Where Do You Call Home? - A Call Out

So for this blog I rely a lot on my friends and family from NH who are reading the papers and watching the news. My first little tidbit came from my mom who mentioned the fact that the University of New Hampshire received it's largest endowment to date earlier this month. Now this post might be a little bit of a stretch but it's something I've always wondered. Here is the basics of the story of the endowment coming from the Union Leader (Full Article)...

After reading it my immediate thought was who else who attended UNH could put up that kind of dough so upon extensive research (wikipedia) i found this list, on there you'll see one Hall-of-Fame baseball player (who didn't graduate from the school) a couple of pro-footballers, a few pro hockey players, two astronauts and two university presidents with a smattering of high-ranking government officials and a bunch of no-name entertainers. One name you don't see on there that I grew up believing attended the school is Adam Sandler. A quick check of his wikipedia page tells me that he was born in Brooklyn and at five he moved to Manchester, NH and lived there all the way through high school, attending Manchester Central High School. He went on to graduate from NYU but the reason I bring him up is a hearsay story from my youth is that Adam Sandler briefly attended UNH and was kicked out very early on and he admitted this during a concert on the campus many years later. Here's where the story makes a big jump. The man who donated $25 million is proud to be from New Hampshire, proud to have made money and give it back to his home state. Here's a clip of Adam Sandler from June 4th showing where his allegiance lies (skip to 17:15 where the Sandler interview starts and wait for the question Conan asks about the basketball playoffs):



What you see in the clip is Conan trying to play to Sandler's supposed roots in New England but Sandler catches Conan off guard with the Knicks comment even going as far to say he grew up in NYC. When I saw this it just didn't sit well with me. As you can see we don't have that many famous representatives of the state and we need to keep as many as possible. Sandler is a nice man and a decent comedian and huge movie star he also has given back to the Boys and Girls Club of Manchester, NH but I'm just saying with the limited resources we have we need to bring to light the NH roots!

For a full list of famous New Hampshirites check out the Wikipedia page 'list of people from New Hampshire'