Roger Hale

I knew Roger only briefly, when he came for a day or evening, probably in 1972 or '73, probably home on a holiday from M.I.T., to Symbolic Systems, a software company started and owned by Frank Ponzio, Jr., then located in Berkeley Heights. I think he came to try out a program, or maintain a program he had written for the DEC PDP11. He was tall and thin with long black hair. I had heard so much about him from our Algebra teacher in Gov. Livingston H.S., Mrs. Ohl, and from others, that it...

When we were in high school, Roger had his math teachers totally intimidated. Many years later, I went to my 20th high school reunion, and a guy I'd known in high school said to me, "you were a math genius." I said oh, no, that was Roger...

I had done a patchwork quilt in variations of the Drunkard's path pattern, which lurches back and forth in offset quarter-circle patches, and I was wanting to find some more neat patchwork designs with curved pieces in them. Roger drew me a...