Clutched tightly in the hand of longtime Central Texan Buster Dale Saturday was a more than 70-year-old photo that spoke beyond its borders.

Buster Dale Saturday displays a more than 70-year-old photo circa early 1940s, showing Dale with friends and relatives in a grade school photo at the long gone Uhland school.

The image, circa the early 1940s, showed Dale and a handful of relatives and friends posing for a grade-school class photo at the long-gone Uhland school, a campus that served rural ar...