[David]

Well I love Dr. Corsi. After I made the above post, I read the article. What this really is comes from MindBender's recounting of what Corsi said--he is going to . . . "

I'm uncomfortable being on the other side of such positive statements. On the other hand, for various personal reasons, the period between August 1 and September 30, 1961 on campus at the University of Washington is pretty clear in my memory.

We think there is some evidence that she was registered for "extension" classes for fall quarter. The University of Washington runs, or at least ran then, a number of different kinds of credit classes in addition to full or part time regular classes.

One kind was where you got a course outline and books from the "extension school" and worked through each section of the outline, then taking a quiz on the material, even sometimes having to go to the University during regular sessions and take the quiz; did the rest of the course work. And got credit for the class.

The other kind was "night school"--the University ran an extensive night program parallel to the regular day program. Full credit courses with classes, attendance, and exams. In theory same substance as the day school version.

Night school session ran fairly close to the day school sessions--night school may have started the week after day school started; maybe a day or two off schedule one way or the other. But I do not ever remember running night school a month and a half off the day school schedule--I just don't think it happened.

Further, I was using library facilities and meeting with other people on campus regularly during this period--there just wasn't anything going on that was consistent with a regular class schedule in anything--certainly not upper campus as the courses for which Stanley Ann was registered for were.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

For reference, here is the transcript.

Almost certainly she was in night school in the Fall quarter and was not taking her courses by correspondence.

You can see in the bottom right corner of the transcript her credits for extension courses. If you read the fine print you can see that the university distinguished extension courses from correspondence courses by an "x" in front of the course number.

Her neighbor Mary T. in her interview said she was babysitting for Ann while Ann was taking night classes at the university, and as I recall that recollection related to the period around Feb-Mar 1962.

Looking at the credits and courseload, it appears she was taking the same type and load of courses in both the Fall and Winter quarters.

You may well be right about the date being Sept 19 and not Aug 19. The date on the transcript could read either way, and we have your recollection to rely on.

To my mind, the curious thing is not that whether she started school in August or September, but that there she was at that time in Seattle, a teenaged mother taking her newborn baby and moving far away from her husband and parents.

Her courses were "Modern Government" and "Intro to the Study of Man" -- it is simply not credible to think that she went there because she couldn't find analogous courses at the University of Hawaii.

Perhaps Barack Sr. didn't believe the baby was actually his, and dumped her.

There has been speculation that Ann learned about his other wife in Kenya and left him for that reason. But that is completely contrary to the interview with Mary T., in which she said Ann told her that the baby's father might have to take a Kenyan wife because of tribal obligations and that Ann was okay with that. In other words, Ann did not know that Barack Sr. already had taken a Kenyan wife.

It appears Ann did not resume residence in Hawaii until after Barack Sr. left for Harvard.