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November 1975

The Care and Nurture of the Old-timer

How can we hold the active interest of our indispensable "elder statesmen"? - From the December 1960 Grapevine

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

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