Archives 1960-64


Here now! – Every Good News publication currently in Archives and current and future issues will now be published here in Digital version. That means if you didn’t have time to peruse the past publications on display at your attendance of one of the conferences, you can now view them from the comfort of your own home, coffee shop, office or wherever you can connect to the internet. There is a wealth of information and history to enjoy and hopefully keep you coming back!

Here’s what was happening in NCCAA:

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By 1961,Big Book sales top half a million

By 1961, more than 500,000 copies of Alcoholics Anonymous have been sold, plus editions translated into Spanish, French, and German.

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In 1962, The Twelve Concepts for World Service were published

In 1962, the General Service Conference accepts Bill’s long-awaited manuscript for Twelve Concepts for World Service. In the introduction, Bill writes that his aim is “…to record the ‘why’ of our service structure in such a fashion that the highly valuable experience of the past, and the lessons we have drawn from that experience, can never be forgotten or lost.”
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In 1963, Two starts in the Dominican Republic
Two A.A. groups begin to meet regularly in Santo Domingo in the spring of 1963. One, the Spanish-speaking Grupo Santa Mercedes, grows from two to 18 members by the end of the year. G.S.O. New York lists as the contact person Abe F., who is also one of two men in the second group, for English speakers; this group, however, will last for only two years.

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In 1964, there were start-ups in Sri Lanka

A Loner in the former Ceylon had been listed with G.S.O. New York since 1959, but not until 1964 is the first known A.A. group in the country formed. Its site is the capital city of Colombo, where a second group takes shape a year later. Soon A.A. spreads to other Sri Lankan locales.
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