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I was directing the freeper to the original report as provided on the Atlas Shrugs website, where this information was provided:

Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962

The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University’s response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.

Madolyne Lawson

Office of Public Records

206-543-9180

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html

You wrote:”You, or someone keeps posting this. The short answer is that the University of Washington records do not show that.

“In fact, the only attendance records at the U of W in Seattle for August of 1961 end in the second week with finals for the second half summer quarter for which Ms. Dunham was not registered...”

Thank you. I’m sure that explanation will be clear to all US Freepers if not to me. I’m an Aussie, everything is upside down here...

I was directing the freeper to the original report as provided on the Atlas Shrugs website, where this information was provided: Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for: Autumn 1961 Winter 1962 Spring 1962 The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University’s response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.

Ok. So what?

I didn't dispute your proposition that she was enrolled in Autumn 1961--what I dispute is the proposition that she was enrolled in school in August 1961--she wasn't.

Autumn quarter 1961 at the U of W didn't start until late September--except 1L law students started shortly after the mid month but I can tell you with some degree of certainty that Stanley Ann was not a 1L in September of 1961.

If she was in school in Autumn quarter, 1961, she wouldn't have been in class until around October 1 (maybe a couple of days earlier).

The difference is pretty clear I think. Fall quarter doesn't start until the last week of September in 1961--so the fact that she was enrolled then would say nothing about her presence in August of 1961.