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From the University of Washington Catalogs 1961-1963:

Autumn Quarter, 1961
Aug. 1 - Deadline for ALL new students to submit Applications for Admission with complete credentials.
Sept. 7-22 In-Person Registration for ALL new students.
Sept. 25-Monday Instruction begins
Dec. 12-Tuesday Quarter ends

Winter Quarter, 1962
Jan. 2-Tuesday Instruction begins
Mar. 15-Thursday Quarter ends

Spring Quarter, 1962
Mar. 26-Monday Instruction begins
June 7-Thursday Quarter ends

The problem is, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama did NOT attend either the Autumn or Winter Quarters. She was enrolled in Extension Courses until the Spring of 1962. Extension courses do not always follow the same schedule, therefore dates are shown on a transcript.

For example, in the Lynnwood Enterprise, Lynnwood, Washington, Wednesday, September 06, 1961 on page 6: "He is attending a two-week seesion of intensive graduate study sponsored by the American Savings & Loan Institue at the University of Washington from Sept. 3-16."

FROM SADO's TRANSCRIPT:
Extension/Independent Stdy/Advance Placement Credit:

University of Washington Extension Courses:

ANTH 100 (08/19/61-12/11/61)
POL S 201 (08/19/61-12/12/61)
HIST 478 (12/27/61-03/15/62)
PHIL 120 (12/27/61-03/20/62)

Spring 1962:

FAR E 240
HIST 273
PHIL 322

Note the difference for the first four courses and the Spring courses. The earlier ones are listed as "Extension Courses" with dates. The Spring courses are shown without dates. Also note, that grades of 'A's were received for the extension courses and only two of her three classes were completed with 'B's in the Spring.

Given that not just one, but two different classes are entered with starting dates of August 19, and normal fall classes did NOT begin on September 19, Stanley Ann was quite obviously in Seattle on August 19, 1961 as documented by the University of Washington! The question is, did she fly to Seattle from Honolulu or Kenya (as stated by her friends from Mercer Island)?

thanks, it’s quite beyond me, I am going to ask David if he can follow this, would a student enrolling for extension courses also have to adhere to the deadline:

“Autumn Quarter, 1961
Aug. 1 - Deadline for ALL new students to submit Applications”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2702976/posts?page=919#919

The question is, did she fly to Seattle from Honolulu or Kenya (as stated by her friends from Mercer Island)?

Would the airlines back then let a brand new baby fly?

To fly in from anywhere, locate and move into an apartment, and register for classes within two weeks of a birth is fast going. Wonder if UW would still have her application or acceptance and what the date of that was.

The question is, did she fly to Seattle from Honolulu or Kenya (as stated by her friends from Mercer Island)?

The essential element of these posts is to address her schedule and location between early July 1961 and October 1, 1961.

In my mind, there is no doubt that she, or someone using her name, was physically present at the U registering for Night School class on September 19; and in class the following week.

There is no certain evidence that she was in Seattle at any point before that. There are individuals who knew her who placed her in Seattle in August, and there is someone who said she was at a Labor Day event in September. There is enough of that to believe that she was in Seattle in that time frame.

If she birthed a child in Mombasa on August 4, what could she have done?

In the first Long Thread, in the spring and summer of 2008, there are extensive copies of the BOAC schedules for that period demonstrating what she could have done.

I knew someone from Seattle who took depositions in Nairobi in periods somewhat later--the way to get back was BOAC from Nairobi to Glaskow Scotland; Glaskow to Vancouver B.C. There was some problem with making connections from Vancouver to Seattle and the way that was resolved was usually that someone drove from Seattle to Vancouver and picked the passenger up.

I was initially concerned that evidence would appear that Stanley Ann made the birth filing on August 8, 1961 in Honolulu with the baby giving a doctor the footprint--and attempting to claim Honolulu home birth. Observe that a birth in Mombasa on August 4 would have occurred during most of the day on August 3 on the West Coast of the US. That would still be a tight schedule. But it could have been done to establish he was born in Honolulu..

That didn't happen.

So I don't have any trouble believing that she could have had a baby, or someone else could have had a baby, in Mombasa on August 4, with Stanley Ann showing up with the baby in Seattle by mid August.

At this point, I think the record is pretty clear that she wasn't in Honolulu at any point after August 4.

The issue above about application for admission to the U of W is a little trickier. Even if she could have applied to Night School later than August 1 (and I am not so sure she could have), I think it is likely she applied for regular admission to the U which means she needed to have had that in process by mail long before August 1.