Roger L. Easton, Jr.
Personal Interests
Outdoor
Activities
In my "other" life, I spend as much time as possible outdoors.
My first love is bicycling, both road touring and mountain biking. Off
road, I like to explore abandoned railroad lines, which has led to my
participation
in the Friends of the
Genesee Valley
Greenway, a voluntary organization dedicated to the development of
the Genesee Valley Canal south of Rochester as a linear park. For a
flavor
of the Greenway, see my page of Genesee
Valley
Greenway Images. I also enjoy hiking
(particularly
in the White Mountains of New Hampshire), cross-country skiing, and
snoeshoeing.
I am a member of the Genesee
Valley Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club,
the Finger
Lakes
Trail Conference, the Appalachian
Trail Conservancy, the Appalachian
Mountain Club, and Ontario Pathways.
Personality Types
Along with several friends and colleagues, I
am
studying the Enneagram,
which
is a theory of personality types similar to (but seemingly more
accurate
and useful than) the Myers-Briggs system. The Enneagram
is a numbered
system
of 9 basic personality types. Each person habitually remains in their
type,
but migrates under stress or when feeling secure to other types in a
predictable
way. Each person's reactions are conditioned by the world view
characteristic
of their type. My study of the Enneagram has been very useful for
understanding
my own reactions and in my day-to-day interactions with acquaintances
and
colleagues.
My father received one of the 2004 National
Medals of Technology at the White House on February 13, 2006 (don't ask
me about the discrepancy in dates!). At the request of my students, I
include a photo of Dad and I in tuxedos at the Awards Banquet at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel that evening (click on thumbnail for larger image)
Dad gave a talk on the Vanguard Satellite Program at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO on 6 September 2007. The slides from the presentation are linked below:
pdf handouts of slides from talk (3.1 Mbytes)
Scrabble Games:
1. 17 October 2006: Steve
Viggiano, me,
Alvin Spivey, Derek Walvoord, (Sue Michel, kibitzer) 