“…; although true, and he is nodding his head!). Roger, and his accomplishments, has been recently lauded in an extraordinary Special Issue on his role in cardiovascular and developmental biology (Laitman and Albertine, 2019; Wessels, 2019; Yutzey, 2019). Our shout‐out goes to Roger and his three B's : David Bernanke (formerly at MUSC now a Charlestonian gentleman), David Bolender (of the above MCW), and Philip R. Brauer (formerly of Creighton University now at Kansas City University).…”