Does anybody know what fonts have been used in the various editions of the Big Book and the Twelve and Twelve? The fonts on the cover of the 12x12 are...
Hi Jim Your statement is not correct. You also seem to be getting context a bit scrambled regarding the relationship between the Board and Conference. A 1976...
... My wife Jean and I watched these. She is a nurse who practiced in the Metropolitan New York City area as well as Long Island for over 35 years. She...
I read message #4543 referring to the first 100 AA members, and also looked at the list of the first 226 Akron members at http://hindsfoot.org/akrn226b.html I...
The annual Conference has passed Advisory Actions meant to protect the Doctor’s Opinion, the first 164 pages and Dr. Bob’s story from change without the...
I just received these today. I found them delightful, the March of Time played at ALL the American movie theaters. This is an example of the great Public...
Feb 1908 - Bill made boomerang. Feb 1916 - hazing incident Norwich University, Bill & sophomore class suspended Feb 1938 - Rockefeller gives $5,000 to AA. -...
I've heard that GSO provides a board of alcoholic and non alcoholic trustees that are entrusted to preserve the original text "forever" as it was originally...
Hi, I'm a reference librarian, and it occured to me that maybe some of you AA History researchers might find http://WorldCat.org of interest. This is the...
I am doing some research on Sybil C. from Los Angeles and her brother Tex. Does anyone have a copy of the letter Sybil wrote to Bill W. following Tex's death...
From Baileygc23, Jon Markle, and Jenny Andrews - - - - FROM: Baileygc23@... (Baileygc23 at aol.com) The big book says, this book is meant to be suggestive,...
I've got September 13, 1939 for Sylvia K's dry date. Wasn't Earl T her sponsor? Extracts from Nancy O's brief biographies of story authors state: For Earl T: ...
From "Sally Brown" <rev.sally@...> (rev.sally at att.net) Don't know how far anyone on AAHistoryLovers wants to take this fine-tooth combing of which women...
... Her name also appears, with an Evanston, Illinois address, on the First 226 Members in Akron list. I notice on this list, which is available at ...
... Sylvia K. relapsed when she returned to Chicago. Her new sobriety date was September 1939 date of the first AA meeting there. I had contacted her son a few...
The Akathist Hymn and the story of the Icon of the Inexhaustible Cup Translated by Sister Dorofea (Mirochnitchenko) and Katherine Szalasznyj From the Eastern...
Point of information - As far as I know, Sylvia K. got sober in Cleveland and Clarence was her sponsor. Her name appears on a meeting roster from the original...
From message # 3132 The first woman to arrive on the scene in AA (in 1935) was the legendary "Lil" of the "Victor and Lil" duo in Akron, OH (re "Dr Bob and the...
Florence Rankin (New York), Jane S. (Cleveland), Sylvia Kauffmann (Chicago), Ethel Macy (Akron), Mary Campbell (from somewhere in the South), Lil (in Dr Bob...
From Arthur S. and Bob S. Florence Rankin (New York), Jane S. (Cleveland), Sylvia Kauffmann (Chicago), Ethel Macy (Akron) - - - - David L. asked: A question...
In the early days in Cleveland, if one could not afford treatment (which equated only to detox in an "approved" hospital) there was the AA Association. Members...
From Dr. Bob's Last Major Talk, December 1948: "The fact that my sobriety has been maintained continuously for 13½ years doesn't allow me to think that I am...
There is a great deal of "AA theater" in the way some choose to officiously portray the Big Book and ordain it to a hyper-hallowed station on the altar of...
AAHistoryLovers, In case it has been missed ... The dust jacket of the Fourth Edition has this statement: "This is the Fourth Edition of the Big Book, the...
Ditto to everything said by Mitch and Bill. Nowhere in the Big Book does it say that it's a text book. It says: "Because this book has become the Basic text...
We should note that the quotation from pp 307-8 in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age is from an appendix - a paper titled "A new approach to psychotherapy in...
... - - - - That part of the foreword has stuck out to me for some time. The foreword itself has a lot of useful information. Do we know who wrote it? The...
A question came up in my group. Who was the first woman to join AA and when did she join? Can anyone help? - - - - From the moderator: if you go to our Message...
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