After learning two high school mates of mine observed their 54th wedding anniversary last week, I have been wondering where the years went. It shouldn’t been a shock for I walked across the Superior Auditorium stage and received my diploma 57 years ago. But the couples I took wedding photos of have remained forever young in my mind. I was the hired photographer when Tim and Lana Shotzman were married at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in the fall of 1967. They were young then and I still think of them as a newly married couple.

After taking two photography classes while attending Kansas...