Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Beautiful Gift from Dave Ginsburg


We recently received a beautiful gift from Dr. David Ginsburg, currently at UCLA.  It was a book entitled, "Menorah Under the Seas".  Dave was a colleague of Douglas at the University of Southern California where both spent considerable time doing marine biological research at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.  The book describes a dive made by Dave on the first night of Hanukkah.  Since they were at McMurdo during the height of the Antarctica summer, there was essentially no darkness at night.  Dave found a unique way to "light" the traditional Hanukkah candle in the darkness 80 feet under the icecap.  It was a wonderful story, one that we are grateful he shared with us through this very beautiful tome. 

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