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.
From my experience (a bit younger than SAD) and what I’ve seen, they do skip grades pretty young.
It is beyond strange that her cohorts were asked not to talk to anyone and that there is no yearbook available although there used to be. Something is just not right; something that goes against the Dreams myth.
No, that would make THREE. What about the girl who graduated in 1960, according to the U of WA information? (giggle)
Folks, until we find ANYTHING that shows without a doubt that there ever was a girl named Stanley Ann Dunham at Mercer Island High School, (upon which the U of WA record also rests btw) I'm going to be moving right along, if you don't mind.
I see no point in assisting Charlette Le Fevre in her identification of ANNA OBAMA as Stanley Ann Dunham. None at all.
Sometimes, 11th graders can take correspondence classes and graduate a year early.
I didn't know about the grades. Somewhere in the documents here, her Hawaii grades are revealed--and they were poor. Also, there is a note somewhere which is maybe nothing more than a reflection of loose gossip to the effect that the reason she didn't get into Day School at the U of W was because her grades were so poor.
On the other hand, her grades at the U in 1961-62 were fairly good. That has always been one of the factors that has caused me to wonder if the Ann at the U in 1961-62 was the same person.
The observation (gossip) by the girl who had more than one of the girl classmates dating blacks implied to me that maybe the two pregnant girls with multi racial children were also high school classmates in Seattle as well as having some connection with Hawaii.