I remember all that. Sr. didn’t inquire because he likely isn’t daddy and the “spark” never happened between him and SA. It also follows why Barry is evasive about their marriage.
Again, with Sr. being Mr. Big Man on Campus, it’s very telling that there wasn’t a newspaper story on either the marriage or the miraculous birth. Not one peep in the story of him leaving the island. It would have been a warm fuzzy promotion of the East-West and would have brought in more $$$$$$ donations.
Gov. Pothead Abercrombie never was “there.”
Yes, you are quite right. If, and that’s a huge IF, he ever got into Harvard that would have been big news. The East-West Hawaiian campus could have launched a fund raising campaign off that news.
The University of Hawaii has always been in a bottom tier school. They accept almost everyone, (sans ACT scores.) It is the fall-back plan for those who may fail to get acceptance elsewhere. Of those that have letters of acceptance from UH, only 30% actually even bother to enroll. Half of the freshman year enroll in remedial math, reading and english courses for zero credit. It’s actually easier to graduate from UH than from the high school-Punahou.
If an UH graduate gained acceptance to an Ivy League Masters or PhD program, it would be extraordinary. Throughout its entire history, you can likely count on one hand the students that have graduated from U. of Hawaii that landed at Harvard University.
It’s all been smoke and mirrors. Kudos to Billy Ayers and all the rest.
Abercrombie was there all right, he and Pak Zane actually ended up visiting the Kenyan in 1968 in Kenya. I think Neil did see him with a girl or two - he just didn’t remember their names. And btw, when he did speak about the subject, he called one of the girls ‘Ann or Anne’ and she wasn’t Stanley Ann Dunham - because she didn’t show up in Hawaii until 1963.