This recording is a part of the Northern California Tape Library of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was made in Sacramento, California at the annual banquet Saturday evening, May the 11th, 1963. And the principal speaker is Chuck Chamberlain. The original record and this copy were both made by Bill Mitchell, 2103 Miller Avenue, Modesto, California. We all feel a tremendous debt of gratitude to this wonderful AA program, to which many of us owe our very lives. Our problem becomes how to repay AA for our new way of life. Our guest speaker has found such a way. As our book Alcoholics Anonymous describes, our primary purpose is to stay sober and share our experience, strength, and hope with others. Chuck C. from Laguna Beach represents that experience, that strength, and that hope. He's here tonight to share it with you. May I introduce Chuck C. from Laguna Beach. Chairman Dick, Father Joe, distinguished guests, Al-Anon members, and fellow lepers. I am Chuck C., and I'm an alcoholic. Hi. What a beauty of a bunch of people. You couldn't tell the players without a scorecard, could you? A lot of you drunks look like distinguished guests. There have been some changes made. I would be remiss if I didn't tell you at the outset that I'm most delighted to be here. I've been thinking for the last seven or eight years that my day was coming to an end. I've been on this circuit now for over 16 and a half years. And it seems to me that some of these days you all would be tired of me. And let me off the hook. However, I'm very glad that you don't. I think if there were no people for me to talk with about this terrific program of ours, that I would just be talking to the birds and the trees and whatever there was around. Because I cannot contain myself. This is the most fabulous thing that anyone could get to feel of. And for those amongst us who might be new, if you haven't reached the point where you bless the day that you became an alcoholic, you will. I am an alcoholic. I am neither proud of it nor am I ashamed of it. That's the way it is with me. I am an alcoholic who has not for 17 years and four months found it necessary…