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| 1. | Memo (by THE EDITORS) To: Group SecretariesProgram Chairman How are you going to observe "Tradition Week" in your group? There is no precedent. You're going to be setting one. In fact, you may be establishing a new Tradition by the manner in which you conduct your "Tradition" meeting, or meetings. | November 1949 | |
| 2. | The Group (by T.D.) New York -- Anyone who has shared the early pains of a new group will undoubtedly agree that here is one place in the development of AA where experience is vital. | November 1949 | |
| 3. | The Individual (by R.B.) New York -- Do the 12 Traditions of AA have any special meaning for the individual? Are they important to you and to me, personally, or are they significant merely as they help us to make sound group decisions? | November 1949 | |
| 4. | The Public (by H.S.) New York -- What the public thinks about us is of ever increasing importance to each individual member of AA. If outside opinion ever has reason to turn sour on AA, it can slow down our growth. Give enough people enough cause to turn really critical--and public opinion could conceivably wreck AA altogether! | November 1949 | |
| 5. | AA Under the Mapleleaf CANADA Dry. . .that's not a mixer, that's a fact and a new way of life for 7,251 citizens of the Dominion of Canada in 299 groups who are dry through the Twelve Steps from Detroit's neighbor city Windsor, Ontario, to the far Yukon's iced-in Whitehorse and arctic Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake. Here in the vast northern half of the whole North American continent is a proportion of AA's in the scattered population almost exactly equal to that of the United States, despite a much later AA start, and despite great handicaps of distance communications, language barriers and festive traditions older than Yankees know. | May 1951 | |
| 6. | Calgary Stampede BACK in the spring of 1945 a non-alcoholic resident of Calgary, Alberta, inaugurated a Calgary Stampede of his own. It all began with a sincere desire to assist his alcoholic brother out of his difficulties. | May 1951 | |
| 7. | Convoy Rendezvous at Halifax! Throughout two world wars the ships silently assembled and as silently slipped out into the danger zone. The weak travelled bow-to-stern with the strong. The convoy's pace was geared not to the fastest ship, but to the slowest. Then, defying the terrors of a sub-infested sea, they did together what none could have done alone! | May 1951 | |
| 8. | French Without Tears (by C. C.) Quebec -- ONE of the joys of membership in AA in the Province of Quebec stems from the twofold and sober Joie de vivre of a bilingual civilization. | May 1951 | |
| 9. | Nova Scotia THE editor and publisher, the barrister and solicitor, the agent and sales manager, the druggist and the real estate broker, all five past masters of all degrees of alcoholism, met on the night of April 8th 1948, in sober and solemnmein--thus came into being another group of "Alcoholics Anonymous." Perhaps it is wise not to re-call much of the pre-birth and bearing down pains preceding this advent, suffice to say that the labor was quite excruciating and extended over a long period. | May 1951 | |
| 10. | Ontario (by R.O.H.) Ontario -- Now, westward to Canada's greatest population. . .as a nation, and in AA. One hundred and twenty-six groups, 33 in Toronto alone. And what's in a name? Perhaps AA meaning in Port Hope Group, or Kincerdine's Blue Water Group. | May 1951 | |
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