"In the wake of Alcoholic Anonymous' success,
several colleges and universities offer Bill W. honorary degrees. He
declines, explaining why in this excerpt from a letter to Yale
University, which had proposed an honorary Doctor of Laws degree:
"The tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous . . . entreats each member to
avoid all that particular kind of personal publicity or distinction
which might link his name with our Society in the general public mind."
He then quotes A.A.'s need for anonymity, as stated in Tradition Twelve."
(AAWS Inc)
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