His mother was studying Russian.........which is where she met her 1st husband...........Pres. Obama's father............her 2nd husband also went to college in Hawaii.......studying geography..........




It was at the East–West Center that Dunham met Lolo Soetoro,^[35] a Javanese^[5] surveyor who had come to Honolulu on September 1962 on an East–West Center grant to study geography at the University of Hawaii. Soetoro graduated from the University of Hawaii with an M.A. in geography in June 1964. In 1965, Soetoro and Dunham were married in Hawaii, and in 1966, Soetoro returned to Indonesia. Dunham graduated from the University of Hawaii with a B.A. in anthropology on August 6, 1967, and moved in October the same year with her six-year-old son to Jakarta, Indonesia, to rejoin her husband.