She apparently, from words put into her mouth in ‘Dreams’ says she was an au pair in Chicago when she was ‘only sixteen then’ which would have made it 1958. As no one can find her in a graduation group for the class of 1960 at Mercer Island because not one of her ‘classmates’ has come up with a yearbook, and her best friend Maxine provided Getty Images with a photograph from 1958, it’s a fair bet she wasn’t at Mercer much after that year. ‘Dreams’ tells us about her seeing ‘Black Orpheus’ and that was released in December 1959.
She again (from words put into her mouth in ‘Dreams’) tells zero she was accepted to attend Chicago UNiversity. “But I didn’t know then Dad wouldn’t let me go...” (paraphrased)
All that would be meaningless of course, if it wasn’t that her uncle, the brother of Madelyn, wasn’t Deputy Director of the Library at the University of Chicago where he had been since not long after the end of WW2 until he retired when he was in his late sixties, and was still at the university when zero lectured in law there.
What gave you the impression I suggested she baby-sat his children I have no idea. She very well might have, I think he had one son but I’ve never bothered to look further.
His wife Melanie ended up on a committee with the wife of David Axelrod, and as I’ve already indicated, they ALL lived in Hyde Park, as did the Ayres family.
You’re certainly on the right track about Chicago.
For background material you might find some of the content on this thread of interest:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts
Sorry - I didn’t make myself clear. In “Dreams” there’s no indication for whom Stanley Ann worked as an au pair that summer in Chicago. Because it turns out she had an uncle living there, I’m now wondering if that’s who she was with; being au pair/babysitter for her mother’s kin.
If it’s not just another lie that she was in Chicago that summer, it’s very perplexing that no mention is made of for whom she was being an au pair. As far as I’ve found, there had not previously [to Dreams] been any mention of any connection to Chicago, and that created a mystery as to how/why Stanley Ann would have been there that summer as an au pair. Who/how/why would a teenage girl living in Mercer Island, WA be hired for a summer job in Chicago? If the story is true, then obviously her parents knew someone there. The mystery is who was it? And why didn’t Barry identify him/her/them in relating that she had been there working as an au pair? Why not disclose the identity - even if by no more than that she was with family friends, or relatives - if that was indeed the case?
The possible/likely date discrepancy [lie?] regarding her year of graduation - considered from the viewpoint of there being no photo/yearbook record made available, combined with the [new to me] knowledge that she had kin in Chicago and is purported to have been in Chicago at age 16, combined with Barry’s statement that she’d seen “Black Orpheus” while in that city conjures up another possible scenario. Barry’s mentioning “Black Orpheus” and her reaction to it is telling us she was attracted to black men prior to the father-of-record student in a Russian language class in Hawaii in 1960. Was the Kenyan student Barack Obama the first black man she slept with? Or had there been a liaison in Chicago when she was 16 - resulting in a son who would later have difficulty remembering in what year he was actually born? Thinking out loud...and appreciating your posts, which always add info to the saga of the liar-in-chief’s life.
Thanks for the links, Fred Nerks - it’ll be an evening of browsing.