Upon graduation from the Walnut Hills High School in 1932,[3] he was fortunate to acquire a scholarship to attend Yale University as a premed student.

He spent four years at Yale, during which time he occupied himself with writing for the newspaper on campus, participating in amateur drama performances and working with the student government.

Newsweek magazine hired him to work as an “office boy” [3] after he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936.

He interned at the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco and later trained and taught at the Medical Field Service School in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

He returned to the United States in 1947 to an appointed position of “resident in surgery at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C.”.

[3] While working at the Walter Reed Hospital, he stumbled across information about a job opening of Director at the Army Medical Library (AML).

At the time Rogers joined the library, it was facing organizational problems that his predecessor Colonel Joseph H. McNinch [5] was trying to solve.

[1] Automatic rotation involved an old law that “prohibited regular military officers from staying in Washington for more than four years.” [4] In fulfillment of McNinch's recommendation, Rogers attended Columbia University School of Library Service [4] where he attained a master's degree in Library Science in September 1949.

“Rogers went to fundamentals and carried forward the basic reforms in acquisitions and cataloging necessary to undergird more visible advances in bibliographical and other services.”[1] He made many notable contributions, among them was converting the archaic index-cataloging to a “revised Current List of Medical Literature and a new Army Medical Library Catalog”.

MEDLARS “provided the medical profession [...] with the most powerful bibliographic tool in the world [....] Its success marked a milestone in the evolution of modern libraries.” [1] One of Rogers’ greatest achievements, according to Charles Moritz (from the Current Biography Yearbook) was the establishment of a legal basis for the Library.

A bill to create a national medical library submitted by Senators Lister Hill and John F. Kennedy on March 13, 1956 was passed by Congress.