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December 1960

The Care and Nurture of the Old Timer

How can we hold the active interest of our indispensable "elder statesmen"?

THE old timer is like the weather. Everybody talks about him but nobody does much about him--but not for lack of interest and concern. There's hardly a meeting or gathering of AA members concerned about their group and the future of AA as a whole which sooner or later does not arrive at the problem of the old timer and what to do about him.

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