GETTING AROUND
By Shirley Black
*v I once became involved in an
argument—which I lost through
lack of knowledge—-that started
when a man stated that no woman
has surpassed men in any of the
sciences. They are hampered by
emotion, he said, and could never
achieve an attitude sufficiently
detached.
I couldn’t think of enough ex
amples to beat him down and could
only suggest an adverse social
structure and the still unequal op
portunities for higher education
hampered women far more than
emotion.
The argument might have been
a bit less one sided if I had had a
*»w Dr. Mary Lobban’s to present.
Dr. Lobban was one of the pas
sengers on the “Expansion” when
she called in at Kodiak this week.
Being another Englishwoman Cap
tain Thomsen invited mo to meet
Dr. Lobban over lunch on the mail
boat Monday. Actually she was a
Scot from the Highlands of Scot
land, but she showed remarkable
control at being called English...
Dr. Lobban, a physiologist, is a
Cambridge University don, and
her studies of the functions of the
human body have taken her away
from England since May, when she
arrived at the Arctic Health Re
search Center in Anchorage. Since
then she has lived among Eskimos
in Wainwright and Barrow, and
Indians at Old Crow in the Yukon
Territory.
Her trip on the Expansion was
not inspired by physiology, how
ever. She is also a well known orni
thologist and has taken leave from
the Research Center to watch birds
in Cold Bay. An excellent occupa
tion—in the summer...
But Dr. Lobban should be used
to below zero temperatures. Dur
ing summer vacations from the
University in 1953 and *55 she led
expeditions on Spitsbergen—an
island about 400 miles from the
North Pole.
The results of experiments car
ried out during these two expedi
tions, Dr. Lobban told me, gave in
dications that the human body
runs on a 24 hohr cycle—even if
there is no change in light during
a 24 hour period, and watches and
runs on a 24 hour cycle—even if
clocks are altered to make 24
hours last for a longer or shorter
time.
I forgot to mention that Dr. Lob
ban is also a fully qualified veteri
narian.
How I would have liked my
argumentative friend to have been
there when Dr. Lobban spoke of
her desire to go on the Antarctic
Expedition now underway. The
best qualified physiologist for such
an expedition, there was no way
possible for Dr. Lobban to be
included in the expedition party
just because she was a woman.
And she had pulled all the strings
there were to pull to be accepted.
I really think Dr. Lobban would
have won that argument for me.
One more thing I learned while
on the Expansion was a Good
Samaritan act of Captain Thomp
son.
Traveling out to the Chain back
to her home was an Aleut woman
and her young daughter. She had
left home two months before, ex
pecting to get a job with a hospital
in Anchorage.
Before dropping her. off at
{Seward, Thomsen told the girl
tjbat if she found she didn’t like
city life or wanted to return home
for any reason that she would
have a free passage.
The promise of the hospital job
proved empty and the girl found
herself in a strange city Without
work.
She was waiting for the Expan
sion in Seward next time it arrived
and the free trip home has saved
her from a lot of worry.
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