Just a minor irritant, but one that seems to
go on and on.

Ed Webster's sobriety date is December 13, 1941.
As listed in his story in his book Our Devilish
Alcoholic Personalities (Hamar Publishers, Edina,
Minnesota 1970).

Documented in the Archives Collection of the
Alano Society of Minneapolis, Inc.

It was not October 10, 1942, as given in
Message 3936.

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As an aside, Ed Webster went to meetings there
in his very early sobriety, taught Beginner's
Classes (in December, 1942) and only left to
join his Group (the Nicollet Group) when it
sought another meeting place along with (but
later than) Barry Collins in 1944. His delay
in leaving was to offer support to his friend
John Harrington until he finished his term as
President of the Alano Society (formerly known
and referred to as the Minneapolis Group).

As a further aside, Barry Collins (the 1st
known sober member of A.A. in Minnesota) was
a signatory to the Articles of Incorporation
of the Alano Society on March 28, 1942.

Ken Ring (former, I think) Archivist/Historian
Alano Society of Minneapolis, Inc.

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Ken,

My apology for the mistake. The web pages had
been corrected quite a while ago, but not loaded
on the web server (which of course didn't do
anybody any good!), and I went by mistake to the
uncorrected version. The correct dates for Ed
Webster are, I believe:

born March 21, 1892
sober December 13, 1941
died June 3, 1971

But please do check through the web pages on
Ed Webster and early Minnesota A.A., all of
which I just reloaded right now, and make sure
that I have gotten all the corrections inserted,
and did not miss any places where I had the
old, incorrect version:

http://hindsfoot.org/archives.html
http://hindsfoot.org/ed01.html
http://hindsfoot.org/ed02.html
http://hindsfoot.org/mnclass1.html
http://hindsfoot.org/mnfound1.html
http://hindsfoot.org/mnfound2.html

Glenn C.