So you come up with cropped, photoshopped pages in a news story from some obscure online paper, allegedly from a yearbook; but they would be far more convincing if they were photos of ACTUAL PAGES from the yearbooks, with CONTEXT.
Well whaddya know:
When I was home in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago I decided to dig through the boxes in my mom's garage and find some of my old Na Opios (the lower school yearbook at Punahou School). I was looking for a picture of one of the big kids, three years ahead of me at a school named Barry Obama, now more commonly referred to as Barack. For reference, in 1973 Barry was a big 6th grader and I was just a little 3rd grader.So there ya go. Someone has seen a yearbook. With his own eyes. His own personal copy. Way back in 2007. He did a scan of a decent portion of a page, not just the immediate photo. And it shows Obama using the name 'Obama' in 1973.Here is the picture I found (I blurred out the other non-public figures) apparently taken at a pencil chewers convention -- the Na Opio never featured stiff formal portraits:
