Aa history Lovers 2006 moderators Nancy Olson and Glenn F. Chesnut page
Yüklə 13,83 Mb.
|
To: Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 5:13 AM Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] Richard R. Peabody > Can anyone give us any information on Richard R. > Peabody and the part he played in alcoholism and AA. > > Thanks for your help. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 3482. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: My name is X From: Cheryl F . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12/2006 2:44:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Jim, see: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAHistoryLovers/message/415 Grateful so I serve, Cheryl F Original message from: jamesoddname To: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:09 PM Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] My name is X When, where, and by whom did the practice begin of introducing ourselves at meetings with the formula "My name is X and I'm an alcoholic"? _______________________________
Date: Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:57 am Subject: Fw: Qualifying at meetings
GSO
in N.Y., N.Y. concerning the practice of identifying. Thank you for contacting us. It seems that this practice came from the Oxford
Group, where members used to get up and qualify as "My name is.... and I'm a
sinner." Please note, that this information was shared with us by oldtimers, and we have never carried out a historic research with regards to the customs of the
Oxford Group to verify this. And Rick T. responded: From: "ricktompkins" Date: Mon Jul 15, 2002 9:44 pm Subject: Re: [AAHistoryLovers] Sobriety Statement: When did we start saying it? Hi Group(s)! Jim B. is correct, and like many current practices, it did begin on the West Coast. Reading "How It Works" also came from the West Coast (cal-i-for-ni-a) when the group chairs looked around for something to read, sometime in the 1940s...Before then (and since then, too), many Groups had their own special preambles, greetings, lead-off texts (the beginning of Chapter 3 was another), and so on. _______________________________
is an AA oldtimer who got sober in 1948 on Long Island, just outside New York City, but also attended AA meetings in a part of Ohio near Akron a couple of years before that point. He later got to spend a year in Akron talking with Sister Ignatia every chance he got. He knows oldtime AA on the East Coast, in the Akron area, in Texas, and in California. http://hindsfoot.org/kbs1.html http://hindsfoot.org/bsv02psy.html Bill says that the early practice on the East Coast in the New York City area
was to introduce oneself by saying "My name is X" and then give your sobriety date. His memory is that saying "My name is X and I'm an alcoholic" was originally more midwestern.
goes
around speaking to AA conferences and groups, and attending AA get-togethers (most recently the Gathering of the Eagles in Dallas, and Founders Day in Akron). He spoke as the keynote speaker at the National Archives Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2003, replacing his good friend Searcy, who was on his deathbed. Glenn Chesnut, Moderator South Bend, Indiana IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 3483. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Dave B., "Gratitude in Action" From: Kimball . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12/2006 7:05:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GRATITUDE IN ACTION The story of Dave B., one of the founders of A.A. in Canada in 1944. Dave Bancroft b. Jun 25, 1908, Toronto, Canada, d. Dec 9, 1984, Montreal, Canada. m Dorothy Ford. Sobriety Apr 7, 1944. Founder A.A. Montreal Canada, 1st French members. He sobered up by reading a copy of the Big Book his sister
sent him. Served as a Class B Trustee from 1962-1964. Dr Dancy, who treated Dave for alcoholism, went on to become the first Class A (nonalcoholic) trustee from Canada, serving from 1965-1974. Kim ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry To: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:50 AM Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] Dave B., "Gratitude in Action"
the writter of "Gratitude in Action" in the fourth edition of the Big Book.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 3484. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: When did the term "alcoholism" first start to be used? From: Billlwhite@AOL.COM . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/13/2006 9:13:00 AM
After detailing the multiple organ systems affected by chronic alcohol exposure, Huss noted: "These symptoms are formed in such a particular way that they form a disease
group in themselves and thus merit being designated and described as a definite disease. "It is this group of symptoms which I wish to designate by the name
Alcoholismus chronicus." The reference for this work is: Huss, M. (1849). Alcoholismus chronicus: Chronisk alcoholisjudkom: Ett bidrag till dyskrasiarnas känndom. Stockholm: Bonner/Norstedt. The term alcoholism showed up occasionally in the Journal of Inebriety in the late 1800s but did come into widespread professional use until the early 1900s and did not achieve wide cultural popularity until the mid-twentieth century. It is interesting to note that the use of the term is currently in decline in professional circles and seems to be getting displaced by the broader term addiction in the culture at large.
hayntra@aol.com writes: > Subj: [AAHistoryLovers] When did the term "alcoholism" first start to be > used? > Date: 6/13/2006 12:47:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: hayntra@aol.com > Reply-to: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com > To: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com > Sent from the Internet > >
> Hi history lovers, > Can anyone help us with the term alcoholism? > When did this did word first begin to be used > instead of dypsomania and who coined the term? > Thanks for you help in this matter. > > > > > > >
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 3485. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: How many people did Bill W sponsor?
From: Tom Hickcox . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/13/2006 4:19:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII At 10:41 6/11/2006 , Carl P. wrote: >Hi history lovers, I am standing in for trixiebellaa >for a week and our study group have asked, how many >people did bill w sponsor?
Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson," says pp. 191-192, ". . . many a dazzled newcomer, after a ten-minute conversation with Bill at an AA meeting, would ask him to be their sponsor, and invariably, Bill would agree. Soon the newcomers would find that, compared to other people's sponsors, theirs was hardly ever available." So while he may have sponsored a number of people, he was for the most part unavailable to them, and, by inference, a poor sponsor. YMMV, Tommy H in Baton Rouge [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ++++Message 3486. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Dave B., "Gratitude in Action" From: Tom Hickcox . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/13/2006 4:40:00 PM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII At 06:50 6/7/2006 , you wrote: >I would be grateful if anyone can give me any information on Dave B , >the writter of "Gratitude in Action" in the fourth edition of the Big >Book.
> >Henry
There used to be a web site that had the authors of the stories in the back of the Big Book and a brief bio, but I tried to access it just now and get an error msg. This site was run by an A.A. group in Baltimore. It's url was Yüklə 13,83 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
|