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use the money, but A.A. is unequivocally noncommercial." Acceptance of ads would expose them to "pressure and to the theory of obligatory back-scratching." Saldos amigos!" [this places Chattanooga group as starting in sometime in 1941]
GV May46, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Johnson City." GV May46, in "News Circuit" column it mentions: "The Memphis, Tenn., A.A.s a few month ago began making calls on the alcoholics at the West Tennessee State Hospital at Bolivar, at the request of doctors in charge. Each band of visiting A.A.s is different from the preceding one. Some of the alcoholic patients, on release from the hospital, are now beginning to get in touch with the group."
and Murfreesboro." GV Jan47, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE: Athens." GV Mar47, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Paris." GV May47, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—McMinnville."
"Birthdays Recall Growth—More than 400 persons attended the third anniversary of A.A. in Memphis, Term., at the Hotel Chisca recently. From three members in April, 1944, Memphis now has three groups, Downtown, 152 Madison, closed meeting Friday; Crosstown, Character Builders Hall, closed meeting Tuesday, and Overton Park, at the clubhouse, Monday, all sessions being at 8 o'clock. In addition there is an A.A. breakfast at Britling's on Madison Avenue, open, 9:30 A.M. Sunday; 12th Step discussion at 152 Madison, closed, 3:30 Sunday afternoons; open house, open at 8 Tuesday nights; and Questions and Answers, closed session for new members at 8 Wednesday nights. Since many of these sessions are closed, the Overton Park Group has been holding "Family Open Meetings" about once a month with local people in charge. The open meeting at the anniversary party was addressed by a well-known Des Moines, Ia., attorney, who told how be came i n to A.A. through a man whom he had prosecuted for drunkenness. In Memphis there is also considerable interest in neighboring groups throughout the region in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and even in Southern Kentucky. The Central Club room at 152 Madison is open every day from 9 A.M. until midnight for visitors, with a member in charge. With the cooperation of a physician in a nearby veterans' hospital, weekly visits are being made by Memphis A.A.s to the hospital."
GV Aug47, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Dyersburg; Overton Park Group (Memphis)." GV Oct47, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Cleveland." GV Mar48, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE — Lebanon" GV Apr48, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Elizabethton." GV Jly48, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Columbia." GV Aug48, in "New Groups" column it mentions, "TENNESSEE—Oak Ridge." IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5946. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Georgia and Idaho From: t . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/18/2009 10:53:00 AM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII See my last post concerning the dates from these Grapevine articles. Georgia GV Jly44, in the short article on "Bill's Trip South" it mentions Atlanta GA as being one of 8 groups Bill and Lois visited GV Feb46, in the "New Groups" column it mentions LaGrange, Georgia GV June46, in the "Clip Sheet" column: "Salem, N. J., Sunbeam: "A century-old 28- room Georgian mansion, once owned by a whiskey distiller known as 'The Lord of Jericho,' opened May 1 as a home for the care and rehabilitation of alcoholics. The huge, three story red brick building, Ivy Manor, is located on 200 acres of farm and woodland, seven miles west of Bridgeton at Jericho—and seven miles from the nearest taproom. "It was purchased by a group of Philadelphia and Camden businessmen, headed by J. Robley Tucker, realtor, Camden, N. J. "The project has been endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous, the celebrated self-help group which has aided thousands of alcoholics to permanent rehabilitation, Tucker said. 'We will call for patients by station wagon within a 100- mile radius,' Tucker added. 'But we do not want repeaters. . . . Ivy Manor may properly be looked upon as a sort of half-way house. After a patient has physically and mentally recovered, we will put him in touch with the A.A., if he so desires. From there on, it is up to him—and to them.' "
"City, criminal and juvenile judges were in attendance at the third anniversary banquet of the Jacksonville, Fla.. Group. Other Florida groups represented were Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Tampa. Georgia A.A.s came from Valdosta. Waycross. Atlanta, and Rome. A.A.s from Boston. Mass., were also present. With Jacksonville's several small group weekly meetings, new members are delighted that there are now meetings every night in the week."
GV Oct46, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Augusta and Columbus. GV Dec46, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Statesboro, Box 82. GV Mar47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Cuthbert; Manchester. GV June47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Albany, Thomaston.
"Neighboring Groups get Together— Members of the Atlanta, Ga., Group held joint meetings with three other Georgia Groups in Griffin, LaGrange and Thomaston recently with from 20 to 30 of the Atlanta Group making each trip. In Griffin and Thomaston the meetings were held in homes of members and in LaGrange at the First Methodist church, whose pastor, Rev. Charles S. Forester, attended the Yale Clinic seminar last summer. The groups in G r i f f i n and Thomaston were both formed recently and being only about 30 miles apart, plan to alternate attendance at each other's meetings. " GV June47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Americus. GV Sept47, in the "News Circuit" column: "Georgians Get Around—Members of the Atlanta, Ga., Group have been active lately in aiding in the establishment of new groups. One member on vacation in Selma, Ala., felt the need for a group there and helped form one. Another started a group in the Lawson Veterans' Administration Hospital with the cooperation of the psychiatric staff. In answer to a request from Athens, Ga., another went there and assisted in getting a group underway. Atlanta plans to invite several of these nearby groups to conduct some of its meetings this fall and winter.
LaFayette. GV Feb48, in the "New Groups" column it mentions GEORGIA—Dublin GV Aug48, an article about Atlanta's 7th anniv, titled: "They Celebrated And Talked About Drinking" from Atlanta, Ga. It was a man-sized celebration, but everyone was as sober as the proverbial judge. They talked about drinking, about some of the really big bouts they had staged, but there wasn't the faintest odor of alcohol about the place, and no one had bulging pockets.
The occasion was the seventh anniversary of Atlanta's Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, with some 400 or 500 persons filling Taft Hall. The experiences they related—these anonymous men and women who have conquered Demon Rum—would make a confession at a revival meeting seem tame. Take Steve, for example. Steve, who hails from Washington, D. C., was the guest of honor. It was he, with the help of his wife, who founded the Atlanta group seven years ago in their basement apartment in Buckhead. "I was drunk for more than 20 years," he recounted. "My wife had tried every cure known to mankind on me, and nothing worked. In fact, one of the cures made me so drunk I was unconscious for four weeks. "We were living in Washington at that time," he continued, "and some man came in from New York to establish an A.A. group. My wife prevailed upon me to join. I did and I sobered up. it was tough going for a year but after that year I began to enjoy life, and when I was transferred to Atlanta I was determined to start an A.A. group here." The Rev. Sam, now pastor of a large North Georgia church, described some of the difficulties of launching the Atlanta group, explaining: "It was a little story in the Atlanta Constitution that led me to Steve."
Bert, who now operates a home for former drunkards, said he was in Atlanta's City Stockade 105 limes for being drunk. "I guess I am the original man of distinction," he concluded. "I changed from bay rum to canned heat." Charlie, a successful Atlanta businessman, traced his reclamation to the time he asked a friend for a dollar to buy a drink and was told to go to the A.A. clubrooms, after which he could return for the money. He never came back to get the dollar."
Pearson.
GV Nov45, in the "News Circuit" column: "Boise is the first town in Idaho to start a group." GV Dec46, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO—Caldwell; Moscow. GV Jan47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO: Lewiston, Box 346. GV Mar47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO—Anderson Dam. GV Aug47, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO—Idaho Falls. GV Mar48, in the "News Circuit" column: "A classified advertisement appearing in the paper in Jerome, Idaho, testifies to the efforts of an A.A. to found a group there. He's a former member of the New Orleans, La, Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho, Groups." GV Apr48, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO—St. Anthony. GV May48, in the "New Groups" column it mentions IDAHO—Rigby. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5947. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Kansas and Kentucky From: t . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/18/2009 11:49:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Kansas GV Mar45, "News Circuit" column mentions: "The Kansas City, Kansas, group has bought and moved into a 12-room clubhouse."
"The Kansas press has been having some good natured fun writing about the Topeka A.A. group and its new clubhouse. The Sunflower state has been legally dry since 1880. Today, the only legal beverages have no more than 3. 2 per cent alcoholic voltage to induce consumption. Topeka, home of 67, 833 persons, bastion of state dry laws and lawmakers, has had an A. A. group since 1943 and, says one journalist, "Adding to doubts of Topekans who have seen whiskey bottles tossed on the statehouse grounds and lying along Kansas Avenue, A. A. has now moved into the finest clubrooms in the city. " The newsmen carefully mention the fact that A. A. isn't at all interested in whiskey from a prohibition angle, that it is dedicated to the rehabilitation of alcoholics who honestly want to recover. Kansas City, Kan., is another of the groups to buy its own clubhouse. Located at 1925 North Eleventh Street, the former mansion has had partitions ripped out downstairs, reducing the once many-roomed house into a meeting hall, while upstairs four rooms remain for general use."
"At the first anniversary shindig of the Wichita, Kans., Group, which brought members from Kansas City, Topeka, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, guest speakers were Father Fred Mann, Catholic priest from Wichita, and the Rev. Raymond E. Dewey, a Methodist clergyman from McPherson. " GV Feb46, "New Groups" column mentions Garden City, Kansas; GV Feb46, "News Circuit" column mentions: "Kansas City, Kans., papers carried pictures of that city's A.A. hilltop clubhouse, a two-story brick structure with a Norman tower on one corner and the letters "A.A." in red and white over the door. When the old house was purchased early last spring, The plumbing was out of kilter and the plaster falling off the walls. Today it is clean and pleasant, painted and well maintained, with cooking and bathroom facilities on both floors. "Anything we have done for the house," said one of the members, "has been done with money which otherwise would have been spent on liquor. It looks to us like pretty good economics."
"The group at Hays, Kansas, now numbers 28 active members, which is encouraging growth for a comparatively short time, especially in a small community."
Prison and Welfare Magazines Carry Articles on A.A. " Two articles on Alcoholics Anonymous have appeared in recent magazines. "Here's Looking at You!" appeared in The. New Era, a magazine devoted to developing a better understanding between the prisoner and society, while the other, "Some Aspects of A.A." was written by a member of the Indianapolis Group and appears in the fall issue of Public Welfare in Indiana. The first begins: "The infant has matured. The Leavenworth (Kansas, Federal Prison) Group of Alcoholics Anonymous has discarded its swaddling clothes to become a formidable factor in the reclamation program of the huge penitentiary. Eighty former tipplers, men who have run the gamut of riotous living to suffer social obscurity and prison sentences have now dedicated themselves to the Herculean task of 'lifting the face' permanently off the bar room floor."
This statement by the secretary is followed by an endorsement by Dr. Manly B. Root, prison psychiatrist, who says, "It is just as well that you don't concern yourself with why you are alcoholics, but recognize your affliction as a fact and seek to adjust your lives accordingly." This is followed by half a dozen statements from members and an explanation by prison authorities that they have maintained a "hands off" policy.
The second article explains A.A. and how it functions, with emphasis on creating better understanding on the part of laymen."
KANSAS—Coffeyville; Honor Farm Group; United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth.
GV Oct47, "New Groups" column mentions KANSAS—Mission, Salina. GV Nov47, "News Circuit" column mentions: "Scheduled for November 16 and 17, the third anniversary plans of the Wichita, Kans., Group were not complete at the time for Grapevine copy. Open house at the club rooms, 536 North Broadway, on Saturday afternoon and night with the dinner and main meeting to come Sunday afternoon are the principal plans. Good representation from groups in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas is expected." GV Jan48, "News Circuit" column mentions: "Wichita did it again," it is triumphantly reported from that city in Kansas with regard to the third anniversary which drew about 350 persons, representative members from eight states. Included in the two day session were speeches by the founder of the Des Moines, Ia, Group, the founder of the Amarillo, Tex., Group, a woman member, and Dr. R. M. Gouldner, prominent non-A.A. Wichita physician and surgeon who has assisted the group." GV Feb48, "New Groups" column mentions KANSAS—Argonia, Lawrence, Parsons (Lone)
GV Mar48, "New Groups" column mentions KANSAS — Arkansas City, McPherson, Pratt GV Apr48, "New Groups" column mentions KANSAS—Abilene, Hutchinson.
"The Lawrence, Kansas Group reports a growing membership. They now have seven members. " ---------------------------------------------------------------- Kentucky GV Dec45, "News Circuit" column mentions the first regional AA convention in Birmingham AL and Kentucky is one of the states mentioned that had members in attendance.
GV June46, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Ashland. GV Aug46, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Frankfort. GV Oct46, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Outwood, Owensboro, and Shelbyville. GV Dec46, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Frankfort, Box 316; Fulton. GV Mar47, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Fort Knox. GV Apr47, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Cynthiana; 0wensboro. GV May47, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Bowling Green. GV July47, in the "News Circuit" column it mentions: "Church Cooperates—At its 119th annual convention the Episcopal diocese of Kentucky adopted a plan to provide psychiatric treatment for alcoholics in cooperation with A.A. The new wing being constructed at Norton Memorial Infirmary, the diocesan hospital, will be given over to the program. " GV Oct47, has a short article, "Would you Believe It?" " 1 month has 30 days; 8 months — 240 days; 1 day has 24 hours; 240 days have 30 x 240 or 7,200 hours 30 members, therefore, would have 216,000 man-hours. The "24-hour" plan of A. A Will it work? Darned if I know; I won't say that it WILL but I will say, tho, that it HAS . . . with the Lexington, Kentucky Group. Although only a little over a year old this group has a total enrollment of probably 75; some have died, others, have moved away and we have lost track of them; some had their curiosity satisfied; some got their wives to stop nagging; some have reached that lowest strata and we never see or hear of them BUT we do have, we KNOW, 30 staunch and true members with an average of at least eight months of sobriety. These were not "screened"—they were the high and the low; they were the boys who acknowledged they were powerless over alcohol; who came to believe that only a Power greater than themselves could restore them to sanity; who turned their will and their lives over to the care of GOD, as they understood HIM; who made an effort to follow the teachings of the 12 Steps—AND MEANT IT. They were a lot of self-confessed, egotistical drunks. Those boys now have a record of 216,000 man-hours of sobriety BEHIND THEM. And yet each of them is only 24 hours AHEAD of a drunk BUT they are AHEAD of it and not BEHIND IT. It looks like a photo-finish but I'll take a ticket that it will show in another eight months that each of these will show himself in the "Winner's Circle" and that John Barleycorn will be given the place, or second, position. IT HAS WORKED. WILL it? Darned if I know—BUT . . . H.G.H." GV Nov47, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Harlan, Maysville (K.O. Group)
GV Feb48, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Covington, Mayfield GV June48, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Paducah. GV Jly48, "New Groups" column mentions KENTUCKY—Somerset.
of the Podium From: Bob McK. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/17/2009 5:22:00 PM
Central Bulletin contains this article: THE BOOK IS TRANSLATED Richardo P., of the Mexican Consullate in Cleveland, and tremendously impressed with the work of AA. Has translated the entire AA book in the Spanish language, and it will soon be printed in Mexico for the benefit of its people. Ric is to be commended for this fine demonstration of the 12th step. Mentions that I have heard of this Cleveland "first" alluded that "Dick" had his wife do much (most?) of this translation work. So there an element of truth in all of the statements: that it happened (was translated) in Cleveland, happened (was printed) in Mexico, was done by an AA, and was done by an Al-Anon (although this was years before real Al-Anon started).
refer to "first" as the f-word. - - - - From: Mitchell K. Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Most probably, the very first Spanish AA materials came out of Cleveland, Ohio and translated by Dick Perez in the early 1940's. Dick began to translate the Big Book into Spanish pretty much just after he got sober. Dick was of Mexican ancestry so I guess the first Spanish AA material did, in a way, come out of Mexico. - - - - On Mon, 8/10/09, juan.aa98 wrote:
from the 1940's, 50's, and 60's.
Mexico in 1947 translated by an Al-Anon, the Akron panphlet titled A.A.
Podium, widely used in AA meetings in Spanish in all of Latin America and Spanish-language meetings in the US. Where did that practice come from? Any information on either of the above will be appreciated. Juan R. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Yüklə 11,49 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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