Roger is a writer of extraordinary talent, with the ability to combine self-deprecating humour with serious financial content onto the driest of topics, insurance. His epic piece, less than 600 words, on the Ritual of Monte Carlo Insurance conferences, Peddling the Recycled Life was astonishingly clever, and astute to the industry. http://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=13616336&query=monte%20carlo

A modest man, he's never understood until recent years just how significant a contribution he was making to the age of information.

Offhandedly he was told as a child in school (as so many children have had their dreams disassembled) that he could never write well enough to get a job, so he'd better become an accountant. So he did, but he never stopped writing.

Today, his financial acumen and editorial wit alone has elevated him to the upper ranks of world-renowned journalists.

Roger can crank out a layman's description of a sophisticated side-car structure, or dissect a corporate balance sheet almost instantly.

His original work has encompassed a broad range of subjects. Often imitated, never duplicated, his serious writing is present in many libraries and bookshelves including those of the current Government of Bermuda and good corporate citizens.

In industry circles, Roger is a highly respected award-winning opinion columnist with access to the most influential and greatest minds in the reinsurance/insurance risk management business.

He is currently a columnist for Risk and Insurance Magazine, a global print and electronic media publication.

For more than 35 years, Roger gave everything he had in intellectual skill, humour, generosity, gratefulness and loyalty to Bermuda. Far, far more than Bermuda ever gave him.

My gratitude to him for his kind gesture 10 years ago to me, a complete stranger, by allowing me to use his column as a guest writer will never be forgotten. He has no idea how writing changed my life.

What a loss to Bermuda! Don't be surprised to see his byline emanating from Cayman, who is aggressively and proactively pursuing risk management and insurance business, or from Barbados, who implemented a people-friendly income tax structure more then twenty years ago.

In the ultimate of ironies, while we were reading that his presence was no longer wanted in Bermuda, he was presenting in Las Vegas to a 200-plus group of top tier insurance executives. The subject: Bermuda as your first choice for your offshore reinsurance/insurance company.

And no doubt, he was wearing one of his favourite tropical shirts and Bermuda shorts.

Ever loyal to the end.

Roger, you will be greatly missed.

Goodbye, and God Speed from all your friends.

- Martha Myron