Yes, I get all that. The only reason I brought up the video is that EVEN THEY CAN’T GET HER PAST TWO YEARS AT MERCER. If she was there at all.
And 1956 from when it apparently opened plus two years is 1958 Grade 10 in my language.
BUT SHE’S NOT SHOWN IN THE GRADE TEN GROUP IMAGE, MIND YOU.
They didn’t leave ‘she was accepted to attend the University of Chicago’ in that stupid book for no reason...Her Uncle, Charles T Payne was Deputy Director of the Library at the University of Chicago, he lived in Hyde Park, and his wife was on a committee with the wife of David Axelrod.
She had the right connections, and possibly attended a high school in Chicago while living with her Uncle and his wife. Maybe that’s when the film Black Orpheus enters, it was released in December 1959 iirc. She says, with words that Ayres puts in her mouth in ‘Dreams’ that she was working as an au pair that summer. What year might that have been?
I have a sense that if she graduated high school anywhere, it was in Chicago. There are tales from girls who say they knew her in Seattle, that she and her father fought continuously. I do believe Maxine knew her, but see nothing to indicate that she saw anything of her after the age of 15, in 1957, and that is dated by the photograph Maxine gave to Getty images.
Anything is possible. I never thought that yearbook portrait was from her senior year because she's not dressed appropriately. Didn't most girls dress alike for their senior pictures? Guys would be in a suit and tie but girls would wear the same feather boa or wrap and the identical string of pearls or everyone would be in a graduation gown without the cap (hey, it's an American thing).