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...The issue is that for fifty years ago, the number of people who have an interest in preservation of that kind of stuff is small. The school, if it still exists, got one or two copies in its library (I recognize it is said they had four or five here); they got borrowed out; the person who took it out used it twenty-five years ago for the purpose for which they took it; failed to return it; and their kids threw it away when they died....

And yet, we are shown a number of images which supposedly were taken from a MIHS yearbook, if you GOOGLE IMAGES - Stanley Ann Dunham - you will find a number of them...so someone must have had a BOOK when this article was written, IN 2008:

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A student from Class of 1958 is credited with providing an image from a yearbook on this website:

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And yet, we are shown a number of images which supposedly were taken from a MIHS yearbook, if you GOOGLE IMAGES - Stanley Ann Dunham - you will find a number of them...so someone must have had a BOOK when this article was written, IN 2008:
From the Times Article: "In 1960, Stanley Ann Dunham graduates from Mercer Island High School."

I don't see the 2008 date on the article but I will take your word for it.

But as I am sure you recognize, there is a huge hole in that story you can drive a moving van through--and that may be what someone is refering to above when they say look at the book before 1961 and the book after 1961--I don't know why you would look at the book afterward.

However if the Times has the correct date, it fits together a number of the events and dates on the timeline. I think we have a fix on her earlier education class schedule so you need to take a year out of that somewhere but lots of other events then line up with the dateline.

I assume the Times is incorrect. But if they are not, you move Stanley Ann back one year and everything else fits--except that you might have some trouble making Senior the father of a kid born in January 1961.

The fake pearls photo has this caption: Courtesy Mercer Island High School Yearbook. I guess nobody wanted credit for that one, not even Tony Nugent.

The other photo, given its source, would have had to come from the 1958 yearbook. In my opinion, 1958 was the first year a yearbook was published. That makes SAD a 10th grader in that photo if she was indeed in the class of 1960.

Her birthday being in Nov., btw, would have put her in the class of 1961 in most school districts - then and now. In the 1958 year book you would find class of ‘58, ‘59 and ‘60 (MIHS was a 3 year high school for quite some time after it opened in ‘55 and did not have 9th graders.)

If SAD wasn’t placed ahead one year somewhere along the line, then she would not have been in Tony Nugent’s 1958 yearbook. Of course that would have created a major problem - it wouldn’t have allowed for the Hawaii conception of Barry Obama and his subsequent birth in Aug. of 1961, would it?

Pictures state, “Courtesy Tony Nugent” so he should have a yearbook. Where is he and is there a FReeper who lives close enough to him to go see for themselves?