BASIC CONCEPTS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS N.Y. STATE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE Vol. 44, Aug.,1944. William G. Wilson Alcoholics Anonymous is an informal fellowship of...
General Service Conference Closing Comments Bill W. For the fourteenth time, I have seen the closing of these successive conferences and I cannot think of one,...
Impressions of A. A. BY THE CHICAGO GROUP (1940's) When membership in ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS was first suggested to us by an alcoholic friend, it was with...
FROM NM Olson WILL THE REAL MARTY MANN PLEASE STAND UP "I went trembling into a house in Brooklyn filled with strangers ... and I found I had come home at...
From: NM Olson Ethel M. was also the 2nd delegate (panel 3, 1953) to the general service conference. She followed Bill D. of "Alcoholics Anonymous Number...
From: NM Olson Sybil C. was the first woman to enter AA west of the Mississippi. Her date of sobriety was March 23, 1941. Her name at the time was Sybil...
From: NM Olson Bobby (Bobbie?) Burger was probably Marty Mann's second success at helping other women into AA. In the fall of 1939 two women turned up at a...
From: NM Olson Nona Wyman was Marty Mann's first success in trying to help other alcoholic women. Although the AA men were kind to Marty, as was Lois Wilson,...
From: NM Olson HAROLD WHO? Should a recovered alcoholic be considered for the Presidency of the United States? The imponderables - how to get middle America...
From: NM Olson Fr. Pfau was born on November 10, 1904, and died on February 19, 1967. He was a priest in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, ordained at St....
There is one photograph of Bobbie over the bookcases on the second floor at Stepping Stones, and it shows a healthy, attractive early-30s woman, most likely...
From: NM Olson BILL W on "HOW THE BIG BOOK WAS PUT TOGETHER-2 So, the preparation started and some more chapters were done and we went to A.A. meetings in New...
From: NM Olson Hi Buffs, Here is a talk Bill Wilson gave in Fort Worth, Texas in 1954. It touches on several subjects, but primarily on how the Big Book was...
From: NM Olson THE STEPS OF A.A. - AN INTERPRETATION Written by Clarence H. Snyder, January 1972 Alcoholics Anonymous is not a "booze cure" or a psychological...
From: NM Olson My Higher Power - The Light Bulb By Clarence H. Snyder (Clarence started AA group #3 in Cleveland & in the beginning had a higher recovery rate...
From: NM Olson Father Ed and AA's Bill W. by Robert Fitzgerald, Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was down. His feet hung over the end of the...
... is a desire to stop drinking.> "> Here are two examples of why this ... Anonymous ... Alcoholics Anonymous held December 4, 1941, it was decided that...
One small correction: Sybil C passed away May 14th, 1998 and her memorial service was held on June 6th, 1998 in the War Memorial Building - 435 Fairoaks in...
From: Lash, William (Bill) This is the first pamphlet ever written concerning sponsorship. It was written by Clarence H. Snyder in early 1944. Its original...
From: NM Olson The Legacy of Recovery Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the...
From: Glenn Chesnut The pamphlet which was handed out to people being checked into the hospital by Dr. Bob and Sister Ignatia in Akron in 1940 talks at length...
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" What We Were Like Emmet Fox and Alcoholics Anonymous One of the very early recovering alcoholics who worked with co-founder Bill...
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" The AA Grapevine December 1948 (From the section called "News Circuit") More than 2,000 members of Alcoholics Anonymous and...
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" A Fragment of History and a Tribute By Bill W. From the May 1957 AA Grapevine Dr. A. Wiese Hammer, seventy-seven, and a Fellow of...
From: NM Olson This is from Mike O., of The Just Do It Big Book Study Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, DeBary, Florida. He has graciously given permission to...
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" Working Together (From the February 1980 AA Grapevine) Twenty years of striving for progress in helping suffering alcoholics and...
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" Helping Hands (From the August 1956 Grapevine) Psychiatry Upset By 'Peace' Drugs Association Warns Against Tranquilizing Pills...
From: NM Olson DO YOU KNOW ..............? What the Purpose of the Foundation Is: Answer: The Alcoholic Foundation is comprised of seven trustees, four of...
From: NM Olson Grapevine, June 1944 -- "Grapevine" in Bow. (Author unknown, but probably Bill Wilson.) In a big smoke-filled room six ink-stained wretches...
From: NM Olson EDITORIAL The Shape of Things to Come In the book Alcoholics Anonymous There is a chapter called "A Vision for You." Wandering through it...
