Family Circle As non-alcoholic mates and families see the AA program... August 1953 AA Grapevine How One AA Wife Lives the 12 Steps Lois W., AA's "first lady"...
Hello, I am from Chicago and recently attended a business meeting that was reduced to bedlum. It raised a question...does anyone know where in our literature...
I doubt you find anything like what you are looking for in any of the literature. Like just about everything else in our program, the formats to our meeting...
Peggy of Chicago, Illinois wrote Hello, I am from Chicago and recently attended a business meeting that was reduced to bedlam. It raised a question...does...
Ron K. Long
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Sep 10, 2002 11:21 am
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Friends, Normally I restrict this list to AA History, but last year on this date I received many, many messages from members of AA History Buffs from around...
WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD SPONSOR, AS MINNEAPOLIS SEES IT July 1945 AA Grapevine (Many groups have used to good advantage the sponsor system, one of which is...
Dear AA History Lovers, The following are excerpts from posts asking questions about the third tradition and from some of the responses. If your post is not...
Hi Nancy, I don't know how to post stuff for HistoryLovers, but I would like to allude to the letter from Arthur referring to pages 317-318 in "Pass It On." I...
melb
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Sep 18, 2002 1:28 am
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Dear Friends, I took the liberty of speaking for us all when I sent this message to be read later this month at the reunion of those AA members who worked at...
A LASTING AND RESILIENT FRIENDSHIP Bill Wilson first visited Chicago in February of 1940 to share in the excitement of rapid growth in a new AA Chapter, the...
Transcribed from a talk given by Bill W. at Chicago, IL, February 1951. The title of the talk is "The Need for GSO." Excerpt- "I must say that a powerful...
THE FIRST OUTREACH IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS An Illinois 1930s-era college farm town would always have at least one drug store with a soda fountain, penny candy,...
David, My impression is that there is no set prayer that was required, pre Big Book publication. A prayer was said or ad libbed 'from the heart' so to speak....
Does anyone know why the first edition seventh printing 1945 is so rare? I know 5000 where printed. the myth I heard is most where sent overseas at that time...
bikergaryg@...
Sep 29, 2002 12:09 pm
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Hi all I'm quite new on this list & still feeling my way. I was on it for a while, though not sufficienly long to be considered a "regular." I have some...
K. Lynch
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Oct 1, 2002 10:23 am
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Hi Kieran, Ah, how I would love to visit AA in Australia! I suspect that the basic reason the 2nd edition "Foreword" said "1937" is that the early AAs were...
Ernest Kurtz
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Oct 1, 2002 2:55 pm
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Changes to the Forward of The Big Book -- 3rd and 4th Edition Note from Ron Long October 1, 2002 I read some rather interesting emails this morning. The one...
Ron K. Long
rklaa@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:04 pm
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Hello Everybody: This is a comment on Ron Long's suggestion that April 1939 should be the starting point for AA, not June 10, 1935. Nell Wing (Bill's longtime...
melb
melb@...
Oct 1, 2002 7:09 pm
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Ernie, GSO had a picture of the large group of Doctors at the AMA convention from 1935 at the recent Archives Workshop.... Dr Bob was missing from the...
Comment on Ron Long's history account. I have the name of Joe Worthum as the man who gave the name to the book. His family own the New Yorker Magazine. Diz T. ...
Greetings: This past month I was doing research on the 3rd Tradition. I heard on a tape (I do not remember which one) where Bill Wilson said that that a man...
... [snip] ... Doug, It's not a case of "lying": it's a matter of memory. Imagine Bill and Bob, in late 1938, trying to remember the date, long before "last...
Ernest Kurtz
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Oct 2, 2002 3:29 pm
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The passage is in my copy of the 3rd edition, as in the 2nd, as in the 4th. In Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers , p. 122, "it was probably early 1937 when a few...
I recently sent the following to AAWS, INC. and would sure like to get feedback from other long-standing members of the Fellowship of AA: Good day folks! My...
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Diz Titcher of Tallahassee, Florida is no doubt correct that Joe
Worthum, rather than Joe Ward, was the name of the gentleman...
Ron K. Long
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Oct 2, 2002 3:51 pm
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Hello anothermemberaa, Whether your local AA servants (District, Intergroup?) are planning to take any action on Club No.2 with its Groups, our Sixth Tradition...
I have seen the photo of the AMA Convention at GSO & it is a beautiful piece! Just to let you know, 6/10/35 was a Monday back then & the Convention went from...
This file was originally started to make it easier to find links between people, places and things mentioned in the Third edition of the Big Book, Alcoholics...
Hi Everybody: This is further comment on Rick's letter about the Big Book development. The newspaperman in Akron who apparently pulled things together out...
