Terry Tickhill Terrell

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‘Hi, I want a job in Antarctica’: Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path

May 20, 2019

In the spring of 1969, 19-year-old Terry Tickhill Terrell walked into the Institute of Polar Studies at OSU and told the secretary, “Hi, I want a job in Antarctica.”