The video "Bill Discusses the Twelve Traditions" is available from GSO (VS-20). It is in the current catalog in the AV material section catalog number (VS-20)...
The VHS tape is Conference-approved service material. You can purchase it directly from AAWS in NY or through your local Intergroup Central Office. It is item...
Jan 1929 - Bill W. wrote third promise in Bible to quit drinking. Jan 1940 - Akron group moves to new home at King School. Jan 1944 - Dr. Harry Tiebout's first...
Bill W and Dr Bob worked with two other alcoholics in 1935 before succeeding with Bill Dotson who became AA Number Three. There was a Dr McKay and then Edgar...
The wikipedia article on Emmet Fox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Fox contains the following sentence: "Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men...
Hi everyone I got my copy of the DVD from GSO in UK. Hope this helps. I presume GSO USA have copies. All good wishes to everyone for 2007 Susie D in the UK...
Regarding Glenn's reply about St, Monica, other patron saints of alcoholism include John of God, Martin of Tours, Matthias the Apostle, and Unban of Langres....
DR. JACK NORRIS' TALK MEMORIAL SERVICES for BILL WILSON NEW YORK, N.Y. FEB. 14TH, 1971 Our beloved Bill is dead. Even as I stand before you and say the words,...
Hi Ernie, Jerome Ellison was a regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post and may have offered his article to them. But he did publish one in The Nation...
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Jan 2, 2007 4:38 am
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I would suggest stopping first at the Akron Intergroup Office, 775 N. Main St., Akron, Ohio 44310, to view their fantastic history display in timeline order,...
I believe his name was Al Speckman. I will dig out the reference and send it along. Since his mother was Emmet's secretary, Bill, Ebby, Al and others would get...
Please take this with a grain of salt, but a medallion was shown to me by a fellow AA back in the seventies who was librarian at the state supreme court in...
Some time between Dr. Bpb's last drink and the when Bill and Dr. Bob first heard of Bill D., there was a man named Eddie R who was sober for at least a few...
I've got a scanned copy of Bill's written promises in his family bible. The specific date of his third promise was January 12, 1929. Bill wrote: "To tell you...
Apropos the film of Bill W. on the Twelve Traditions which is available from the United Kingdom GSO. The UK's GSO is moving this month to larger premises. The...
I have a couple of questions relative to the significant dates in AA history. Jan 23, 1985 - Bob B. died sober November 11, 2001. Who is Bob B.? Jan 24, 1945 -...
Seems the AA usage of the Just For Today card comes and goes, but the Card is part of Al-Anon Family Groups conference-approved literature that is regularly...
I was wondering if anyone had a PDF copy of the book draft that Bob P. (Pearson)(sp) worked on so long and could never get finished, not because of the author...
This date should make the list, seeing how Dr. Jung replied within a week: Jan. 23, 1961 - Bill W. sends an appreciation letter, which he considers long...
Hi Chris, Al Speckman sounds like the name, or is at least close. I believe he was the fellow who wrote the Responsibility Declaration. Re Emmet Fox, I've...
Mel Barger
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Jan 5, 2007 8:05 pm
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Is there anyone out there who has a complete set of Grapevines? I need covers from 1948 to mid 1950's nov85_gr@... (nov85_gr at graceba.net) ...
Here in Mexico there is a tongue in cheek retablo to the Patron Saint of AA: San Expedido (pedido is slang for drunk). It comes complete with tiny beer bottles...
I guess I'm confused [again :) ] What I have been thinking this thread was about was a bookmark size card that has "Just for Today" and a prayer by a Fra....
Chris, I just pulled this up. It appears that the name was "Steckman," not "Speckman." Mel Barger - - - Alcoholics Anonymous and Other Twelve-Step Programs in...
Mel Barger
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Jan 5, 2007 8:24 pm
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Hi Guys, This is the text of the Australian Just For Today Card. This is published by AA Australia and is available at all if not most meetings. I've been...
My mother-in-law used to attend many of Emmet Fox's talks in New York in the 30's and 40's. She said she would see Bill W. at many of them and that Bill always...
Also beloved among office workers and laborers in Mexico is San Lunes (Saint Monday), whose day is regularly observed by weekend bingers unable to show up :-) ...
I think I remember reading that there was an early editor of the Grapevine who came to us from Cleveland, and that his name was Tom X. or Tom Y. And that he...
