The use of Mother Group rather than Home Group existed in Philadelphia and several other cities up until the term Neighborhood group was used. (When more than...
Shakey1aa@...
Aug 1, 2007 4:00 pm
4447
The 95% dropout rate is inaccurate and based on flawed statistics. Rather than 5% of A.A. members remaining at the end of one year a more accurate estimate is...
From: "Tom Hickcox" <cometkazie1@...> (cometkazie1 at cox.net) Clarence Snyder's 1944 pamphlet on sponsorship said: "9. To give the new member a broad and ...
... Both these answers refer to morning devotionals that Anne had in her house. I think equating these with what became A.A. meetings is a stretch. Those...
1944 A.A. Sponsorship Pamphlet by Clarence Snyder http://www.barefootsworld.net/aasponsorship1944.html Barefoot tells us in his introduction: This is the first...
From: "mary" <MaryGerbermom1@...> (MaryGerbermom1 at aol.com) Hi Simon.....Look on page 71 in the book Dr Bob and the Good Old Timers and you will find...
From: <xii.step.society@...> (xii.step.society at verizon.net) Simon -- I don't know where it came from -- other than someone's compassion. But we...
Hi Everyone I wonder if anyone could help me with a query about the silence that we hold at the beginning of meetings here in the UK. The wording which is...
The Oxford Groups had sponsors and the guiding motto was "Walk with the new man until he becomes a life changer then leave him alone as the needs of others...
Hi Everyone, Does anyone know where Bill W said, "At our meetings, we should contribute the cost of a drink" ? This was brought up at my area meeting and I...
For Northern California: Dear Holly, "In 1952 ... a meeting was called at the AA Council Conference." The purpose of this meeting was to establish a statewide...
I'm a new Member here and excited that such a group exists. I've been looking in my books -- other than Bill and Bob -- does anyone know when having a...
Hello! As members of this group know, we already have historical accounts written about the earliest A.A. international conventions, beginning with the First...
The first eight A.A. International Conventions For the early A.A. internationals, we have brief historical accounts written up in a variety of different...
Back in that day there was no Alanon. Families of alcoholics came to AA meetings and parti- cipated freely. At that time, AA believed that its "primary ...
Evidently, when Fr Ed Dowling spoke to the clergy in Brooklyn in 1953 he made use of earlier conversations with Bill. In The Soul of Sponsorship, p. 62, in a...
Why did Bill W. and the others include the story "An Alcoholic's Wife" on page 378 of the first edition BB when she was not an alcoholic? One day at a time, ...
Personal Ads Alcoholism: A small body of anonymous ex-sufferers place themselves at the disposal of any who require help. The offer is quite gratuitous. Write...
Much has been written about the on-line v f2f deletion in the Preface to the BB fourth edition. Comparatively little attention has been paid to a smaller...
How does a quote from Father Dowling's 1953 Queens Work publication serve as the source for a 1952 publication, the 12&12? It would seem more likely that...
In Message 4426, "Arthur S" <ArtSheehan@...> ... This Conference agenda item arose out of an incident in a District neighboring mine. A member of the...
Hi Kathy If an obituary is placed in newspaper, or other medium, regarding a deceased AA member, it is up to the family of the deceased member to decide what...
N.C.C.A. "BLUE BOOK" AN ANTHOLOGY Catholic Asceticism and the Twelve Steps Reverend Edward Dowling, S.J. The Queen's Work, St. Louis, Missouri Brooklyn, 1953 ...
From kathypetit2 and Charlie Perkins - - - - From: "kathypetit2" <kathypetit2@...> (kathypetit2 at yahoo.com) From what I've been told, once you pass on ...
As people who have read my postings over the last few years may have noticed, I have been working on a book about AA's print culture -- what was written and...
Trysh Travis
ttravis@...
Jul 10, 2007 2:05 am
4421
In a talk at Texas State Convention in 1954 recounting the making of the Big Book, Bill W. used the phrase "On what slender threads our destiny sometimes...
From Arthur S. and Shakey Mike G. - - - - From: "Arthur S" <ArtSheehan@...> (ArtSheehan at msn.com) Hi Murray The GSO of the US/Canada will uniformly and ...
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