• Please call the Central Office for meeting information when on travel. (Roy does not have meeting schedules or contacts at his home telephone number.) If you call our standard number, the call still comes through, but it costs the Central Office a little more. Thank you.

• Helen is now working part-time at the Central Office. She is a great help in packing all the literature orders, copying, and various other duties. Welcome to Helen, who started working in October of 1988. Chris has also been hired part-time to handle the general office duties. It is our hope that in the near future, the office will be staffed during normal business hours rather than Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as is now the case.

• We must once again ask for your continued financial support. We are anticipating great expenses for editorial fees, typesetting, and printing for the new manual, as well as producing our brochure in Spanish. We are enclosing some financial statistics from 1988. For those who wish, we would be happy to send a complete financial statement for 1988. We depend on your generosity to continue our work as well as future growth. In the past, when the needs of this office were made known, the fellowship’s response was overwhelming. We are making a special appeal at this time. Donations are tax-deductible.

Member Stories

Twenty-one SA member stories have been received to date at the Central Office (ref. 15 February letter to all SA groups). Sixteen were received before the 6 April deadline. (Everyone acknowledges that the deadline was very tough to meet. Things don’t always move in straight lines around here, and our SA manual publication schedule got away from us.) It has been decided that a separate volume of stories will be produced in preliminary form. It is planned that this volume of stories will follow after publication of both the new SA manual, Sexaholics Anonymous and the follow-on volume, Recovery Continues. We hope to have the new SA manual out in time for the Milwaukee Convention in July. We think the response of stories is truly remarkable, considering the requirements for three-year minimum SA sobriety and group or intergroup validation. Thank you one and all! Please note that because of the above decision, stories can still be submitted in accordance with the 15 February guidelines, at least for another month or two.

A summary of story guidelines follows:

1. The individual must be an established member of SA.
2. The member must have three or more years of uninterrupted sexual sobriety as commonly understood by the fellowship as described in the SA literature.
3. Quality of the individual’s sobriety and recovery must be recognized and validated by the other members in the individual’s fellowship. It is the group/intergroup that submits the story(s). Stories of loners should be submitted through their sponsor(s).
4. Where possible, submittals should be typed, double-spaced, not to exceed four double-spaced pages, preferably less. (Please have it typed if at all possible.) Stories will be subject to editing and condensation.
5. No name should appear on the manuscript, but the author should be identified in a cover letter or note from the submitting group or intergroup to the Central Office so submittals can be read “blind.”