A story from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin suggests that Hefty made quite an impression on other students at Punahou as well including others who rose to success like Polynesian Voyaging Society head Nainoa Thompson.
Interestingly, Barack Obama had also made quite an impression on Hefty according to her daughter Carolyn Whorff.
According to Whorff, before her mother died and before Obama had ever ventured into politics, his name came up in conversation.
"I know he's going to be somebody,'" Hefty told her daughter. "You probably will hear about him. If you do, look him up."
Hefty had a special interest in Obama also as she had worked herself in Kenya for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
She once invited Obama's father to speak in class during the latter's visit to Hawai'i.
"I was just coming from overseas, coming back to the United States, felt a little bit out of place," Obama recalled Monday at the CNN/YouTube debate. "And she had actually lived in Kenya and worked there and taught there, and was able to give me some sense that even though I had experiences outside this country, those were actually valuable and important."
Read the whole story of Mabel Hefty and Barack Obama.
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Mabel Hefty with the Hawaiian quilt given to her by Punahou School upon her retirement in 1980.
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