When sending checks to the Central Office without any correspondence, would you please make a memo on the check saying whether it’s a donation, literature purchase, or whatever. Also, if you’re sending payment for a literature order someone else in the group made, would you please let us know? Our records indicate the name of the person placing the order, not always the group.
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As usual, we’re trying to update our files. Would you take a moment to let us know the current contact person, address, and telephone number? We would also appreciate an alternate contact in the event the contact person moves or loses his/her sobriety. For those who may not know, here’s what happens at the Central Office before an inquirer is given any contact with a local group: For the first-time inquirer, we send only our SA brochure and a form letter, saying to write back if they wish contact with a local group. When they write back the second time, we send a personal letter welcoming them to SA and giving them the first name, last initial, and telephone number of the contact who has given us prior permission. We follow that up with a lead card sent to the contact person, giving him/her the inquirer’s full name, address, and telephone number if provided. It’s a simple system, but so far, it’s working. To our knowledge, no one’s anonymity has been broken.
NYC Convention April 26th
John H. of NYC is making available for $2.50 each tapes of the final combined session, including Mike D.’s talk and other sharing. Place your order by writing SA, Post Office Box 1542, New York, NY, 10185.
First Step Inventory
Roy is still asking for feedback on the First Step Inventory. Are you using it? How? With what results, short-term and long term? Should group feedback be a part of it? Are you using it for newcomers only? We’re trying to get a fuller picture of what place this is actually playing in SA and whether the original three-page description should be put back in the SA manual. The only place it exists now (condensed) is in the suggested format in the Meeting Guide. Previous member feedback on whether we should use it has proven inconclusive on this matter.
Germany Tapes
Anyone interested in transcribing the eight tapes of Roy’s SA seminar in Germany last October, please contact the Central Office. These tapes have Roy speaking in English with someone translating in German. Only the English transcript is required, though there have also been requests for the German. Cassettes are standard size, and access to a transcribing machine with a foot pedal would probably be necessary.
New SA Meeting Guide is Out
The newly-revised Meeting Guide is now in two parts. One part, bound in a separate cover, contains suggested meeting formats and the standard readings used in meetings, such as portions of Chapters 3 and 5, A Vision for You, the 12 and 12, etc. The second part, also separately bound, contains Suggestions for New SA Groups, Meetings—How They Work, What is the SA Program (18 January 1984 letter), and the paper, “Publicity and the Twelfth Step.” Price is still $3.00.
Literature-in-Process
Enclosed with this mailing are a couple of new pieces Roy is sharing from his own experience. These and other items on the list titled “Pieces on Various Subjects” are made available for whatever shared benefit they may have. As always, feedback on these from SA members and groups is requested in light of the possibility of their becoming future pieces of SA literature in some way. If you think any of these items should ever fall into that category, or if you have any editorial comments, please let us know.
