It is interesting that we never see speculative discussion of just how it was that a man living in Washington state and his wife working for a local banking firm somehow were familiar enough with Hawaii to get a job there and his wife snare a banking job of some importance there, from way back in Washington State. Also, where did the connections between Satnley and FRank begin? ... Not in Hawaii!
Kansas, Chicago, Hawaii...?
Frank Marshall Davis
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/frank-marshall-davis/12032
Frank Marshall Davis was born in December 31, 1905, in Arkansas City, Kansas
At Kansas State University he studied journalism
In 1927, he moved to Chicago where he worked for several African American newspapers.
1931 he moved to Atlanta to become the managing editor of the Atlanta Daily World.
He returned to Chicago in 1935 to take a position with the Associated Negro Press.
He moved to Honolulu in 1948
Frank Marshall Davis died in July 26, 1987 in Hawaii.
Stanley Dunham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Armour_Dunham
Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas March 23, 1918.
On November 25, 1926, at age 8, Dunham discovered his mother's body after she had committed suicide. Following his mother's suicide, his father placed Stanley and his older brother Ralph Emerson Dunham, Jr. in the care of their maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas.
A rebellious teenager, Stanley allegedly punched his high school principal and spent some time drifting, hopping rail cars to Chicago, then California, then back again.
Dunham married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, 1940, the night of Madelyn's senior prom.
Dunham enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army on January 18, 1942, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Madelyn gave birth to a daughter they named Stanley Ann, who was later known as Ann, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942
After two years of military service in Europe (1943–1945), Dunham was discharged from the U.S. Army on August 30, 1945.
After the war, the family moved to Berkeley, California and then eventually back to El Dorado, Kansas.
In 1955, Stanley and Madelyn moved to Seattle, Washington
In 1956 they moved to the Shorewood Apartments on Mercer Island, a Seattle suburb
The Dunhams then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Stanley found a better furniture store opportunity, and Madelyn started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960
Dunham died in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1992 and is interred in the Punchbowl National Cemetery.
Stanley Ann Dunham
http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/Anna.htm
Toward the end of her high school career, Stanley Ann applied to the University of Chicago and received early acceptance. The University of Chicago, with its reputation for intellectual excitement, in the middle of a big city, appealed to Ann's sense of adventure. However, Stanley Dunham didn't want his daughter living on her own, far away from home, at such a young age.
It looks like Stanley Ann went to Chicago in the summer between her junior and senior years, according to this puzzling snippet from "Dreams..."
"I was only sixteen then," she told us as we entered the elevator, "I'd just been accepted to the University of Chicago -- Gramps hadn't told me yet that he would let me go -- and I was there for the summer, working as an au pair."
Charles Thomas Payne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama
(Brother of Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham - Obama's Grandmother)
He was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library