A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

The San Francisco Group, which began the development of neighborhood groups slightly more than a year ago, ended 1946 with five such organizations. It began 1947 with six and the prospect of two or three more in the next month or two. All such groups retain their affiliation with the central San Francisco Fellowship. Holiday week was observed at the clubhouse in the usual happy fashion while more than 100 attended the Christmas dinner at the club and 275 attended the annual New Year's Eve dance. Outside pioneering activities of the group were extended with the inauguration of an A.A. fellowship at the U. S. Army Letterman General Hospital, at the Presidio of San Francisco. The year's closed meeting activities were marked by visits from B.B. of the New York Central Office and M.M. of the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism. The former said it was the largest closed meeting she had ever addressed. M.'s address was transcribed and the records are now in the hands of several Northern California groups. Both visitors addressed meetings of approximately 500 A.A.s of Northern California.