BROWN	CHESTER	COUNSELOR
GROSE	ELEANOR	COUNSELOR
GROSE	MR (DAVID?)	COUNSELOR
KEESER		CAMPER
L	PETER	CAMPER
RIDDLE
T	MIKE	CAMPER
W	MILES	CAMPER
	AMOS
	DUDLEY (DMB)	CAMPER
	DAVID
	DUNNY
	ROGER

In the summer of1931, campers and counselors produced three issues of the Islander, two of which (numbers 1 and 3) survive.

The first, published in June, is labelled "Volume II, No.1."

Though this issue contains no address list and only a few names of counselors and staff, it does include a number of charming woodblock illustrations, including this one of the newly completed Lodge. Evidently the spring of 1931 was wet and the roof of the Lodge leaked. As is typical with amateur woodblock illustration, the artist forgot to reverse the image, so the kitchen appears on the left side rather than the right.

The Babson Institute referred to in the text was an early "think tank." Roger Babson (1875-1967) of Wellesley, MA was an economic commentator who criticized the boom of the 1920s and predicted the Depression. In 1931, the still unfolding global econonic catastrophe was undoubtedly on the minds of campers and counselors. Babson was noted for his use of statistical analysis of economic trends. The Babson Institute was renamed Babson College in 1969.

Number III, published later in the summer, suggests that the "real Maine weather" which had caused the Lodge to leak in June, continued through the season.

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