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...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:16 pm
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...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:17 pm
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...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:18 pm
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...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:18 pm
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,...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:18 pm
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...
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Jun 3, 2002 1:20 pm
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....
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Jun 4, 2002 10:39 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 11:35 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 11:36 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 11:37 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 11:37 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 11:38 am
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...
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Jun 4, 2002 3:09 pm
... is a desire to stop drinking.> "> Here are two examples of why this ... Anonymous ... Alcoholics Anonymous held December 4, 1941, it was decided that...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:09 am
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...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:53 pm
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...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:53 pm
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...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:53 pm
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...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:55 pm
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...
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Jun 5, 2002 3:55 pm
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" The AA Grapevine December 1948 (From the section called "News Circuit") More than 2,000 members of Alcoholics Anonymous and...
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Jun 6, 2002 12:08 pm
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...
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Jun 6, 2002 12:09 pm
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...
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Jun 6, 2002 12:09 pm
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" Working Together (From the February 1980 AA Grapevine) Twenty years of striving for progress in helping suffering alcoholics and...
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Jun 6, 2002 12:09 pm
From: "Lash, William (Bill)" Helping Hands (From the August 1956 Grapevine) Psychiatry Upset By 'Peace' Drugs Association Warns Against Tranquilizing Pills...
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Jun 6, 2002 12:12 pm
From: NM Olson DO YOU KNOW ..............? What the Purpose of the Foundation Is: Answer: The Alcoholic Foundation is comprised of seven trustees, four of...
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Jun 7, 2002 1:03 pm
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...
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Jun 7, 2002 1:04 pm
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...
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Jun 7, 2002 1:04 pm
From: NM Olson Grapevine, June 1944 -- A.A. GOES TO SEA Or rather the merchant seamen have discovered A.A.! Just over a year ago, Dr. Florence Powdermaker, a...
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Jun 7, 2002 1:04 pm
From: "Jim Blair" Here are some of the Grapevine articles on the "Circle and Triangle" which may provide some insight to the decisions which were made ...
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Jun 8, 2002 11:55 am
From: NM Olson Hi, Buffs: Our wonderful friend in England, Max C. has sent me some information on AA in the UK. I find it fascinating and hope you will too. ...
