I worked with Roger in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in the General Litigation and Legal Advice Section from 1984 for about a decade.  What I learned from Roger was not his punctuality (he was always at his desk by 9), his boating tips (about trailering his boat and later keeping it down on the Chesapeake Bay and meeting Section Chief Larry Lippe in his boat for beers and fishing), buying and selling options (he explained puts and calls and the quarterly triple witching date to me various times but I never felt knowledgeable enough to dable in options), or his comedic delivery, retelling jokes and laughing at them as he told them (often politically incorrect jokes).  What I learned from him had to do with a black DOJ looseleaf binder that contained the official assignment of all the federal criminal statutes to different sections and offices in the Criminal Division, which he taught me to respect and which I later secured a copy of for my own use in my office.  The General Litigation Section was the catch-all repository for all internal and external criminal law questions and inquiries that had no specific assignment.  As a result, we got a huge number of items that others were unsure where to send.  Roger's invaluable service was to go through this daily flood of incoming correspondance and assign the work, either to experts in our section, or after examining the black looseleaf, to other sections.  Others looked at this and thought he was great at shuffling paper so that General Lit and he had less work to do, but that was not correct.  Roger was busy finding the right expert who had jurisdiction over the incoming problem so that no one accused General Lit of poaching someone else's responsibility.  From this work, Roger also figured out who were the invaluable experts among the hundreds of Criminal Division lawyers who either did these jobs well or if they thought there was a better expert, let him know.  No lawyer is expert at everything, and Roger understood that and helped us get the best person to handle each assignment.  It was like asking your GP for a referral to the best medical specialist for a narrow medical issue.  Throughout the rest of my four decade career at DOJ, on my projects I tried to ascertain who was the best expert to handle a problem, and even if they were too busy to handle it, to get their input.  I often went to Roger when confronted with an unusual problem for a person to call.  This work, which I colloquially compared to a "traffic director" and which Roger did extremely well and quickly, often saved us weeks or months which would otherwise have passed while less diligent employees kicked an assignment from one to another, all saying this was not their problem.  I appreciated Roger's skill in directing assignments to those best suited to get them done well and quickly, and I tried to emulate his skill throughout the rest of my career.  He was not well recognized for this skill, Larry Lippe being more attuned to the size of a fish they might have caught, but he was the right man for this job and he did it very well.  He was my superior organizationally so I never really thought about nominating him for official recognition, and truth be told, he kept a low profile and did not toot his own horn, which helped him survive as a Deputy Chief during many Criminal Division reorganzations (along with the fact that no one else wanted to do this unrewarding tedious task).  Belatedly, I want to recognize and thank him him for his decades of performing this important contribution that benefitted me, the Department of Justice, and every citizen who corresponded with the United States Department of Justice.