"Anne Smith's Journal" by Dick B. pg 69 talks some about: "witness-give it away to keep it." Which she used and talked about mornings in the quiet time during...
Dear AA Friends, In the late 1990’s, I donated to the Indianapolis (Indiana) Intergroup what I believed was a first printing, first edition Big Book for...
Hi Kilroy, I'd heard that Johnstone Parr had passed on. I think he was a professor at Kent State University. The Social Security Death Index lists a...
Mel Barger
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Aug 28, 2006 9:02 pm
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"Dartmoor Bill", who died on Tuesday aged 85, was the longest-sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous in Britain and Europe, having not touched a drink for the...
Hi Mel Re the paper below EARLY ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT: THE EMMANUEL MOVEMENT and RICHARD PEABODY Katherine McCarthy, Ph.D. Journal of Studies on Alcohol,...
As a possible item of interest on the give it away/want to keep it paradox, the Tradition 5 essay in the 12&12 (published 1953) states the following: "There is...
Johnstone P. from Ohio? You probably mean John P. from Atlanta. ____________________________ At 00:23 8/20/2006 , kilroy@... wrote: Can someone tell...
Questions from Jerry and abigapple about (1) when and where what we now call closed AA meetings (alcoholics only and no spouses allowed anywhere near the...
Hi group, "90 meetings in 90 days"-- who hasn't heard that suggestion in AA at least once? In a Bright Star Press pamphlet that definitely pre-dates 1970 (when...
Can someone tell me whatever happened to Johnstone P. from Ohio? His story appeared in the second edition of the Big Book and was missing thereafter. I often...
Hi Art, Is there any documentation for the statement that Richard Peabody died drunk? Mel Barger melb@... (melb at accesstoledo.com) ...
Mel Barger
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Aug 24, 2006 6:58 pm
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Hi John Dr Silkworth's July 27, 1938 letter was written under the letterhead of the Charles B Towns Hospital which enjoyed a national reputation in alcohol and...
Comments from Ernie Kurtz, Art Boudreault, and Arkie Koehl From: Ernest Kurtz <kurtzern@...> (kurtzern at umich.edu) Hi Art, As usual, you are so right....
I came across a news article about Clarence S attending the 20th annual Alberta AA Conference in Edmonton. Does anyone know when this conference was held? Bob...
Jon, Courage to Change is the newer meditation book of Alanon. The cliche about "Take what you need..." is not in the basic Al-Anon literature. The two ...
... A photo of first Silkworth letter is dated July 27, 1938, and included in Dale Mitchel's 2002 biog of Doctor Silkworth,The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks...
Hello Folks, I have been so Busy I simply for got the beginging of this month this Month. Significant August dates in AA history Aug 1934 - Rowland H and Cebra...
Hi Paul There is an old saying that "imitation is the highest form of flattery." Such seems to be the case for the common expressions and catchphrases in AA...
Good morning all! The first letter in "The Doctor's Opinion" was written by Dr. Silkworth on 7/27/38 as a referral letter for AA. The second "statement" is...
From: "Jon Markle" <serenitylodge@...> (serenitylodge at bellsouth.net) "Take what you need and leave the rest" is a "saying" that is heard often at...
in the Big Book there are two letters written by Dr. Silkworth. What is the time frame between the two letters, and why were there two eventually written? ...
Hi everybody In another cyberforum came up a discussion about this AA motto or saying. Something like "Take what you want and leave the rest." It is widely...
The statement "Thirty meetings in thirty days" was all-the-go in the Los Angeles area where I sobered up in the mid-1970s. So that version of the slogan goes...
A transcript of the recent newspaper article about Rowland Hazard's Pottery Business in La Luz, New Mexico, from the local newspaper there. Sent in by Ted...
I just got off the phone (12 August 06) with Sylvia's son Phillip. He told me that she was very active in AA until her death on Oct 31st 1974. Sylvia had been...
Glenn F. Chesnut, "Changed by Grace: V. C. Kitchen, the Oxford Group, and A.A." (in press, to appear in October, 2006), page 162, note 94. A. J. RUSSELL AND...
Hi Archie I would love to find out both who the "super promoter" member was as well as the group. I don't get a sense that Bill W was exercising poetic...
Who was this 'promoter member' who sent the Rule #62 story, or was this an example of poetic license? Archie _____________________________ 1940 Early, the...
Bill W also addresses the matter of instincts exceeding their proper function in the 12&12. In the Step 4 essay in the 12&12: "Nearly every serious emotional...
In one sense, the "AA Archives" began in the late 1920s and early 1930s, while Bill was still drinking, when Lois Wilson, convinced that Bill was or somehow...
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