Galveston County Daily News, July 15, 2009
This guest column mentions several UTMB employees who helped the tall-ship Elissa in the immediate days after Hurricane Ike to present. The article begins with a description of UTMB's Richard Hodge making his way on the morning of Sept. 14 to check on the Elissa: "Hodge turned up 21st Street and made his way toward the harbor. He would be the first to report on the question uppermost in the minds of hundreds of his fellow Elissa volunteers, the many Galvestonians in temporary exile, and sailing ship lovers around the country: How fared the restored 1877 square-rigger, the official tall ship of Texas, whose profile graces the seal of the city itself? How had Elissa weathered the storm?" The article quotes UTMB's Dennis Dornfest: "We did the really dirty work in the mornings."