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1968 Lash, William (Bill)
barefootbill69 Send Email
Aug 2, 2004
3:10 pm
Ruth O'N. got sober on 4/14/48. Within a few months, at a meeting in Brooklyn NY, she was given a business card by another AA member. On one side of the card...
1969 ny-aa@... Send Email Aug 3, 2004
9:19 pm
Hi, Group: I have seen the old Alcoholics Anonymous Preamble that Lee asked about referred to as "The Old Baltimore Prologue" and as "The Wilmington AA...
1970 Jaime Maliachi
jmaliachi@... Send Email
Aug 6, 2004
8:44 pm
Good day, everybody. My name is Jimbo and I am an alcoholic. Does anybody know in which year in the early groups, the fellows started to speak from the...
1971 michael oates
moates57 Send Email
Aug 13, 2004
8:45 pm
We at the Kansas City Ofice have a request about the orgin of the principles associated with the steps and the traditions. Please Help...
1972 ny-aa@... Send Email Aug 13, 2004
9:55 pm
This topic has been run around the yard a few times in the past. Nancy recently summarized one such discussion in post 1802 of this forum: ...
1973 Arthur
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 14, 2004
6:13 am
Hi Michael Each Step, Tradition and Concept is, of itself, a "principle&quot; (i.e. a rule of personal conduct). When you see wall charts or wallet cards that...
1974 Audrey Borden
voiceuser Send Email
Aug 18, 2004
12:22 am
Greetings AA Historians, I'm hoping you can help me track down the first publication date of the AA pamphlet "AA and the Woman." The copyright on the version I...
1975 Jim Blair
jim27422001 Send Email
Aug 18, 2004
11:52 am
Audry wrote Can anyone verify this and give me the publication date? Your help is much appreciated. The unpublished history manuscript by Bob P (1985) contains...
1976 Arthur
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 18, 2004
11:53 am
Hi Audrey The pamphlet "AA for the woman" is one of the oldest pieces of literature in AA. It was Conference-approved in 1952 by Panel 2 (the first Conference...
1977 dbennitt@...
ben2981 Send Email
Aug 18, 2004
11:53 am
In a message dated 8/17/2004 8:12:51 PM Central Standard Time, ... I have a pamphlet titled AA FOR WOMEN, published by THE ALCOHOLIC FOUNDATION, ALCOHOLICS...
1978 Robert Stonebraker
rstonebraker... Send Email
Aug 18, 2004
9:25 pm
For many years I believed that the idea of serving drunks a diet of sauerkraut, tomatoes and syrup originated with Dr. Bob at St. Thomas Hospital in the mid...
1979 Stef Donev
sdonev Send Email
Aug 19, 2004
10:45 am
I found the following at:: http://www.wemac.com/info/adm_hist.html The Changing Role of the Physician in the Treatment of Chemical Dependence Thomas L. Haynes,...
1980 wilfried antheunis
wilant@... Send Email
Aug 19, 2004
11:14 am
I have two copies of "Alcoholic Anonymous Comes of Age." The newest says on spine "A.A. World Services" and inside says: "Twelfth Printing 1986" The older copy...
1981 Roger Wheatley
rogerwheatle... Send Email
Aug 20, 2004
1:23 am
Terrific reference, thanks! The answer causes another question. Does anyone know if the prayer refered to by Panel 2 as the "AA prayer" was the Serenity...
1982 Jim S.
planternva2000 Send Email
Aug 20, 2004
1:25 am
"Another fact about Dr. Bob that is often understated or ignored is the fact that he was addicted to pills as well as to alcohol." Thomas L. Haynes, M. D. Can...
1983 Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 21, 2004
11:40 am
Re "Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers" pgs 32 & 33 - Dr Bob did barbiturates by day and booze by night. At the bottom of pg 32 it states "He contracted what in...
1984 Johnny Hughes
the_toucher Send Email
Aug 23, 2004
2:08 pm
Hello all you history lovers.... Somewhere I read an article about someone doing research on the present recovery rate and they had secured information from a...
1985 Glenn Chesnut
glennccc Send Email
Aug 23, 2004
10:46 pm
The Earliest Printings of Richmond Walker's Twenty-Four Hours a Day Glenn C. (South Bend, Indiana) Jack H. (Scottsdale, Arizona), who has one of the best...
1986 Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 23, 2004
10:48 pm
Hi This topic has been addressed previously and I'd like to resubmit most of the same reply I did last time. ... Pinning down success rates is not a trivial...
1987 Mel Barger
melb@... Send Email
Aug 24, 2004
2:23 pm
Hi All, I appreciate Arthur's thoughts on this subject of determining recovery rates. For some time now, various people have insisted that AA's success rate...
1988 NMOlson@...
moyerolson Send Email
Aug 24, 2004
4:21 pm
Post 1983 says in part: "Others who also experimented with LSD were Father Dowling, the Rev Sam Shoemaker and Lois Wilson. Marty Mann, Bill's mistress, Helen...
1989 Klaus Mäkelä
klaus.makela@... Send Email
Aug 24, 2004
4:24 pm
What follows are excerpts from the abstract and discussion of the following article: Mäkelä, Klaus. (1994). Rates of attrition among the membership of...
1990 butterfly2479
dobermansiamese Send Email
Aug 25, 2004
11:41 am
The 20 questions are often sited and used in various re-written forms...I am aware that AA has Its' use of them copyrighted now, and contained in one of its'...
1991 Dennis Mardon
aliden2 Send Email
Aug 25, 2004
11:45 am
Thanks to Glenn C. for posting that history of the early writing, printing and distribution of the Twenty-Four Hours a Day book by Richard W. I seem to...
1992 R. Peter Nixon
rpeternixon Send Email
Aug 25, 2004
11:49 am
Hello, In response to Johnny's question, the following is an excerpt from an article entitled, "Don't Drink and Go to Meetings". The entire article may be...
1993 Danny S
frunobulax57 Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
11:34 am
Dr. Bob has long been credited with saying "Remember, Bill, let's not louse this thing up. Let's keep it simple," as his last words to Bill Wilson. While Dr...
1994 AC
aceyahut Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
11:36 am
... I'm no math whiz but, with respect, there is a huge logical flaw in this question. The implied assumption is that each "desire chip" represents a unique ...
1995 t
tcumming Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
11:45 am
Peter, To those unfamiliar with actual membership in AA, I think it may well have made sense to compare number of chips sold as a elementary attempt to compare...
1996 Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
11:51 am
Hi Dennis I found 3 references in the listings of Conference Advisory Actions. 1953: Delegates weigh this question for submission to the 1954 Conference: Does...
1997 Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
11:55 am
This doesn't make sense and it comes across a lot more as mythology rather than history. We are supposed to be a history group. The data circulated are not...
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