A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Celebrating his second year in A.A. recently, J.W.R. of the Mt. Vernon, Wash., Group reports that it was a "double-header celebration, namely, two years of sobriety and happiness, and the arrival of an addition to our family, a baby girl! Having one of God's best gifts bestowed on the second anniversary of A.A. may merely be coincidental, but Ruth and I rather think it's just another one of those spiritual awakenings which occur in the lives of A.A.s At any rate, we could think of no more appropriate name for our daughter than Alice Ann and for the sake of brevity she will be known as A.A. R. It will be easy to calculate the years I've been in A.A. as the years roll up by adding two years to the age of my daughter. Our son was born about seven months after my entry into A.A. so you can see we certainly have been receiving invaluable rewards during the two years."