"A Letter of Reference for Barack H. Obama Sr. Barack Obama Sr.’s professors and advisers at the University of Hawaii praised his academic performance. The 1961 letter is one of many at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem that chronicle the life of President Obama's father:
"Barack Obama Sr.'s Letter of Achievement Barack Obama Sr. excelled in his classes at the University of Hawaii, completing his undergraduate degree in three years. The 1961 letter by the president's father is one of nearly two dozen discovered by an archivist. It offers a portrait of his life in the United States: