In 1992, teachers in Anchorage, Alaska found copies of "The Way to Happiness" in their school mailboxes accompanied by a letter inviting the teachers to order more copies and distribute them to their students. Parents complained to the school district, and the school districts director of secondary education, Bill Mell, instructed school principals to tell teachers not to order "The Way to Happiness". Mell told the "Anchorage Daily News": "I don't know that it went to every teacher ... It looks as if they got a hold of the teachers' mailing list." A local businessman and Scientologist who was a member of the Concerned Businessmen's Association of America organization paid for the books to be distributed to the schools, and told the "Anchorage Daily News" that he believed both "The Way to Happiness" and the Concerned Businessmen's Association of America were not affiliated with the Church of Scientology.