A little common sense goes a long way. How old was Barbara Nelson when she had lunch with the Doctor?
She arrived in Hawaii in 1959. She must have been a teenager in 1961...it's difficult for me to picture someone who must still have been a student at the time, discussing who had given birth that day, with an obstetrician...
AND THEN SHE WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER
A few years later, Nelson encountered “Barry” again, when she watched high school basketball games, where her students played.
“The team came alive when he got on the court,” she said. “He was not only quick and graceful, but he could see the pattern and zero in on the opening. Though he wasn’t a starter, he was a graceful, passionate athlete who played back-up forward. He had a definite presence on the court.
“I often sat with his grandmother, who was a no-nonsense woman with these very solid Midwestern ways about her,” said Nelson. “She loved that boy and he adored her.”
As a high school teacher of British, Biblical and Middle Eastern literature, Nelson taught Obama.
oh my, how the time does fly...A FEW YEARS LATER? He's in high school now!