About two years ago, many people thought that it was about time that we had an intergroup here in New York. We can't call it intergroup because it would be very confusing with the AA intergroup. So we are now calling it the Al-Anon Family Group Council. And I'd like to give you Mary, who is the assistant chairman of the council. Well, I would like to tell you briefly something of the functioning of our council, which, as Sue says, does serve in our organization in a similar way to the intergroup of AA. As she said, it had long been in the minds of those older in the organization that there was a need for some such local coordinating group, thereby relieving some of the pressure on the headquarters to carry on their growing national and international functioning. As a start with this, at one of our regular exchange meetings, a proposed constitution was presented to these members to take back to their home groups and present for their vote as to whether or not they wish to join this group, and if so, that they should elect a delegate who would speak for them at these meetings. And they also would indicate to what extent they felt they could support it, make financial contributions to it. The first meeting was held under temporary chairman, at which time officers and members of the steering committee were elected by these delegates. It was then the duty of these officers to find space, office space, and make all the necessary moves towards setting up a working office and get the procedures in motion for staffing this office, which was to be entirely by volunteers. That was successfully done in April a year ago, and at that time we opened our office at 10 East 40th Street here in New York with the five-day week, 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, those hours, with the specific duties at the beginning of taking phone inquiries, some of which came to us directly, some of which were referred to us by headquarters as they were local, personal interviews with people who called on the phone and felt that they could talk more easily in person, and then answering mail inquiries. Many of those, they come, as Henrietta says, in much greater volume after some publication in a newspaper of an…