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One point about the site you linked with the Ann Dunham(Anna Obama Mrs, student) apt on Capitol Hill the article says she stayed in Seattle for probably less than a year, but the author didn’t find the ChristianFaithandReason excerpt where friend Barbara Cannon Rusk mentioned that she visited Ann at the apartment on Capitol Hill after the World’s Fair was over. The World’s Fair ended October 21, 1962 so Ann was still in Seattle at the end of October. She didn’t return to Hawaii until 1963 and that date was arrived at from the lousy houses article which appeared in “The Honolulu Advertiser”. They mentioned apt 110 1427 Alexander St as where the Dunhams were living in 1963 but they were incorrect. The apartment was rented in their names but Ann and Jr actually lived there before they moved back in with Madelyn and Stanley at the home at 2277 Kamehameha Ave.(the first home the Dunhams lived in when they moved to Hawaii in 1960)

Here is the original article which was posted on FR on Jan 9/2009.
http://www.capitolhilltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=26&SubSectionID=248&ArticleID=27447

FredNerks has a really nice picture of the Polk’s Seattle City Directory for 1961.

Madelyn has a younger sister, Arlene, but as far as I know she was never in Seattle. IIRC she taught at a University in N.C. and retired in N.C.

The dates jive then with the transcript records:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html

“The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham: (Dates of ATTENDANCE):
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 - Summer 1966

“Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham was ENROLLED at the University of Washington for”:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962

Also, the Barbara Husk quote, archived in THIS, too:
“The Myth of Barack Obama’s Early Life - Leahy — Cached”
http://d.scribd.com/docs/clivu7peq19urw3ijzs.pdf

“I had moved to Utah for a while after high school, and I came back to Seattle in the summer of 1962. I remember visiting the World’s Fair, and then stopping by Stanley Ann’s apartment on Capitol Hill. It was a small apartment, upstairs. It was after June, and could have been as late as September, 1962. I visited her for half a day or so. It was after the end of the spring quarter classes, and she wasn’t in classes, and didn’t have a job. I recall her being melancholy at the time. I had a sense that something wasn’t right in her.”

If she lived in Seattle as Stanley Obama, is the possibility of a Canadian birth as some have suggested even more likely? Why would she go from Seattle to Hawaii to have a baby and come back to Seattle alone?

Does anyone know when inexpensive (or universal-free) health care came to Canada?