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Well, good evening, everybody.

My name is Sandy Bick.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Sandy.

And I'd like to also thank Lee for putting this on and all the work that goes in.

And I'm sitting up here looking, he has the best collection of AA photographs as you look around the room.

And if you knew, you ought to challenge yourself to come back next year and be able to name everybody in all these photographs.

So I'll give you a clue. The one over there

with Bill and the lady sitting next to him is Bill and Ruth Hauk, who typed our big book.

So if you want to know, and she also became our first secretary for Bill and up in the New York office and was there for quite a few years.

So we owe a lot to that young lady over there.

So now you know one photograph anyway.

The rest you'll have to figure out yourself or ask people.

And I've enjoyed hearing a lot of my favorite speakers.

This is a rare event, although it appears to be catching on like the plague.

You started something, Bob.

Now, I love them, but you've got to admit they're a little bit of an endurance contest. And, you know, I'm getting older, and this is, I'm going to stay

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