Uploaded February 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Robert and Barbara Rogers are the foster parents of six Sudanese refugees who they have taken in to their Tully home on Otisco Lake over the past eight years. Lopez Lomong was the first of these "Lost Boys" from Sudan to enter their life and he has forever changed it, not only through his success as an award winning runner at Tully High School and Northern Arizona University, which led to a berth on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, but also by the perspective on life he has given them.
Robert and Barbara Rogers are the foster parents of six Sudanese refugees who they have taken in to their Tully home on Otisco Lake over the past eight years. Lopez Lomong was the first of these "Lost Boys" from Sudan to enter their life and he has forever changed it, not only through his success as an award winning runner at Tully High School and Northern Arizona University, which led to a berth on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, but also by the perspective on life he has given them.
