Las Vegas Sun

April 19, 2024

Jim Rogers (shown in a yearbook picture) started speaking his mind early, writing editorials in 1956 for the Desert Breeze, the campus newspaper of Las Vegas High School. One of his more scathing commentaries -- complaining about inequities in the school's grading system -- resulted in the principal calling his father to complain. "My father said, 'What have you done this time? They're going to throw you out of school,' " Rogers recalled. "I was 17 years old and a crusader in those days. I came from a family of Methodist ministers who were always on one crusade or another."

COURTESY PHOTO

Jim Rogers (shown in a yearbook picture) started speaking his mind early, writing editorials in 1956 for the Desert Breeze, the campus newspaper of Las Vegas High School. One of his more scathing commentaries -- complaining about inequities in the school's grading system -- resulted in the principal calling his father to complain. "My father said, 'What have you done this time? They're going to throw you out of school,' " Rogers recalled. "I was 17 years old and a crusader in those days. I came from a family of Methodist ministers who were always on one crusade or another."