Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age

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Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age

Alcoholics Anonymous. Comes of Age

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Foreword

I. When A.A. Came of Age. BY BILL W., co-founder, Alcoholics Anonymous

II. The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous

III. Four o’Clock Sunday Afternoon

IV. Medicine Looks At Alcoholics Anonymous

V. Religion Looks at Alcoholics Anonymous

VI. A Friend Looks at Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

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No one knows exactly when the first Family Group as such started. One of the largest, most vigorous, and best accepted of the early family centers developed in Toronto, Canada. There they wrought so well that many A.A. groups in the area customarily invite Family Group speakers to their meetings. By 1950, the Toronto Family Group had created such a wide and deep impression that their speakers were featured at the Cleveland International A.A. Convention of that year. And what was true of Toronto was equally true of Long Beach, California, and Richmond, Virginia. Indeed, some of these latter Family Groups may quite possibly have antedated Toronto somewhat. In any case it is sure that Anne, Lois, and Katie long ago planted the ideas which have since flowered into hundreds of Al-Anon Family Groups, one of the most encouraging developments in the whole A.A. picture in recent years.

Another early A.A. traveler was Archie T. He had been tenderly nursed back to sobriety in the home of Dr. Bob and Anne at Akron. Still sick, frail, and frightened, he returned to his native city, Detroit, the scene of his downfall, where his personal reputation and financial credit still stood at zero. We saw Archie make amends everywhere he could. We saw him delivering dry cleaning out of a broken-down jalopy to the back doors of his one-time fashionable friends in Grosse Pointe. We saw him, helped by a dedicated nonalcoholic, Sarah Klein, start a group that met in her basement. Archie and Sarah next straightened out a man named Mike, a manufacturer, and a socialite lady named Anne K. These were the ones from whom stemmed Detroit’s huge membership of later years.

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