Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of A. A.

ISBN: 9780916856021

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When A.A. Came of Age
BY BmL W.???
co4ounder??? Alcoholics Anonymous
URING the first three days of July??? x955??? Alcoholics Anonymous
held a Convention in St. Louis??? commemorating the twentieth
anniversary of its founding. There our fellowship declared itself come
to the age of full responsibility??? and there it received from its founders
and old-timers permanent keeping of its three great legacies of Recov-
ry??? Unity??? and Service.
I wiI1 always remember those three days as among the greatest ex-
periences of my life.
At four o clock in the afternoon of the final day about 5???000 A.A.
members and their families and friends were seated in the Kiel Audi-
torium at St. Louis. All of the United States and Canadian Provinces
were represented. Some had traveled from far lands to be there. On
the auditorium stage were the General Service Conference of Alco-
hohcs Anonymous??? including some seventy-five delegates from the
United States and Canada??? Trustees of Aak. s General Service Board???
directors and secretarial staffs of our world services at New York???
my wife Lois??? my mother??? and I.
The General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous was
about to take over the custody of A.A. s Twelve Traditions and the
guardianship of its world services. It was to be named as the perma-
nent successor to the founders of A.A. Speaking for co-founder Dr.