54 pages.  This year (2011), Al-Anon is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its founding. Over the course of these years, Al-Anon has emerged as the prevailing long-term support model for families facing alcoholism and other conditions—particularly chronic health disorders—that threaten their stability, health, and quality of life. Through its growth in North America and international dispersion and its wide adaptation to family problems other than alcoholism, Al- Anon has much to be proud of at this special time in its history.  The sixtieth anniversary of Al-Anon seemed a fitting time to review some of the historical milestones within Al-Anon and to set these milestones within the larger context of the evolving professional and scientific views on alcoholism and the family. The primary audiences for this chronology include addiction professionals, research scientists, and students who are interested in conducting research on Al-Anon and the history of worldwide responses to the impact of alcoholism on the family. The goal was not to list all relevant research, but to provide a representative sampling of publications that could convey the evolution of interest and understanding about alcoholism and the family.