Matthew Fogg lived on the bottom floor of South Hall on Marshall University's campus in 1972 and from his room pumped out music that rocked the whole campus. He was known as WFOG. His speakers sat in the window. He had a microphone and he would call you out for the whole campus to hear. "Faye Redd wasn't in the BUS meeting tonight, brothers and sisters." Calling someone out in the 1970s is the Old School equivalent of "putting you on blast" in 2008. Fogg made announcements to let us know when BUS (Black United Students) was meeting. He turned Rona Barrett when he spotted a couple stepping out on the town. Rona Barrett was the Old School Entertainment Tonight. But mostly, Matt Fogg played music, good music, from his room. Decades later I was watching CNN when Mathew Fogg's picture flashed across the screen. Fogg was a deputy U.S. Marshall discussing the use of weapons to seize Elian Gonzalez in Miami. That's the only time I have seen Fogg since we graduated. But it makes you stand up and take notice when you see someone you went to college with on national television. But then again, they made a movie about my era at Masrhall University. It's called "We Are Marshall" and I highly advise renting it. Holler back. ...
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