Early A.A. Meeting Formats
Dick B.
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There are three reliable and
complete sources of information on the early A.A. Meeting Formats of A.A. Akron
Number One Group:
1.
Frank Amos
visited and investigated Akron, interviewed the Akronites, and rendered a
summary of the “program” as he learned and reported it from a large number of
different Akron people. You can find it
in the A.A. General Service Conference-approved book DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, page 131. See also Dick B. and Ken
B., Stick with the Winners!” http://mcaf.ees50q
2.
Largely from DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, as well
as from books, manuscripts, and interviews, we were able to learn the sixteen
practices that the early Akron A.A. Group Number One Christian Fellowship
actually did to implement the program summarized by Frank Amos. See also Dick
B. and Ken B., “Stick with the Winners!” http://mcaf.ee/s50mq.
3.
Two new sources
have emerged from our research and writing. The first is Dick B. and Ken B., Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous. These
personal stories were very specific renditions by the pioneers of what they did
and accomplished. http://mcaf.ee/gj7iw.
Because the
entire First Edition of Alcoholics
Anonymous became so expensive, and because A.A. itself had removed all but
three of the personal stories in subsequent editions, Dover Publications, Inc.
phoned me, told me they were going to reprint the First Edition in trade paper.
They were referred my way by Bonnie B., Manager of the Wilson House and
Griffith House Library in East Dorset, Vermont.
They asked
me to write an introduction; and my explanatory introduction will help you see
the Akron A.A. program specifics told in story form by the pioneers. It will
help you see the substantial differences between the specifics of the early
Akron A.A. program and the “new version” Bill W. and Hank Parkhurst framed
primarily from Oxford Group ideas obtained from Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker and from
points made by William D. Silkworth, M.D. and by Professor William James. See Alcoholics Anonymous The Original 1939 Edition With a 23-Page
Introduction by Dick B. http://mcaf.ee/j4hq5
Gloria Deo
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