Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?