Legendary Old-Timers

I drank through the “summer of love” in 1967, in San Francisco. In October of the following year I got sober and was introduced to the San Francisco Young Peoples’ Group at the time of their first anniversary. I’m still in touch with the surviving founders and a few early members of that group. Their members helped organize the first All-California Young Peoples’ Rally (ACYPR) in Fresno in 1969, which later became WACYPAA. In those days, the definition of “young people” was 40 years of age, and there weren’t very many of us. Sometimes I’m asked to speak as an old-timer at young peoples’ events, as well as at regular events. Recently, after a sobriety countdown at a Traditions conference, I was the designated old-timer asked to present a signed book to the designated newcomer. But am I really an old-timer yet?