Robert J. Fagan, 51, passed away at home on April 19, 1998 after a year-long illness. Bobby was a resident of Great Neck all his life. He served the Great Neck community over the years as a member of the Elks Club, the Great Neck Memorial Day Parade Committee and the Holly, Jolly Santa Claus for the Great Neck Business Association. Bobby is survived by his wife Janet; an aunt; several nieces and nephews, cousins and an enormous circle of friends. Funeral Mass celebrated at St. Aloysius Church on April 22 and interment followed in All Saints Cemetery under the supervision of the Great Neck Funeral Home.

Roger Hyman MD, 54, former president of the New York Radiological Society, died on April 28, 1998 at North Shore University Hospital.

At the time of his death, Dr. Hyman was chairman of the Department of Radiology at North Shore University Hospital, a position he held since 1993. For 17 years before that, he was chief of the hospital's Division of Neuroradiology. A neuroradiologist who was a leader in both his hospital and in national and state professional organizations, he had been on North Shore's medical staff since 1972.

Before serving as president of the society in 1992-93, Dr. Hyman had been its president-elect and secretary treasurer.

"Roger touched each of our lives in a special way," said Mitchell Goldman, MD, associate chairman of the Department of Radiology at North Shore and a longtime colleague of Dr. Hyman. "He was a great leader, teacher and mentor and a man of tremendous dignity and bravery."

Dr. Hyman received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his medical degree from the State University of NY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. His internship was at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY and his residency in diagnostic radiology at St. Luke's Hospital Center where he also served as chief resident.

Within his profession nationally, Dr. Hyman held many offices. He was a member of the American College of Radiology's Board of Chancellors at the time of his death. He also had been speaker and before that vice speaker of the college and a member of its Council Steering Committee, Commission on MRI and Neuroradiology, Commission on Goverment Relations and Commission on Economics. Dr. Hyman also served on the US Food and Drug Administration's Radiological Devices Panel and on the American Society of Neuroradiology's Committee on Training and Standards of Practice. He also had been president of the LI Radiological Society.

Dr. Hyman was an avid fisherman, scuba diver and underwater photographer.

He is survived by his wife, Susan Hyman, MD, a pediatrician affiliated with North Shore University Hospital; two sons, Keven and Douglas; his parents Charles and Ruth; and a brother Lawrence.