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?
Fred has tracking for her all the way back to the first grade; year on year, it all fits if she did each year in order in the standard progression.
You are correct, in the Seattle Pub district in that period, the line was late October so her birthday would normally have put her in the class of 61. But Fred's work has her ticking along with the class ahead (1960) from the first grade and I think it is likely to be correct--at a minimum.
Her earlier classes would indicate that is what happened which would have left her in the class of 1961.
That said, thinking about the issue--she was bright and maybe somewhere got bumped a real 12 month year at around the time they moved to Seattle; if she had been in the class of 1959, that would answer a number of the otherwise anomalies in the time lines.
Thx, David. Some of the things I’ve looked at lead me to believe the class year of 1960 is questionable and I understand what you mean when you say 1959 would explain a few things. I’ve even considered the idea that there were two girls that were used to make a ‘composite Ann’ for her school years. The first girl would have been class of ‘59 and the second one class of 1961.
As far as getting advanced a year due to being bright, possible. She didn’t get good grades really so that’s one strike against that theory but it was possible. My understanding is that school systems favor the third or forth grade as the time to make the decision to have a child skip a grade. I’ll have to ask Fred what she has on those two school years for SAD.