Roy gave me my password.

When, with more enthusiasm than know-how, I started trying to support my courses with websites, Roy was encouraging and incredibly generous of his time and personally got me started communicating with the CHNM server (where those websites have lived ever since). Knowing the requirements of coding and encryption, but also well aware of the desire to keep it simple, Roy punched out an appropriate “open sesame,” that I’ve used ever since for many things (but not the server: he made sure that updated security required changing it there from time to time). This legacy has meant that I think of Roy on an almost daily basis and I’m well aware too of the metaphoric implications of his providing a neophyte with the means to a way.