Ah, so I assume this means that the U of HI did offer a course in Russian in 1960, then. Now if only a list of students could be unearthed.
Well, THAT information comes as a surprise, it certainly wasn’t available when we searched for it high and low duriing the two long threads...iirc. Many thanks.
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/departments/russian/?arc_ewp
Ella Wiswell Papers
Founder of the Russian language program at the University of Hawaii, where she taught from 1951 to 1968.