Nan, our Central Office secretary for the last couple of years, has agreed to be office manager as well as secretary, if she limits her work to less than full time. This new situation has come about since the last three secretaries haven’t worked out, since the Central Office has moved to commercial office space, and since Roy has withdrawn from being CO manager. She reports on the following items:

1. Thanks to those groups responding to CO’s need for support. Donations have been increasing and are listed by group in this Essay. I’m sure the percentage of groups contributing to Central Office will increase as the word goes out.

2. When you send in contributions, please note on the checks or letters specifically whether the check is a group donation, an individual donation, or for literature. This is important now that we are asked to list group contributions in Essay. Also, when paying for literature orders, please jot down the invoice number received with your order. This will be a big help in keeping the books.

3. All groups, please give us your current contact persons and let us know when this changes. For example, S.S. in Kaneohe, HI… Where are you? Inquirers tell us the number given leads to a dead end. We’ve also had people trying to contact a couple of other groups without success. [Tradition 5: “Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the sexaholic who still suffers.” —Ed.]

4. All members without groups: Are you willing to be contacted by inquirers from your area who want a group? If so, please write in and give us your permission to use your first name and phone number. This could be the founding of a new group; remember, it takes only two.

5. Thanks to the Milwaukee and Rochester groups; we’ve heard good reports from inquirers trying to make contact!

6. We need more people willing to correspond with prisoners and loners. You’ll have to give full name and address for writing prisoners. See the note elsewhere in this Essay about being part of Matt W.’s team for prisoner correspondence and sponsoring of prison groups.

7. Request for a typewriter comes from one of our sober members in prison who is setting up an in-prison network of SA members behind and outside the walls. He does a lot of letter writing and says he could sure use a typewriter.

8. Can we please settle on the price of the SA manual? Should we charge $7 or $10? Right now, we’re doing both. [This is one of the first items we could use our upcoming group conscience procedure on.]

9. A few members have paid for subscription to Essay, as was suggested at the St. Louis convention. This has really been appreciated. We don’t feel we can make this a binding policy yet because 1) Essay doesn’t have a set publication schedule, 2) there’s a great need for it to go out to the whole membership, and 3) a firm nationwide policy on subscribing has not yet been established.

10. The S-Anon central office function has a new change of address:

S-Anon
PO Box 5117
Sherman Oaks, CA 91493
Phone 818/990-6910 (machine)

11. Nan currently works Mon, Wed, & Fri. Best time to call her at CO and not get the answering machine is 10-12 AM West Coast time.

12. Nan says that due to vacations, the Central Office will be understaffed during the month of August. Get your literature orders and other needs into the office as early in July as you can, since services will be very limited in August.

13. IF YOU HAVE MOVED, please send Central Office your new address! Returned Essays are a pain—and added expense! Call 818/704-9854 or write Box 300, Simi Valley, CA, 93062.