Punahou School
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Punahou School is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through 12th grade. The school was established
Old School Hall, built in 1851
Campus view in 1909
Situated in the foothills of the Koolau Mountains, Punahou shares Manoa Valley with the University of Hawaiʻi main campus and a few other schools
Punahou School President's House on campus
Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American former politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to
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…alumni. * indicates the class year of an attendee who did not graduate with the class.) Punahou has produced many leaders in the government of Hawaii. Barack Obama (1979) was the 44th President of the United States. He attended Punahou from 5th grade until graduation. Sanford Dole (1864) was President of the brief…
Official portrait, 2012
Obama (right) with grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, mother Ann Dunham, and half-sister Maya Soetoro, mid-1970s in Honolulu
Obama's Indonesian school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. He was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).
Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia in September 2009