The blogspot is wrong in one respect, it wasn’t the grandparents who lived in the apartment on Alexander St it was Ann and Jr. She phoned HI and asked her parents to rent her an apartment which they did in their names! They themselves lives on Kamehameha Ave and she moved in with them before she enrolled in the spring session at UH at Manao and this was confirmed by one of our own Freepers, John Valentine. The Dunhams for the most part lived at the Kamehameha address until moving to the University Ave address to be closer to Noelani Elementary School when Jr started school. They then moved to the apartment building on Beretannia St. after Ann and Jr moved to Indonesia, moving once after that to a two bedroom apartment in the same building once Jr moved back to HI and where Madelyn remained until her death November 2nd of 2008. The papers in HI were woefully inadequate when it came to investigative journalism so some stories had to be taken with more than a grain of salt when one read them, the housing story was one of those to be taken with a grain of salt from all the research I did about all the addresses!
Also when Sr first arrived in HI in June of 1959 he lived at the YMCA right across from the University and was in high demand for speaking engagements, after a year he moved to the small, single story home at 625 11th Ave where he remained until he left the island June 22nd 1962 upon his graduation. He then spent 3 months touring the U.S. with his first stop being San Francisco where he visited with Hal and Shirley Abercrombie and made an absolute arrogant ass of himself when the three went out to dinner. He arrived at Harvard on a “cool, crisp early fall morning” (courtesy of a Time Nov/62 article) and soon began classes. Not long after arriving he began a relationship with Ruth as she had money and could afford to indulge Mr Double Double’s expensive tastes.
Thank you for the clarification.