Helen Jean Rogers

Helen Jean Rogers Secondari (September 27, 1928 – March 28, 1998) was an American television producer. She won five Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards with her fellow producer and husband John H. Secondari. Helen Jean Rogers graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Catholic University of America. She received a Master of Arts from Radcliffe College and became one of the first female teaching fellows at Harvard University.In 1961, Rogers married John H. Secondari with whom she co-produced Saga of Western Man. They a daughter, Linda Helen. In addition she was step-mother to John's son, John Gerry, from his previous marriage. She died on March 28, 1998, in New York City.