Stuart Sliter

My name is Stuart Johnson Sliter. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents came to Douglas to work in the Treadwell mines. My mom was Roberta Fraser Johnson and my dad was Leonard Johnson. They were both born in Douglas, and I was born in Juneau in St. Ann’s Hospital in 1939. I have an older brother who lives in Douglas, so we haven’t wandered far.

“I’m a Douglas girl.”



The last telephone operator in Douglas

Grandma Fraser was the last telephone operator in Douglas...
Stuart Sliter

Tuberculosis & The Iron Lung

When I was very young my mother worked drafting people to soldiers...
Stuart Sliter


miss alaska 1958: a true cinderella story

A true Cinderella story as I say over and over again, because it was...
Stuart Sliter
Sliter Stuart in the Aak’w Village District, holding a portrait of herself from the time of the 1958 Miss Alaska pageant, September 2019.

Sliter Stuart in the Aak’w Village District, holding a portrait of herself from the time of the 1958 Miss Alaska pageant, September 2019.

“And she looked at me and she said, ‘Can you be at my store at 5 o’clock in a bathing suit?’ … [I had] no idea what was really going on.”