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And then when Gene mentioned this fascinating fact...I said, let’s do this as a story. And our fellow Code Switch correspondent, Karen Grigsby Bates said, “ya’ll should go over Homecoming, because that’s when alumni come back.” And, bam. Idea born. The only thing I DID NOT KNOW until I arrived in DC from LA to pick up Gene to drive to West Virginia, is that GENE DOES NOT DRIVE! NOR DOES HE PUMP GAS! So, I had to drive 5 hours there and back and didn’t think to teach him to pump gas until the last couple hours of the trip.

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I wouldn’t say he has a face for radio. The TUMBLR ‘Babes of NPR’ referred to him as the “thinking man’s David Hasselhoff,” but I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

Yeah, but, you didn’t ask to learn until I offered to teach you first. Mmmmmhmmmm.

When Bluefield State was created as the Bluefield Colored Institute, blacks were not allowed to attend white colleges in West Virginia. So, if you think about it, every other college in the state was a historically white college.