Meet The Other Barack; Concord Monitor

This is a really cool article;

O
n March 11, 1994, the day his friends' first child was due to be born, David Frydman faxed a yearbook page from his legal aid office in Portsmouth. His friends had been looking for a good "B" name for their baby, and Frydman said he'd met a good namesake in law school.

"You're going to hear about this guy," Frydman remembers telling them.

The grainy black-and-white page, detailing Barack Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, bolstered his case. Five days later, Noah Barak Bunnell was born at New London Hospital to Deborah Schachter and Tom Bunnell.

"We were sort of inspired by his story," said Tom Bunnell, "as having been an African-American community organizer from Chicago who then later had gone to Harvard and become head of the law review but hadn't lost touch with his commitment to community."

Now 13, Noah Bunnell plays baseball, likes math and recently celebrated his bar mitzvah. He hasn't told a lot of people about his name connection to the Democratic senator from Illinois, but he's mentioned it to a couple of friends and a teacher or two.
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"Whenever anyone talks about him, and I hear Barack, I think, 'Oh, that's my middle name, too,' " the Rundlett Middle School seventh-grader said in his family's living room last week. "That's cool that I'm named after somebody who's famous and maybe someday could be president."

(Though Barack Obama is the inspiration for Noah's middle name, his mother says she picked the slightly different spelling, Barak, from a book of baby's names.)

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in Hillsboro. Good article, by the way. Thx.