ABOVE: Mick Hersey, left, and Doug Nelson, right, and students Clay McKagan and Francis Sharp, hoist a U.S. flag upward as part of a ribbon cutting celebration at the new Hawk Elementary at Jackson Park school on Oct. 20. Hersey and Nelson are both with the John Paul Jones Chapter of the Washington State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. McKagan and Sharp are sixth graders at the school. BELOW: School and government officials and community members smile as Mark Gaines, president of the Central Kitsap School District school board, cuts a red ribbon to celebrate the opening of Hawk Elementary at Jackson Park school on Oct. 20. From left is Marilyn Harrelson, Superintendent David McVicker, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, Jennifer Zuver, Robin Shoemaker, Bruce Richards, Mark Gaines, Eric Greene, Christopher Stokke and Kitsap County Commissioner Linda Streissguth. Hundreds of school children were inside the gymnasium that day to watch the ribbon being cut and to listen to a speech from Marilyn Harrelson, who is the daughter of Medal of Honor recipient and teacher Bud Hawk. The school is named in Hawk’s honor. Hawk died in 2013. “His smile would have been huge,” Harrelson said of her father regarding the school’s name.