Thanks. A little common sense goes a long way. To be locked into the idea that she had to BE at that address to complete her course work might very well prevent us from ascertaining where she MIGHT have been.
That she was living there (in a segregated area) rests only on the word of one person. I am troubled by the fact that the attendance record shows her as OBAMA.Stanley Ann Dunham.
The FOI letter in regard to the attendance shows her as only Stanley Ann Dunham.
The Polk Directory shows Anna Obama. Something is wrong or very sloppy.
Being able to complete the course work from another location opens the door.
I don’t know where Stanley Anne was on Aug. 4 1961 although my vote so far goes for Canada. However I came across something very early this morning while I was watching TV trying to put myself to sleep. It is in regard to the other birth story—that of Stanley Anne herself. The official story is that she was named Stanley after her father because he wanted a boy so much that he gave her a boy’s name—his own. But I was watching a movie called “In This Our Life” starring the extremely popular actress Bette Davis. She was playing the role of Stanley Timberlake. And the movie came out in 1942, the year of our Stanley’s birth. So It could very well be that her mother saw this movie and thought that if a female character in a movie was named Stanley and could get away with it, why not name their baby, Stanley, regardless of whether it was a girl or boy? I could hardly believe what I was hearing when I first started watching and it was quite interesting just watching her going about being called Stanley all the time. Madelyn probably thought it would be cute. Of course I’m just quessing but if Madelyn had been a Davis fan like just about everyone back then, it just kind of makes sense.