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June 1955

How A.A.'S World Services Grew

Part Two of a three-part series on AA history by our co-founder, Bill.

WE had started the year 1941 with 2,000 members, but we finished with 8,000. This was the measure of the great impact of the Saturday Evening Post piece. But this was only the beginning of uncounted thousands of pleas for help from individuals and from growing groups all over the world that have continued to flow into General Service Headquarters to this day.

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