Thanks, Fred Nerks.
It’s sometimes hard to get the facts straight when the ‘story’ is so twisted.
I’ve seen that picture before (on another thread?) and wondered at the time if Stanley (dad) knew Obama, Sr. before Stanley Ann because it appears to have been taken at Sr.’s arrival in Hawaii.
Appreciate your help.
It sure is! And it gets worse. Need some help from some sharp eyes:
Education and fatherhood
From 1950 to 1953, he studied at Maseno National School, an exclusive Christian boarding school in Maseno that is run by the Anglican Church of Kenya. (Dreams from my Father, 2004 edition, p. 418).
The head teacher, B.L. Bowers, described Obama Sr. in his records as "very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going."
(So far so good, confirmed by the teacher)
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya.
(Maybe.)
President Obama said of his father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this country.'"
(A Kennedy fund contributed toward the cost of airfares, but it didn't apply to Obama Sr.)
An article by Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post, however, states that the Kennedy family did not become associated with the educational airlift until 1960, a year after Obama Sr. was studying in the United States.
(That is correct as far as I can tell.)
Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University. [14]
(I am beginning to see where Elizabeth Mooney Kirk's connection to the NOI may come into it...maybe through Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson and Harry Belafonte.)
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant son.
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I think the Maseno school teacher may have been telling the truth when he said that Obama Sr went to the US after leaving Maseno school - because:
Obama Sr was married in 1954 at the age of eighteen, in a tribal ceremony to Kezia Aoko.
He had one child, a son, and Kezia was pregnant when Obama Sr left Kenya. Obama Sr was born in 1936. Left the school in 1953 at the age of 17, Married in 1954 at the age of 18. Arrived in Hawaii in 1959, aged approx 23...where was he during the intervening four or five years? I wonder...