I’m beginning to wondr about the veracity of Sr and Ann meeting in the infamous Russian language class. TO date I have not found a single former student saying they were in that 1960 class and I have been looking! According to a student from a class a few years later the teacher would have been one of two women, either Ella Lury Embree Wiswell or Isabella Tripianky. The class would have had 24 students in it, meaning that if the 1960 class had 24 students in it with two of those students now dead, where are the other 22? Students from the supposed 1960 class would have had 4 1/2 years to come forward and yet not one has which begs the question of why? The only mention of the second teacher named, Isabella Tripianky, are on mcauley’s blog and the excerpt of the book written by Michael Patrick Leahy. Essentially she is a proverbial ghost. Ella Lury Embree Wiswell is a little easier to find some information about but she died in 2005 and had retired from UH at Manoa in 1968 to write books and organize the Russian collection at UH. So again, it begs the question of why Isabella Tripianky is a ghost not mentioned except in the two spots I mentioned and where are all the other students from that class? In a class of 24 with 2 known to be dead that leaves 22 remaining students, and surely one of them would have come forward by now, unless the story of the meeting in the Russian language class is yet another lie! Students of say the age of 18 would now be 67 and they all couldn’t be suffering from dementia or not want to lay their claim to fame about students from a long ago class! Even going to the website dedicated to the deceased instructors there is no mention of Ella Lury Embree Wiswell teaching Russian, she is labeled as a French teacher. The odds are simply astronomical that not one student has come forward so many years later especially considering Sr was such a high profile student! Some have used the reasoning that perhaps students from the class don’t want it advertised that they took Russian but that can be invalidated as a reason since UH at Manoa requires students to have a number of semesters completed in a foreign language before they can graduate. I will include here the link to the memorial page of UH at Manoa and you can read for yourself the memorial for Ella Lury Embree Wiswell while you ponder the points I have raised after searching for the better part of a week trying to find the name of even one other student from that class!
http://webdata.soc.hawaii.edu/fredr/Necrology.htm
To your knowledge, has anyone, other than Obama in “Dreams,” (or the Abercrombie droid), ever stated that the couple in question attended that Russian language class together?
“Ella Lury Embree Wiswell .......she is labeled as a French teacher.”
Interesting. Last night I ran across a picture of Stanley Ann with her High School French Club. Is the Russian class another example of inventing the details to hide the facts?