Henry C. Rogers: Difference between revisions

Henry Rogers was born in [[Irvington, New Jersey|Irvington, N.J.]], where his father operated a dry goods store. Rogers was destined to take over his father's dry goods store in New Jersey. He attended the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], but when his father's store failedbegan to fail during the Depression, he had to drop out of school two and a half years into his program. InIt was January 1934, that he left Penn and enrolled in classes at [[New York University School of Commerce]]. Rogers worked 5 days a week at the store, and took classes in the evening. The summer of 1934 his family went bankrupt. On October 1, 1934, they left for [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]] to join his older sister who had moved with her lawyer husband two years before.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Walking the Tightrope: the private confessions of a public relations man|last=Rogers|first=Henry C.|publisher=Morrow|year=1980|isbn=9780688035891|location=|pages=16, 27–30, 42, 61, 8}}</ref>