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| 1. | Central Office Notes (by Bill W.) May 1st was moving day for the Central office into larger quarters on Lexington Avenue near Grand Central Terminal, a much more accessible spot to out-of-town visitors. (New address--P.O. Box 459, Grand Central Annex, New York 17, N. Y.) We are already national in scope and certain to become world-wide. Hence this seems a most appropriate time to explain what the Central Office has been doing, and how well the Trustees and its staff have managed. Being somewhat responsible for the creation of the Central Office, I feel I have never made enough effort to let everyone know just how much it does. | June 1944 | |
| 2. | Do You Know. . . . . .? Answer:--The Alcoholic Foundation is comprised of seven trustees, four of whom (a majority) are non-alcoholics but keenly interested in the problem of alcoholism, and three of whom are members of A.A. These trustees maintain the Central Office, our National Headquarters, where inquiries concerning A.A. from all parts of the world are answered and from which office our literature is mailed. Besides maintaining this Central Office, the trustees of the Foundation have charge of all national publicity, and consult with the A.A. group on matters of national policy. None of the trustees receives any compensation for his or her services. | June 1944 | |
| 3. | Editorial: (by Bill W.) In the book Alcoholics Anonymous there is a chapter called "A Vision for You". Wandering through it recently, my eye was caught by this startling paragraph written a short five years ago. "Someday we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination. To some extent this is already true. Some of us are salesmen and go about. Little clusters of twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities through contact with our two large centers-----" Rubbing my eyes I looked again. A lump came into my throat. "Only five years," I thought. "Then but two large centers--little clusters of twos and threes--travelers who hoped one day ... | June 1944 | |
| 4. | Bill's Comments on Wylie Ideas, Hunches (by Bill W.) Philip Wylie's piece in this issue of The Grapevine will endear the man to every A.A. And why? Because, of course, he's so very alcoholic! Neither can anyone miss the author's generous and self-sacrificing spirit. Forgetting his own worldly importance, he snaps his fingers at what the public may think; he discards his reputation in order to share with us his character. A traveller who has felt his own way out of the night, he tells how he discovers haven. We could ask no better spirit of anyone. Mr. Wylie can be a member of A.A. the very day he says so! | September 1944 | |
| 5. | Central Office Notes (by Bill W.) Somebody once said, "As much as you may grow, as many recoveries as there may be, I think the eventual by-products of A.A. will be greater than A.A. itself." | October 1944 | |
| 6. | Members of the Women's Organizing Committee The National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, Inc., sponsored by the Yale Plan for Alcohol Studies, will open its offices on October 2, 1944, at 2 East 103rd Street (Room 447, New York Academy of Medicine Building), New York, 29, N. Y. The Committee has been organized as a nonprofit membership corporation under Connecticut charter. Its membership is made up of persons from all fields of activity who are concerned with the problem of alcoholism and interested in a program of activity toward its solution. Its executive director and her secretary are both members of Alcoholics Anonymous. | October 1944 | |
| 7. | Bill's Wife Remembers When He and She and the First A. A.s Were Very Young (by Bill W.'s wife, Lois Wilson) As the wife of an early A.A., some of our experiences and my reactions to my husband's changed life may be interesting to other wives. Bill was an alcoholic, I believe, from the first drink he ever took, just a few months before our marriage. From then on, for seventeen years, I did everything I could think of to keep him away from liquor. | December 1944 | |
| 8. | Points of View (by Bill W.) Dear Mother of "J.": I cannot tell how poignantly I am stirred by the letter you wrote The Grapevine about your alcoholic son. | December 1944 | |
| 9. | War Gave Florida Group Flying Start (by J. L. A.) Florida -- A.A. would inevitably have come to Jacksonville some day, but we are grateful to an Executive Officer of the Naval Air Training Station for bringing A.A. to us as far back as the beginning of the present world conflict. | January 1945 | |
| 10. | Jack Alexander Of Saturday Evening Post Fame Thought A.A.s Were Pulling His Leg (by Jack Alexander) Pennsylvania -- Ordinarily, diabetes isn't rated as one of the hazards of reporting, but the Alcoholics Anonymous article in the Saturday Evening Post came close to costing me my liver, and maybe A.A. neophytes ought to be told this when they are handed copies of the article to read. It might impress them. In the course of my fact gathering, I drank enough Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, ginger ale, Moxie and Sweetie to float the Saratoga. Then there was the thickly frosted cake so beloved of A.A. gatherings, and the heavily sweetened coffee, and the candy. Nobody can tell me that alcoholism isn't due solely to an abnormal craving for sugar, not even a learned psychiatrist. Otherwise the A.A. assignment was a pleasure. | May 1945 | |
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