A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Helping the Niagara Frontier Area celebrate its sixth anniversary at a banquet at Hotel Buffalo were delegations from Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, St. Catherines and Simcoe, Canada, Erie and Bradford, Pa., Cleveland, O., and Elmira, Corning, Rochester, Salamanca, Lockport, Jamestown, Eden, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, N. Y. Trustee Dick S., formerly of Akron, O., and now of New York, was the speaker, taking as his theme the traditions and the need of unity. Among the 500 in attendance were several guests who have been good and helpful friends of the Buffalo groups, including Chief Judge of the City Court John J. Hillery, Dr. Donald C. O'Connor, superintendent of Meyer Memorial Hospital, and Sunderland P. Gardner, chairman of the Committee on Alcoholism for the Council of Social Agencies. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. Robert F. Kilroy, O.M.I., who authored an article on A.A. that was widely circulated in Catholic publications earlier this year. Through the courtesy of RKO, the film, "I Am an Alcoholic," was shown as a finish to the largest and most successful A.A. demonstration ever held on the Niagara Frontier. . .