This is the singing group where our romance really got underway, the CANESGUNS! This name was a made-up name using the last names of all the member of this double-quartet!!!

These photos were taken when the LDS Institute Choir was on tour to Houston Texas. I’m not sure in what city these photos were taken. By the way, I still have this bow tie!

Here are the names of these people left to right:

Front Row: Lori ? (now Smith), Jane Ashton (now Norton), LuJean Neff (?), Kathie Clegg (now Cutler), Bruce Cutler

Back Row: ? (he’s not a member of the Canesguns), Bob Gooch, John Edwards, David Smith

By the way, John Edwards also liked Kathie and I had to chase him off.

I didn’t know that LuJean was after me as well. I just thought we were all good friends. Not until I gave Kathie my fraternity pin did we realize that LuJean had determined that I was going to be her husband. This was all done without my knowing anything about it. When Kathie received my fraternity pin, which meant she was “pinned” which is the step just before engagement, LuJean told her that that didn’t matter.

I’m so glad that I chose Kathie Ann Clegg .

I would sing the song to her from the musical Camelot “If ever I would leave you, it wouldn’t be in summer…” I would change the words to “If ever I would leave you, it would have been on tour” referring to the choir tour. We were together on tour for 10 straight days and I figured that that if ever we would have gone our separate ways, it would have been after that tour. Well, it didn’t happen then and almost 50 years later I still haven’t left her (and I never will).