STANLEY ANN DUNHAM, CLASS OF 1960
Stanley Ann Dunham’s high school graduation picture.
Barack Obama’s mother was described as a “strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.”
“If you were concerned about something going wrong in the world, Stanley would know about it first,” said Chip Wall, who described her as “a fellow traveler. . . . We were liberals before we knew what liberals were.”
One classmate, Jill Burton-Dascher, said Stanley Ann “was intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way.” (Links to follow)
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