Sometime ago in a far away place an infant girl was given the yiddish name Elka Shprintze by her loving parents. Elka after a great grandmother and Shprintze after one of her grandfather's three sisters. For most of her life she was known as Ellen.

Then in July 1997 on a train trip across country Ellen and her new husband lost each other in the Denver train station. This wonderful relic of another era is high ceilinged and cavernous. Dov wandered for a while looking for Ellen and then not wantng to embarrass her decided that he would call for her by a name only she would recognize and so he began a loud finger snap and called "Elk, Elk." It worked. Following the reunion Dov and Elk walked to the train station gift shop. There on top of the pile of tee shirts was one with a picture of a bear (dov) and an elk.

And so Elka Shprintze, Ellen and all other aliases gave way to Elk. If you would like to contact Elk her e-mail address is: elk@davenwithdov.org 

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