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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. | Jerseyites Buy Big Sociable Clubhouse To the A.A.s of North Jersey goes the honor of being the original contributors to one phase of A.A. history, geographically speaking. They are the first of the "Along the Metropolitan Circuit" groups to buy a club-house of their own. | November 1944 | |
| 4. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BERGEN COUNTY STRIDES FORWARD. . . Greatly increased membership has made larger meeting quarters imperative. Donald Borg, Editor of The Bergen Evening Record, again came to our rescue. Meetings will be held in a spacious wing of the Hackensack Civilian Defense Centre, as soon as renovations are completed. Rent free. Borg interceded for us with the Hackensack City Manager. As a result of his intercession we are now proteges not only of the city but of the entire county. This is another indication of the recognition that is being given throughout the country to A.A.--and to the understanding that alcoholism is a public health problem. . . . We owe a debt to the public-spirited men and women who ... | December 1944 | |
| 5. | Philadelphia Story on Hospitalization (by Winslow T.) Pennsylvania -- The Philadelphia group considers itself very fortunate. One of the first drunks contacted by Jim B., when he brought A.A. to Philadelphia five years ago, was a relative of one of our most eminent surgeons: Dr. A. Wiese Hammer of the staff of St. Luke's and Children's Hospital. Dr. Hammer spends two to four hours with the group every Sunday advising and counselling, as well as comforting those members who gather at the round table. He is one of our staunchest bulwarks. | March 1945 | |
| 6. | The Book Is Born (by Bill W.) In recent Grapevine articles attention has been drawn to the fact that A.A. is still in the process of forming a public relations policy, that failure to crystallize a sound policy could seriously cripple us. | October 1945 | |
| 7. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit In Birmingham, Ala., the first regional A.A. convention ever held in the South went over the top with hundreds of members attending from Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. The following day the A.A.s assisted at the first meeting of the Alabama Committee on Education with Respect to Alcoholism, created through an act of the last legislature. . . On their second anniversary the Flint Group was host to the second out-state A.A. get-together in Michigan. The Wolverines came from Jackson, Bay City, Mt. Morris, Traverse City, Royal Oak, Saginaw, Howell, Pontiac, Pleasant Ridge, Kalamazoo, Richland, McFarlan and Ortonville; Ohioans came from Canton, Dover and Lakewood. A surgeon from Ohio, ... | December 1945 | |
| 8. | Our A.A. Experience Has Taught Us That: (by Bill W.) Nobody invented Alcoholics Anonymous. It grew. Trial and error has produced a rich experience. Little by little we have been adopting the lessons of that experience, first as policy and then as tradition. That process still goes on and we hope it never stops. Should we ever harden too much the letter might crush the spirit. We could victimize ourselves by petty rules and prohibitions; we could imagine that we had said the last word. We might even be asking alcoholics to accept our rigid ideas or stay away. May we never stifle progress like that! | April 1946 | |
| 9. | A.A. Digest-- Central Bulletin, Cleveland, Ohio: "The trustees of Cleveland Public Library gratefully acknowledged the gift of seven volumes of the Braille edition of Alcoholics Anonymous presented and prepared by our fine Canton blind A.A. member. . . . This is indeed a valuable contribution and should do a lot of good. | May 1946 | |
| 10. | New Information Center Set Up in Youngstown (by J. H. A., Jr.) A Tri-County Alcoholic Foundation, a non-profit organization, has been chartered under the laws of Ohio, at Youngstown, including Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana Counties. | June 1946 | |
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