Further, as we posted on the original Long Thread, the BOAC connection she would have been on through Glaskow and Vancouver BC would have put her on Mercer Island on August 6th. So it isn't surprising that is where you find her.
How long did she stay? What did she do next? My own hypothesis is that she proceeded within a day or so to Honolulu because she, and/or her mother, intended to make a birth filing in Hawaii. And we find a filing on August 8. We don't yet know what was filed but we may well yet find out.
I don't see much new or news in Corsi's story on that point.
His point about the end of summer quarter on August 18 is a response to my earlier analysis--he is correct; I am wrong. I have used August 11 as the end of summer quarter because I took my last undergraduate final on the 10th because the professor was moving to another college. The rest of my classes were grad school classes for which the end grade was a paper. I took my other final quarter exams at the end of the first half of summer quarter.
The fact, if it is a fact, that she was registered for summer classes on Saturday, August 19, doesn't demonstrate that she was in Seattle to do so and I think she was not--my hypothesis is that she continued on to Hawaii on the 7th.
"The University of Washington's 1961 summer schedule coincides with Dunham's college grade transcript, which indicates she began taking extension courses at the university Aug. 19, 1961."
Really Joe? Where does it say that?
It doesn't.
He is relying on the two notes in paren's below the courses. The second date is clearly in exam week for the quarter in which the class was credited. In the case of Winter Quarter, the first date, 12/27 is also clearly before classes started on January 2. As the first date for Fall quarter, 9/25 is long after the first date for the fall quarter class shown as 8/19.
8/19 was a Saturday. The campus was shut down for vacation. She might well have mailed in a registration for Fall Quarter that date but she was not in class. Nothing in the rest of the article supports that view either.
Thanks, David. Good post.
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If her mother did the filing, she and Barry did not need to be there. The necessary information, like the sex of the baby, could have been phoned from anywhere, or telegraphed, that being somewhat more common for international communications in the pre geosyncrhonous communications satellite days. Heck that was only a year after the first Echo was launched and a year before Telstar 1. That's not to say there weren't telephone cables to Hawaii, there were, but some other places had a bit more "rough" communications arrangements in '61.