You might do that, but many people would not. Where there is a strong community and sense of pride in the school, a lot people simply won't rat out their childhood friends. Punahou certainly has that vibe. If Barry missed one or two years of middle or junior high school because he was off attending another school somewhere on the globe under a different name... I don't think his classmates would rat him out.
Mercer Island HS, though public, was/is in an isolated, wealthy community, with a very unconventional revolutionary curriculum and teachers... I can see a similar situation there too. And there is another 20 years of history on Punahou to further cloud the issue.
Plummz, I did a few hrs research the other night. I found an overwhelming wealth of info that indicates SAD graduated from Mercer Island Hi. I posted a few of the links. I was brutally a t t a c k e d. After that I inquired why the people who maintain SAD never graduated from Mercer Hi haven’t done at least a little of the same research I did in those few short hrs. I’ve been a t t a c k e d and demonized ever since. It is insane, if not outright psychotic.
You’d be surprised at how even closed communites will gossip. Which brings me back to where are all the newspaper stories about Sr. coming back to his old stomping grounds and introducing his son to all his old cronies? The Society page was much more in vogue back then than now so you know there had to be something written up on him unless the Dunhams were keeping it all hush-hush what with paying for him to stay in their apt building and everything. Then there’s the Punahou school newspaper. Surely, they had one - Oooh, you all remember little Barry, well, welcome him back from Kenya, uh, Connecticut, uh Indonesia, uh somewhere to our happy family again (aloha, Barry!) and his daddy, King Obama will be our guest speaker at the assembly on Friday!!! Of course, there’s the board meeting minutes and agendas that would name him as recieving a scholarship, not that any will ever being seeing those.