Recorder, the Island's most comprehensive record of black history for almost 40 years.

His work this summer at the Bermuda Library will facilitate the task of local and overseas historians in researching books, documentaries and educational information on the period spanning 1933 to 1975.

So far Kevin Albon, who studies marine biology at the Bermuda College, admits he has made just a small dent in the ten-year task of indexing the paper which is pockholed with missing articles and editions. Powerhouse behind the project is Dellwood Principal Mr. Dale Butler who approached 50 businesses and individuals last year, asking them to lend financial backing. But so far only Sen. Mr. Terry Lister, the Hon. Leonard Gibbons, Centre Reinsurance and the Bermuda Industrial Union have responded. Mr. Butler, who had hoped to employ two students this summer to carry out the task of writing a synopsis of each edition and filing it on a card, says finances stretched to just one.

However, he is hopeful other organisations will see the merits of the project which has won the moral support of Premier Sir John Swan, the PLP and NLP. For students too, Mr. Butler said, it was an opportunity to learn about the Island's history and make a contribution to the country. The Recorder was started in 1933 by a group of men frustrated by the lack of media attention given to black affairs. Editors and writers including Mr. Daniel Tucker, Sir Edward Richards, Mr. George A. DeCosta, former Senator Ira Philip and PLP MP Miss Jennifer Smith gave the newspaper which covered social, political, religious events its strong editorial line.

EASY ACCESS -- Student Mr. Kevin Albon, 18, (sitting) has begun the mammoth task of indexing the Bermuda Recorder newspaper, a "treasure trove'' of history of the local black community 1933-1975. Pictured (from left: are project head Mr. Dale Butler, sponsors Mrs. Phyllis Simmons of Centre Reinsurance, the Hon. Leonard Gibbons of Gibbons Real Estate, librarian Mrs.

Jennifer Gihon-Walzholz and Mrs. Marchelle Gibbons of Gibbons.