Thinking out loud and breaking this letter down
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As you know I have been able to finish my B.A.(hon.)degree and done my M.A. within three years only as contrasted to the normal four years for a B.A. and one to two years for M.A.
I have therefore been able to cut on at least two years for my B.A. and Master’s.
Further during this period I have been able to get the highest academic honours that anyone can get in America and as for the University of Hawaii I was the only foreign student to get.
I have been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Honours Award, the Phi Kappa Phi Honours Award, the Omnicrom Delta Kappa Phi Honours Award all for high attainment in scholarship and leadership. These are the highest honours that anyone can get in the U.S.A. for high academic attainments.
Barack Obama Sr. to Tom Mboya, May 29, 1962 (Tom Mboya Papers, Box 41, Hoover Institution Archives)
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By May 29, 1962 Obama has finished his education in America-—a BA degree and a MA degree. He says he has done this in THREE years instead of “the normal four for a BA and one to two years for an MA.”
1959-60 - Univ of Hawaii
1960-61 - Univ of Hawaii
1961-62 - Harvard
Even though the date of the letter is not contained in the portion published on the blog, what he does say and what seems now beyond dispute is that he got a BA & an MA in THREE YEARS and presumably finished this education before May 29, 1962.
Let me try to get my head around this; he finished his education one month before he left Hawaii in June 1962 and took a tour of the mainland before commencement at Harvard in September, 1962?
Goodness me, the ILWU WOULDN'T LIE TO US WOULD THEY?:
ILWU WEBSITE - THE ONLY RECORD OF WHEN OBAMA SENIOR LEFT HAWAII. SOURCE