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Encountering academic success early on, Obama got himself into one of Hawaii’s top private schools, the Punahou School...
When the surf used to crash near Punahou School in Honolulu. Dave Powlison's swimming coach would call off practice and take his team body surfing...
...typical of the carefree approach the team had. Punahou hadn't lost any meets since 1954, and races were usually between good friends. There was no pressure...
...that, policemen all the way from Manila to Washington began weighing in with reminiscences of Amalu. His claim to Hawaiian noble blood was vague, but he had attended Punahou, Honolulu's exclusive private school. Though he said he went on from there to the Sorbonne and Oxford (and cultivated a British accent to prove it), he actually had his only known brush with higher education at the University of Hawaii, was obliged to resign from the army in 1943 "for the good of the service." His most notable accomplishments since: a two-year stretch in the Philippines...
...built, vigorous, and a college president once described him as "genial, serene, unselfish, kind, modest, patient, sympathetic and lovable." Son of a Methodist minister, he was born in Springfield, Minn., has degrees from Oregon's Reed College and Columbia, has been teacher & administrator at Antioch, Honolulu's Punahou School and Vassar. He has a son and daughter in high school, never misses an athletic contest if he can help it. Author of Better Understanding Between Canada and the United States, he looks forward to Maine because it will bring him nearer Canada, give him a chance to indulge...