Did You Know… Obama Early Years

  • Barack Obama was two years old when his father left his mother to study at Harvard
  • At three years old, Obama and his mother lived on University Avenue with grandparents Madelyn & Stanley
  • Obama attended Kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School in Manoa
  • When he was ten years old, Obama lived with his mother and sister Maya on Poke Street in Makiki while his mother studied for her PhD
  • Obama was ten, when he saw his father the first time since he was two. Obama Sr. visited the family in Hawaii in December 1971
  • Obama lived with his grandmother Madelyn and grandfather Stanley at the corner of Beretania & Punahou Streets in Makiki