There was FOG in Baltimore last weekend ? as in “Friends of Greg” Barnhill, who was honored by the Maryland Chapter of the JuvenileDiabetes Research Foundation at its 2006 Promise Gala. The evening?s theme was “Charting the Course to a Cure.”

Entertainment/accordion genius Russ Margo serenaded the masses with a great pirate rap, and joining me in the FOG were Stuart and Suzanne Amos, Lee and Dunnie Tawney, Gary and Janice Jobson, and Anders and Karen Lofgren. While the foundation?s executive director, Rebecca Maude, mingled with honorary chairs Aris Melissaratos and Chuck and Mary Kay Nabit, others were going for the bounty of a silent auction.