He came and went...but he’s right I think, that school wasn’t co-ed until the seventies.
Which all goes to remind me that we never did find any real evidence that Stanley Ann was at Mercer Island High School when they wanted us to believe she was, and there always was the possibility that the Dunhams DID spend some time working in the middle east...why not?...Rolla Payne apparently was involved with selling oil drilling equipment and the leasing of land to Standard Oil, for which company the geologist Oscar Van Beveren who worked for Standard Oil for 30 years, was married to Mary-Agnes who was related by marriage to Mary the baby-sitter. A period of employment in the middle east for Stanley Armour isn’t out of the question, it would have been around the period in the early fifties when their where-abouts are rather cloudy.
I think you’ll fathom why he might have ended up there, and why the working for a furniture store as a saleman is a bit wonky as well.
It’s just that we can’t place her into that particular school, because from all I can see, it was a school for boys only at that time.
And there’s never been a source for that piece of ‘information’ about the initials on her clothing.