The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-26
DR. H0LVERS0N R0UGHS 1T ON
 AlASKA TRIPS

Dr. Dorothy Holverson, Education Supervisor, Territorial Department Of Education, is an attractive, eff cient young woman with Doctors Degree from Columbia University; Teaching School. and five years o1 solid teaching Background on tho University of Alaska staff.
 She is hadly the type one off handedly associates with situation that calls for "roughing it."
 But when Miss Holverson left the peaceful faculty circle of Alaska University last summer to come tc Juneau as Education Supervisor, she came with a definite belief that sup ervisors are supposed to supervise The fact that the school area she covers stretches over thousands of miles and transportation facilities thereto leave much to be desired had no effect whatever on her ideas of active supervision.
 Her Equipment
 Accordingly, Dr. HolverSon start ed out last September with no misgivings on an official visiting tour of more than 50 schools scat tered across the Interior and to the Westward Along with her neat supply of sharpened pencils, foun- tain pens, and report books, she car ried a sleeping bag, emergency cook ing utensils, and rations-or Junior sized Sourdough pack. She was ready to supervise the Territory's education system in true Alaskan style.
 She did She returned a week ago, bright and cheerful, with her we'll used sleeping bag, her rations, and all Sourdough impedimenta still in tact and full report on every school in her circuit except those cn Seward Peninsula and in the Aleutian Islands, which she hadn't planned to visit.
 Oul HE llC2 lp O4lC AloAA in almost every conceivable convey ance vehicle with the exception of a helicopter, sealed a low-tide dock ladder for 40 feet, slept in her sleep ing bag while aboard ships in sub zero waters, and got lost over the Kodiak mountains, just to mention a fem pvnnrc Of tba trin
 Dr. Holverson made the trip from Juneau to Valdez by Alaska Steam ship; went from Valdez to Anchorage by Army freighter; traversed Prince William Sound in The Luck of the Irish" a mail boat; went from La touche to Whittier in The Mar garrett, a 60-foot seiner, and former queen Of the Herring Fleet; went from Anchorage by train and to Hope from Seward in the cab of a Chevrolet pickup truck
 Scales Dc1Gn 40 Feet
 At Cock Inlet where the tide is the second highest in the world, Miss Hclverson's 50-foot boat from Ho- mer to Seldova was departing at low tide. To reach the deck, passengers had to descend a 40-foot ladder drop down the side of the dock. The rowing educator took one look, step- ped into the Dock Office lounge, unrolled her sleeping bag, in which emergency provisions were packed, donned ski pants and in seconds flat was down the ladder and aboard At Seldovia, where the tide was still low she repeated the trapeze stunt and climbed up 35 feet of slippery ladder. In more Cooks Inlet travel ing she rode with the Flying Preacher, Seventh Day Adventist who flies his own Cub plane from parish to parish.
 Tn her trip over the Kodiak noun tains, she boarded a Taylor Craft, got lost, and arrived a half hour late to an appointment. In relating her emotional reactions while being lCSpp Dl IlOlFCl oOAi odAS, Wdc afraid I would be late for the dinner engagement and I was"
 ExtenSiUe Tour
 Leaving Anchorage by regular passenger plane, she flew over Clark Lake to Bristol Bay, Platinum, and up to Bethel, making a side-trir to Marshall and Hamilton. From Bethel she boarded a Stinson or floats and was off for a ten-day trip up the Kuskokwim River From McGrath to Nenana she transferred to a Stinson plane flown by Pilot Williams, well known flyer witf the Jim Dodson Service. Pilot Williams, whose penchant for read ing while flying apparently doesn't interfere with handling of his plane supplied Dr. Holverson and his other passenger aboard the three-seatee plane with magazine almost as SCOT as the group were off the ground Then he took one himself, ano settled down to reading.
 Asked if she were frightened, Dr Holverson said, Well :. :" and then as a stout-hearted Alaskan-"He. awfully competent with his plane