Matching faces...Clockwise around Obama in the 1977 photo:
12:00 could be 1979’s #3 or #22 (a stretch)
3:00 could be 1979’s #31
9:00 could be 1979’s #21
6:00 could be 1979’s #4
I’ve seen these same faces in other photos from the school yearbooks. And I have to say that in examining seven or eight other school photos of Obama, they all looked perfectly legitimate to me (except perhaps for one other I recently discovered, on which I’m withholding judgment until I have had a chance to truly inspect it). Outside of that, it’s just the one picture that has such odd features that at a minimum, I suspect it was retouched for whatever reason.