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Pittsfield, Rutland, Salem, Somerville, South Ashburnham, South End, South Shore-Quincy, Springfield, Upham's Corner, Watertown, Wellesley Hill, Woburn, Worcester, and Lexington; Connecticut: Ansonia, Bridgeport, Bristol, Danbury-Bethel, Greenwich, Hartford, Kent, Manchester, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, Norwalk, Norwich, Saybrook, Stamford, Stratford, Torrington, Waterbury, Westport, Winsted; Maine: Bangor and Portland; New Hampshire: Dover, Manchester, Portsmouth and Hanover; Rhode Island: Providence; Vermont: Bennington, Burlington, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury and Windsor." GV Mar47, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Hingham; Malden;
Seamen's Club, Boston. GV Apr47, in the New Groups column mentions - MASSACHUSETTS” Southbridge. GV May47, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Boston (South End
Group); Lowell. GV June47, in the New Groups column mentions - MASSACHUSETTS” Winchester. GV Jly47, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Jamaica Plain; South
Boston; Worcester (Group No. 3). GV Aug47, in the New Groups column mentions - MASSACHUSETTS” Amesbury; Nantucket. GV Oct47, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” East Milton, Taunton.
"An article written by Bill Cunningham, Boston Herald columnist, dealing with A.A., brought many inquiries and phone calls to the Boston Central Office at 30 Huntington Avenue with an average of 10 new persons a day coming into the office for the three weeks following publication, for literature and contact with the nearest group."
Valley
Group). GV Dec47, in the News Circuit column: "Judge Advises Joining A.A.” Two men before North Adams, Mass., district court on drunkenness charges were advised to join A.A. by Special Justice William A. O'Hearn recently in an action which is believed by members of the Pittsfield Group to set a precedent for Massachusetts and perhaps for the country. Stating that the commonwealth classifies drunkenness as a crime and does little or nothing to bring about rehabilitation, Judge O'Hearn said he feels it is a disease and "we should begin to do something about it." The judge continued one case for a year and placed the other on year's probation, concluding by saying, "I had little faith in A.A. when it was first organized but I have watched the growth of this organization and know some of its splendid accomplishments. I feel that today it perhaps offers the greatest opportunity in overcoming this terrible curse." The Pittsfield Group, which includes members from North Adams is following through on this by planning a big open meeting at the Hotel Richmond in North Adams soon. With the splendid cooperation of the local radio and press it is hoped that this will be successful and result in the formation of a North Adams Group."
Boston Birthday ”The Boston banquet celebrating the seventh anniversary of A.A. there drew a capacity attendance” 800 at the Hotel Copley Plaza on Wednesday evening, Nov. 19. This sellout of banquet tickets was an indication of the strides A.A. itself has made. In the same hotel, 510 attended last year and 225 in 1945. A.A. co-founder, Bill W., discussed the 12 Points of Tradition. He told his audience "we will avoid any exclusiveness, material wealth, tempting alliances, controversy, professionalism, promotion and public pressure. We are weaker than the average and we need not take such risks. You and I, as alcoholics, can sit down and talk over our problems with our brothers and sisters”and that's all. The less we have to do with organization and prestige, the better." Other speakers included A.A.s from Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Special guests were the newly appointed members of Massachusetts Governor Bradford's Commission of the Study of Alcoholism which will serve for four years. Helen B., the Boston secretary, reported a membership of 1,450 associated with the Boston office. Since March of 1946 when the Boston Central Service Committee of A.A. opened, membership of A.A. groups has mounted from 13 to 59 in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. Massachusetts Notes” The East Milton Group held a pre-Christmas party on .Sunday night, Dec. 14. There were presents, etc., and as a feature, an "all-A.A. orchestra" provided the music for dancing . . . Southbridge, Group has become associated with Central Service Committee in Boston. Meetings are held Monday nights at 8:30 and is an outgrowth of Worcester No. 1 Group . . . Waltham Group has opened up with meetings on Friday nights at 8:30 at 712 Main St. . . . Attleboro Group has shifted its meeting hour from 8:30 to 8 p.m. Reciprocity Move â” Salem, Mass., Group put on an open meeting that packed the large hall in Town House Square on Friday night, Nov. 28, when the members of Manchester, Conn., Group conducted the meeting. Salem A.A.s had previously gone down to Manchester to put on a meeting there. The Rev. Fr. James P. Timmins of Manchester, a non-alcoholic but long a supporter of the A.A. group there, was the guest speaker in Manchester." GV Feb48, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Westfield GV Mar48, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” North Adams, Provincetown, Roxbury GV Apr48, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Reading. GV May48, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Brighton, Allston-Brighton Group; Boston, South Boston Group. GV Jly48, in the New Groups column mentions- MASSACHUSETTS” Attleboro, South
Attleboro Group; Everett. GV Aug48, in the New Groups column mentions-MASSACHUSETTS” Framingham; Marblehead. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5959. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Millgate Hotel in Manchester From: jenny andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/17/2009 3:24:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII This reference to Millgate in Nottinghamshire muddies the waters. The AA group
which was started in November 1948 met at the Millgate Hotel, Manchester, which
in those days was in the county of Lancashire, now Greater Manchester (Manchester is in the north west of England, Nottingamshire in the east midlands). There is a photograph of the Millgate Hotel in the AA Great Britain
archives at the General Service Office in York. It was reproduced in Share and
Share Alike, the book the GB General Service Board published to mark the fellowship's 60th anniversary in Britain in 2007. An earlier book produced to mark the 50th anniversary, The First Fifty Years, noted: "The first meeting proper of the Manchester group was held in November 1948 - the venue a Manchester hotel (long since demolished). Five attended, without a Big Book or significant literature. But they shared and talked and talked until they realised the staff wanted the tea drinking party out to make way for the 'drinking' public. In haste, and with the oncoming festive season, they decided to meet again in the New Year, with nothing more than a gentelman's agreement to remain sober." Laurie A. - - - - From: United Kingdom Joe (jumpinjoe1 at gmail.com) Subject: Re: Millgate Hotel in Manchester
Martin > > Does anybody know where the Millgate Hotel was > (or is) in Manchester, England? >
++++Message 5960. . . . . . . . . . . . RE: Why and how did Tradition 8 develop?
From: jenny andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/20/2009 2:57:00 AM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII From Laurie A., Arthur S., Baileygc23, and Jim L. - - - - From: Laurie A. (jennylaurie1 at hotmail.com) See Bill W's account of the origins of Tradition Eight in "Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age" (Towns hospital and the old clubhouse on 24th Street, New York). Also his essay on the tradition in the 12&12.
(ArtSheehan at msn.com) Right on Priscilla The long form of Tradition 8 states: "Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we may otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics. Such special services may be well recompensed. But our usual A.A. '12th Step' work is never to be paid for."
Arthur
From: Baileygc23@aol.com (Baileygc23 at aol.com) To the best of my knowledge it says our centers can employ people and pay them for their services. An alcoholic working in any kind of outside enterprise is not involved in AA activities. There was an advisory saying AA does not recognize the term Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism counselor;
an A.A. be paid for taking or carrying this message to somebody else, person to person, face to face." Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 115. A description of AA service workers and their need to be paid when not volunteering is also shown on the same page.
(Sober186 at aol.com) The reasons for Tradition 8 are pretty well outlined in the Twelve and Twelve, Bill writes "Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class. We gained understanding of the ancient words, freely ye have received, freely give. We have discovered that at the point of professionalism, money and spirituality cannot co exist." And he continues ... "We do not decry professionalism in other fields, but we accept the fact that it does not work for us ... Every time we have tried to professionalise the 12 Steps the result has been exactly the same. Our singleness of purpose has been defeated. In the 12 & 12 Bill also cited a number of other reasons. "Paid 12-Steppers did not work out." The short version of the eighth step also makes it clear. "We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire .... Our usual A.A. '12th Step' work is never to be paid for."
developed? "Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers."
it to say: AA members can go out into a career field because of their personal knowledge on alcoholism (and this is ok), however they should not be doing 12th Step work. We do not get paid for 12th step work.
From: David R. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/20/2009 7:36:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII From David Brown, Laurie A., and Joseph Nugent - - - - From: "David R. Brown" (drbrown at alum.mit.edu) All, This is responding to Dave Turner's question about High Watch. When my wife, Sally Brown, and I were researching the biography of Marty Mann, we interviewed Lyn Harbaugh, who wrote her thesis "Sister Francis and the Ministry of the High Watch: From the Principles of New Thought to the Principles of Alcoholics Anonymous," Smith College, 1995. See our book, A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann. The index has references to High Watch.
(jennylaurie1 at hotmail.com) High Watch Farm has its own website on which it claims: "High Watch was founded in 1940 by Bill W., the co-founder of AA."
(jumpinjoe1 at gmail.com) See the High Watch Farm website at: http://highwatchrecovery.com/ Joe IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5962. . . . . . . . . . . . A big thank-you for the Grapevine reports on early AA From: Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/19/2009 5:04:00 PM
Grapevine on early AA in various states. It sure gives a perspective on the early days, when 8 months was a lot of sobriety and their confidence was already soaring at the discovery that they could indeed do this a day at a time! Keep'em coming as you are able, please. Keith in Cumming, GA. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5963. . . . . . . . . . . . First Group in Colorado From: bbthumpthump . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/19/2009 8:54:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII This is from the Area 10 Archives. "On August 19, 1941, the first recorded meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Denver, and in Colorado, was held in Sarah McP.'s home at 580 Franklin Street. There were eleven people present."
formed in Colorado. They would later be called Group #1.
York Street, the first clubhouse West of the Mississippi. 1311 York Street, Denver, Colorado.
From: t . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/19/2009 11:41:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Rhode Island GV Jun45, in the News Circuit column: "Regular A.A. meetings are held by the alcoholic patients at Howard State Hospital, Howard, R. I., since members of the Boston Group visited the hospital several months ago, and received the encouragement of Drs. Vera and Friz Berhendt. . . . A new group in Providence, R. I., an outgrowth of the Akron, Ohio, group, is receiving the cooperation not only of the doctors of Howard State Hospital but of the State Welfare Department, social workers and clergy alike."
GV Jan47, in the News Circuit column: "Growth in New England. — In less than three years, A.A. groups in Massachusetts have increased from two to 36, or a gain of 1800 percent, while Connecticut shows a 700 percent gain, according to a member of the Newtonville, Mass., Group. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island, starting from scratch, now have 13 groups. The formation of an efficient Central Service Committee in Boston last spring has been a vital factor as was the attendance of about 600 at the sixth anniversary banquet. New England groups now include the following, which the A.A. Grapevine has been asked to list: Massachusetts: Boston, Brockton, Brookline, Brookline Village, Cambridge, Cape Cod, Hyannis and Falmouth, Dorchester, Edgartown, Fall River, Fitchburg, Greenfield, Haverhill, Holyoke, Hyde Park, Lawrence, Lynn, Malden, Mattapan, New Bedford, Newton, Norwood, Pittsfield, Rutland, Salem, Somerville, South Ashburnham, South End, South Shore-Quincy, Springfield, Upham's Corner, Watertown, Wellesley Hill, Woburn, Worcester, and Lexington; Connecticut: Ansonia, Bridgeport, Bristol, Danbury-Bethel, Greenwich, Hartford, Kent, Manchester, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, Norwalk, Norwich, Saybrook, Stamford, Stratford, Torrington, Waterbury, Westport, Winsted; Maine: Bangor and Portland; New Hampshire: Dover, Manchester, Portsmouth and Hanover; Rhode Island: Providence; Vermont: Bennington, Burlington, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury and Windsor." GV May47, in the New Groups column mentions- RHODE ISLAND—Westerly. GV May47, in the News Circuit column: "An agreement has been established between the Round Top Group of Providence, R. I., and officials of the Charles V. Chapin Hospital in Providence designed to supplement the physical treatment of alcoholics with the group therapy of A.A. Several beds will be made available for treatment of individuals recommended by the local A.A. group which will hold meetings from time to time at the hospital. These meetings were requested by the authorities. Previously only alcoholics committed by local authorities were accepted. There will be no obligation on the patients' part to attend meetings. " ...Organized only a few weeks ago the Newport, R. I., Group has more than a dozen members and has meetings every Tuesday night at the Rochambeau House." GV Jly47, in the News Circuit column: "R.I.C.E.A. Incorporated —Recently incorporated as The Rhode Island Committee for Education on Alcoholism, a group of the state's citizens, including representatives of the Round Top Group of Providence has laid the foundation for a campaign to "increase public understanding of alcoholism, its nature and its treatment." The unit will be affiliated with the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism. An executive committee has been named and sub-committees are to be chosen." GV Aug47, in the News Circuit column: "Starting Off Well — With about 75 members, friends and observers in attendance, the newly formed Westerly, R. I. Group got off to an auspicious start at a recent open meeting at Caledonia Hall. Moderator was a member of the Providence Round Top unit who was accompanied by a good sized delegation from that group. In the audience were District Judge Walter S. Flynn, representatives of the state probation department, and members of the Norwich, Conn. Group."
Westminister Group.
"Another Anniversary—The Westerly, R. I. Group celebrated its first anniversary recently with an open meeting. Civic minded men and women were the guests for the evening speaking program." IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 5965. . . . . . . . . . . . From the Grapevine: South Dakota From: t . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/19/2009 11:43:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII South Dakota GV Sept45, in the News Circuit column: "From the Sioux City group have gone zealous members who established groups at Moline, Ill.; Gary, Ind.; Mitchell, S. D.; Spirit Lake, Iowa; Rapid City, S. D., and Pender, Neb."
GV Sept46, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Deadwood. GV Oct46, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Deadwood. GV Nov46, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Pierre. GV Dec46, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Huron. GV Mar47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Camel Club of Aberdeen; Battle Mountain. GV Apr47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Hot Springs (Veterans Hospital Group). GV May47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Artisan. GV June47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Rapid City (Group No. 1). GV Sept47, in article, "Rochester, Minn Group Marks First Anniversary" it is noted that in attendance were members from Sioux Falls, South Dakota GV Oct47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Deadwood, Wagner.
GV Dec47, in the New Groups column mentions- SOUTH DAKOTA—Brookings. GV Jan48, in the News Circuit column: "Two members of the Aberdeen, S. D., Alno Group were instrumental in forming a group at Britton recently. Starting November 6 with the Aberdeen Alno Society coming up about 20 strong, the group recently had eight new members. At the first session the Methodist minister and state attorney were present. The address is P.O. Box 82, Britton, S.D. ... Watertown Reports—From "this high, dry and windy country," the Watertown, S. D., Group asks, "How about recognition of our group? We are 16 strong with periods of absolute sobriety ranging from one to 16 months." The address is P.O. Box 398, Watertown, S. D. . . . In this area the open meeting of the Bismarck- Mandan Chapter held recently received a large amount of newspaper publicity which has been helpful in making contacts." GV Feb48, in the News Circuit column: "Want Clubroom in '48—Members of the Aberdeen, S. D., Group have adopted the slogan "A clubroom in 1948" and three energetic members have been assigned to combat the housing shortage in the community and find suitable quarters. Members of the group, founded in March, 1946, were entertained at a special Christmas party by the Gerhard Kiddie Yüklə 11,49 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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