How did the tradition of introducing ourselves as an alcoholic at meetings get started? Larry, in New Mexico....
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tcumming
Sep 1, 2003 12:04 pm
Grapevine, June 1946 32 New Groups New groups formed in the month ending May 10 include: CALIFORNIA--Maywood and West Adams (Los Angeles). INDIANA--Union City....
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Charles
Charles_Knapp
Sep 1, 2003 9:37 pm
This is from a past issue of Box 459, but I do not remember which issue. (unfortunately I didn't save that data) Think it give a good explanation of this...
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jenny andrews
eze_kiel03
Sep 2, 2003 12:40 pm
Neither the 12 and 12 nor Big Book (first three editions) were AA Conference-approved - presumably because there was no Conference to approve them when they...
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t
tcumming
Sep 2, 2003 12:41 pm
Grapevine, July 1946 A.A.'s Country-Wide News Circuit A.A. in Atlanta, Ga., has made great progress since its birth five years ago. The two groups are plugging...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
Sep 2, 2003 12:42 pm
America, June 10, 1950. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS By Edward Duff Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist at Blythewood Sanatarium, Greenwich, Connecticut, faced his...
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ny-aa@...
Sep 2, 2003 7:55 pm
There are bound to be other books and pamphlets with similar names. Tracy may be asking about "Alcoholics Anonymous - An Interpretation of the Twelve Steps."...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
Sep 3, 2003 9:59 am
Hi The Delegates wasted no time in implementing the Conference-approval process for AA literature. It was one of the first items they addressed. The General...
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ricktompkins
ricktompkins...
Sep 3, 2003 10:10 am
hi Group, I can suggest three resources for early pamphlets that are still very much in use and are currently in print. The 20-paged Detroit pamphlet was a...
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cdknapp
Charles_Knapp
Sep 3, 2003 10:13 am
Hello, The First General Service Conference took place in 1951 and the 12 & 12 was printed in 1953. So there was a conference before this book was published....
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lent51001
Sep 3, 2003 10:13 am
The book I'm researching came into the possesion of a friend some time ago, acquired in treatment from another patient. It's copyright 1946, published by the...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
Sep 3, 2003 4:40 pm
Extension, Vol.45:8-9, November 1950 I WAS A DRUNKARD A Catholic member looks at Alcoholics Anonymous. Ten years ago I was a drunkard. Then some erstwhile...
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t
tcumming
Sep 3, 2003 4:42 pm
Grapevine, July 1946 24 New Groups New groups reported in the month ending June 7 include: CALIFORNIA--Anaheim and Whittier. CONNECTICUT--Saybrook. ...
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John Gorman
gtarchives
Sep 3, 2003 5:04 pm
Archives Breakfast The 19th Annual Archives Breakfast will be held on Sunday November 9th this year. Once again, the unique event will be at The Oasis...
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Rachel Ivie
noclawmarks
Sep 3, 2003 8:38 pm
I have a question. I recall seeing some place an outline for groups to use at a group conscience to evaluate the groups effectiveness. Does anyone know where I...
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Al Welch
welch@...
Sep 4, 2003 2:04 am
There is a pretty good explanation of this in the AA pamphlet "The AA Group" ... From: Rachel Ivie To: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
Sep 4, 2003 2:08 am
Hi Rachel It sounds like you are are referring to the pamphlet The AA Group and how to conduct a Group Inventory. In the January 2002 version of The AA Group...
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Travis, Trysh
ttravis@...
Sep 4, 2003 2:17 am
I am wondering if people can help me gather some background information on some amateur AA literature I have found. I am interested in knowing the publication...
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Danny S
frunobulax57
Sep 4, 2003 11:09 am
TRADITIONS CHECKLIST Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. 1. Am I in my group a healing, mending,...
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Glenn Chesnut
gfchesnut@...
Sep 4, 2003 11:15 am
What is now called "The Little Red Book" (the distinguish it from other works with similar titles) had as its original title: An Interpretation of The Twelve...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
Sep 4, 2003 11:25 am
Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 2 (13), April 1951 THE PASTOR'S RESOURCES IN DEALING WITH ALCOHOLICS Alcoholics Are Consumed With Guilt; They DoNot Need to Be...
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Glenn Chesnut
gfchesnut@...
Sep 4, 2003 11:28 am
The question was asked by Larry in New Mexico, "How did the tradition of introducing ourselves as an alcoholic at meetings get started?" Sgt. Bill S. (Sonoma...
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Lash, William (Bill)
barefootbill69
Sep 4, 2003 4:55 pm
Please keep in mind that the current "Little Red Book" & the "50th Anniversary Edition of The Little Red Book" (Hazelden, 1996, ISBN: 1-56838-149-2) are...
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Noreen
neeron1
Sep 4, 2003 9:20 pm
"Nor can men and women of AA ever forget that only through suffering did they find enough humility to enter the portals of that new world. How privileged we...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
Sep 4, 2003 9:31 pm
Trysh wrote ... some amateur AA literature I have found. Areas still produce literature that does not bear the Conference Approved stamp. Bright Star Press has...
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Glenn Brown
texbro@...
Sep 5, 2003 12:32 am
Hi Group...My Husband Tex Brown who got sober in Skokie, IL, just outside of Chicago and who passed away in October of 2000 with 53 years of sobriety, said...
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Lash, William (Bill)
barefootbill69
Sep 5, 2003 8:05 am
Does anyone know what the deal is with whether or not the "What Is AA" reading that most groups open with (published by the AA Grapevine) is Conference...
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Jon Markle
ncsilverbear
Sep 5, 2003 8:08 am
My old home group, in Wilmington, NC, where I got sober (9/9/82), we did not introduce ourselves as "alcoholics" either. We did, however use both our first...
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t
tcumming
Sep 5, 2003 8:22 am
Grapevine, Aug 1946 A.A.'s Country-Wide News Circuit Five years ago, two Oklahoma City alcoholics, unknown to each other, wrote to the Central Office in New...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
Sep 5, 2003 2:44 pm
Integrity, Vol. 5: 17-29, September 1951 SCIENCE, RELIGION and ALCOHOLISM By John Doe I am an active Catholic layman, conscious of the privileges and the...
