Among other things, he has her telling Bari that she was an Au Paire when the Odepidus movie comes out which she was.
From 61 to January of 63, Stanley was an Au Paire living in a house in Boston owned by Bari's father's sister with Bari and the older boy who was visited there by his father.
No one should waste their time asking for links and proof. That story is constructed from the limited factual record which is available and is not inconsistent with any provable event or fact. On the other hand, I do not have a complete factual record proving that story and the foregoing is based on a reasonable set of assumptions founded on what limited facts are out there.
I was only sixteen then she supposedly tells 'Bari'...
...but Black Orhpeus was released in the US in December, 1959, and she would have been 17 + one month, having been born in November 1942. Her maternal uncle Charles T Payne was Deputy Director of the Library at the University of Chicago, and Madelyn's sister Margaret also had a connection to that University.
MARGARET LEE PAYNE
She was a member of the Alumni Associations of the University of Chicago and Teachers College, Columbia University. Margaret A. Payne enjoyed traveling with friends and family throughout the United States and Europe. Margaret A. Payne is survived by her brother Charles T. Payne and wife Melanie; her brother Jon V. Payne and wife Susan and friend Margery Duffey.
That's the same university btw at which Bari was an adjunct lecturer while Charles T Payne was still there, from the late 1940's until his retirement in the 90's.
Charles T Payne, Bari, Charles son Jon and wife Melanie
The girls in the back row are:
Maxine Hansen (Box) Susan Botkin (Blake) Marilyn Close and Stanley Ann Dunham, who forgot to wear her sweater...
The above image I presume is from the Goodstock webpages, because the images from that site are tinted.
The image below is from Maraniss, (sp?) he maintains it's from 1960 which is extremely doubtful.
It would seem that there's nothing available that shows Stanley Ann Dunham at Mercer Island High School in 1960, the year books in the library at Mercer Island were apparently stolen. What images we see might well be from 1959.
Graduation image?
