These Rosary School kindergarteners, Sullivan McCollum, Nate Grim, Drew Harris and Thatcher McMorris, bring to mind this excerpt from the poem “Kindergarten Scholar,” penned by the photographer’s father, William Edgar Elliott, in 1965 for her brother Billy.
Tucking covers, under chin
This my flesh and blood and kin …
(Fading shade of summer tan!)
Child tonight, tomorrow – a man!