South Side Boy

About the Book

"Though no particular accomplishments in my life warrant an autobiography, I feel like the man on the television insurance commercial when he says, “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” I don’t know that everything I relate is 100 percent accurate, but I have made every effort to tell the truth. The accounts and descriptions I give you are how I perceived them, and my memory may have faded over the many years in some instances. While I have made an effort to adhere to chronological order, I believe that a strict order of events might become confusing. Subject by subject, rather than year by year, seemed more orderly. I also developed the subject matter by focusing on what I consider to be defining moments in my life."

About the Author

Born in 1942 and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Roger graduated from Mendel Catholic High School in 1960. He enrolled at South Dakota State University in the fall of 1960 and graduated in the spring of 1964. In 1970 he received his Masters at SDSU. Roger pursued a career in education, and spent those years teaching, coaching, and serving as a high school principal in SD public schools. He married Elizabeth “Betsy” Hodgson in June of 1965, a union that blessed them with Daughters Laurie, Lisa, and LuAnn. As an enthusiastic hunter/fisherman, he has penned a weekly outdoor column for the past 47 years, and continues to write “Rog’s Rod & Nimrod” for a number of SD newspapers. His first book, A Dakota Rod and Nimrod, was published by authorHOUSE in 2017.